Jonbouy


Man, I've even had to run out of a recording down to the nearest radio shack to get a £5 PZM mic so the engineer could play out my last take into a public toilet block and have me sit and record the 'room' there because it wasn't sounding right from the studio mics.  I had to time it right so we could play out the entire track without somebody flushing from the next cubicle...lol.  We weren't worried about phase issues and stuff, somebody taking a dump next-door was far more of a concern.

I wonder if I should share that tip in the Techniques forum?...I'd probably get ducked for promoting some kind of witchcraft...

Way back in the day, when MIT's radio station was still WTBS (before Ted Turner offered some $ for his favorite letters), I'm told the jocks would include the natural porcelain reverb from the men's room into the broadcast stream.  Yes, flushing was an issue.
 
And as much as I enjoyed the Tal video (I'd never heard of her), what was the point?  Does she have tape on her strings?  I was, um . . . watching her closely in the video, and I didn't notice.  Oh well.  Have to watch it again.
 
As a bass player, I personally would never put electrical tape on my strings, too worried about the sticky residue.

RabbitSeason

As a bass player, I personally would never put electrical tape on my strings, too worried about the sticky residue. 

Then you NEVER want to let Mooch play your bass either.


Just sayin'.

That's not a "feature" of the Hofner bass?

I wrapped my bass strings with electrical tape just above the pickups to eliminate pops... 

a better version of that, is the old-school practice of putting a piece of foam underneath and in front of the bridge.
different types and amount of foam, for different players


the old fender jazz basses had that cover that originally went over the 'mute' section.


check this:
http://books.google.com/books?id=AnD7302beCsC&pg=PA48&lpg=PA48&dq=foam+under+electric+bass+guitar+strings&source=bl&ots=drtEIxtu9A&sig=gD0hUIXXc0z4DhKanijYYDawxQI&hl=en&sa=X&ei=2FsIUNnBEcWYrAGcm8C9BA&ved=0CHwQ6AEwAw#v=onepage&q=foam%20under%20electric%20bass%20guitar%20strings&f=false


and this
http://www.bassmute.com/bassmute/bm_mainframe.html

 Great to hear the tape is working out for you. I once had a cheap Dean bass that I had to dampen to get the sound I was looking for on a few of the lower strings. Some cotton fibers from a cigarette butt at the nut and bridge did it for me.