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I would buy two $2,000 basses and tell the guy to keep the rest.

Agree on tone, but disagree on sound/noise. The bass can sound smooth or crunch/gritty, but to a non-bass player, they won't notice like they would on an electric guitar. Non-bass players CAN hear when equalization is off, strings are buzzing, it's making loud pop noises, it's harsh or noisy...

A new house gives you a chance to throw up some soundproofing before you move in for late night jams. More playing is better than more basses.

There's a show on Youtube that meets with the guitar tech and looks at all the guitars and basses that a band brings. The pro bass players bring several basses to a show. Interestingly, some pro bass players have all Fender basses even though they have a lot of basses. Personally, I would...

An active pickup that immediately kills the battery

Paul McCartney played the bass?

Were your ears ringing after the show? And if yes, how long? A little ringing can be okay. Also, balanced sound is important. It's up to you if you want to play in a loud band, but the kick drum should be audible. You can hear those things across a football field. You should tell the band that...

Somewhere around 1991 to 1994, I was a pre-teen asking my friends what they were listening to. Did not have MTV. A friend recommended Silver Chair. Turned on my clock radio, and was able to get a rock station by carefully moving the dial until something came in. Silver Chair came on and I was...

After about ten minutes of trying to play, the band will descend into smoking something, drinking, and playing video games. Just kidding. Good luck in your amazing musical pursuits!

Started on 5 string (never practiced much), then two years ago put all of my practice time into bass. Went with a 4 string for several reasons. Hard to hear the difference between each of the notes below the low E, less strings to learn, and similar to the bottom four strings of guitar...

Dent

Unscooped. If you don't want it scooped, then don't scoop it.

Have the drummer show you what to play using his bass drum, then play it with him until you're playing it together. It's fair for him to want you to line up the phrasing. However, you should be spelling out the melody with the guitarist and singer, not the drummer.

Have a High-Mass bridge that came with my precision. Never knew what it was supposed to do until I read this thread. My bass is not polite if you mean weak tone; it does exactly what my fingers tell it to do and sounds good to boot.

Ah, I just reread your original post, and you had said you already know the scales, but want to know how to use them. Well here's a beginners point of view. 1. I pick an interval from the scale such as 8, 5, 2, 6, 3, or 7. 2. I figure out what note of the scale this is for every chord. ex. Key...

Try this scale. I am a beginner BTW. Pinky on the root note of the major scale on the E string; index (2), ring (3), and pinky (4) fingers on the A string; index (5) and ring (6) fingers on the D string; index stretched down one fret (7) and index (octave) on the G string. The root and octave...

The bass is soooo fun, I dedicated myself to learning it fully since the summer of 2019. Ironically, people now want me to play guitar more and more (20 years). It's the bass that's getting me back to basics. The bass has given me a really good sense of quarter notes and measures on guitar. I...

I have a pair of HS8s too. They sound great with a bass preamp and compressor, except its a monitor so it will make all your mistakes more obvious (good for practice and recording) than if you use a dedicated bass amp. The HS8s do get relatively loud, but they're not for playing with a drummer...

21 frets gives you a full two octaves for any key and three for E. 20 frets gives you a full two octaves for any key. I like both. Also, the higher the fretboard goes, the more access to higher frets. ie. fret 19 is easier to play on a 21 fret than a 20 fret (for the seven bases I've owned)

I have never broken a bass string in 20 years. I have broken many guitar strings up until around 5 years ago. Things that contribute to broken guitar strings: 1. Playing a song in every key by descending half-steps (E, Eb, D...) 2. Playing a song really heavy-handed. 3. Playing very unrehearsed...

Thank you everyone who said to check the EQ settings! I did just that. I put in the suggested settings from the manual, then adjusted slightly. Interestingly, the suggested setting was to lower the mid and raise the bass/high, which is the exact opposite of what I originally had. After...

I remember seeing members of Aerosmith do exactly this back in the 90s! Then there's the videos of The Who smashing their equipment.

I have the standard bass, mid, high, but there is one other dial on the Kickback's EQ: Shape. According to the manual, shape is a 20 dB increase that can be set anywhere from 100 Hz to 900 Hz. The manual also refers to Shape as a filter. I wonder if that means Shape is filtering out the...

Agreed on this. The amp should be called a Hartke Tipback instead of a Kickback, since most people probably don't kick the amp back.

Acoustically sounds great minus the fat plugged in sound of an electric bass of course.

I am using a Fender Precision Elite. I have not reset the pickup height, only touched the setup. The bass itself sounds articulate out of other amps, headphones, or even acoustic (though not very loud on this one). It is a good sounding instrument, whether set to active or passive. I have set...

My method for EQing was half balancing the volume of the strings and half something I learned from an online guide to mixing several instruments so they are the same volume. It works to get everything balanced volume wise, but doesn't fix the indistinct notes. Thanks for the EQing tip, I'll give...

I'm running a Fender Precision bass with passive pickups EQed with the mids all the way up. On the amp, I just set the EQ so all the notes were the same volume. I turn the bass to a low volume, play a high note and compare to a low note, get them somewhat the same, then turn the bass volume up...

Hi All, I had been practicing bass on headphones for a long time (M50), but also using my studio monitors (Yamaha HS7). They both make the notes sound very articulate, which made me sound worse at first, but after a year or two of heavy practice, they make me sound better because you can hear...