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Extended Range Bass (Club??) Thread

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#121
john turner said:
what if you were to travel to the u.s. to pickup an instrument? would that be cost effective? you could probably bring a cheapie and leave it here.:ninja:
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I don't think you'd even have to bring one with you.

I bought a bass in Gemany last year, on a holiday, and when I brought it home, only cost me 20, maybe 40(can't quite remember) bucks, amd mine was in a full heavy flight case.

Is the US the same?
 
#123
Only way to get something from the US without paying my @ss off, either in tickets or customs, would be for someone to buy me the bass, then send it over here as a gift. I'd still get to pay a respectable amount of cash for the shipping costs, but gifts do not go through customs and therefore have no import tax. Too bad I don't have family over there, though! :D

Anyway, off topic ends. Thanks for the help, though! :)
 
#124
john turner said:
i meant for him to fly into the u.s. to pickup/purchase the bass using his uber-euros :D and then fly home with it, claiming it was his personal instrument that he was travelling with.
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I understand, I was just curious, is there a large tax to buy a bass and bring it to Europe from the US, without claiming its your personal one that you brought with you, as the tax or shipping costs or w/e from Germany to Ireland was only 20/40 euros for me.

I have yet to bring one from the US in person(will be done in a few months), but I know to ship them is a tax nightmare.
 
#125
Gothic said:
Only way to get something from the US without paying my @ss off, either in tickets or customs, would be for someone to buy me the bass, then send it over here as a gift. I'd still get to pay a respectable amount of cash for the shipping costs, but gifts do not go through customs and therefore have no import tax. Too bad I don't have family over there, though! :D

Anyway, off topic ends. Thanks for the help, though! :)
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That is *very* wrong, anything shipped from the US over a certain value gets taxed, by insurance value, even gifts. I know for sure as I just had a Fender sent by family, and was taxed. A lot.
 
#129
Good morning fellow bassists .... we interrupt this shipping tutorial to bring you the following photographic presentation:

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#131
I'm very poor and extremely young but I have an esp ltd d-5 tuned E0 A0 E1 A1 D2 G2 with a .165 conklin sit for the low E. This is lasting me until I can build my 38 inch 6'er to add an A00 under the E0 and also to tune it up(tune it up? haha) to C0 F0 C1 F1 etc.. for my other band. I know what your thinking but the A00 isn't as much for musical notes as it is for 'percussive rumbly earth moving abience'tm​ (made that up ;)). the C0 for my other band is used as an extension of the low F0 so I can go down and up. for example If I have a riff where I hit a 6 on the f string and then a 1 on the f string I can just pop down to the c0 string and be extremely fast in the low sector. I am using this to great effect to play metal on the a0 string when I can just go down to the E0 string. Okay I'm done ranting :).

EDIT: A word about the sit power steel, its a really really good string but I hate the contact core. It adds these hollow overtones on any fret above 11 or 12 and its annoying. I'm going to order custom strings from gary goodman next time and get a non tapered string. Also If anyone is wondering I play a baritone guitar tuned to Drop f, So I dont have to deal with guitarists crying about my low range.
 
#132
I would think extended range on a bass is and notes below the low E and any notes higher than the E flat (20th fret) on the G string. Basically any bass that goes higher and or lower than the typical jazz/p-bass.

As to why some slam the 5, 6, and more stringed basses is some don't like change ... they are used to 4 and want to stay with 4. And there is nothing wrong with 4 unless you want more.

I am happy with 5. I tune BEADG. I find I don't need notes Below a low B flat.

Some body should do an octave 8 string bass with the standard 4 strings and then add the octave below. Now that would be an interesting instrument.

I used to play this bass here until a tb member really wanted it ...

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#134
john turner said:
did you buy that? :eek:
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In my dreams .....:help:

Actually, I was very seriously contemplating it, but a new DB purchase got in the door first. Just started to think about it again when the economy tanked .... now I'm seriously contemplating my income tax payment for April 15th ... :rolleyes:

Jerzy's Prodigy is, without a doubt, my favorite bass design, followed very closely by your melted fretless Conklin ..... :cool:
 
#138
demolisher said:
I'm very poor and extremely young but I have an esp ltd d-5 tuned E0 A0 E1 A1 D2 G2 with a .165 conklin sit for the low E. This is lasting me until I can build my 38 inch 6'er to add an A00 under the E0 and also to tune it up(tune it up? haha) to C0 F0 C1 F1 etc.. for my other band. I know what your thinking but the A00 isn't as much for musical notes as it is for 'percussive rumbly earth moving abience'tm​ (made that up ;)). the C0 for my other band is used as an extension of the low F0 so I can go down and up. for example If I have a riff where I hit a 6 on the f string and then a 1 on the f string I can just pop down to the c0 string and be extremely fast in the low sector. I am using this to great effect to play metal on the a0 string when I can just go down to the E0 string. Okay I'm done ranting :).

EDIT: A word about the sit power steel, its a really really good string but I hate the contact core. It adds these hollow overtones on any fret above 11 or 12 and its annoying. I'm going to order custom strings from gary goodman next time and get a non tapered string. Also If anyone is wondering I play a baritone guitar tuned to Drop f, So I dont have to deal with guitarists crying about my low range.
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I was wondering what kind of amp rig you are using with those low tunings, and are you happy with how it sounds?
 
#139
I don't know what demolisher is using, but I was also under the initial impression that anyone messing around in the extreme low ends needed specialty equipment .... until I started with the low F# using my standard MarkBass stuff (CMD121P combo with a 151P ext cabinet). I've had no issues at all ....

Thinking back on other amplification discussions, IIRC Jauqo III-X doesn't use anything extraordinary for his low C# ... hopefully Jauqo can add his opinion here .... :cool:
 
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