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$100 bass vs $10,000 bass

#223
Two-Spirit said:
These videos are a joke. I can tell the difference between my $I

Jimmy Page used his Dano for a trashy slide tone. He used Fenders and Gibson and Martins
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TTTT, I'm not really interested in what Jimmy page did on stage or in the studio w/ or w'out a Danelectro!

I made the point that a $350 Danelectro '63 bass sounded pretty damn good-
Not as good as my $1000 JJ version did, and nowhere near as good as my $4K Sugi does, but the only one that needs be concerned about that is me!:bassist:
 
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Two-Spirit said:
A bass or a guitar is a long term investment, you need to spend as much as possible. Maybe you get multiple $1,000 guitars or basses. You're not likely to find a bass under $500 dollars that's worth a poopie unless you have no standards or you change the pickups, which I've done to a $300 guitar.
Being cheap will cost you that badass band. All bassists get gigs but I like Fender Hot Rod Devilles and American Strats and the like.
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How many ways can one person be wrong?
 
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edbass1 said:
Ok let's throw in a concrete example - you think you could pull off this tune, and this solo, to this degree of quality, on a cheap bass?

Can you listen to this solo and tell me the degree of nuance is possible without a really good instrument? Of course this is like 0.01% of people who play bass who need to worry about things on this level, but you can't come out and say it's not a thing at all
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I'd pay good money to NOT have that tone.

It's horrendous IMO. Just awful sounding.
 
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#231
aborgman said:
I'd pay good money to NOT have that tone.



It's horrendous IMO. Just awful sounding.
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Yeah thats like a generic early 90s tone. You have to rock a macgyver mullet for that sound. There is a lot of electric bass sounds that are dated. The jamerson thump and acoustic upright sounds are the only ones that endure. I think the heyday of the bass revolution is dead. It was fun while it lasted, but just like the analog synth resurgance its time to get back to the good stuff. I dont care if i ever hear slap bass again.
 
#236
Two-Spirit said:
I'm actually on this site for information, of which I've found. But a bass under $500 that doesn't suck is a pipe dream.
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Nonsense. If you had actual real info, you'd know what you say is nonsense. I mean you can define "suck" as anything below $500 but that's just your own delusion. The art of functional bass making matured years ago. They can make $100 in china that are as good as anything soundwise. I have no reason to say this other than it's the truth, and i think anyone who knows what they are talking about would agree. It's not rocket science, it's a pretty simple instrument that doesn't require anything close to that of say a violin or an upright as far as construction. That's why you can hear an ampeg acrylic bass that sounds just like any other bass. And pickups are incredibly easy to copy the designs of.

You might find cheaper basses are less robust, but that's not always true either. It's all about each individual bass, and knowing how to find a good one, rather than price.
 
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Wiremessiah said:
Nonsense. If you had actual real info, you'd know what you say is nonsense. I mean you can define "suck" as anything below $500 but that's just your own delusion. The art of functional bass making matured years ago. They can make $100 in china that are as good as anything soundwise. I have no reason to say this other than it's the truth, and i think anyone who knows what they are talking about would agree. It's not rocket science, it's a pretty simple instrument that doesn't require anything close to that of say a violin or an upright as far as construction. That's why you can hear an ampeg acrylic bass that sounds just like any other bass. And pickups are incredibly easy to copy the designs of.

You might find cheaper basses are less robust, but that's not always true either. It's all about each individual bass, and knowing how to find a good one, rather than price.
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I 100% agree that is nonsense as well.
 
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#238
Son of Wobble said:
With Youtube paying $1750 per million views and with his total views around 24 million, I reckon that's what, two Foderas?
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That's $42,000.00 bucks and with that money you can buy four brand new 6 string elite Foderas + a nice used Fennder American Standard Jazz Bass + a nice used Fender American Standard Precision Bass or two Anthony Jackson Presentation basses ($40,500.00) + a nice brand new Fender american professional jazz or precision bass ($1500)
 
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Flaked Beans said:
That's $42,000.00 bucks and with that money you can buy four brand new 6 string elite Foderas + a nice used Fennder American Standard Jazz Bass + a nice used Fender American Standard Precision Bass or two Anthony Jackson Presentation basses ($40,500.00) + a nice brand new Fender american professional jazz or precision bass ($1500)
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That's pretax though.

Just sayin'...
 

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