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05-17-2009, 05:00 PM
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I've got a friend who's bit OCD and he asked me to check something on my bass that's been driving him nuts. He wanted to know if it was his bass, technique, or just the instrument in general. I urge you to try it yourself as uneventful as the outcome may be. 
Do a pulloff on the G string from the 9th fret E to the 7th fret D and listen. If you don't mute the A string this action sets off the 7th fret harmonic on the A string, You can feel the A string vibrating if you touch it.
I don't really care.
He does and it's driving him nuts.
Do you care?
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05-17-2009, 05:11 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: Plano, TX | | | I tried it. It did what you said it would. Why doesn't he just mute the other strings? Has he been playing long?
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05-17-2009, 05:13 PM
|  | no really, smokemeth&hailsatan | | Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Pueblo, CO | | | Short note? Mute the other strings. Long note, I let it ring. |
05-17-2009, 11:32 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: Hunt. Co., New Jersey | | | why is this so hard?? its prob. just a harmonic setting off another string
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05-17-2009, 11:51 PM
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05-18-2009, 02:59 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Singapore | | | I use the ring and pinky fingers to mute strings i'm not playing, so no, i haven't noticed this problem.
Isn't this something you learn very very early in your bass lessons? Muting, i mean, not specifically the way i do it.
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05-18-2009, 02:19 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2008 Location: indy | | | woh, thats cool. never noticed that.
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05-18-2009, 03:54 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2000 Location: Plano, TX | | | Seems to me this would suggest your bass is properly intonated if you get that resonating harmonic. That's a good thing....deaden the string as suggested before if it is not desired. |
05-18-2009, 05:52 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2008 Location: Northwest Florida | | | I think he is referring to the fact that it vibrates (that is, the vibration bothers him) when he mutes it.
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05-18-2009, 11:41 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Los Angeles | | | Maybe put some foam under the strings near the bridge. |
05-19-2009, 04:47 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: Cincinnati | | | Actually this sort of thing happens all over the bass. String muting is the answer, both left and right hand muting. Generally the harmonics aren't loud enough to matter in a band situation, but I do notice them when practicing.
Didn't Jaco have some line about the problem with Electric Bass is getting it to quite playing?
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05-19-2009, 06:46 AM
|  | Unprofessional TalkBass Contributor | | Join Date: Dec 1999 Location: Brighton, England, UK, Europe | | | Yeah - muting strings is a big thing if you play a bass with Hi-Fi amps and bright strings - also 6-string basses have loads of "sympathetic" resonance all over!
As people have said - you need to develop a technique - like using your right hand thumb etc.
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