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Best bass for slap?
- Thread starter EvoMan
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Best bass for slap is of course my Celinder:
It sounds like this:
Couldn't Agree more! Every band I have played with has raved about the sound of my Update.
I have to put in my two cents here. I use to live near the guitar villa in Nazareth Pennsylvania and the other location in Quakertown PA. Should have been called the bass villa. The bass room had a huge wall dedicated to high end boutique basses. They had them all Zon, pedulla, ken smith, modulus, Lakland, sadowski, roscoe and a few more i'm sure I forgot. Besides those they had Warwick and Spector. They even had a Carl Thompson at one point and I also got the chance to try out a fodera yinyang at a guitar center in NJ. When I was a kid like I'd take one or two trips a week to the guitar villa to look at the basses and try them out. Oh yeah they had super top of the line amps also, full stacks of eden, swr, with epiphani cabs, bag end cabs, and eden cabs. Some aguliar amps and carried demeter preamps. So I slapped every brand and model high end bass in the store threw every amp eventually. I was super picky with my tone back then. So the best slap tones came from Lakland and Sadowski out of those super expensive basses. I hated the look of the fender jazz basses back then but couldn't believe those boring looking Lakland and Sadowski sounded the best. The worst sounding one was the Carl Thompson believe it or not. You know how he switched it up every time. The Carl Thompson I tried had wood saddles and it sounded very smooth and muted not good for slap at all. These roscoe basses looked killer and they had a lot of them in there but every one sounded so dead and uninspiring. Didn't have a nice neck either, they sucked! I really loved the look and shape of the pedulla MVP but again not the best tone. The Zon, modulus, and ken smith basses were decent but not outstanding also. I thought for the price tag of these basses you would get extraordinary tones but just not the case. Oh yeah the fodera at the guitar center in NJ was the best playing bass out of all of them and had above average tone. So the best sounding basses to ears over the years not based on price or look were. Ibanez btb basses, peavey cirrus, schecter, conklin, carvin, mm stingray and I just tried this Squier Vintage Modified Jaguar Bass with an Agathis body which is supposed to be an ultra cheap body wood but unplugged was very loud and aggressive. Plugged in just awesome slap tones. The few basses I've tried with this cheap agathis body tone wood sounded extremely good for slap. I also just tried some ibanez bass with a bubinga neck and mahogany body recently, very good slap tones. These sx jazz basses at rondo music.com sound phenomenal for slap. The construction of the bass, tone woods, and hardware are way more important than the pickups. Active or passive it doesn't make much difference I find.
