"Plays like butter"

[Scott549]

I have a couple basses that play like margarine. My best one plays like olive oil.

[Rip Topaz]

Originally Posted by Scott549

I have a couple basses that play like margarine. My best one plays like olive oil.

My plays like oatmeal. And somedays hummus.

[DwaynieAD]

smooth and creamy

[jlepre]

[jim777]

Originally Posted by Scott549

I have a couple basses that play like margarine. My best one plays like olive oil.

Is it really, really ugly? If so, it might be extra virgin olive oil.

[backup]

Originally Posted by jim777

Is it really, really ugly? If so, it might be extra virgin olive oil.

this thread is getting funnier by the hour

[AudioDwebe]

For whatever reason, I was equating "plays like buttah" with a warm, rich tone. I read "plays" but heard "sounds".

And I read someone's comment about a Marleaux Consat playing like butter and thought, wait a minute, to my ears that bass sounds really modern, hi-fi'ish and clinical...the opposite of warm and rich. That's what sort of threw me for a loop.

I was starting to understand that what people meant by the comment, then I read this:

Originally Posted by Kwesi

Hint: It's sexual.

Now, I'm even more confused.

[jlepre]

Obama Butta?

[TechJunky]

The real question is, what's the best butter for metal?! (yeah, you knew that was going to come up eventually)

[Jason Brown]

Originally Posted by AudioDwebe

What the heck does this mean?

I've always taken it to mean a bass with the perfect feel and action that requires no effort at all to fret, as in the ease of a hot knife through butter.

[meatwad]

It's one of those terms that sort of irritates me, especially when spelled "buttah". Makes me think of used-car-salesman-jargon, and puts me in the mindset that the person using it is less trustworthy. Just being honest here, but I will literally walk away from a bass, neck, or whatever may be for sale, if this is in the description. Funny how a single word or phrase can have such a strong impact.

[Mark4]

Fun fact:

Laklands get their name because they play like Land O'Lakes.

[HaMMerHeD]

I find that a great many phrases used on this board to describe the physical and sonic characteristics of a bass are at best subjective, and at worst utterly meaningless.

[Diesel Kilgore]

Originally Posted by TechJunky

The real question is, what's the best butter for metal?! (yeah, you knew that was going to come up eventually)

Country Crock. Ironic, but true.

[FretlessMainly]

Originally Posted by petrus61

Is that really the only benefit?

I listed two benefits, not one:

1. I can play my basses; and
2. Not a single bass player has ever asked to borrow one of my axes.

1 being the most important; 2 being a fringe benefit.

[Turock]

Sometimes they even "sound like buttah". I've never heard butter.

[bassmachine2112]

I can,t be doin with that phrase

[Rockin Mike]

It means the bass is for sale.
Check the classifieds.
Every single one plays like butter.

[sigmafloyd]

Originally Posted by Rockin Mike

It means the bass is for sale.
Check the classifieds.
Every single one plays like butter.

That was awesome

[AudioDwebe]

Originally Posted by Rockin Mike

It means the bass is for sale.
Check the classifieds.
Every single one plays like butter.

I've not noticed that, but am sure I will from now on.

On a similar note: I've been looking for a fretless bass for a while and it seems damn near every fretless sold is THE best fretless the seller has ever played. Oh, and they all muah for days.