After reading TB for almost a year

[Bass Boy]

I dont even worry about this anymore. I just bask in the comfort of playing my Warmouth (sic) parts assembled Sadowsky...

 

[Indiana Mike]

What's the best bass for rockabilly?

 

[MtManiac]

I wanted to make my bass play better so I roasted a baseball bat in butter. I wanted it to sound better, so I put on a tortoise shell pick guard. I sold everything but my P bass and bought 4 more P basses so I could have one each with different kinds of flats and different tone woods on the fret boards. I routed chambers into all of them because some of them weighed more than 8 lbs 6 oz. Tone wood makes all the difference, but you don't want too much of it! I spent thousands on boutique cabinets and high-end heads and use DI live with IEMs. I obsess over minor tonal differences in pickups but still can't play two-octave arpeggios in 12 keys without losing my place half way through the circle of fifths.

And after all that I still can't figure out the best bass for metal. Can anybody help?

Are Squiers better than Custom Shop? How’s QC on the current American Fenders, especially compared to the Classic Vibes? Enjoying tour new Dark Glass pedal?

 

[Sparkl]

I wanted to make my bass play better so I roasted a baseball bat in butter. I wanted it to sound better, so I put on a tortoise shell pick guard. I sold everything but my P bass and bought 4 more P basses so I could have one each with different kinds of flats and different tone woods on the fret boards. I routed chambers into all of them because some of them weighed more than 8 lbs 6 oz. Tone wood makes all the difference, but you don't want too much of it! I spent thousands on boutique cabinets and high-end heads and use DI live with IEMs. I obsess over minor tonal differences in pickups but still can't play two-octave arpeggios in 12 keys without losing my place half way through the circle of fifths.

And after all that I still can't figure out the best bass for metal. Can anybody help?

Being an expert in astrophysics and social studies for over 35 years I have a proper solution for your troubles: swap the tuners.

 

[Paulabass]

I've been here less than two years and have 59 sets of bass strings (all used from 20 minutes to a few months)

 

[NKBassman]

Sansamp.

 

[Tampabass]

Will not comment. Will not comment. Will not comment. Will not comment. Will not comment. Will not comment. Will not comment. Will not comment. Will not comment. Will not comment. Will not comment. Will not comment. Will not comment. Will not comment. Will not comment. Will not comment. Will not comment. Will not comment. Will not comment. Will not comment. Will not comment. Will not comment. Will not comment. Will not comment. #resist

 

[IamGroot]

Ooops.

Don't worry, they are all looking at that cool red hollowbody. But, next time I would go with a col that goes with brown.

 

[IamGroot]

Sorry, you blew it in the first line of your post, where you admitted falling for our tort joke.

WHAT JOKE?????

 

[Gianni "Orlandez" Orlati]

Does get a little crazy.

My current struggle is active versus passive. Bought a G&L just to mess with that.

I will say one thing, keeps us busy.

Passive all the life ... no need of complicated electronics if the bass sounds good passive, but get a good tone control ...

 

[Gianni "Orlandez" Orlati]

Last time I was asked to play two octave arpeggios was ... Jeff Berlin.

Two octave arpeggios ... mh ... what is it ?
Yawn ... do I need them to play Shaky Ground from The Temptations? Don’t think so ...

 

[JaseyT]

Thank you for actually saying tortoise shell, and not the moronic abbreviated term.

 

[Thumpr]

Two octave arpeggios ... mh ... what is it ?
Yawn ... do I need them to play Shaky Ground from The Temptations? Don’t think so ...

Huh. I thought arpeggios were those little things that hold the strings in the bridge on acoustic guitars.

 

[MultiScaleMale]

Thank you for actually saying tortoise shell, and not the moronic abbreviated term.

Except it's not really tortoise shell, so isn't that even more moronic?

 

[PaulCISSA]

"I wanted to make my bass play better so I roasted a baseball bat in butter."

What?

 

[Ductapeman]

My God, I love this place. I have finally found a home among like-minded psychos. I love youse guys. Now excuse me, I have to check the oven and see how my lasagna and P-Bass neck are coming, and then I have to go buy another 27 tort pickguards, for basses I don't own but might some day. Gods I love this place--

 

[Bass Jones]

what kind of flats though

What are best flats for metal?

 

[Thumpr]

What are best flats for metal?

Chuck Taylor’s

 

[JaseyT]

Except it's not really tortoise shell, so isn't that even more moronic?

In my opinion, no - not since that's the name that look (even if it was made with other materials) was given.

 

[Chickenwheels]

Yeah, but did the pedals come with a box?
(ya know, basses come with bigger boxes!)



I will openly admit here that , every time I see a person struggling to travel with a DB, the foremost thought in my mind is ..............
"For $20,000 I could buy a nice DB, or a really nice BG.......and a car to haul it in".

Then I smile my secret smile........just to myself.

I’m taking both to some gigs. I get paid extra (secret smile to myself).