Genius invention or crazy person?

[project_c]

Personally, I like the idea.

 

[Oddly]

Interesting.
I could certainly see this being useful in a recording situation - giving a different option for your sound.
I'm wondering if it would serve as a volume boost for acoustic bass guitars - I'm always hearing how they just don't have volume.

 

[two fingers]

It would be neat for a walk in the woods with your bass or recording. No matter how cool it sounds it would probably get laughed off most stages. It's a neat concept though.

 

[project_c]

It would be neat for a walk in the woods with your bass or recording. No matter how cool it sounds it would probably get laughed off most stages. It's a neat concept though.

Yep, you're definitely not going to set a stadium on fire with it, but he does say the intention is for it to be a practice tool and to allow for a different tone for recording.

I think they need to work on the way it looks, it's very flimsy and home-made in appearance but the tone is nice and the idea is simple and clever.

 

[Korladis]

I hate demos where the first half is just talking.

 

[project_c]

I hate demos where the first half is just talking.

Normally i would agree with this but i make an exception for this one purely because it's not just another pedal/amp/bass demo, this one does actually need a bit of explanation.

 

[El Apestoso]

Skip to about 2:00 minutes into the video if you're easily bored.

 

[nostatic]

Skip to about 2:00 minutes into the video if you're easily bored.

I skip to the end because I'm really really easily bored.

Long story short, lets go zip lining!

 

[BassmanPaul]

I thought it might be something more interesting. Playing my Lined fretless 6, if I play staccato further up the neck, and plucking over the soloed neck pickup, I can get a very “Uprighty” sound through my amplifier. I use it a lot for certain genres.

 

[Jim Carr]

Sounds like a fretted hollow body with tape wounds. Nu?

 

[JRA]

for a one shot (recording, novelty, or "just because i can"): it's clever, IMO.

 

[bassfran]

Get some foam up under the strings against that bridge, cowboy. Not a bad idea for home recording.

 

[David A. Davis]

Makes me wonder about a headstock mounted pickup, hmmmmm ???

 

[Carl Hillman]

No matter how cool it sounds it would probably get laughed off most stages.

Indeed

 

[Nev375]

Most geniuses ARE crazy. I vote BOTH.

 

[two fingers]

Indeed

Funny! And from a great movie!

 

[BassUrges]

I've never heard so much clack from a fretless.

It's kind of a nice sound otherwise.

 

[seamonkey]

Try a contact mic. Less obvious and won't pick up everything else in the room like a mic

 

[Felken]

This man just answered the age old question of how to make your electric sound like an acoustic.

I could see it used in recording.

 

[beans-on-toast]

This idea is not new at all, it goes way back.

Some sitars such as this Barun Ray have a gourd mounted at the top, a tumba. It is connected via a hollow tube, today they use a threaded brass pipe. The gourd at the bottom has a sound hole.

Gourd mounted on neck.

Hollow threaded attachment.

Sound hole.