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Make YOUR own "bass tone" pie chart!
- Thread starter organworthyplayer337
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Neck. People always forget the neck when it comes to tone discussions. A good, stiff neck generates punchy tone.
The single most resonant part of the bass apart from the strings.
But someone less lazt than me could combine the results for an average.
My crappiest basses, the ones I get rid of, always have had one thing in common: a neck I could bend with gentle pressure. OLD Squiers, skinny necked Soundgears in 200 and 300 series, etc.
free market, Fender wasn't the only one who wanted to make a living building bass guitars.
People buying certain models for whatever reason only strengthens or weakens the companies in the market.
Ric5
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- I like 5, 8, 10, and 12 string basses
Here's my estimate. Not a strong advocate of the "tonewood" thing but I'm not a luthier, what do I know ?
Added the action as it matters a lot to me and I have experience with it.
Also added the frets, I think their impact is underestimated (see Lee Sklar) but again, no experience with this.
Added the action as it matters a lot to me and I have experience with it.
Also added the frets, I think their impact is underestimated (see Lee Sklar) but again, no experience with this.
There seems to be almost a consensus that neck material/construction makes no difference. Amazing.
Nah I agree, I should have included it, somewhere near "Strings" I think, definitely more than body / fretboard material. I think this is what you hear the most when you play a bass unplugged.
Please share your pie chart
Hmmm.. I didnt' include neck separately because it wasn't on the original list - and I didn't really think about it because I play a neck-through... so for me it would be neck/body = x% and body wings = almost 0%. I'll confess to a belief that for a neck-through, a solidly and reasonably well-informed constructed beam of the appropriate laminated woods is a pre-requisite platform for decent tone, and that variations for wood choice etc. are pretty esoteric and nominal compared to other factors.
Ok, well, just to play along -- this is purely my subjective impression, and leaving out player and amp and pedals to just talk about the features of the bass.
I have my doubts about the whole "tonewood" thing, but I will say my Carvin SB4000 with an ash body and ebony board is definitely "zingier" than other jazz basses I've played with the same strings. Maybe it's something other than the wood, who knows, but I'm willing to give the wood 10%.
I have my doubts about the whole "tonewood" thing, but I will say my Carvin SB4000 with an ash body and ebony board is definitely "zingier" than other jazz basses I've played with the same strings. Maybe it's something other than the wood, who knows, but I'm willing to give the wood 10%.
I have a stiff neck sometimes. My wife says it makes my tone less pleasant.
Other stiff things have a more positive impact on my tone.
