Something wise i found over the internet.

[MJ5150]

This thread is a load of crap. Tone is all in the equipment. Fingers mean nothing.

I hope you're right. I've spent well over $20,000 in the last few years trying to find the perfect tone. Never once have I considered improving my playing skills or technique.

Somewhere out there is an amp/cab combo that will make me one of the best bass players in the world.

-Mike

 

[MatticusMania]

I hope you're right. I've spent well over $20,000 in the last few years trying to find the perfect tone. Never once have I considered improving my playing skills or technique.

Somewhere out there is an amp/cab combo that will make me one of the best bass players in the world.

-Mike

Youve still got a ways to go. You don't get the perfect tone til youve spent $42,000...

 

[hover]

til youve spent $42,000...

 

[Ziltoid]

the real formula is 50'000+X where X represents both of your suckiness and luck, note that X can be negative to.

 

[hover]

MJ, you'll X-infinity better if you add a B string. FACT.

 

[hrodbert696]

Youve still got a ways to go. You don't get the perfect tone til youve spent $42,000...

Finally, I know how to get the perfect tone: spend $42,000 to get someone else to play for me.

All this time and it was starting me right in the face.

 

[Skitch it!]

Now then, now then, now then, if you are looking for tone, this is how you do it. You go to a crossroads at midnight, there will be a shadowy silhouette there waiting, it is the magic burger van that Robert Johnson got his skills from ; )

 

[Skitch it!]

But on a more helpful note, discount the bass, discount the amp, your finger pads are a big effect on tone and attack. How much flesh you put in contact with the string, how hard your callouses are, if you've just jumped out of the shower (pads are softened up), the velocity, where along the string you pluck (back, front, somewhere in between) and what kind of touch you have with the left hand too.

A lot of tone is in the fingers and touch, but you do need good gear to replicate and articulate that and something you find comfortable and familiar to play on.

 

[MEKer]

I sometimes get chills when I pee.

I get chills when someone says they SAW you pee. I will not ID the guy, but he is a TB'er with a funny name beginning with the letter "J"... or was it "R"?

It was something and it was disgusting to hear.

 

[hover]

ok, now I'm feeling a little vulnerable and fragile. Hold me. I had no idea I had a pee-stalker.

 

[BassyBill]

So, this is what happens when you post pretty obvious and music-related stuff, that's been said about a million times before, in TBOT. Fascinating.

 

[BassyBill]

Where did you get that Deep Thought pic?

 

[champbassist]

So, this is what happens when you post pretty obvious and music-related stuff, that's been said about a million times before, in TBOT. Fascinating.

I think this thread is an experiment by the mods to exactly that end

 

[BassyBill]

I think this thread is an experiment by the mods to exactly that end

Not me - mind you, they never tell me anything.

 

[hover]

Where did you get that Deep Thought pic?

I forget what I Google imaged, but I believe it's in the photo-tag.
Best one I've found.

 

[Bruce Lindfield]

I hope you're right. I've spent well over $20,000 in the last few years trying to find the perfect tone. Never once have I considered improving my playing skills or technique.

Somewhere out there is an amp/cab combo that will make me one of the best bass wearers in the world.

-Mike

Fixed it for you!

 

[Bruce Lindfield]

What's the best metal for sarcasm? I'm gonna say aluminum.

But as you're American, you probably can't say it.....

 

[champbassist]

But as you're American, you probably can't say it.....

+10^10

 

[PSPookie]

But as you're American, you probably can't say it.....

I pronounce it exactly as it is (properly) spelled.

 

[L-A]

I pronounce it exactly as it is (properly) spelled.

Aluminium?