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Tnx a lot you're a mine of information. I do really appreciate your help. I'll try everything you just mentioned above and see what happens. So basically playing the guitar is the easy part, tweaking is tough. Anyway yeah I am looking for the "singing violin tone" and I'll slowly look into fuzz effects, if you say it may help. Bye for now, F

I've seen people doing it since the 90s at least. Best tone was a guy in St Paul's tube station in the run up to Christmas about twenty years ago or more, who had an old (pre-1980) battery-powered Vox amp of some sort. Course, some of the official busking spots on the tube I think even have power sockets now.

the Behringer GDI21 is basically a clone of the Sansamp GT2, I don't have any experience with it myself but i do own 2 of the acoustic versions and am very pleased with them, the bass version is also very popular as a backup DI in case of amp failure. for the cost you really can't go far wrong, the cases are plastic and the switch and controls feel a tiny bit flimsy but for the price they are generally excellent.

Definitely a thing and has been so for quite some time. Battery powered amps seem to be the standard modus operandi.

You may have seen it already on the first page: https://www.basschat.co.uk/topic/26098-the-alembic-thread/?do=findComment&comment=270629 Photobucket doesn't do us any favours these days however. Repost here: https://www.basschat.co.uk/topic/333124-rare-basses/page/7/#comments