How are you planning on doing the neck-drilling holes in the existing for the extra tuners or getting an aftermarket neck like warmoth?
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12 string bass?
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How are you planning on doing the neck-drilling holes in the existing for the extra tuners or getting an aftermarket neck like warmoth?
12 string basses are well worth a look.
You don't have to retrain your head if you usually play 4 string basses, only your hands...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1i0wOmoPxqk
Emac.
You don't have to retrain your head if you usually play 4 string basses, only your hands...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1i0wOmoPxqk
Emac.
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I like them, and like the sound. But for my purposes, I cannot justify the cost of one in light of how much I should reasonably expect to use it on stage.
But whatever. Enjoy it if you buy one.
Yeah, but Jaco had to use harmonics to get those notes on the octave strings!
I've got an 8 string that I love on certain occasions though it certainly isn't a "universal" bass sound.
But what I'm really GASing for is a 10 string or 15 string. My jury is still out on the double vs single octave strings. My experience is pretty much limited to my Carlo Robelli 8 string which I love and a couple of Brownsville 12 stringers at Sam Ash. Pickings are definitely slim for 10 and especially 15 stringers. I don't know if you can even buy a set of strings for these without a special order for individual strings!
Yep... a few 12-string bassists out there.... 
Doubled octaves adds a "sheen" to the sound that is not present on an 8-string.
Doubled octaves adds a "sheen" to the sound that is not present on an 8-string.
Yep... a few 12-string bassists out there....
Doubled octaves adds a "sheen" to the sound that is not present on an 8-string.
Agreed. Having owned several 12vers and 8ers, the 12 if tuned properly (one octave slightly sharp, other slightly flat) sounds very different from an 8 string.
For sure I can't play a Jazz bass like Jaco...
But its only fair to say that Jaco if he was still alive probably could not play a 12ver like me! (well, I can't be certian of that of course)
I hope that comment was poking fun at the usual "so and so only needed four strings" Its not constructive to put ideas in a box and say "this is as far as this goes"
How will music progress if we don't let the builders and players come up with new ideas?
It's a bit like saying "Jimi Hendrix was no good because Segovia only needed a classical guitar..." Or:
"Jaco was no good because Mingus only needed a double bass"
You simply can't compare apples to oranges (apart from the fact that they both taste good)
However, if the statement was a joke.....
emac.
Thats the one!
I have found an 8 to cut through the middle of the mix and 12 surrounds the mix...
emac.
I have two Hamer 12's. Great basses.
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and of course here: http://www.12stringbass.net/
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This Dean 8 string is great too:
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and of course here: http://www.12stringbass.net/
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This Dean 8 string is great too:
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I'd love a Waterstone, but the prices have rather shot up. It's getting harder and harder to find 12vers these days, both new & used. I want at least one more besides my Dean so I can tune one in power chords as opposed to just octaves.
Weemac: The 8 string Ric...awesome.
Weemac: The 8 string Ric...awesome.
Used to own two Hamer 12s, all I played during the 90s, still have one.
Thomas Organ Product i spy back there?
- Feb 24, 2004
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- Feb 24, 2004
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- 68
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I bridge the Bass channel with the Normal channel and it sounds great! Cool tremelo too. Haven't used it in years tho', just collecting dust in the closet.
Gastón;9719846 said:This is it my Waterstone 12 strings with some modifications, incredible wall of sound.
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Song: Taxidermia para amantes
Please tell us about the modifications!
-Remove controls
-Remove pickup selector and install volume control
-Bridge pickup its disabled
-Install Pickup cover
-Seymour duncan SSB4 installed on neck position
Now sounds with definition and presence. I highly recommend a pickups upgrade
