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10 strings

10 string basses

  • good idea

    Votes: 58 33.3%

  • bad idea

    Votes: 77 44.3%

  • no comment

    Votes: 39 22.4%
  • Total voters
    174
#22
ya, Good idea
I'm surprised to see dat at da moment most of da votes are negative. maybe it will change. as muscians we should be more open minded. i've never tried a 8, 10 or 12 but i'm lookin forward to it. i currently own a 5 and 4 string bass and my next bass will probably be a 4 . that's just my style. but hey, if i had da bucks i would buy a 10. and yes i know what kind of 10 is been disscussed here. shaweet
 
#23
Don't put words in my mouth or give me the rolly-eyes... I said they were silly TO ME
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Sorry. Did not wish to offend. I was pointing out that some great bass players have made double/triple coursed basses a significant part of their sound, which to me is evidence that this style of bass is not silly, but to each his own. In retrospect the rolly-eyes were not particularly helpful to anyone...

Steve
 
#24
I have a tremendous amount of respect and envy for those players using 8's, 10's and 12's, in particular a tripled four string ..... :eek:

I am completely incompetant on any double/triple course bass. I really need to spend some time with one of those basses ... :help:
 
#25
SteveMcB said:
Sorry. Did not wish to offend. I was pointing out that some great bass players have made double/triple coursed basses a significant part of their sound, which to me is evidence that this style of bass is not silly, but to each his own. In retrospect the rolly-eyes were not particularly helpful to anyone...

Steve
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No offense taken, Steve. It's all good. :)

I just wanted to clarify that I wasn't implying anything negative about anyone else.

Cheers :)
 
#26
I think the octave string sounds ugly, as well as the octave
guitar string. but since many people they they are talking about ten single strings I'll talk to them to. I think any more than six strings is just for show since you can really play anything (the neck i wayyyy too big).
 
#28
You can find a review of the Dean Edge Hammer 10-string bass here: [Invalid or Expired Link Removed] It was written by a player who bought the bass when it first came out in late 2004, then last month he wrote an update to his review.

I've also had a chance to noodle around on the Dean 10. I like it.
 
#29
Wow - readin through the replies, I find it a little sad so many people chime in to say what a bad idea it is - when they didnt even read the original post. Everyone posting its a bad idea is talking about single course instruments - which they likely have no reason to coment on at all - when the OP was specifically asking about coursed instruments.

Read the post your replying to folks :)
 
#32
so....... Innovative and different basses are bad ideas?

Just think. If everyone was so Conservative in their tastes,
we would still all be playing Fender P's as per the original
design. Nothing new would ever be considered.

The 24 fret neck is therefore a bad idea.
The Jazz bass is therefore a bad idea.
The 5 string bass is therefore a bad idea.
Any twin pickup bass is therefore a bad idea.
The active circuit is therefore a bad idea.
All these pointy basses are therefore a bad idea.
John Entwistle would have been thrown in prison for bass abuse!!! :smug:

:D
 
#36
Ok, I realize this thread is a year old, but I was doing some searching for octave pair basses and I ran across this.

From this thread:

tommyr01 said:
I had a Dean 10 string for awhile. I liked the sound pretty much.....electronics could have been better.
But it had MAJOR neck dive. Thus it was returned.
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From another thread, where tommyr01 was selling his Dean 10:

metalbob said:
Does it have much neck dive?????
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tommyr01 said:
Not what you would think, I thought at first it would have alot. I didn't have any dive problems while playing it. I normally play with the bass somewhat horizontal so I didn't notice any.
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I don't expect a guy to badmouth something he's trying to sell, but to be so transparently lying... :hmm:
 
#37
Well, could be 2 different dean 10s, right? The one he returned, and the one he was trying to sell?

I think the double B might be muck. Double C results in octave string that is too thin. I can see the draw in a 8/12. But i have a 12-string guitar and that is a bitch to tune and to play (string tension was very high)
 
#39
ehque said:
Well, could be 2 different dean 10s, right? The one he returned, and the one he was trying to sell?

I think the double B might be muck. Double C results in octave string that is too thin. I can see the draw in a 8/12. But i have a 12-string guitar and that is a bitch to tune and to play (string tension was very high)
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No, he tried to sell it, and nobody bought it, so he returned it. The point is that he got rid of it specifically because it had horrible neck dive, but when asked about the neck dive, he said there was no problem. Again, I realize it's a relatively mundane reason to resurrect a year-old thread, but I thought it was kind of rude to be dishonest just to sell something.

Here's the sale thread: http://www.talkbass.com/forum/showthread.php?t=277476
 

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