On the one hand I love my ABG, it has the best tone I have heard at the price, it is very playable, loud, xlr tuner, 5 string etc... But.. I find it ALMOST pointless.
I did a test with an steel string acoustic. On its own it was actually louder than the guitar! Arpeggio playing you could hear the bass articulation perfect. But the guitar was strumming, that when the interference occurred. Because if the guitar played an e chord and the bass an e at the same pitch as the low e of the guitar it is impossible to distinguish the instruments. I mean the chambers are roughly the same size, the bronze strings are the same timbre, it is impossible to pick out which is which. Even if you play a note below the register of the guitar, because of the similarity of the timbre, it is futile.
So why does this happen with the electric cousins. Well, the amp of bass mimics the chamber of a double bass, which gets a whole lot more of the fundamentals, and guitar amp especially a rock amp mimics a very small chamber giving the illusion of the guitar being exclusively treble instrument as it is written.
So going back to the ABG. So acoustically the only thing that will do is my trusty DB. On most gigs you will plug in anyhow DB or ABG. How ever I found that on a DB you play slightly different lines, to electric because of the nature of instrument, so what you get on ABG is acoustic sounding electric lines. My conclusion is that I will invest in a EDB for the gig where I won't risk the damage to my DB. That makes irrelevant that portability advantage of the ABG.
So what is there left for my poor ABG? The pawn shop? Or worse, eBay?
Well since it is a 5 string I love playing cello suits on it. And I guess if I put flat wounds on it will do for those sitting room, summer trip jam sessions, so I'm not left out!
Ah thank God I've got that out my system!
How much does TB charge for therapy sessions?
I did a test with an steel string acoustic. On its own it was actually louder than the guitar! Arpeggio playing you could hear the bass articulation perfect. But the guitar was strumming, that when the interference occurred. Because if the guitar played an e chord and the bass an e at the same pitch as the low e of the guitar it is impossible to distinguish the instruments. I mean the chambers are roughly the same size, the bronze strings are the same timbre, it is impossible to pick out which is which. Even if you play a note below the register of the guitar, because of the similarity of the timbre, it is futile.
So why does this happen with the electric cousins. Well, the amp of bass mimics the chamber of a double bass, which gets a whole lot more of the fundamentals, and guitar amp especially a rock amp mimics a very small chamber giving the illusion of the guitar being exclusively treble instrument as it is written.
So going back to the ABG. So acoustically the only thing that will do is my trusty DB. On most gigs you will plug in anyhow DB or ABG. How ever I found that on a DB you play slightly different lines, to electric because of the nature of instrument, so what you get on ABG is acoustic sounding electric lines. My conclusion is that I will invest in a EDB for the gig where I won't risk the damage to my DB. That makes irrelevant that portability advantage of the ABG.
So what is there left for my poor ABG? The pawn shop? Or worse, eBay?
Well since it is a 5 string I love playing cello suits on it. And I guess if I put flat wounds on it will do for those sitting room, summer trip jam sessions, so I'm not left out!
Ah thank God I've got that out my system!
How much does TB charge for therapy sessions?
