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Your 3 basses for the most well-rounded stable
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Op, you said 3 basses for well rounded stable.
P-bass - can do different tones with rounds and flats for strings, thump (foam at bridge) or grind or just default music industry solid tone, or a hollowbody approximation with right hand mastery.
Fretless - nothing else can sing and slide like it, and for fretless melodic parts it cannot be faked very well on a different type bass.
"Hifi-bass" - for sounding active, fullrange, on-board EQ to slap, to deep tone or to fat bridge tone, or a possible stingray approximation using blend and EQ. Splittable double humbuckers would be a plus.
This is to me a well rounded stable of three. Now we lack some acoustic tones. Hollowbody bass? Upright? You tell me
To not have to approximate as much, one really might need.
P
J
Stingray
Fodera (Hifi)
Rick
Hollowbody
Fretless
That's more than 3 though
P-bass - can do different tones with rounds and flats for strings, thump (foam at bridge) or grind or just default music industry solid tone, or a hollowbody approximation with right hand mastery.
Fretless - nothing else can sing and slide like it, and for fretless melodic parts it cannot be faked very well on a different type bass.
"Hifi-bass" - for sounding active, fullrange, on-board EQ to slap, to deep tone or to fat bridge tone, or a possible stingray approximation using blend and EQ. Splittable double humbuckers would be a plus.
This is to me a well rounded stable of three. Now we lack some acoustic tones. Hollowbody bass? Upright? You tell me
To not have to approximate as much, one really might need.
P
J
Stingray
Fodera (Hifi)
Rick
Hollowbody
Fretless
That's more than 3 though
Precision with rounds, played with fingers
Precision with rounds, played with pick
Precision with flats, played with fingers
Precision with flats, played with pick
Sorry, that's four
Precision with rounds, played with pick
Precision with flats, played with fingers
Precision with flats, played with pick
Sorry, that's four
I've currently got 10 basses,and every one is passive ,mostly fretted and 4 strings,but for the most tonal variety among 3 of them i'd say:
Rickenbacker 4004
Fender American Standard Jazz
Yamaha BB1200
Of course,a Fernandes 8-string is very different as well. And my fretless Cheyenne ii.
Rickenbacker 4004
Fender American Standard Jazz
Yamaha BB1200
Of course,a Fernandes 8-string is very different as well. And my fretless Cheyenne ii.
Well, if I had to pick from the basses I currently have I'd have to go with my Rick, the DIY PJ(in the profile picture) and the Kingbass replica. If I had freedom to choose any basses, I'd still take my DIY PJ(seriously it's crazy good), a Status S2 or S3(4-string 24 frets) and probably a Pedulla rapture 4 or 5.
I haven't read the entire thread yet, but has anyone mentioned the Line 6 Variax 700/705 yet?
For the academic exercise of maximizing sonic flexibility, it seems that one of these (or better yet, two of them, with one being fretless) would cover more ground than any possible combination of three or fewer non-modeling basses.
For the academic exercise of maximizing sonic flexibility, it seems that one of these (or better yet, two of them, with one being fretless) would cover more ground than any possible combination of three or fewer non-modeling basses.
One of the modelled sounds on those is "fretless".
I've only played around on one in a store,but found most of the modelled sounds pretty unconvincing.
Depends on the genre, but if it were three to do everything probably
Jazz
Stringray
Some sort of modern-ish 6 string
Jazz
Stringray
Some sort of modern-ish 6 string
Old-school guy that I am, I'd say a P with flats, a J with flats or rounds and a Rickenbacker, possibly also with flats. But it would be really best if I could add a Stingray with rounds and a Hofner with flats or tapewounds.
