Hermy

On 24/10/2019 at 16:49, Stub Mandrel said:

Opposite effect when I took my wife (who couldn't play a note) to GuitarGuitar in Birmingham to look for a first guitar. The salesman (for that's what he was) was only interested in persuading her she needed something with a solid spruce top. She saw right through him.

Went to Rattle and Drum in Derby and the helpful young chap gave much useful advice and she came away with very nice, parlour-sized Fender acoustic for about 2/3 of my expected outlay...

Solid spruce top doesn't mean expensive at all. Spruce is basically just a very thin piece of wood the same as the pine in your Ikea furniture. The piece of spruce on a guitar would literally cost pennies.

To have an acoustic which sounds good acoustically, I would recommend it too.

Small bodied composite top guitars sound like toys (quacky/plasticcy). I know because I have one, which I enjoy for intentionally getting a toy guitar sound.

I always hated that sound.

It is not hard to create at all either.

the "pedal" for an electric bass to sound more like a double bass is a piece of foam wedged under the strings.

If you want to go deeper than that, a Ukulele bass sounds a lot like a double bass thanks to its plastic strings.

thanks, that is helpful to know.

I get the feeling that when the right sound is dialled in with pedals and wotnot, it has the potential to outperform a guitar specific amp.

I have noticed TC BG250's pop up at reasonable prices near me.

I have a need for a Bass Amp because I have a Bass guitar but no amp and would like to open myself up to playing in Bands live.

but I am more of a guitar player and don't have a reliable modern guitar amp worthy of gigging either, so I was wondering if a combination of the EQ knobs and TC's toneprint can make their Bass amps respond in a manner that would be decent for guitar? I know that modern Bass amps can have rubber woofers and tweeters which sound/respond radically different to old timey paper cones used in Guitar amps. But at the same time some classic Bass amps like the Fender Bassman, found success specifically as guitar and not bass guitar amps.