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08-24-2009, 06:11 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2003 Location: Denver, Co. | |  Terms to ignore in DB shopping.
I've been looking around for an acoustically projecting bass I can play without my amp.
Here are three terms that people use to try to get you interested before you play the bass.
I'm really tired of:
"Punchy".
"Organic".
"This THING moves some serious air!!!! (baby)".
Anybody else need to vent? (baby?).    
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08-24-2009, 06:15 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2003 Location: Denver, Co. | |
Bumped, since Jesse got the problem taken care of. |
08-24-2009, 06:31 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2007 Location: San Marvelous, Texas | | | How about "This is solid wood." ***? |
08-24-2009, 06:40 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2005 Location: Dallas, TX | | | Well, baby, when I think about it, pretty much any terminology describing sound is limited. I suppose it's mostly in the "ear of the beholder", eh? Wasn't it Frank Zappa who said, "Talking about music is like dancing about sculpture"? "Punchy" doesn't bother me so much, but "organic" is just lame - was the wood grown without harmful chemical pesticides? Well, of course it's organic - there are carbon atoms aplenty!
These are well-worn and rather annoying:
"It's a cannon!"
"Dark"
"Warm"
"Mellow"
"Chocolaty"
"Buttery"
"Responsive"
"Ergonomic"
Honestly, these vague terms are really all we have to communicate such subjective info and opinion. So, I guess we're stuck with them.
Chris |
08-24-2009, 06:42 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 1999 Location: NYC | | | Is your bass loud?
What?
Is your bass LOUD?
What?
Is your BASS LIUD?
What?
IS YOUR BASS LOUD?
What?
IS YOUR ****ING BASS ****ING LOUD YOU ****!!!!!!
You don't have to shout....
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08-24-2009, 06:44 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 1999 Location: NYC | | Quote:
Originally Posted by CPike  Well, baby, when I think about it, pretty much any terminology describing sound is limited. I suppose it's mostly in the "ear of the beholder", eh? Wasn't it Frank Zappa who said, "Talking about music is like dancing about sculpture"? "Punchy" doesn't bother me so much, but "organic" is just lame - was the wood grown without harmful chemical pesticides? Well, of course it's organic - there are carbon atoms aplenty!
These are well-worn and rather annoying:
"It's a cannon!"
"Dark"
"Warm"
"Mellow"
"Chocolaty"
"Buttery"
"Responsive"
"Ergonomic"
Honestly, these vague terms are really all we have to communicate such subjective info and opinion. So, I guess we're stuck with them.
Chris | I have to take exception to your listing of "ergonomic". That's an actual word that has a very specific meaning when talking about design.
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08-24-2009, 06:52 PM
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Builder for Audiokinesis and Fearful speakers Endorser for EA, Roscoe | | | | | Just for fun, I'd like to post an ad for a bass using real estate terms.
like
"Charming bass with lots of curb appeal"
or
"handyman's dream" |
08-24-2009, 07:14 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2003 Location: Denver, Co. | |  Lexi.
One I LOVE though is from a page off of our Friend Alexi David's Facebook...
He said something like: I'm gonna put some new strings on my bass and see if I can peel some paint of the walls.
Really, it was my bad because I said "Acoustically projecting". Too deep I guess. As Ed said:
Me: Is it LOUD??????
Seller: On what level, in terms of what and in what musical arena?
Me: HOLY ****.
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08-24-2009, 07:46 PM
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"Cannon" should have been fourth term in the header.
I actually got a guy the other day that said his bass sounded similar to "Charlie Haden's Vuillaume".
Dono wouldn't want that one.
Last edited by Paul Warburton : 08-24-2009 at 07:52 PM.
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08-24-2009, 09:14 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Seattle, WA | | | I have a slight nit about use of the word "carved" to describe everything not laminated, since as we know not all solid wood basses are carved.
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08-24-2009, 09:21 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2009 Location: Colorado | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Paul Warburton Bumped, since Jesse got the problem taken care of. | Thanks Paul! You helped, and I'm grateful. Although my horse event took precedent over my bass today.
I loved the "loud bass". My favorite guitarist, not everyone's, is Yngwie (Yngve in Sweden) Malmsteen, and his guitar is "Play Loud"  Yngve also plays his bass parts on recordings, and he's a damned good BG. He's kind of a classicist, so his bass parts are kind of Bach-ish.
Paul, thanks for helping make me a happy camper over decisions!  |
08-24-2009, 09:31 PM
| | | | I'm not sure I've seen it in relation to DBs but the expression "Plays like buttah" annoys the h*ll out of me. Plus, I get flashbacks of the scenes from "Last Tango in Paris" |
08-24-2009, 09:37 PM
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My pleasure helping on your issue, Jess. Quote:
Originally Posted by TroyK I have a slight nit about use of the word "carved" to describe everything not laminated, since as we know not all solid wood basses are carved. | I think this is a moment of confusion for most bassists shopping for a carved bass before we actually learn what a "Fully Carved" DB really is. 'Specially wif them there flat backins' there. Tricky ****.  |
08-24-2009, 09:40 PM
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Originally Posted by relacey I'm not sure I've seen it in relation to DBs but the expression "Plays like buttah" annoys the h*ll out of me. Plus, I get flashbacks of the scenes from "Last Tango in Paris" | Damn, Ron.
We ain't goin' back into ('scuse me). that Astroglide stuff again, I do hope. |
08-24-2009, 09:45 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Western Canada | | | "plays and sounds better than basses costing 3x as much"
What, you have no clue how to value something so wonderful?
Or perhaps you hope I have no clue? |
08-24-2009, 10:44 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: emmitsburg, maryland | | | the ever endearing.... "growls" |
08-24-2009, 11:05 PM
| | | | "Yeah, I'd stand on that."
-Pickles the drummer.
Joking aside I snickered simply hearing the word "tone" in my local shop today.
Not a fan of "growl" either.
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08-24-2009, 11:08 PM
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Luthier: Bresque Basses, rep: Paulin EUB | | Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: Sydney, Australia | | | So, apart from "LOUD" and maybe "ergonomic" what terms ARE acceptable? |
08-24-2009, 11:10 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 1999 Location: NYC | | | FREE is good...
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08-24-2009, 11:15 PM
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