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View Poll Results: where does your bass sit on you? | |
high up like billy sheehan
|    | 13 | 9.56% | |
upper mid area(stanley clarke)
|    | 39 | 28.68% | |
a little lower(jon enwhistle)
|    | 33 | 24.26% | |
right over your belt buckle
|    | 46 | 33.82% | |
below crotch
|    | 9 | 6.62% | |
no strap i sit down
|    | 3 | 2.21% |
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02-10-2010, 08:23 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: las vegas,NV | | | where do you "wear" your bass?
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just curious where your bass sits on you. buckle rash? i wear mine kinda high, not as high as billy sheehan.
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02-11-2010, 05:36 AM
| | | | A bit lower than my belt buckle. |
02-11-2010, 12:15 PM
| | | | Stanley Clark height for me.
Pretty good for both my hands.
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02-11-2010, 12:18 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2009 Location: Rhode Island | | | In an ideal world, mine would be hanging down by my knees, but now it's just a bit below belt buckle. |
02-11-2010, 12:21 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: NJ via NYC | | | Hanging (or standing) level is the same as "sitting" position.
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02-11-2010, 02:03 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Fort Collins, Colorado | | | Belt buckle area centered behind the body of the bass.
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02-11-2010, 02:05 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2009 Location: The Great White North | | | Belt Rash is a testament to hard work and fun times
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02-11-2010, 02:27 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2008 Location: Bozeman, Montana | | | A bit below my belt buckle. I chose below my crotch, though. |
02-11-2010, 02:31 PM
|  | Remember 12/21/2012! ...it's my birthday! | | Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Cheviot, OH | | | Mine hangs pretty low but that just comes with the territory of being a big guy.
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02-11-2010, 02:40 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: Twin Cities area, Minnesota | | | A little higher than billy actually...
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02-11-2010, 06:35 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: Northern Va. | | | A little lower than Shehan.. from what I have seen.. the bridge is just about at the belt line.. or a little above or below.. depending on whether I am using my thumb or fingers.. |
02-11-2010, 06:43 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2007 Location: Catford, London | | | Belt buckle roughly on Centreline. |
02-11-2010, 07:15 PM
|  | Eat at Joe's | | Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: J-Actionville, NC | | | Just over the belt buckle with my fours, mostly my ric since hte uber cool strap only adjusts that high and no one wants to look like one of those jazz dorks with a jetglo ric. However when I am playing my 6 or 7 strings and being a dork (Which is most of the time) I go for the stanley area. I like it so be adjusted so that when I sit down and atand up it is in the same spot give or take.
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02-12-2010, 07:08 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2009 Location: Up the street from Fender... | | | It's just over my waist, the upper horn is almost under my boobs LOL!!!!!! I use a strap sitting or standing tho.
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02-12-2010, 07:11 AM
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02-12-2010, 07:16 AM
| | Banned | | Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: Maine/Vermont | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Pilgrim Belt buckle area centered behind the body of the bass. | +1.
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02-12-2010, 07:35 AM
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02-12-2010, 07:48 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Nashville | | For as long as I can remember I've been adjusting my strap length by sitting down on a stool, allowing my bass to rest comfortably on my thigh/knee, then snugging the strap into that position. What this does is put the bass as close to the same position sitting or standing as possible.
I looked at photos of Enwhistle, I'm guessing that's close but I think it could be a smidgeon lower, like this: 
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02-12-2010, 10:37 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Baltimore, Maryland | | Quote:
Originally Posted by T-MOST Hanging (or standing) level is the same as "sitting" position. | +1. Same logic that I use. Maybe I'm showing signs of my age, but a 3-hour gig can seem awfully long without a stool and a leg to help support a heavy bass. |
02-12-2010, 10:38 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2009 Location: Philadelphia, PA | | | My basses always end up buckle-rashtacular.
Unless I remember to center the buckle of my belt on my left hip rather than above my crotch like normal.
Usually try to make a note to remember to do that for long practices or intense shows.
I obviously chose "right over your belt buckle".
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