lewiswhitebass Posted October 17, 2019 Share Posted October 17, 2019 Would love to become a guitar/bass tech. I would be interested to hear how those of you doing it already got into it? Lewis Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dudewheresmybass Posted October 18, 2019 Share Posted October 18, 2019 networking. 😉 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lownote Posted October 21, 2019 Share Posted October 21, 2019 Do some tech stuff. I started off changing my strings. Ended up by converting a fretless bass that sold to Bryan Adams. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gjones Posted October 21, 2019 Share Posted October 21, 2019 I have a friend who became the guitar tech for the Soweto Gospel choir. She'd been a sound engineer, around Edinburgh and Glasgow, for a few years and out of the blue got a call from a friend, who was having to drop out of the choir's UK tour and asked her if she fancied taking over the job. Of course she had no idea about being a guitar tech but said yes anyway. I had to teach her how to tune a guitar. She managed to get through the UK tour and eventually she ended up as their tour manager, on a 6 week tour from Hamburg to Istanbul. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bassalarky Posted October 29, 2019 Share Posted October 29, 2019 After touring for several years, keeping all the band gear running, I studied for a HND in Music Technology (electronics), got a job in a busy recording studio and started saying 'yes' when musos/customers/friends/hangers-on asked if I could fix their guitar/bass/keyboard/amp/microphone........Now I just do it for local people who are going to be nice to me cos I've grown into a grumpy old man in my semi-retirement 😁 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lewiswhitebass Posted November 5, 2019 Author Share Posted November 5, 2019 Thanks for all your responses! Definitely stuff to consider. I suppose it's like anything in life, if you do it a lot you will get good at it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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