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Still shopping myself, but it says SOMETHING that the TRBX304 seems like everyone's second favorite bass when they can't agree on what their favorite starter is.
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Thermos H Christ posted:Yeah I keep circling around the idea of getting a CV70s Jazz, although they’re making the CV60s in daphne blue now and it looks so good. The biggest thing holding me back from getting the 60s today is that I’m pretty sure I want my next bass to have a maple board. The blue's fine but that clash with with the tortoiseshell pickguard 
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Oh man I love the jazz body shape with the daphne blue and the tort, it’s like far out space age/midcentury kitsch to the max. Wanna play that bass in a Frank Lloyd Wright house while people shitfaced on martinis do the twist.
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The GSR200 is dirt cheap and weighs less than a lot of Les Pauls. They make great little project basses. The default electronics are pretty lousy, but it's got a big cavity to swap hardware out and really play around with. A little bit of work goes a long way on them.
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Ibanez' main faults in the 200-300 price range seem to revolve around issues a soldering iron can cure. And I've figured previously that if I used to do board repairs I can probably wring the Chinesium out of one. They are drat pretty in a simple way.
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Anyone know of a way to get a bridge for a bass with the string spacing of a Bronco? I'm itching to start modding. Maybe a P-bass pickup and a new pickguard. The bridge has a crappy two-saddle thing going on, and while that's OK for a fartin' around bass, I need something better to realize the dream of an Imprecision Bass. And guess what I can't find in any of the usual spots? The string spacing at the bridge is 2.075", or thereabouts. Maybe 2 5/64ths. I think the Mustang bass uses the same string spacing, but I can't find those bridges either. The Schaller 4-string roller is adjustable, down to 2 3/32nds, which is 2.094". That could be close enough. Any other ideas? Anyone got a line on those sweet, sweet Mustang bridges?
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You can get narrower from bridge to nut, right? Isn’t every jazz bass that way? Or at least every p-bass with a jazz neck?
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Thermos H Christ posted:You can get narrower from bridge to nut, right? Isn’t every jazz bass that way? Or at least every p-bass with a jazz neck? I've measured my Jazz bass, and it's too wide. The short scale bass bridge is super narrow. Since I posted this, I found a page that featured a modded Bronco that had the Schaller bridge, and it looked like it was working OK. But the price... yikes. I'm going to make a monster out of this little cheapo thing yet. My plan is to eventually spend more on it than I spent on it. If that sounds dumb... it is. But I love the body shape. And the whole thing weighs, like, five pounds.
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Jan 20, 2020 06:55
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There's a fine tradition of turning your guitar (or bass guitar) of choice into its own strange beast. I mean, just look at Frankenstrat.
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As a beginner what should I be practicing and for how long? There’s so much to learn here and I don’t really know where to start.
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Jan 20, 2020 19:40
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What kind of music made you want to take up the bass? Practice that until your fingers start to feel tired, but before they start hurting.
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One of the good things about bass is you can get by in a lot of songs with really simple playing! It takes a lot longer to get extremely good on bass than it does to get extremely good on guitar because of the size of everything and the amount of force you need on the strings by comparison, but most songs have relatively simple lines that people have built careers on. ZZ Top, for instance, has some notoriously boring basslines that are good for practice when you're a complete beginner. Remember that no matter how much you practice scales, you'll want to play along to songs. Along with making practice a lot more fun (the biggest obstacle to learning an instrument is getting bored by rote exercises), it gets you into the groove of playing with a band. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=16jG3__5NgE
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What you need is Rob Thomas feat. Carlos Suntana in "Smooth", friend.
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fat bossy gerbil posted:As a beginner what should I be practicing and for how long? There’s so much to learn here and I don’t really know where to start. I always big up StudyBass since it's a really nice lesson plan with a good focus on why you play stuff as well as how. It gives you some exercises and also songs that use the thing you just learned so you can put it to use! As a beginner it's also worth spending time getting your basic technique down. That means getting used to fretting (either by running through a scale box pattern, or just doing one finger per fret like 5 6 7 8 on each string) and picking. If you're learning to play fingerstyle (recommended even if you're gonna be picking too) you need to get used to the plucking pattern you do with your fingers, and where your hand goes when you're playing each string, to keep all the others muted. That's something that becomes natural as you get used to doing it, so it's a good thing to drill Any good left hand/right hand intro should cover this stuff, so just make it part of your practice routine (preferably with a metronome) and do 10 mins a day or more if you're cool with it. Then you can work on playing some songs you like - and if you can try to pick out the root notes and play those without looking up a tab, hell even better
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Gearhead posted:Still shopping myself, but it says SOMETHING that the TRBX304 seems like everyone's second favorite bass when they can't agree on what their favorite starter is. BB234 is even more obscure but god does it kick rear end. And it’s the only bass I found that’s a P-bass shape with a natural finish and PJ pickups that’s cheap. Squier just doesn’t make anything like it
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fat bossy gerbil posted:As a beginner what should I be practicing and for how long? There’s so much to learn here and I don’t really know where to start. I tried to really study bass for real but then the siren call of just playing cool songs from tabs I got off the internet was too strong to resist.
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Hellblazer187 posted:I tried to really study bass for real but then the siren call of just playing cool songs from tabs I got off the internet was too strong to resist. No reason why those can’t be the same thing! 
