The 13 posters you meet on talk bass

[Pings Bass]

Tag yourself. I'm #1(ish) and #5. I know I've missed some. No offense intended to anybody; you know I love you all.

1. The hoarder. Has lost count of their basses. Hasn't played In a band since before getting married.
2. The alpha stomper. Has at least 3 pedal boards and several spare pedals. Declaims at length about the nuanced differences between dirt, fuzz, overdrive and distortion. Tone is not complete until every slot on a board is filled.
3. The classic rocker. P bass, flats, tort. You know them well. Has no interest in any instrument designed after 1965 or any music produced since 1972. Likes both kinds of basses: the original P and the split P.
4. The pickup aficionado. Puts $600 of pickups into a $200 bass.
5. The "tone is in the fingers" purist. Eschews pedals, amps, cabs, and signal processing. Plugs straight into the board. Trolls the pedal and tonewood threads.
6. The tonewood fan. Swears they can hear the difference between pao ferro and rosewood fingerboards. Pretends videos of instruments made of concrete, colored pencils and thin air don't exist.
7. The pro. Plays a beat-up POS partscaster through whatever is backlined. Doesn't post much, too busy gigging.
8. The builder. Magically creates works of art from twigs and branches and posts detailed threads for us mortals to marvel at.
9. The cover band ace. Knows hundreds of songs note-for-note and can sub in any pop, rock or country cover band at a moment's notice without rehearsal. Sings backup, and maybe lead on Mustang Sally or Wagon Wheel.
10. The engineer. Regularly called upon to patiently explain impedance, port sizing, why mixing cabinets can either work or be a disaster, and the importance of keeping the magic smoke inside the amp.
11. The tone chaser. Wants to emulate the exact tone of their favorite bassist by replicating the gear used. Having replicated the exact signal chain but not the technique, wonders what else can be purchased to get a little closer to the recorded sound.
12. The iconoclast. Hates FSOs. Loves Gibsons and swears none of their 12 nearly-identical non-reverse t-birds neck dives. Can't understand why Gibson won't reissue the Grabber or the Ripper.
13. The beginner. Wants to know what the best bass for ____ is and how best to learn the notes.

 

[two fingers]

#9. Only I can sing lead on a wider range than the two songs listed.

 

[JRA]

i used to be closest to #7 --- 'glory days'. now = i got nuthin'!



edit: i'd like to be gigging more (keeps us on our toes!), but i'm glad to be involved in projects and processes and to be involved with good players and good people, overall...except for drummers and guitar players, of course...

 

[2saddleslab]

#3 but with the following edits: no interest in any instrument designed after 1956 or any music produced since 1972 [except the good stuff].

 

[Jebberz]

A bit of 9 and 10... except I lack a good voice to sign lead.

 

[4SG]

 

[Barry Vestal]

#9 for sure and then some

 

[Pings Bass]

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sorry for the omission; feel free to offer a self-roast

 

[WI Short Scaler]

I'm probably closest to #9, but wouldn't consider myself an "ace" by any means. And I have never sung lead on the two songs listed. I can do a decent Tom Petty though.

Also parts of #5, no pedals or toys, just wireless to amp to tuner to amp.

 

[filwitheneff]

#9 for me

 

[Ronzo]

#10 and #9 for me. But my current state of #9 is that I've forgotten more songs than my 40 year old #9 knew.

 

[Dincrest]

Although this applies to most all Internet forums and not just TalkBass...

#14- the poster who thinks they know more than they really do and mask their ignorance with written language that makes them sound more intelligent than they really are.

(This was me in my younger days... until I wised up, grew up, matured, and realized what a damn doofus I was).

 

[Pings Bass]

#14- the poster who thinks they know more than they really do and mask their ignorance with written language that makes them sound more intelligent than they really are.

Oooohhhh that could be me

 

[Daniel Piper]

#2

 

[GTx2]

I think I am #11 with this amendment:

"The tone chaser. Wants to emulate the exact tone of "what is in my head" by virtue of gear used. Having identified what I think will work, but not the technique, wonders what else can be purchased to get a little closer to the desired live/recorded sound."

 

[Killing Floor]

The Deuce! Started building my own boards out of "necessity". By necessity I mean, OK, not really necessity.

But an oscillator is not a perc is not a fuzz face.

 

[zubrycky]

#12, proudly.

 

[1st Bass]

Eight is great, for me… and I don't even build bass guitars… just double basses, and rarely that… far more numerous smaller instruments of the violin family.

My son, on the other hand, builds fabulous members of the guitar family (including lots of electric basses) but has yet to build a fiddle.

 

[truand85]

Definitely #3 with a sprinkle of 5 and 11

 

[micguy]

For once I'm a perfect 10. With a side of 7.