Crazy Potential Bass Project

[muttley600]

btw, shouldn't scale length also be a player? like a 34" acoustic bass vs. a shorter scale acoustic. I would think that it's better to have full-scale.

Very much so thats why I said this

The best way to achieve it is to be able to store more energy in the string. Heavier strings will do that along with longer string length and to a small degree higher action.

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Bottom line you still need to move a lot of air at those frequencies. Thats hard with an acoustic instrument.

 

[Gear_Junky]

Bottom line you still need to move a lot of air at those frequencies. Thats hard with an acoustic instrument.

sure, totally agreed, and the closest to that I've HEARD were the Tacoma Thunderchief (way out of my league price-wise) and my Dean Playmate EAB.

 

[Fusioninspace]

This is totally off the wall...

But if you're looking for an extreme Wild-Ass Project (copyright symbol here), that has extreme volume, then why not try something like putting a little amp and speaker into an acoustic instrument.

So you get a Dean Playmate, use the existing pickup system, get a some kind of solid state amp system (battery powered of course), go crazy and install some kind of speaker about where the sound hole is (nothing TOOO big, something around 6"). It would probably sound like sh*t, but you would get the volume you're looking for.

If I was a street musician, this would sound like a truly feasible project.

I think the insane part would be the weight of the speaker and how well it would attach to the soundboard. You'd probably need extra bracing/backing.

I'm beginning to like this idea....

 

[ggunn]

This is totally off the wall...

But if you're looking for an extreme Wild-Ass Project (copyright symbol here), that has extreme volume, then why not try something like putting a little amp and speaker into an acoustic instrument.

So you get a Dean Playmate, use the existing pickup system, get a some kind of solid state amp system (battery powered of course), go crazy and install some kind of speaker about where the sound hole is (nothing TOOO big, something around 6"). It would probably sound like sh*t, but you would get the volume you're looking for.

If I was a street musician, this would sound like a truly feasible project.

I think the insane part would be the weight of the speaker and how well it would attach to the soundboard. You'd probably need extra bracing/backing.

I'm beginning to like this idea....

I'm pretty sure than any note you played would go into runaway feedback.

 

[Gear_Junky]

well, maybe not, they do have guitars with built-in mini-amps. i think it would work, but i doubt it would sound like a bass or that it would even have a satisfying sound

 

[ggunn]

well, maybe not, they do have guitars with built-in mini-amps. i think it would work, but i doubt it would sound like a bass or that it would even have a satisfying sound

Yes, but all of those I have seen have been solid body guitars. We're talking about ABG's here, aren't we?

 

[Zarathustra]

This is totally off the wall...

But if you're looking for an extreme Wild-Ass Project (copyright symbol here), that has extreme volume, then why not try something like putting a little amp and speaker into an acoustic instrument.

So you get a Dean Playmate, use the existing pickup system, get a some kind of solid state amp system (battery powered of course), go crazy and install some kind of speaker about where the sound hole is (nothing TOOO big, something around 6"). It would probably sound like sh*t, but you would get the volume you're looking for.

If I was a street musician, this would sound like a truly feasible project.

I think the insane part would be the weight of the speaker and how well it would attach to the soundboard. You'd probably need extra bracing/backing.

I'm beginning to like this idea....

That might just be crazy enough to work!

You could likely set it up as a hollow-body without any kind of sound holes...

Ooooo.