I tried this Blackstar Fly3 mini bass amp with the Glarry mini bass, now wearing the EAD&G strings from a Dean Markley Blue Steel string set.

But, sadly, I’m struggling to make it sound good enough for prime time, not awful tone (except for my playing) but the controls are non standard and baffle me. Maybe for the next test I will have it wired.

So this session I’m still using the Roland Bass Cube, which works pretty well with the piccolo Glarry. Everything sounds better on the Orange Crush 50 watt amp but OTOH it is not cheap.

In this vid I attempt to play the Glarry mini bass using $5 flea market Dean Markley Blue Steel electric guitar strings EAD & G.

The amp is my old Roland Bass Cube playing a blues drum line. Some chorus, delay & compression were added. The tune is a standard I-IV-V 12-bar boogie woggie blues turnaround in A major pentatonic, mostly

Use this Link to view YouTube video. I think the only way I can go cheaper is to fine tune the Blackfly mini amp. Then I can retire the None More Cheap trophy cup and spend a bit of dough on the Glarry and upgrade the pickups.

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