Recent content by victor9000

Simple: nothing of it comes out if the PA guy likes his equipment intact and wants a clean sound. You normally cut the bass from 40Hz-50Hz downwards because nobody can hear it, it muds up Your whole sound and it steals Your poweramps power. Subsonics are amp & speaker killers.

Nope, it has nothing to do with technology, even the oldes Bass Violas were tuned EAD or EADG, some even in fifths DCGE. With electrical instruments it has to do with technology but not of the bass but of the amps that couldn't transfer the low notes. An old bass amp e.g. Fender Bassman or old...

Be assured, it would have developed. I started with 4 string basses and played them exclusively for about 20 years, several years as a pro, playing everything from top 40 to funk / metal. Never missed a 5th or 6th string. When I got a 5 out of curiosity I had to change my muting technique. I...

Answer to the question: No, it absolutely doesn't become obsolete. I'm playing some 4s (JB + JB FL, JP, P, MM), 5s (TRB, MM), 6s (TRB / TRB-P) and all of them have 19mm string spacing and are played almost equally often. Depends on the music / the songs, which one I chose. Playing R&B, Funk...

My first bass amp (selfmade transistor amp 50 Watts) has gone up in fire when our rehearsal room burnt down in the 80's. But I still have my first two basses, a Sakai Shortscale and my all time favorite Ibanez 2365B Jazzy.

Being a guitarplayer for some time in 1972 I tried to get into a band. There were always at least 2-3 guitarplayers already in the band and they all didn't have a bass player. So after a lot of tries I decided to give bass a try, borrowed an old Hoefner Beatles Bass from a friend who recently...