I would love to think you're joking. So please excuse me if you are. But come ooooooooon. That's just being close minded to all the different styles and sounds bass player can produce. There are sounds which to get them you need a pick. For punk perhaps? Or something like Chris Squire's tone. Chris Squire is in my opinion one of the better bassists in rock and roll, and he 99.99% of the time uses a pick. So before saying that real bassist use their fingers, understand that real bassists do what they do to get the tone they want, if take playing with your fingers, or with a pick, or with a pair of hammers it really doesn't matter.
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Help me dispel the myths...
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I would love to think you're joking. So please excuse me if you are. But come ooooooooon. That's just being close minded to all the different styles and sounds bass player can produce. There are sounds which to get them you need a pick. For punk perhaps? Or something like Chris Squire's tone. Chris Squire is in my opinion one of the better bassists in rock and roll, and he 99.99% of the time uses a pick. So before saying that real bassist use their fingers, understand that real bassists do what they do to get the tone they want, if take playing with your fingers, or with a pick, or with a pair of hammers it really doesn't matter.
I'm afraid I don't sir...
The best players in history played 4 string basses... Kaye, McCartney, Lee, Pastorius, Burton, Flea etc. If I want to play more strings, I just go find my guitar
A standard bass has a 34" scale. Short scale is generally considered to be 32" or less. Oh, and McCartney played a short scale didn't he?
NT is very nice, yes, but I don't really see any benefits over a bolt-on. Besides, you can change the neck on a bolt-on. Mods-ahoy!
I am pretty sure that dude was stating the myth. you guys are probably on the same page.
This thread proves a point I live by, ignore other people and be able to think for yourself.
It's like people who go to the doctors who need a definitive answer. Some people go and get told the truth, basically not everything can be determined exactly and here are your symptoms and likely causes and this is probably what will happen. Since the average person has to equate everything with 'one being better than the other' or not being able to handle a non-definitive answer, they go get an opinion that is definitive.
People die cause of that nonsense. And really, it's their own fault half the time.
I'm afraid I don't sir...
The best players in history played 4 string basses... Kaye, McCartney, Lee, Pastorius, Burton, Flea etc. If I want to play more strings, I just go find my guitar
A standard bass has a 34" scale. Short scale is generally considered to be 32" or less. Oh, and McCartney played a short scale didn't he?
NT is very nice, yes, but I don't really see any benefits over a bolt-on. Besides, you can change the neck on a bolt-on. Mods-ahoy!
so the best trains in existence will always be steam engines? Brilliant.
I think we all have seen the guy with the cheap ass ibanez bass with the homemade cab get on stage and blow you away. I know i have, and then come home and wonder why i have so much money wrapped up in gear. I know i have been thru tons of amp and basses and each has been a different flavor of good but not nessasarily better than the other.(I'm not talking about 25 watt practice combo's compared to all these great 500 watt micro heads).
I believe we are our own worst critics, at least i am. If your rig sounds good to you it will inspire you to play/practice more. Which means you will get better and sound better.
I think the biggest myth IMO, is that anyone really gives a crap what you sound like other than you. As long as its not obnoxious sounding your problably good to go. And there is probably some poor guy watching you play and going to go home and blow a bunch of money to get the gear your playing thru and still end up sounding like themselves.
I believe we are our own worst critics, at least i am. If your rig sounds good to you it will inspire you to play/practice more. Which means you will get better and sound better.
I think the biggest myth IMO, is that anyone really gives a crap what you sound like other than you. As long as its not obnoxious sounding your problably good to go. And there is probably some poor guy watching you play and going to go home and blow a bunch of money to get the gear your playing thru and still end up sounding like themselves.
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FunkMetalBass, you had me ROTFLMAO, man. If you ever get up to Sedona let's get together.
JimmyM posts some crazy stuff sometimes but he's 100% correct here.
Actually, it *is* all in the wood.
I wonder if we just backfit the appropriate myths to our own gear once we get a good sound, and then assume that's Truth. I'd call it the Statistical Sample of One Effect.
JimmyM posts some crazy stuff sometimes but he's 100% correct here.
Actually, it *is* all in the wood.
I wonder if we just backfit the appropriate myths to our own gear once we get a good sound, and then assume that's Truth. I'd call it the Statistical Sample of One Effect.
So have I...but in none of those instances was the instrument being requested some multi-kilobuck boutique 5-string (or more) exotic wood custom-built GAS machine.
Usually it was just "bring a Fender". Or "bring a normal bass, please".
Once in a while it was "bring a fretless".
Only slightly less frequently, it was "don't bring a fretless".
Fodera is the best bass in existence! You wont touch anything better, evar!
Oh, and Alembics are only good at sounding like Alembics.
Oh, and Alembics are only good at sounding like Alembics.
Nope, but the famous and legendary ones are. Like the Flying Scotsman.
Anyway... My basses are all 34" and bolt on. 2 active 1 passive. Love them all equally and really don't care whether anyone else does or not
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Best is subjective, but I don't expect that this was actually a serious argument, as some of the "bests" of today play 5+ string basses (Richard Bona, Matthew Garrison, John Patitucci, Jeff Schmidt, Hadrien Feraud, Yves Carbonne...)The best players in history played 4 string basses... Kaye, McCartney, Lee, Pastorius, Burton, Flea etc. If I want to play more strings, I just go find my guitar
lolz @ guitar
I think "standard" is a bit of a misnomer. They are more commonly 34" scales than any other scale type, but there are probably equally as many "non-standard" scale basses out there as there are 34" scaled basses. It's like saying that a 4/4 upright is a standard scale, when I'm almost positive that 3/4 uprights are most common.
If you read up on it, you'll see that there are some fairly big tonal & balance differences. The Warwick Thumb Bolt-On is said to have much more mid presence than the Neck-Thru. In regards to Spector, their neck-thru basses seem to balance better than their bolt-ons, partially to do with the added weight of the maple in the body half of the bass.
Sure thing, man, and the same thing goes for you if you're ever in Phoenix. There are a bunch of people on these boards that live in AZ that I'd love to meet and jam with. It's just a matter of finding time.
FMB's post, if sarcasm, is way too funny! Unfortunately, I've run into a few who BELIEVE that. Their eyes glaze over as they ramble on about this pick-up, or that preamp. They look at my stuff and laugh. Until they hear me play. Old Epiphone, old Peavey, homemade cabinet. Old man. Fingers like the Flash.
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And then Bach came in, tag-teaming with Chuck Norris, and roundhouse kicked both of them?
That's the silliest myth I've ever heard.
Lol so often true...
And Mozart really isn't as good as it sounds.....
C'mon, guys, are you seriously gonna tell me that you can compare the something like the Magic Flute to the 9th Symphony? That would be like comparing a bolt on to a neck through. Sheesh.
Bach is way too mathematical. No passion. Sort of like Markbass. Way too transparent. No color to the tone. Beethoven is the Ampeg of classical music.
Bach is way too mathematical. No passion. Sort of like Markbass. Way too transparent. No color to the tone. Beethoven is the Ampeg of classical music.
Bruce & Beethoven >> Chuck & Bach >> Jet Li & Bach >> Jackie Chan & Brahms. No contest.
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What's mathematical about 11 over 6 for one random measure in a song?Bach is way too mathematical. No passion. Sort of like Markbass. Way too transparent. No color to the tone. Beethoven is the Ampeg of classical music.
Oh, thank goodness you were using hyperbole and sarcasm, because if you weren't...
To recapitulate your message in the words of Queen:
Any way the wind blows...
Is that supposed to be some kind of fart joke?
