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Double Bass - I don't really get it
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This double bass is also very good for metal and other jazz styles, very cool for slapping as well!
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There's one of those chrome double basses in the local shop.
I hope I can find the photo I took of it.
I hope I can find the photo I took of it.
Double bass has an amazingly full and round sound if played well. Check this out for some proper double bass playing:
Jeremy
Jeremy
That's how it feels to me the times I've had to play bluegrass with an electric.
I know it's done successfully all the time, and usually sounds good enough, but to me it just feels wrong.
I'm going to agree with the sentiment here that a group will want what it wants, and sometimes that's an appearance thing. I used to play in a group with electric. They phased me out and the next time I saw them they had an upright player. The guy is really good, and really cool, and it does look cooler for the wine bar type band they have going...but it sounded better with me. No hard feelings here, though. Who wants to play with someone who doesn't want them?
To some of the other comments, I have Sadowski flats on my PJ, and I can certainly approach the sound someone wants if they're looking for an upright, but sometimes is just isn't the same.
To some of the other comments, I have Sadowski flats on my PJ, and I can certainly approach the sound someone wants if they're looking for an upright, but sometimes is just isn't the same.
Flats on a PJ, P, or J, do not sound like an upright. Approach from afar, yes, but it's not really close.
Old school aluminum uprights were for outside band gigs. They didn't sound great but you could carry on top of your car, pour out the rain water and gig.
It's like do you play piano or organ? Or guitarists who think they can play bass. Or vibists who think they can play trap set. Different instruments. Very.
If you love the sound then you put in the work to bring out the sound. Electric bass guitar can sound like an upright but requires the same sensitivity to bringing out the sound you want to hear as it does to play upright.
If you love the sound then you put in the work to bring out the sound. Electric bass guitar can sound like an upright but requires the same sensitivity to bringing out the sound you want to hear as it does to play upright.
My experience sitting in the house during this particular show does not conform to what you say. The basses on the front of the stage, right up against the mic, could not be heard -- probably because the mic was set high for vocals and did not pick up the bass, and the players plucked lightly in the belief it would.
I will accept what you say about the sweet spot being larger, with the edit that on a DB this is so because of dispersion by the f-holes. A round hole would project more like a beam than a cloud.
Are you saying that lower-pitched frequencies do not throw a longer sound wave?
It's an instrument with unique tone and capabilities that is preferred in many genres of music. In that way it's no different from other bass-register instruments which fulfill their roles in different musical settings
You might as well say "I'm not sure why anyone would play Tuba" or "I'm not sure why anyone would play Baritone Saxophone".
How are you concluding that the P-Bass was the defacto bass used? To start off with pop, three of arguably the biggest influential bands of the 60s - The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, and The Who - were not P-Bass users. Yes, there were several bands that did use them (Beach Boys, Moody Blues) but - more often than not - I see other basses used by influential rock and pop acts from that era: Gibson/Jack Bruce/Cream, Gibson or Ric/ Peter Quaife/ The Kinks, primarily Jazz Bass/ both Jimi Hendrix Bass Players, Jazz Bass/ Mel Scahcer/ GFR(he used both), Fender Jazz and Alembics (with some Ps sprinkled in and MM dominant by the early 80s) on most of the 70s/80s Dayton-Ohio Funk bands including Aurra, Cameo, Lakeside, etc. In Motown, a lot of the songs attributed to Jamerson were actually done by Bob Babbit who - although he plays both P and J - primarily recorded with a Jazz Bass back in the day. In Prog Rock, its almost safe to say that the Ric 4001 spearheaded that......The "P-Bass Leads The Way In Everything" Mantra is quite a fallacy and has all the credibility of a Facebook Meme (which is also how it gets spread around)
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