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This sounds interesting though. judging from the comments section, it doesn't seem foolproof.

bender wrote: ↑Sun Dec 25, 2022 10:25 pm Strings and beyond aren’t too bad as an alternative to Amazon. They occasionally do free international shipping promos.

Yep, I'm on their mailing list. Unfortunately, free shipping to NZ doesn't happen as frequently as I'd like.

One of the many downsides of the COVID stuff is that things are harder to find. Music Planet stopped bringing in acoustic bass strings and anyway, my faves (Elixirs) aren't being made anymore. The Rockshop reckons they have 12 sets of ABG strings throughout the whole country(!). Probably fewer now b...

The volume drop thing is fairly unique, not something I’ve experienced before! Hmmm... it IS a shimmer though. Have you used others? I do notice a little bit of a volume drop when using any sort of reverb. ADDED: maybe it's not a VOLUME DROP as such, more that the sound is now in its own little env...

Bit of a dredge, I know, but I'm quite happy with this band.
We don't normally have a frontman so this was a bit of change. Unfortunately, he's only here until February.

Jay wrote: ↑Sat Dec 24, 2022 1:01 pm I was trying to say that but yours is so much more eloquent

Danger Mouse wrote: ↑Fri Dec 23, 2022 3:02 pm Also Viiiiiiince! Dude, good to see you around these parts again. I know you've been around on other platforms, but good to see you on here again.

Awww thanks.

Yeah, playing just acoustic bass guitar and just as a solo instrument I began to feel I didn't have much to ask or to contribute.

jeremyb wrote: ↑Sat Dec 24, 2022 9:58 am I was thinking this too, surely something like this exists already, but likely buying one would mean you might as well spend the money on an upgrade to a better reverb…

I don't know that a better reverb would solve the volume difference thing though.

Hi, I love my TCE Flurorescence (shimmer reverb). It's a wonderful pedal. There's only one problem, I lose a lot of volume when I use it. It's fine if I have it on all the way through a song but if I want to use it in just part of a song it doesn't go well because all of a sudden I can't be heard ov...

Took the strings off my bass to give it a clean a couple of weeks ago. Got these strings in 2005, so still plenty of life in them, but them back on afterwards. How often are you changing bass strings? This really doesn't make sense to me! I go through a set of Elixirs in about six months, a set of ...

Molly wrote: ↑Mon Sep 13, 2021 11:35 am Or take up guitar...

... yes, or take up guitar.

I've actually been thinking of dusting off the baritone as it has the same scale length as a bass. But the strings feel so fiddly!

Molly wrote: ↑Mon Sep 13, 2021 11:25 am Maybe a chemical cleaner of some sort would work.

Worth thinking about. A set of strings can cost about $80 so it's a fair whack every time. I'm just glad I don't play double bass, they cost hundreds.

Is there anything you can do to rejuvenate old strings? I know folk used to boil them. Yeah, I tried that many years ago and it SORT OF works. They don't sound NEW but, for a couple of weeks, they sound like they're only about a month old. I've also seen a video where Dmitry Lisenko (an acoustic ba...

I finally have something in the mail so I can post in this thread. I finally bit the bullet and bought strings off the net. It's been a major PITA because Elixir has stopped production on my faves (I play acoustic bass guitar, if we've never met). Not just that but AB strings in general are starting...

Just pointing out thats why it has issues ;) I'm not sure it HAS "issues". Yes, it sucks up volume but it's a reverb (and a pretty massive chunk of reverb) so maybe that's not so surprising. Reverb always makes things sound a little bit far away. The annoying thing is that if I was to use...