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fat bossy gerbil posted:As a beginner what should I be practicing and for how long? There’s so much to learn here and I don’t really know where to start. If you’re in any way music game inclined I highly recommend Rocksmith 2014. The original game has a bass “expansion” but the sequel got full bass support from day one, including every single downloadable song released for it. At about 1500 hours into that, I warm up with Hysteria, Rio, and The Trooper whenever I grab my bass off the shelf. Probably 10:1 bass:guitar playtime for me easily. It’s a great way to get yourself into playing bass lines you wouldn’t even think of touching otherwise.
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And if you somehow manage to get tired of the massive amount of official content on Rocksmith, there's approximately 10 trillion custom dlc tracks out there.
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I found Rocksmith didn't really jive well with how I learn songs (piece by piece, repeating small sections, at my own pace) so it was really frustrating at times. Plus it could be really janky with actually detecting what note I was playing. Besides those issues, it's a good learning tool, and it'll expose you to other bass lines you'd never think of learning, like Dewgy said.
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It also doesn't really work unless you have a good command of the fretboard and the notation is kind of non-standard.
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Is there a trick to getting rocksmith working without noticeable lag between playing the note and the sound showing up in the computer? The lag was too much for me and I might be missing a setting.
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I’ve got rocksmith and it’s alright but I want to know what I should be doing outside of playing the game because I know it’s not teaching me poo poo about technique or music and I don’t want to put six months into it and be able to play a bunch of songs but not really know how to play bass.
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You say that like you'll be playing the songs independently of Rocksmith in six months
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Are lessons an option for you? My teacher helps me figure out the bass line for a song, and we use that to look at the theory. It's been helpful! Plus, like Rocksmith, you'll practice more if you're learning songs you like.
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Chunderbucket posted:You say that like you'll be playing the songs independently of Rocksmith in six months It depends. You can learn the song with Rocksmith just as well as learning it with tabs, and I have. It's a matter of practice.
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I kind of wish I had put the extra effort into learning to play right handed. It would be so much easier to find gear. I'd love to go try out some basses but the stores around here usually have at most 1 lefty bass.
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does anyone play bass left handed the way hendrix plays a righty guitar left handed? seems doable
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Well, I now understand what people say about a guitar calling to you. Today I was out at one of the local music stores and stumbled across an abandoned Classic Vibe 60s P-bass that someone had put flats on and apparently never touched again. It still had the factory stickers on the back. Strummed on it a couple of times. Put it back on the rack. Checked out another one. Came back to it. Repeated this cycle two or three more times before I realized what was going on.
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Helianthus Annuus posted:does anyone play bass left handed the way hendrix plays a righty guitar left handed? seems doable Paul McCartney played the viola bass back in the day because it was symmetrical so he could flip it over without it looking stupid.
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Helianthus Annuus posted:does anyone play bass left handed the way hendrix plays a righty guitar left handed? seems doable Mononeon does this. Another one of Prince's bassists did this too, can't remember his name though. He's in the videos for Cream and Peach, from memory.
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Helianthus Annuus posted:does anyone play bass left handed the way hendrix plays a righty guitar left handed? seems doable The bass player from Tinariwen (desert blues) plays the bass (and the guitar too) like this, without even restringing. Lefty, on righty instruments strung normally https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PItnw3Z7WgY
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Anime Reference posted:Paul McCartney played the viola bass back in the day because it was symmetrical so he could flip it over without it looking stupid. ... IIRC, in interviews, he's stated that the main reason he used the Hofner was the price: they were not rich and famous rock stars yet, and the Fender was simply too expensive.
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Helianthus Annuus posted:does anyone play bass left handed the way hendrix plays a righty guitar left handed? seems doable I just remembered that Jimmy Haslip from Yellowjackets does this, with the strings still in right-hand orientation, and on a six-string to boot.
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can anyone recommend a bass synth pedal thats worth using that isent 400$ or is this one of those situations where its gonna be an expensive purchase nomatter what?
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ASenileAnimal posted:can anyone recommend a bass synth pedal thats worth using that isent 400$ or is this one of those situations where its gonna be an expensive purchase nomatter what? You can find a used MarkBass Super Synth for $150+. Speaking of, I need to get one myself now that they're reasonable in price... I had an old Boss SYB-3 that I was pretty happy with. It was glitchy from time to time... But it did what I needed it to do.
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Source Audio c4. It takes a good amount of tweaking because it's got a shitload of features in a very small package. I've heard nothing but good things about it, and there are two reasons I don't have one yet: 1. Looks like I need to spend extra to get another device to let it and my HX Stomp communicate via midi 2. The new Bergantino NXT 112 cab is making me GAS real hard
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I mostly play guitar, so apologies if this is a stupid question, but the OP is quite old by now... The bass I use for home recording and generally goofing around is a serious piece of poo poo and I want a new one. I play mostly rock/blues/punk/metal. Are the Squier Classic Vibes generally good instruments or are there something else in that price range I should look at? If I get a Squier should I get a J-bass or a P-bass?
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They'll both get the job done in those genres so I would suggest picking the one whose neck shape you like best.
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WELL. With that question in mind, I just found out that some people do a JPJ setup. In other words, both single coils from a J, with a P-Bass pickup wedged in between (usually on a P Bass) Can somebody explain why that would be a bad idea? Why is this not done more often?
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