Hi Justin,
I'm curious about your experience with recording and gigging short-scale basses.
For my part I first started paying attention to them when I read a Bass Player interviewcirca 2001 with Robert DeLeo and he shared that a lot of Stone Temple Pilots songs were recorded on short-scales (a Limgar, Orlando, Danelectro and Fender Musicmaster)... I was pretty shocked that Big Empty was one of these songs, but up to that point I didn't have any real recording experience.
The conventional wisdom of bass (i.e. what the old guys I kept meeting when I was starting out in college would always tell me) tends to be that Fender was the default standard for recording because that's what studios were used to and because shortscales, etc. were considered inferior/muddy/student models/etc. I didn't at the time know better because I had never had the chance to try any.
Was there a point at which guys started using these oddball instruments for recording, where they generally hadn't previously? Or, was the conventional wisdom bogus?
Or, was it not really until the 90s that recording technology got to the point where it was easier to work with something like a Limgar?
I'm curious about your experience with recording and gigging short-scale basses.
For my part I first started paying attention to them when I read a Bass Player interviewcirca 2001 with Robert DeLeo and he shared that a lot of Stone Temple Pilots songs were recorded on short-scales (a Limgar, Orlando, Danelectro and Fender Musicmaster)... I was pretty shocked that Big Empty was one of these songs, but up to that point I didn't have any real recording experience.
The conventional wisdom of bass (i.e. what the old guys I kept meeting when I was starting out in college would always tell me) tends to be that Fender was the default standard for recording because that's what studios were used to and because shortscales, etc. were considered inferior/muddy/student models/etc. I didn't at the time know better because I had never had the chance to try any.
Was there a point at which guys started using these oddball instruments for recording, where they generally hadn't previously? Or, was the conventional wisdom bogus?
Or, was it not really until the 90s that recording technology got to the point where it was easier to work with something like a Limgar?
