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Was I ever wrong!

pklima

pklima

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May 2, 2003
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#1
Just a thread to share totally wrong things you thought about music. Not necessarily big important stuff like "you have to play lots of notes to prove you are creative", but small specific things.

I didn't realize Prince wrote "Kiss" until several months after he died. I had assumed for probably 25 years it was a song the Art Of Noise wrote for Tom Jones.
 
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It took running sound fo a while for me to realize that your favorite bedroom tone likely sounds like garbage in a live mix. Scooped tones get buried in most bands. Send everything as flat as you can. Before that I thought "the bigger the better" when it came to tone. "Make it super beefy like a bass should sound." Boy was I wrong. It's such easier to dial in a flat tone. Sure, warm it up. Use some drive if you want. But, for crap sake, leave your treble and mids as flat as possible.
 
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Having made my little joke, here's a more serious response: The first few basses I bought, during my first few years of playing, were all active -- because I assumed that active was inherently better than passive because, well, how could having a preamp not be better than not having one? Over time, however, I have gravitated gradually toward passive basses, and I haven't touched any my active basses for at least ten years.

(Just to be clear, I am not saying that passive basses are better than active ones -- only that it was a mistake to assume that the opposite was necessarily true.)
 
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Fender basses are the best.
The best tone is passive.
5 strings are difficult to play.

These three hamstrung my satisfaction with bass for a long time.

I now think Fender is the Honda of the bass world. Great resale value, but a boring bunch of milquetoast for the masses.

All of my basses are active, most have passive modes.

I now exclusively play 5s and 6s.

At least I'm not a Richard about my opinions... :smug:
 
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BassCliff said:
Hi,

I just found out tonight while watching Jeopardy (American game show) that "quaver" is another name for "eighth note".


Thank you for your indulgence,

BassCliff
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Wait til you find out what they call the rest of them.
whole note Semibreve
half note Minim
quarter note Crotchet
eighth note Quaver
16th note Semiquaver
32nd note Demisemiquaver
64th note Hemidemisemiquaver
double whole note Breve
 
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Beej said:
Fender basses are the best.
The best tone is passive.
5 strings are difficult to play.

These three hamstrung my satisfaction with bass for a long time.

I now think Fender is the Honda of the bass world. Great resale value, but a boring bunch of milquetoast for the masses.

All of my basses are active, most have passive modes.

I now exclusively play 5s and 6s.

At least I'm not a dick about my opinions... :smug:
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My favorite bass is a four-string passive Fender. And I love my Honda Fit. :crying:
 
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Beej said:
Fender basses are the best.
The best tone is passive.
5 strings are difficult to play.

These three hamstrung my satisfaction with bass for a long time.

I now think Fender is the Honda of the bass world. Great resale value, but a boring bunch of milquetoast for the masses.

All of my basses are active, most have passive modes.

I now exclusively play 5s and 6s.

At least I'm not a dick about my opinions... :smug:
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I have a Fender and my Odyssey and Pilot are honking at you friendo_O
 
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In all seriousness, I dropped 20K on gear to make life easy for everyone, wrote charts for new songs and all everyone else had to do was turn up, do the gig and get paid, well paid I might add.

After all that effort and expense I still had band members complain about the most trivial things. Now of course those people have moved on and will say around others “gee I had it really good for a while there” but never to me or current members.

I thought people would be happy if they are treated nicely and paid very well, I was very, very wrong.
 
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When I was a teen and just getting into playing, I thought Precision basses sounded like crap because the guy in my first band who played one had no idea how to get a good sound. This wrong assumption followed me way into my adult life. (I own a Precision BTW).

I also thought that only Jazz musicians would play a Fender Jazz Bass. I didn't think it was a rule, or that you had to show your "jazz card" to buy one, but that it would sound bad in any other style.
 
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