Musicians, your bass thoughts please
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Topic: Musicians, your bass thoughts please
Posted By: Davesax1965
Subject: Musicians, your bass thoughts please
Date Posted: January 18 2019 at 06:15
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Epiphone Thunderbird Vintage bass. Any musicians got an opinion on them ? Is the neck dive as bad as I imagine it might be ? ;-) ------------- |
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Posted By: chopper
Date Posted: January 18 2019 at 07:10
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I don't know about the Thunderbird but I have an Epiphone Viola and that does have a bit of neck dive, although not enough to be a problem. There have been some for sale in a Bass For Sale FB group that I'm in and there was no mention of neck dive, one person seemed to be very much in love with them. Worth having a rummage on BassChat or somewhere like that to gauge opinion.
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Posted By: Guldbamsen
Date Posted: January 18 2019 at 07:30
Always cook it on the bone! Takes the flavour of the fish to the next level  ------------- “The Guide says there is an art to flying or rather a knack. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.” - Douglas Adams |
Posted By: Davesax1965
Date Posted: January 21 2019 at 06:41
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Thanks, folks. I'll give one a try later. The only practical alternative - "see if it fits". ;-) ------------- |
Posted By: Icarium
Date Posted: February 26 2019 at 23:53
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I have a bass thought How to create/make the bass have more of that post-punk tone. I want to understand that. What elements is important to craft a good post-punk bass sound. -------------  
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Posted By: Frenetic Zetetic
Date Posted: February 27 2019 at 02:31
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In my personal opinion, both Gibson and Epiphone make some very high quality, amazing sounding - but unfortunately very uncomfortable to play - bass guitars. This is just personal preference but everything outside high end Ibanez boutique basses, everything feels like a brick with strings to me lol. Play it for yourself! ------------- "I am so prog, I listen to concept albums on shuffle." -KMac2021 |
Posted By: Vompatti
Date Posted: February 27 2019 at 02:46
Chorus pedal?
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Icarium wrote:Posted By: Frenetic Zetetic
Date Posted: February 27 2019 at 03:11
Chorus, maybe a little reverb thrown in, and play with a pick close to the bridge itself. ------------- "I am so prog, I listen to concept albums on shuffle." -KMac2021 |
Posted By: Davesax1965
Date Posted: February 27 2019 at 06:08
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Also try and unlearn all music principles you might have picked up over the years. ;-) ------------- |
Posted By: Icarium
Date Posted: February 27 2019 at 14:33
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Thanks -------------
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Posted By: rushfan4
Date Posted: February 27 2019 at 15:50
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Have you seen that Geddy Lee has released a Big Beautiful Book of Bass that apparently has really good pictures and info on many bass guitars and interviews with a number of bass guitar players? I've read a couple of reviews on the book and it sounds quite heavy, but quite interesting. ------------- 
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Posted By: Magmatt
Date Posted: July 16 2019 at 13:13
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If you get a chance to watch the live Rush R-40 video - Geddy pulls out a T-Bird and you can hear it alongside his Fenders and Ricks. I was totally impressed with the T-Bird. I play both a Rickenbacker and a Jazz bass and I am finding those rounder tones like the T-Bird and Precision more and more interesting. Geddy goes direct so the bass sounds are really the bass themselves, not as much a tone stack of amps and effects.
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Posted By: Frenetic Zetetic
Date Posted: July 17 2019 at 01:52
Said book is a fantastic collectors item, but it's most certainly not a be-all-end-all encyclopedia on bass guitar by any means. Great for Fender fans, not so much for anyone else. I'd actually suggest a Google search/Quaroa/Forum questions over that book for a beginner looking to check out bass. ------------- "I am so prog, I listen to concept albums on shuffle." -KMac2021 |
Posted By: Magmatt
Date Posted: July 17 2019 at 14:55
What song or what bassist embodies this tone? I have found over the years that you can cop a lot of different tones and feel with amp setups and playing styles. |
Posted By: AZF
Date Posted: July 18 2019 at 03:44
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Don't begrudge Geddy for creating that book, but from the sound of it, it's not "The Rock Bass Manual" by Hugh Hopper. Now there's a book that's really enjoyable from start to finish. |