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Basses with HUGE bottom end

#21
+1 on the G&L L2000/L2500. HUGE.

And sorry Peavey guys, the Millennium is weak on the bottom compared to the G&L (but NOT weak compared to normal basses). I had one of each for a number of years, and the Peavey is more about mids and less about bottom. Again, this is compared to a G&L...the Peavey destroys regular stuff like F*nder and the like. You just can't compare much to a G&L if you're looking for a huge bottom.
 
#22
mmbongo said:
+1 on the G&L L2000/L2500. HUGE.

And sorry Peavey guys, the Millennium is weak on the bottom compared to the G&L (but NOT weak compared to normal basses). I had one of each for a number of years, and the Peavey is more about mids and less about bottom. Again, this is compared to a G&L...the Peavey destroys regular stuff like F*nder and the like. You just can't compare much to a G&L if you're looking for a huge bottom.
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Kim Kardashian?
 
#23
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Graphtech/Hipshot piezo system and the monster big chambered Barker body provides a huge low end. Through a couple of fEarful 12.6 cab's biamped off an old Wt-800 - it sounds massive... I hardly ever turn up the split P anymore... the split is an old Sadowsky pickup.
 
#28
Bottom end is open to interpretation.
So......here's my interpretation.

1. The amp has to be a Hartke HA 5500 plugged into a Hartke XL 8x10 cab.
2. Base one, is a Gibson Eb 2 with Boom Switch. Unachievable boom sound in any other bass.
3. Bass two, is a Warwick Thumb with SIT Medium Stainless Round Wound strings.

Watch you pants leg shudder in the breeze.
 
#33
You guys want thunder? Pure, rumbling, ear shattering, earth quaking, gut shaking, destructive low end? If you need thunder, then let me present the Thunderbird...
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Strung with D'Addario choromes and run through a Marshall half-stack (I'll also be hooking it up to a Big Muff from this week on), it is nothing but pure aural apocalypse.
 
#37
KingRazor said:
I started another similar thread before but it kind of went in a different direction than I was expecting (still an interesting read).

What I'm asking this time is, what bass(es) do think had/has/have the biggest, thickest, punch-you-in-the-gut bottom end in your experience/opinion?

I know some rigs can make a variety of basses sound huge, this isn't about rigs though. I'm talking about basses exclusively here.

I've played some active Ibanez basses that can get pretty huge low end, but I remember one time sitting at GC playing around and some kid grabs a Carvin 6-string and plugs it in and WHAM I'm hit by this huge low end coming from that thing.

Let's hear about those basses with MASSIVE low end! :bassist::bassist::bassist:
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I think a lot of people mistake 'massive, earth shaking bottom end' for what is really a complete absence of midrange and high frequency response. My MTD Marilyn has all of it, bass, midrange, and treble, right up to 12K and beyond.

My old Bongo, for example, stopped at about 5 K, even with stainless strings...seemed like tons of bottom, but in a band setting actually had about the same amount or LESS of actual bass response, and it was MUCH more difficult to hear because of the lack of midrange and treble, making me have to turn it up louder...

Just sayin'....MTD rules!

Cheers,
Cameron
 
#38
Bassflute said:
I think a lot of people mistake 'massive, earth shaking bottom end' for what is really a complete absence of midrange and high frequency response. My MTD Marilyn has all of it, bass, midrange, and treble, right up to 12K and beyond.

My old Bongo, for example, stopped at about 5 K, even with stainless strings...seemed like tons of bottom, but in a band setting actually had about the same amount or LESS of actual bass response, and it was MUCH more difficult to hear because of the lack of midrange and treble, making me have to turn it up louder...

Just sayin'....MTD rules!

Cheers,
Cameron
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If your low end is MASSIVE enough, who cares if you're heard? :D

My preference is actually for basses that have a bump in the low mids. I was just curious about which basses people considered to have a lot of bottom end.
 

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