Hello, I played guitar for 20+ years and recently got into bass (in the form of an Epiphone Jack Casady). Since I'm not a pro player I don't need an amp/cab immediately and can afford the luxury of waiting until the holiest of all gear buying holidays....Black Friday. That said, being new to bass, I have plenty of time to research. Let's just say I noticed a few types of players answering technical questions about gear.
1. The Scientist - armed with a Masters Degree, white lab coat, and Texas Instruments graphing calculator who mentions surface area of cones, dispersion of sound, and Ohm's Law.
2. The Psuedo-Scientist - reads post by type #1 and repeats it...with errors and few opinions mixed in.
3. The BS'er - Like Cliff Claven on "Cheers" who just rambles on and tells you what he likes with no regard to the question asked.
4. The dude/bro/guy - Terrible cover band member who plays even worse originals and tells stories from front lines of gigs (basement and/or garage). Will steer a newbie towards gear that would impress John Paul Jones and Geddy Lee.
5. Seasoned Veteran - touts his decades of experience and pays absolutely NO attention to type #1. He knows what he knows and eff the numbers.
Maybe I got quickly jaded looking over posts (so that I make educated buys). Having played guitar for so long I have to hand it to bass players. As a guitarist when I needed gear I simply walked in a, you guessed it, GUITAR Center. Instruments, amps, cabs, combos, etc. in all shapes and sizes. Now I went to the same store looking for a bass amp. They have more Djembe drums than bass amps. So without trying out gear first hand I have to troll the Google machine for answers. Not the ideal.
1. The Scientist - armed with a Masters Degree, white lab coat, and Texas Instruments graphing calculator who mentions surface area of cones, dispersion of sound, and Ohm's Law.
2. The Psuedo-Scientist - reads post by type #1 and repeats it...with errors and few opinions mixed in.
3. The BS'er - Like Cliff Claven on "Cheers" who just rambles on and tells you what he likes with no regard to the question asked.
4. The dude/bro/guy - Terrible cover band member who plays even worse originals and tells stories from front lines of gigs (basement and/or garage). Will steer a newbie towards gear that would impress John Paul Jones and Geddy Lee.
5. Seasoned Veteran - touts his decades of experience and pays absolutely NO attention to type #1. He knows what he knows and eff the numbers.
Maybe I got quickly jaded looking over posts (so that I make educated buys). Having played guitar for so long I have to hand it to bass players. As a guitarist when I needed gear I simply walked in a, you guessed it, GUITAR Center. Instruments, amps, cabs, combos, etc. in all shapes and sizes. Now I went to the same store looking for a bass amp. They have more Djembe drums than bass amps. So without trying out gear first hand I have to troll the Google machine for answers. Not the ideal.
