Got my first bass! Yeehaw!

[richbassboy]

I agree the new fender rumble series is where its at. Light weight great sounding amps and not to expensive. I have plaued the 200 combo and own the 500 combo.. I do have an ampeg b100r for sale i can give you a deal on. Also have a smaller peavy and a fender bassman tv15 which is out of your budget.

 

[richbassboy]

 

[godofthunder59]

That's awesome! Congrats! Man don't sweat the price, that s a beautiful bass. I have expensive basses and inexpensive basses, love 'em all. I bought my daughter a Douglas violin bass, liked it so much I bought myself one (I have a '65 Hofner) I also bought a SX '75 J bass one of the best Jazz basses I ever played. Rondo supplies great basses at a amazing price. Now is a great time to be a player, so many great affordable basses out there. When I started out there was mostly cheapo unplayable crap from Japan.

 

[autotech6506]

Good call on choosing the 5 string for church work. It does come in handy for a lot of the different keys that get used.

 

[braud357]

Looks like a nice bass - ROCK IT ! --- welcome to the bass fraternity !

 

[ninjaaron]

Thanks for all the encouragement, advice, and suggestions for amps. I'll definitely look at Fender Rumbles, GK, as well as the TB classifieds.

HOLY $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ that's a RONDO??? What model?

Who made it, how much does it weigh?

Chinese people made it (Rondo), model: Hadean EB-9705 Weight: 9.5 lbs. (not too bad!)

I'd post a link, but the forum won't let me. You can navigate to five string basses on Rondo easily enough and it should just be a few rows down from the top

Oh you silly forum. I'm no spammer.

Oh and "I know when you start, your supposed to get something like a P bass with passive single coils and four strings, and I was going to (honest!),"

NO, my dad bought me and my brothers professional gear right off the jump, it makes a world of difference.

I know some guys who might take exception to your implication that a P-Bass is not professional gear!

Play until your fingers bleed, then tape them up, and keep playing.

might take a while, with 13 years of guitar callouses, but I'll give it a shot!

Great looking bass, post some clips of how it sounds.

Note that I have no bass amp. I do have a couple of DI boxes around, but I don't have a USB audio interface. I'm "recordingly challenged." I plugged it into a 2x12 guitar combo, and it sounded really good good once I got the treble turned down (who knew bass had so many crazy harmonics up there? It sounded like metallic space-ship noise or something with the treble up). Still have to get it to church to hear how it sounds in a bass amp. Very punchy, clear sound. I'd say it was a little heavy on the upper mids... but I was playing it through a mid-heavy guitar amp and speakers, so there ya go (guitarists like to hog the mids, you know). It still sounded good when you cranked the bass up on the bass itself.

So, in summary, I hope you enjoyed this completely useless description of how this bass sounds through a guitar amp.

 

[verycoolname]

Nice bass! I've never seen anything like that from Rondo before.

As for the amp, I'd try one of the newer Fender Rumble 40 models. They're pretty lightweight (approx. 18 pounds according to Sweetwater), and have built in overdrive. They also have an XLR output so you can connect it to the PA. I played its bigger brother, a Fender Rumble 100, and it was a great amp.

Fender Rumble 40

 

[PortlandBass77]

wow.... great deal: Link Removed

 

[ninjaaron]

Looks like a nice bass - ROCK IT ! --- welcome to the bass fraternity !

I like that, "bass fraternity." With electric guitar players, things feel like a competition way too much. Seems like you bass guys -- us bass guys -- are way more chilled out. In a way, I kinda feel like bass makes much more sense for the way I think about music as well. With guitar, I was never super into playing licks and solos (I still do it when it's needed. Part of the job, you know). I'm more inspired by the kinds of lines cellos and French horn and stuff have, like, playing with chord tones and finding moving lines that outline and embellish the harmonic structure of the songs. Should be good on the bass (so long as I don't stray from the root too much. I tend to be pretty enthusiastic about inversions, maybe a little too much for bass)

 

[ninjaaron]

wow.... great deal: [can't even quote a link, apparently]

Thanks for posting that. also of note, and not mentioned on the page... The humbuckers have 4 conductor wiring... so coil-split/parallel would only mean buying new pot/switch. The HB's already seem to have a lot of clarity and treble (and you can boost it with the EQ), so I'm not sure what the net gain would be from that... still, might be worth it for the sake of science or whatever.

 

[hrodbert696]

Chinese people made it (Rondo), model: Hadean EB-9705 Weight: 9.5 lbs. (not too bad!)

