Recent content by Chrisda4

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    Youtube Bassists with Great Tone

    It's hard to find a good bass tone on Youtube, normally I find myself screaming at the monitor "PLAY MORE AGGRESSIVELY!" or "STOP SLAPPING EVERY NOTE!". But sometimes there are some bass covers that I keep coming back to, just to hear the bass tone again. Has anyone found any bass...
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    Top 3 players whose TONE you admire most...

    Geddy Lee Justin Chancellor Chris Squire I don't see how Steve Harris and Cliff Burton have good tone. They're amazing players, they just have terrible tone.
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    Famous bassists who use BOTH fingers and a pick.

    Going with the whole "pick player tolerance" thing, it would be interesting to know how many bassists use both a pick and fingers. The ones I can think of from the top of my head are: John Entwistle Robert Trujillo Marco Coti Zelati (Lacuna coil) ...And that's it. Suprisingly, there...
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    Bass sounds better with headphones

    I wasn't sure wether to post this in amps, live sound or technique, but anyway, I have a Fender Jazz bass with rotosound steel strings and a Laney Richter (or is it Richter Laney?) 30 watt practice amp. The thing is, when I plug my headphones into the amp, it seems to get a more crunchy...
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    Most challening fingerstyle songs

    Pretty much all of Dream Theater song's are ridiculously hard to play. (Well, all the good ones, anyway)