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Same here. My oldie shoulder notices the weight difference in my Squier Musicmaster. That's the only one I have over 8 lbs.That would knock them off my list, if I ever saw one in the flesh.
Yeah, same here. My heaviest comes in right at 8. And that seems too heavy for me now.
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At 6.7 pounds, the Nordy Cat is ichiban. There is no reason for me to play other basses. The Cat covers all the tonal territory I need.
There is a whole lot to like about 6.7 pounds. Nice choice of a main bass.
Heh. My heaviest bass is 5.5Kg/12 lbs. Yes it's a short scale. I don't gig anymore and only play seated so I'm fine with its weight.
Yikes! If I played a 12 lb. bass, I'd feel like the guy in your avatar picture.
I owned one just like it when I was 41 years younger than I am now, and didn't gig it back then...
Nevertheless, Suzy Quatro who is one tiny lady *did* gig with the exact same instrument...in her much younger years, but still...
In fact my heaviest bass ever was a 4 string short scale, an Alembic Stanley Clarke deluxe at +14lbs (approx. 6,5kg). I guess the coco bolo top and back added a good share to that, might be the brass sustain block too, but it was a real boat anchor. Sold long ago but it's nothing I would like to gig with nowadays.
14 lbs is hard for me to imagine playing. That's almost as heavy as my amplifier, and I can't imagine having that hanging on my shoulder or on my lap..
if by sustain, you mean sustain a back injury!
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Heavy? The guy I live with in Toluca Lake in the mid-80s crafted a fretless Thunderbird with an ebony fingerboard out of solid purpleheart. Neck-through! And it is the heaviest bass I ever did hold. Made my (what I now know to be) 9 pound StingRay feel absolutely svelte.
Speaking of ... serious question. What is the selling point of basses with sustain? To me, a bass is a percussive instrument. Sustain is for the Hammond. What am I missing?
Speaking of ... serious question. What is the selling point of basses with sustain? To me, a bass is a percussive instrument. Sustain is for the Hammond. What am I missing?
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It's been 40 years, at least, since I listened to Stanley Clarke's "School Days". So, couldn't say. It's outside my wheelhouse. What I do understand are dozens of measures of tied whole notes in Mahler and Wagner compositions. But the bassists have bows lol.
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I love sustain when playing things like Comfortably Numb. My bass comes alive, and starts reacting to the vibrations coming from my amp. It is beautiful and therapeutic.
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What I think of when I hear about basses with sustain are 80s high mass bridges, through-body strings, and heavy slab body basses. My uneducated guess for adding sustain is a compressor? That's the sure way I know of to play an infinite note? Lost in the woods here.
Add to that the bassists I listen to play stacatto.
Add to that the bassists I listen to play stacatto.
Love, love, love it. Been waiting for its release.
Perfect balance, 8.9 lbs, that great Lakland neck (plek’d), and really great tone and tonal options. Solid build, excellent quality.
I am a big Lakland fan and have had a few including a Skyline Bob Glaub P that I really dug. This HH fills that void perfectly!!