Minor correction, but Rondo doesn't make anything - they're a distributor. The manufacturers (or at least the manufacturers' brands) are SX, Hadean, Agile, Douglas, etc. Separate entities, though I believe at least some of the manufacturers are responsive to what Kurt says his customers want. They're not all Chinese - Agile, at least, is Korean.

 

[Pentatonic]

wow.... great deal: Link Removed

Only $189, that's amazing.

 

[MDBass]

Fender has a line of amps out called Rumble i think, they basically cost a dollar per watt. the 500 is nice. the 80(or whatever the little practice one is) is nice too. As far as cheap they are good.

Oh and "I know when you start, your supposed to get something like a P bass with passive single coils and four strings, and I was going to (honest!),"

NO, my dad bought me and my brothers professional gear right off the jump, it makes a world of difference.

I have 2 pieces of advice,
1 space your fingers one per fret, (f,f#,g,e flat) and go up all 4 strings like that, go up a fret and do it again, with a metronome.

Play until your fingers bleed, then tape them up, and keep playing.

Great bass for the money, the wood would cost almost that much, replace tuners first, then the preamp. I would get used stuff from our classifieds.

"(f,f#,g,e flat)"

Obviously a brain fart, but still pretty funny given the nature of your advice

Great bass OP!

Check the classifieds and your local Craigslist to see what amps are available in your price range; you can often find used GK RB's and other solid, powerful amps for greats deals in the current market.

 

[FretNoMore]

I want to see a photo of flameworker's hands.
Maybe he's actually an Aye-aye. *)

*) Lemur with freaky long finger.

 

[ninjaaron]

Used it at church today. Sounded great. Got lots of complements on the tone. Kinda "chewy" (is that a word to describe bass tone?). Kinda sounds like a SR to my not very trained ear (makes sense - passive HBs with an active eq) No one could believe the price. It was a good day.

Also: crazy sustain. That neck-thru ain't for nothin'. I had a comp, but I never bothered to turn it on.

 

[Jimi G]

Ok! Now go get lessons and learn music.
Stay with one teacher for a year, then move to a new one.
Learn what you want, learn some theory, learn to read, learn technique, ear training. Your teacher should ask you to evaluate their. Play with anyone who will let you sit in. Learn country, rock, blues, etc.
Refuse to be one dimensional.

 

[flameworker]

"(f,f#,g,e flat)"

Obviously a brain fart, but still pretty funny given the nature of your advice

Great bass OP!

Check the classifieds and your local Craigslist to see what amps are available in your price range; you can often find used GK RB's and other solid, powerful amps for greats deals in the current market.

Ha, I was half asleep, I was thinking b string, I thought e flat seemed wrong.!, but I just couldn't put my elongated lemur finger on it. I just tried it for the hell of it.

 

[Killer Of Giants]

best of luck enjoy

 

[flameworker]

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I used to have that amped rocket bass amp! How much do you want for it? Those are great bedroom amps because they aren't ugly, stick 3 candles on it and it's a end table.

 

[flameworker]

Ok! Now go get lessons and learn music.
Stay with one teacher for a year, then move to a new one.
Learn what you want, learn some theory, learn to read, learn technique, ear training. Your teacher should ask you to evaluate their. Play with anyone who will let you sit in. Learn country, rock, blues, etc.
Refuse to be one dimensional.

Learn to read NOW while it's still new and exciting. It's much harder after. Learn tabs too. If you can't sight read at first write your charts like drum music but with letters above .

Metronome s can be boring, grab a cheap drum machine or an 808 app. Scales and exercises are more fun with a back beat.

learn to tune with harmonics. Stay in tune. If your awesome looking bass doesn’t stay in tune upgrade tuners asap.

llook at guitar chords and play them as arpeggios, but most important it's so you can read the guitar it's fretboard when you jam

Count always, very important.

Play all the time, if your watching tv, run scales, learn the theme songs. Do pushup on your fingertips. If you blister try using some baby powder or corn starch. When I first started I screwed my strap right to the bass and carried it everywhere. Did exercises at the grocery store, on the bus. I rubbed my fingertips on concrete to build up calouses That's maybe a little extreme. Don't feel like it's cheating to copy other players.

And one more piece of advice given to me by an aging punk rocker;;
"Buy led Zeppelin 2, learn every song note for note" best bass advice I ever got, much better than "drink til your band sounds good" and " bang all the girls, even the unattractive ones (did not follow that).