Bass-tardising

[Barking Spiders]

I've always liked to try out different ways to experiment with my basses including using just 4 strings, all the same gauge but tuned differently, mixing up flatwounds and roundwounds, downtuning all strings to several notes below standard tuning and pulling the strings up and letting go to get a 'thwacking' sound and using them like a hammered dulcimer. I don't always get a great sound TBH so has anyone else got any suggestions for getting interesting noises

[Stylon Pilson]

You could manufacture your own bass strings by buying a bunch of light-gauge high E guitar strings, tying them together end-to-end to get the necessary length, and then plaiting them together to get more thickness.

S.P.

[wateroftyne]

Try extracting loads of those little widgets from inside Christmas cards that play carols, and sellotape them to squirrels.

[Mykesbass]

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Try extracting loads of those little widgets from inside Christmas cards that play carols, and sellotape them to squirrels.
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Careful, that sounds an awful lot like art. Aren't you meant to be an entertainer...

[Painy]

Ah, but does the thickness of the squirrel's neck affect the tone?

[James Nada]

Squierrels cam be as good as Fenderels these day.