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"Plays like butter"
- Thread starter AudioDwebe
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For whatever reason, I was equating "plays like buttah" with a warm, rich tone. I read "plays" but heard "sounds".
And I read someone's comment about a Marleaux Consat playing like butter and thought, wait a minute, to my ears that bass sounds really modern, hi-fi'ish and clinical...the opposite of warm and rich. That's what sort of threw me for a loop.
I was starting to understand that what people meant by the comment, then I read this:
Now, I'm even more confused.
And I read someone's comment about a Marleaux Consat playing like butter and thought, wait a minute, to my ears that bass sounds really modern, hi-fi'ish and clinical...the opposite of warm and rich. That's what sort of threw me for a loop.
I was starting to understand that what people meant by the comment, then I read this:
Now, I'm even more confused.
The real question is, what's the best butter for metal?! (yeah, you knew that was going to come up eventually)
I've always taken it to mean a bass with the perfect feel and action that requires no effort at all to fret, as in the ease of a hot knife through butter.
It's one of those terms that sort of irritates me, especially when spelled "buttah". Makes me think of used-car-salesman-jargon, and puts me in the mindset that the person using it is less trustworthy. Just being honest here, but I will literally walk away from a bass, neck, or whatever may be for sale, if this is in the description. Funny how a single word or phrase can have such a strong impact.
Is that really the only benefit?
I listed two benefits, not one:
1. I can play my basses; and
2. Not a single bass player has ever asked to borrow one of my axes.
1 being the most important; 2 being a fringe benefit.
I've not noticed that, but am sure I will from now on.
On a similar note: I've been looking for a fretless bass for a while and it seems damn near every fretless sold is THE best fretless the seller has ever played. Oh, and they all muah for days.
