Glad to see you posting! This is a great hang. I barely play anymore. Gotta address that.
Edit: I have no qualms with the other forums on TB, just wanted to be clear.
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Stoner/Doom Bassists Thread, Part 90: Maxed Out
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Glad to see you posting! This is a great hang. I barely play anymore. Gotta address that.
Edit: I have no qualms with the other forums on TB, just wanted to be clear.
So went to check out a Squier P to turn into my BEAD doom bass. It was in meh condition cosmetically, but the thing that worried me was the action was about 2 miles high. I attempted to play it and it was extremely difficult. The neck had relief in it, but the action was just super high. At that point, is it worth trying to work with something like that? Or should I try to find something a little closer to playable? I'm new to working on basses, so I don't want to bite off more than I can chew.
If it's very high it probably has frets with uneven heights. If possible i would lower the strings to check that
Simple Man is a great song, though, and even a bit doomy!
Fodera has a great series of videos on YouTube about bass setup. I'd recommend following along with those to see if you can get the bass more playable. As long as you don't do something really dumb you're not going to hurt anything.
It could just need a setup, or it could have big problems. Its hard to know. I would definitely check out some other instruments. One that is playing and sounding good is probably going to save you a headache or two down the road.
Is this a bass from show room, pawn shop, private seller or used section on the store?
I missed the part about just checking out this bass. I thought you already owned it.
Craigslist, met in the hardware store parking lot lol.
Yeah I was just checking it out today.
A couple tools and these 4 videos, and you can get your bass setup pretty easily. The nut stuff an be tricky, and nut files arent cheap, but most of the other stuff is easy to do. Of course the action could be really high because the nut was over-filed in which case you'd have to replace the nut... which is also not impossible.
Nah, I am in MPLS, there are 4 GCs, 2 Music Go Rounds, and other mom and pop stores. I just wanted to find a cheap-ish P bass to learn to work on and try out the famous P bass sound.
I think it's better to go to these places you cited, you will rarely see a low price bass from a private seller that knows how to take care of the instrument. While you look for something on craigslist, you're losing money on transportation and/or losing time. It might end up costing even more than you would save compared to those places
I kid, I kid. I got nothing against Skynyrd. Just one of those bands that the cover band crowd seems beholden to.
Anyone have any advice to get my guitar player to play more leads or take solos?
I'm thinking cattle prod personally, but curious if yall had any other suggestions.
edit: this is about as close to leads as he gets:
hella rough track that I recorded the bass on during my lunch break at work, still have some timing issues to work out on it and a couple parts don't mesh as well as I'd like buuttt it's close ish.
I'm thinking cattle prod personally, but curious if yall had any other suggestions.
edit: this is about as close to leads as he gets:
hella rough track that I recorded the bass on during my lunch break at work, still have some timing issues to work out on it and a couple parts don't mesh as well as I'd like buuttt it's close ish.
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Are you in a parallel universe or something?
Nah, the solos will have too much vibrato.
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