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guess the bass in this sample.

#42
Alaska Bass said:
Guess how many fingers I am holding up...

This is stupid. If you were actually recording these clean in a studio environment, or for that matter recording them mic'd after coming off a reasonably common live rig, then maybe there could be some point to all of this other than an inexplicable need to draw attention to yourself.

Playing unknown (to us) basses, through an uncommon signal path, and butchering them into an mp3 format to post ONLINE? I would be suprised if anyone guesses it, and why should they?

For the record, I didn't listen to the clips, nor will I.
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yes, this is an uncommon signal path. however, its a clean representation of the basses sound - not what itll sound like in a studio, the sound that goes into your amp is what i tried to record, and i think it came pretty close.

the purpose of this thread was not to have someone actually guess the specific bass i was playing, thats obviously impossible. its more of a study of "cheap vs expencive, can you really hear the differnce"

so far a few people guessed lakland, one MTD guess, and a whole bunch of SX jazz..

its not an SX, nobody guessed what it acutally is..

considering a bunch of people thought it was a fretless, at this point im thinking "no you cant really hear the differnce" :p

after i get a few more guesses ill lay it on you what i was playing.
 
#43
This is not a very productive experiment. If it were one worthy of actually trying, you would have recorded multiple basses in the same way... not just one. We have nothing to compare this to in the manner that you have recorded it.

No offense.

and btw, a man who counts his chickens before they hatch is inaccurate, as not all eggs hatch...kind of like how this experiment is horribly inaccurate whatever result it yields.
 
#44
tomvelsor said:
yes, this is an uncommon signal path. however, its a clean representation of the basses sound - not what itll sound like in a studio, the sound that goes into your amp is what i tried to record, and i think it came pretty close.

the purpose of this thread was not to have someone actually guess the specific bass i was playing, thats obviously impossible. its more of a study of "cheap vs expencive, can you really hear the differnce"

so far a few people guessed lakland, one MTD guess, and a whole bunch of SX jazz..

its not an SX, nobody guessed what it acutally is..

considering a bunch of people thought it was a fretless, at this point im thinking "no you cant really hear the differnce" :p

after i get a few more guesses ill lay it on you what i was playing.
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The fact that you said that gives away the fact that it's obviously something really cheap like an SX/Brice/Douglas or something. It's something from Rondo. Sounds like a 5 string jazz strung EADGC to me.
 
#46
There is a C string.

The neck pickup is probably single coil.

The bridge pickup is probably a MM style humbucker.

It is definitely a fretted bass.

The main body wood sounds like alder and fretboard sounds dark.

And I would even guess the pickups are Barts.

Whose name is on the nameplate I do not have a good guess.

As an owner of many "boutique" basses, I think he has chosen an extremely interesting way to make a point.
 
#47
This is actually a good point too.

Identically record boutique basses and pit them against their poorer cousins.

If you are going to have a Pepsi test, you've got to sample more than one drink.

TLW said:
This is not a very productive experiment. If it were one worthy of actually trying, you would have recorded multiple basses in the same way... not just one. We have nothing to compare this to in the manner that you have recorded it.

No offense.

and btw, a man who counts his chickens before they hatch is inaccurate, as not all eggs hatch...kind of like how this experiment is horribly inaccurate whatever result it yields.
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#48
great playing! you wouldnt happen to have any sheet music or tabs for the 2nd sample. i have been trying to figure that song out forever, and just cant get it right.

if i was to guess the bass, i would say peavey. the tone in "turn this thing around" sounded pretty darn close to tony hall's live sound.
 
#53
Tom7 said:
There is a C string.

The neck pickup is probably single coil.

The bridge pickup is probably a MM style humbucker.

It is definitely a fretted bass.

The main body wood sounds like alder and fretboard sounds dark.

And I would even guess the pickups are Barts.

Whose name is on the nameplate I do not have a good guess.

As an owner of many "boutique" basses, I think he has chosen an extremely interesting way to make a point.
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I agree and have thus concluded beyond circumstantial evidence it is a:
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#55
well im gona say a plywood no name brand in the shape of a bass clef recorded underwater through the gills of a bass (the fish that is) using conductive fishing wire into the red salmon that was on the massive fishing trawler he is stowed away and into the mouth of the strapping lad named Jon then out of his nose through air breathed out then into a condenser mic recorded directly into garage band on a mac... thats got to be it it oculdnt be anything else im sure of it
 
#59
Tom7 said:
There is a C string.

The neck pickup is probably single coil.

The bridge pickup is probably a MM style humbucker.

It is definitely a fretted bass.

The main body wood sounds like alder and fretboard sounds dark.

And I would even guess the pickups are Barts.

Whose name is on the nameplate I do not have a good guess.

As an owner of many "boutique" basses, I think he has chosen an extremely interesting way to make a point.
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Sounds like you are describing my buddy's Cort :p
 

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