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Does a good instrument make you better player?
- Thread starter getBAK
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west*coast*bass said:
But it wont make you a better player, youre just stating that it is a matter of the player rather than the instrument. On the other hand a guy/girl in love with music could practise with a squier and become a virtuoso just for the sake of liking what he does so in the end the bass just makes you feel good with what youre doing, then its all about how good bassist you want to be, for me a good tool just makes the job more pleasant.
As for slapping on a fretless delta metal vigier fretless basses:
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This is without reading any of the thread :S
In my eyes, buying a better bass is like buying good parts for a skateboard (I used to skatebaord, but got tired of hurting myself hehe) The better the parts, the more you seem to be inspired to do better, or to feel as if you are better. Also, your set up just seems to feel a lot more "right" than it can do with cheaper parts. But everyone learns on the cheaper parts, even though they aren;t as good a lot of the time, and feel heavy and ungainly.
But on the otherhand, if you can't do the stuff on the cheap parts, then you aren;t going to be able to do it with the expesive stuff (a bad workman ....) the expensive stuff is more likely to inspire you to get better.
Although it does get to the point where you spend so much, that the differance between top money parts, and the slightly cheaper stuff just isn't noticable for the price you've paid.
In my eyes, buying a better bass is like buying good parts for a skateboard (I used to skatebaord, but got tired of hurting myself hehe) The better the parts, the more you seem to be inspired to do better, or to feel as if you are better. Also, your set up just seems to feel a lot more "right" than it can do with cheaper parts. But everyone learns on the cheaper parts, even though they aren;t as good a lot of the time, and feel heavy and ungainly.
But on the otherhand, if you can't do the stuff on the cheap parts, then you aren;t going to be able to do it with the expesive stuff (a bad workman ....) the expensive stuff is more likely to inspire you to get better.
Although it does get to the point where you spend so much, that the differance between top money parts, and the slightly cheaper stuff just isn't noticable for the price you've paid.
vindy500 said:
No, but you can do things on the highway with a ferrari that you couldn't in a corolla. Will they both get you where you need to go, you bet, but not in the same way. plus one has a required leather jacket and girlfriend and the other well...keys and a license.
Better tone (better instrument and amp) makes you sound better, and if your tone is good, people'll think you are a good player. If you are not, just play scales, and people'll be like "woah listen to that guy, sounds amazing!"
htotheh said:
Not necessarily. Besides, tone is in the eye of the beholder. Some people like a crystal clear crunchy bass tone, others like a mellow sound and everything in between. So even if you or I think a tone is great, the next guy may not. So even if you and I agree on a preferred bass tone, and we see some terrible bass player playing that bass with the great tone, he will sound no better than if playing with a crappy tone. Sure, you may hear a note ring out here or there and think it is a good tone, but within the context of a song, a crappy player is a crappy player, good tone or not. Even with a crappy tone to begin with, a good bassist will find a way to make it work.
