website idea

Jezz8me · #1 01-05-2008, 03:35 AM

it would be great if someone made a site where you could hear different basses through different amps.

what i am saying is you select say American P bass, Fingerstyle, Ampeg stack.

obviously you could only select complete rigs or combos and not customised or assorted things and not every combination of bass and amp would be there but this woul give people sitting at home waiting for a chance to get to a good bass store which i know is something i have to do alot, not being able to drive and the good stores in awkward/ far areas

so what do you think, i am sure there are many holes but it would be great for say fender to get behind it and put all their basses on for a sort of advertisment.

Hawaii Islander · #2 01-05-2008, 04:18 AM

It actually could be made to work. I listened to audio demos and seen video demos of basses and amps before, but they are limited in number and scattered on different websites.

Jezz8me · #3 01-05-2008, 04:49 AM

well if anyone is business minded here maby they can take it as a venture, they could do it for guitars and keyboards as well if they are afraid bass will not have enough support alone.

and as of the samples i am thinking pretty high quality not that of video streaming like what you may find on youtube

*smb · #4 01-05-2008, 05:05 AM

I did know of a site that did exactly this but they struggled to get enough samples for it to be really useful. Can't remember the URL and don't know if it still exists.

**Pacman** · #5 01-05-2008, 05:12 AM

Basstasters.com?

tplyons · #6 01-05-2008, 05:48 PM

basstasters.com did it. However, the problem is... getting all the gear together at the same time. P-Bass through an Ampeg is great.

But when a new model bass comes out... recording that through everything.

And then, when a new model amp comes out, you gotta get that new model bass back. Or buy them all outright, which would make the cost of a site like this above and beyond what anyone can afford.

Except tombowlus.

iamlowsound · #7 01-05-2008, 06:26 PM

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Originally Posted by tplyons

basstasters.com did it. However, the problem is... getting all the gear together at the same time. P-Bass through an Ampeg is great.

But when a new model bass comes out... recording that through everything.

And then, when a new model amp comes out, you gotta get that new model bass back. Or buy them all outright, which would make the cost of a site like this above and beyond what anyone can afford.

Except tombowlus.

So tombowlus should start the site?

lowsound

A9X · #8 01-05-2008, 06:35 PM

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Originally Posted by tplyons

basstasters.com did it. However, the problem is... getting all the gear together at the same time. P-Bass through an Ampeg is great.

But when a new model bass comes out... recording that through everything.

And then, when a new model amp comes out, you gotta get that new model bass back. Or buy them all outright, which would make the cost of a site like this above and beyond what anyone can afford.

Except tombowlus.

Record some basses direct (clean, no EQ or FX) then use the recordings into different amps. Easy and consistent. When you do the recordings, have a test tone at the beginning same as a movie or TV show does to set up a reference so that levels could be consistent or varied from a known point.
The recording could also be shared as a .wav so other peopple in different parts of the world could use the same recording(s) to make it much easier to get something that can be compared with some sort of idea what's actually going on.

iamlowsound · #9 01-05-2008, 06:54 PM

Ok, I was thinking about this and it really isn't that viable of an idea. Just the bandwidth for files would be massive. Think about this, say you have 13 different basses 13 different heads and 13 different cabs, that is 13x13x13=2197 different possible combinations. That is a lot of files. Say each file is 2 megs, that is getting close to 5 gigs worth of bandwidth that you would need. Plus there are way more than 13 basses, 13 heads and 13 cabs that I can think of.

lowsound

A9X · #10 01-05-2008, 07:50 PM

It would chew some BW esp as mp3's have nowhere near the resolution of a wav.

Masher88 · #11 01-06-2008, 07:48 AM

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Originally Posted by iamlowsound

Ok, I was thinking about this and it really isn't that viable of an idea. Just the bandwidth for files would be massive. Think about this, say you have 13 different basses 13 different heads and 13 different cabs, that is 13x13x13=2197 different possible combinations. That is a lot of files. Say each file is 2 megs, that is getting close to 5 gigs worth of bandwidth that you would need. Plus there are way more than 13 basses, 13 heads and 13 cabs that I can think of.

lowsound

Plus, you have to include Fingerstyle, Pickstyle, slap and pop, chords, Tapping.... ugh.
MASSIVE UNDERTAKING!!!

Basstasters is a really good start.

What would be NICE...is if every bass manufacturer did this for their own product (say Fender took a P thru 5 different amps and a J thru the same amps)...and there was one central link site that someone could go to to see the listings. This would alleviate the bandwidth problem. But then there are licensing problems with amp manufacturers....crud! one problem after another!!

tombowlus · #12 01-07-2008, 08:49 AM

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Originally Posted by iamlowsound

So tombowlus should start the site?

lowsound

Hmmmm....