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sound holes need advice

My last git had two sound holes on the front of the box but for my new one i want to put image on the box and no matter what way i put soundholes on the front counting the bridge pickup and holes its guna cover up too much of my image!

i have seen the soundholes on some gits not on the front of box but on the side mainly the side that points to your face! if i did it like that id have more room for image on front of box.

my question is will it take away from the sound acustically from the git?

any help appreciated in advance!

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Permalink Reply by the anonymous pick on March 2, 2015 at 10:30am

last couple seconds ;-)

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Permalink Reply by the anonymous pick on March 2, 2015 at 12:23pm

lol

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Permalink Reply by Bad Finger (Eric) on March 3, 2015 at 2:44am

Belinda is using a rod piezo under the saddle on that bass, as she points out in the video.

Feedback like this is common for acoustic upright bass instruments with a piezo somewhere on the bridge. There's an inside joke about cutting up flip flops to fill the F holes of the bass to prevent the feedback that is demonstrated at the end of the video.

A lot of bass players EQ this out with a narrow pass filter or stuff a rag in the afterlength of the strings and the top beyond the bridge. So that might lead to the source of the feedback.

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Permalink Reply by Ron "Oily" Sprague on March 3, 2015 at 7:50am

Eff-holes.

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Permalink Reply by Mike on March 3, 2015 at 9:40am

I know off topic but... I really dig the stuff she does with her looper pedal. I have watched several of her videos (this one included) in the past.

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Permalink Reply by Scruggy on March 3, 2015 at 10:12am

Dito, she has some great stuff!

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Permalink Reply by Mike on March 3, 2015 at 11:49am

this one is my favorite... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L-AuJgdZHTY

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Permalink Reply by the anonymous pick on March 3, 2015 at 12:16pm

yup , Belinda is responsible for a good chunk of members joining here .

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Permalink Reply by Mike on March 3, 2015 at 12:55pm

I bet. My one daughter watches her videos frequently. She was quite dismayed when she could not make the same sounds :)

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Permalink Reply by Bad Finger (Eric) on March 4, 2015 at 2:16am

One of the UK'ers I would have like to have met on my frequent business trips, but paths never crossed. It was funny one afternoon when I was sitting on the bank of the River Cam and a guy riding a bike with a banjo strapped to his back stopped to listen to me play my CBG and chat. He says, "you don't happen to know Belinda, do you?"