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BigglesSWE posted:My wife is gonna buy me a banjo for my birthday. We'll go to town tomorrow and take a look at what we can find for a thick-skulled non-musician like myself. Wish us luck! Didja get something? Do tell!
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I want an electric banjo. I own no banjos, just 4 guitars for strings right now, also I can't really play anything that's not a saxophone with even mild proficiency, despite the growing number of stringed instruments and keybeds I seem to be acquiring. After reading all the reddit reasons not to get an electric banjo (often bad pickups, "why do you want an electric pickup on a banjo?!", "it doesn't reeeeally sound like a banjo, even nice ones") I still want one but also I am generally cheap and trying to spend all my money on video synths. Assuming I am looking at used stuff on Reverb what are my best options at $300 or $500 and also am I better off just getting a normal banjo and putting a pickup on it? This whole room is so wired up it glows in the dark and even my loving kazoo has an electric pickup, I don't want to start with an acoustic banjo since I am mostly just looking to abuse the gently caress out of it and then feed it into granular synth workflows, hosed/distorted harmonics and all (especially those)
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Dec 31, 2023 19:06
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Cabbages and Kings posted:I want an electric banjo. Electric banjos are pretty niche so your best option on reverb is likely whatever you see for sale that day. Gold tone has a couple models but I think they will be above that price range. As far as banjo with a pickup, there are different pickups for different purposes/budgets and some will sound more "like a banjo" than others. Is there a characteristic of the banjo sound you want to reproduce, or do you just want something that look/feels like a banjo? If you have an example of the sound you're going for that might help.
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Jan 18, 2024 02:54
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What about an old Deering starfire? I saw one a while back at a store and I kick myself now for not picking it up
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Jan 18, 2024 03:32
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I'm thinking about picking up a Goldtone OB-3RF Twanger with the radiused fretboard. I've been playing my CC100 for close to a year. Locally, there's a new looking Twanger with spikes and a few other upgrades for ~$400 less than new. The guy has had it up for sale for at least a few months now. He's got a standard OB-3 but I think I want the spikes and radiused fb
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Mar 18, 2024 21:20
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You want the spikes. I had more put in my main banjo than came stock and also had spikes installed in my goodtime.
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Mar 19, 2024 00:08
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I have a 5th string capo now and I definitely don't want to be doing that long term
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Mar 19, 2024 00:16
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Spikes are also suuuper easy to install yourself
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