Just another "Anyone else using this technique?" ;-)

[Deacon_Blues]

Ok, this is the technique (RH) I mean:

- First, mute the string lightly with your palm at the bridge and then slap the string very lightly so the string doesn't hit the fretboard.

I sometimes use this technique when I want to produce a very round and deep sound completely without highs. It requires lots of volume, or a compressor at an extreme setting to sound loud enough, however. Sounds really good for fast drum'n'bass grooves or certain R'n'B, for instance.

[Deacon_Blues]

....Anyone? What do you think about it, then?

[JimmyM]

Interesting.

[weasel flejtuch]

Some samples please. Are you talking about palm muting with pick?

[Deacon_Blues]

Originally Posted by weasel flejtuch

Some samples please. Are you talking about palm muting with pick?

Sorry, I have no possibility to post any samples...

Palm muting yes, but only lightly. No pick is used, you slap the strings like normally but here again very very lightly so you don't hear that characteristic slap sound, only a very bassy round tone with no highs at all.

[Jona-s]

I think I know what you mean. I don't really use that technique so much. Usually just to ''fill'' some parts. for example, when we play Pantera's ''Hollow', just before the heavy part there's that guitarrything. There I use some of it.

[puff father]

I have never tried that. I'll try it tonight!

[JeffTheBig]

Originally Posted by JimmyM

Interesting.

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[j-bass-kreep]

I read something similar from a TB'er , But instead of slapping I use the thumb to pluck and produce a very "uprighty" sound .

[Deacon_Blues]

Originally Posted by j-bass-kreep

I read something similar from a TB'er , But instead of slapping I use the thumb to pluck and produce a very "uprighty" sound .

Yeah, I've done that sometimes, but I also incorporate the index and ring fingers to pluck the higher strings in that case. Perfect technique for "Sitting on the dock of the bay" for instance. I saw once a Danish bass ace using this technique and thought it would be cool to try myself. But the slapping thing is very different...