I just ordered a Brice 6-string bass ( http://www.rondomusic.net/hxb40635.html ) as my first bass... and I'm asking anyone I can about bass stuff because I'm just not used to taking care of those details on my own.
First, for obvious reasons I'm not looking forward to buying new strings, so I'm trying to research as well as I can beforehand. How low can one reasonably expect to go with that 29-128 set? I'm going to be grabbing some giant fuckers from Conklin when I have some money, so I can tune it F#-B-E-A-D-G and match the 8-string guitar I hope to get soon, but I'd like to goof around with tunings before then.
Second, what's an efficient way to get a good distorted sound in a gig or when goofing around without studio equipment? I have the stuff to route things left and right for recording and playing at the computer, but I'm sure things are different when I'm just plugging in somewhere else. I've been thinking of making some room in the control cavity for a high-pass->basic distortion circuit that I can blend with the clean sound (or part of it, at least), but that does take a bit of work. I don't have a whole lot of money to work with, so I can't just go out and impulse-buy a Sansamp, is there a cheap way to do that and not suck?
Jeff
First, for obvious reasons I'm not looking forward to buying new strings, so I'm trying to research as well as I can beforehand. How low can one reasonably expect to go with that 29-128 set? I'm going to be grabbing some giant fuckers from Conklin when I have some money, so I can tune it F#-B-E-A-D-G and match the 8-string guitar I hope to get soon, but I'd like to goof around with tunings before then.
Second, what's an efficient way to get a good distorted sound in a gig or when goofing around without studio equipment? I have the stuff to route things left and right for recording and playing at the computer, but I'm sure things are different when I'm just plugging in somewhere else. I've been thinking of making some room in the control cavity for a high-pass->basic distortion circuit that I can blend with the clean sound (or part of it, at least), but that does take a bit of work. I don't have a whole lot of money to work with, so I can't just go out and impulse-buy a Sansamp, is there a cheap way to do that and not suck?
Jeff