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[Bone]

This thread has outlived its usefulness.

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[Brad Johnson]

Well, okay... sure, you can rehearse in a quiet environment with an unplugged guitar or bass. But that doesn't make it an "acoustic instrument".

Unless I can only hear it when it's plugged into sonething that requires electricity, when I'm playing it unplugged it most certainly is acoustic.

This really isn't this complicated.

Let me put it this way: why don't you get Kevin Brubaker to build you one of his usual basses but with NO ELECTRONICS? Then tell me how much money you make with it, live or studio gigs. Naturally, you are allowed to put a microphone up to it... you could maybe make that work at a solo bass performance, as long as you weren't singing... or in the studio, as long as you were in an iso booth. But good luck getting ROI using an "acoustic solidbody bass".

I didn't realize that a requirement of an instrument was the ability to make money with it no matter how you played it. I'll admit, that's a new one on this old "debate".

The ROI is a nice touch too. Didn't realize that was an instrument requirement either. In that light, there are bunch of instruments that aren't even instruments according to you.

Yet I can still hear them.

One last time: a synth is a great example of an instrument that MUST be plugged in to use. You can bang away all day on an unplugged one, you won't hear the pitch of individual notes. OTOH if you can't hear an unplugged bass when you pluck it, chances are you're hearing impaired at a minimum...


or just plain stuborn.

deja vu.


BTW the basses I most frequently play unplugged these days are Brubakers... and I can hear them just fine.

 

[Brad Johnson]

Actually it was never intended to start a debate, its not my thing, just an observation/joke. After seeing an enormous post I thought to my self "who has the time/could be bothered to do that?", even if your right. Unfortunately it wasnt well received as it seems like your sense of humour escaped years ago, never to be seen again....

Quite the contrary, I find funny things to be funny. You OTOH...


now you're funny too.


If you can't imagine a world where someone might be able to think faster or type faster than you, cool. Apparently my abilities are beyond your comprehension.

klaatu barada nicto.

 

[Fuzzbass]

This really isn't this complicated.

One last time: a synth is a great example of an instrument that MUST be plugged in to use. You can bang away all day on an unplugged one, you won't hear the pitch of individual notes. OTOH if you can't hear an unplugged bass when you pluck it, chances are you're hearing impaired at a minimum...

or just plain stuborn.

Well duh, anyone who isn't deaf can hear an unplugged electric bass IN A QUIET ENVIRONMENT. Irrelevant. Unplugged, it is nearly as useless as an unplugged synthesizer. Reality check: in the history of music performance, live or studio, free or for pay, how often has an electric bass been used in *acoustic* fashion: i.e. unplugged?

So you are correct, this isn't complicated at all: electric instruments are not intended to be used in acoustic fashion. That's why they're called electrics, and not acoustics.

Sure, you can (incorrectly) call an electric an acoustic simply because it makes a tiny bit of sound. By the same logic, you can also call it a paperweight or a baseball bat.

 

[Brad Johnson]

Well duh, anyone who isn't deaf can hear an unplugged electric bass IN A QUIET ENVIRONMENT. Irrelevant. Unplugged, it is nearly as useless as an unplugged synthesizer. Reality check: in the history of music performance, live or studio, free or for pay, how often has an electric bass been used in *acoustic* fashion: i.e. unplugged?

So you are correct, this isn't complicated at all: electric instruments are not intended to be used in acoustic fashion. That's why they're called electrics, and not acoustics.

Sure, you can (incorrectly) call an electric an acoustic simply because it makes a tiny bit of sound. By the same logic, you can also call it a paperweight or a baseball bat.

I see a finite difference between being CALLED an acoustic instrument and being an acoustic instrument. Do you?


You say electric bass is not an acoustic instrument... not that it's not called an acoustic instrument.


I'm saying electric bass is an electric (well duh) instrument that CAN BE PLAYED acoustically. And it doesn't have to be THAT QUIET an environment. Speaking from experience. You said "that sound isn't used for anything" yet you clearly know otherwise so why say it?

 

[Rumblin' Man]

My point, somewhat off-topic, is that an electric bass is not an ACOUSTIC instrument, as some like to say. The relatively tiny bit of sound created by the slab is NOT the function of the instrument, it is a by-product. A chamber quartet can provide musical entertainment out in the real world without amplification. Three dudes with Les Pauls and one dude with a P-bass can't. It ain't easy even with hollowbody electrics.

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[Gard]

LOL thats great!

Oh yeah, WHO DAT!

Glad to have been amusing!

And oh yeah, TWO DAT!

...we now return you to your regularly scheduled pointless argument...

 

[Bryan R. Tyler]

...we now return you to your regularly scheduled pointless argument...

I think the pointlessness has reach the point of no return, particularly since this has become a semantics argument at this point.