Anyone ever use a capo on a bass?

[Craig Williams]

Only ask because I also play some guitar and often use a capo, and would be a lot easier for me to use a capo on bass if I am am recording bass lines, save transposing everything. To be honest I wouldn't have thought a guitar capo would be strong enough to fret bass strings.

Only reason I thought of it seen several photos of Paul McCartney using a Capo on his Ric

 

[madasahatter]

I don't know how many bassists use a capo, but there's nothing that would prevent you from doing so.

 

[buldog5151bass]

Nothing wrong with it, assuming you use a capo with enough tension. Back when Paul was using it, most were tightened by elastics, and so could be put on with more tension.

 

[nmiller]

Capos are mainly handy if you're using an open string as a drone, as in certain chording situations. But at least for my style of playing, they'd be more of a hinderance than a help.

Though I did joke with a guitarist about holding a tree branch to the neck with some bungee cords.

 

[ElectricBass72]

I used a capo on my Dean 5-string bass for songs in the key of C, back in the early 00's when I was playing in a modern rock cover band. Capo on the 1st fret. Worked really well.