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Best Slap bass?
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Vics:vics said:
Laklands are pretty good, but I can't agree with the Roscoes for slap. If you were to get a Roscoe for slapping, I'd go with the ash body and Demeter preamp. The standard Bartolini preamp has too much mids for slap.
I'm having the Demeter preamp put on my fretted Roscoe within the next month.
PilbaraBass said:FLEA DIDN'T INVENT SLAPPING! Sure, he's reknowned for it. But he's had PLENTY of predacessors. Louis Johnson comes to mind. Verdine White did his share of slappin' as well.
Mark Knopfler of Dire Straits once made a comment that there's nothing truly original in music. That its about everyone borrowing from everyone else and adding and subtracting to make it their own.
I have to agree.
Now am I off the subject, or WHAT?
ROFLMAO ahhahah that was great
ATTENTION: FLEA DID NOT INVENT SLAPPING :REPEAT: DID NOT INVENT SLAPPING:
Wow, well, I haven't had the good fortune to try the Demeter out, but I can tell you, at least to my ears and several folks I've rec'd comments from, I get a pretty darn good slap tone out of my LG by just bumping up the low end a LITTLE and then cutting the mids a LITTLE in the "high" position. All stock Bart elex, Spanish Cedar body, stock maple/PH neck and maple top.Bassmanbob said:
Yeah, I've read the comments up here at TB, but at least in my case, I really don't seem to have the same issues. Great snap and depth, with very tasty focus. I will say I like it better than my Cirrus... at least for slap anyway.
However, I will also say I use an EBS head mostly, so that prolly affects things a lot. I also tend to dial a little bit of the mids out on my GK, when I use that, as well. Not much, but I do. Thing is, I also use Aggies now, which tend to add some mids too. When I was using my Edens more, that story was different as well. I actually still prefer their tone, but the Aggies' portability is undeniable.
YES HE DID!!!!! (fingers plugging ears) LA LA LA LA LA LA... I DON'T HEAR YOU... LA LA LA LA LA...basslag13 said:
(P.S. I invented the question.)
GOOD CALL!!lo-freq said:
Everybody that tries it(and I let anybody and everybody!!)says instantly, "it is so easy to slap on!!" In fact my Dingwall is so well suited that I have since shelved my Deluxe 5 w/ a graphite neck that was concieved specifically for slappage in mind. I am talking anything from modern bite to the vintage P-Bass "brick house" kind of stuff!! My Dingwall=Slap heaven
PilbaraBass said:
+1
if you're gonna talk about techniques, then dig deep and learn about the real origins and originators, not the one that created the most noise about it and "brought" to the masses.
For every Flea, there's a Stanly Clarke, Larry Graham, Louis Johnson, etc....hell, even Marcus Miller was recording @ 16 years old back in the early 80's (for trumpeter Tom Browne)...waaaay before RHCP.
Actually, all BS set aside, slapping even pre-dates the electric bass itself by a fair amount... just the technique was adapted, modernized, and developed further over time. However, we digress to derail... (sorry)GSPLBASSDC said:
Fender Jazz Bass is probablt your safest bet for...well, just about anything. They're all around, but at least to my ears, sound AWESOME slapped.
Yeah I'm a huge RHCP fan and I have an American Deluxe Jazz. I have to agree that they sound awesome slapped, and give good growl. Definatley worth checking out.
You mean tone wise or playability wise? I can slap my Rick fine. And the tone is pretty good. And my last bass was a Ray, so I had a good slap bass to compare. I can't help, but think those that think it suffers from poor playability as a slap bass just have bad technique.bassybill said:
vics said:Actually, all BS set aside, slapping even pre-dates the electric bass itself by a fair amount... just the technique was adapted, modernized, and developed further over time. However, we digress to derail... (sorry)
True....just didn't want to go back quite that far, though
...Fender American Deluxe = very good
... Status = very good...
.... depends a fair bit on the kind of slap tone you like..
.... a week ago I bought a Lakland 55-02, and it's an AWESOME 5-string for slapping...
...the only 5 I tried that had a "better" (IMO) Slap tone was the Fender Marcus Miller signature 5 <--- sounds like a 70s Jazz bass! If I were to play NOTHiNG BUT SLAP, I would buy this bass!
The only reason I went for the Lakland over the Fender Marcus Miller V was that it's tonally a bit more flexible (especially the electronics, I prefer to have Lo/Mid/Hi CUT as well as Boost), and also the fingerboard radius; the Lakland's pretty flat, whereas the Fender MMV has a pretty steep arch... which I think I (or anyone else) could get used to... (I found slapping EASIER with that arch, but fingerstyle woul take some getting used to)
Both do the "smooth finger sound" really well, as well as the "Burpy Bridge p/up" sound...
.... but for Flea's Slap tone, I'd go for a Stingray... The neck p/up could get in the way of slapping, if it's a humbucker -- do they even make 'em with a front p/up?? is it a(nother) Humbucker?
...in which case I'd consider:
Back p/up = Humbucker
Front p/up = Single coil (hum cancelling??)
... Status = very good...
.... depends a fair bit on the kind of slap tone you like..
.... a week ago I bought a Lakland 55-02, and it's an AWESOME 5-string for slapping...
...the only 5 I tried that had a "better" (IMO) Slap tone was the Fender Marcus Miller signature 5 <--- sounds like a 70s Jazz bass! If I were to play NOTHiNG BUT SLAP, I would buy this bass!
The only reason I went for the Lakland over the Fender Marcus Miller V was that it's tonally a bit more flexible (especially the electronics, I prefer to have Lo/Mid/Hi CUT as well as Boost), and also the fingerboard radius; the Lakland's pretty flat, whereas the Fender MMV has a pretty steep arch... which I think I (or anyone else) could get used to... (I found slapping EASIER with that arch, but fingerstyle woul take some getting used to)
Both do the "smooth finger sound" really well, as well as the "Burpy Bridge p/up" sound...
.... but for Flea's Slap tone, I'd go for a Stingray... The neck p/up could get in the way of slapping, if it's a humbucker -- do they even make 'em with a front p/up?? is it a(nother) Humbucker?
...in which case I'd consider:
Back p/up = Humbucker
Front p/up = Single coil (hum cancelling??)
