Bassguitar!!

[Eramaajarvi]

Oh yeah. (Damn gotta listen to this song)

BUt I barely could do that! He was a classically educated man...(like I'm going to be soon - starting music school playing contrabass - you know, the big thing with strings that looks like a chello but has deeper notes)

 

[Gadlor]

I've had a weird education in music..I went from classical to guitar. I've pretty much lost all semblance of knowing the notes on guitar, I'm just trying to get good at it. Maybe..someday..I'll learn the notes. Maybe.

 

[Shmeir]

Cliff Burton was the man. its a dam shame what happened to him, still Newsted was a worthy replacement.

have MetallicA found a new bassist yet??

 

[Shmeir]

yeah, "load" and "reload" were their weakest albums in my opinion altho "fuel" is a classic track.

they haven't split, newstred just quit cause he said he was tired of playing "Enter sandman" every time they did a gig.

give me early metallica anyday

 

[Eramaajarvi]

Originally posted by Gadlor
I've had a weird education in music..I went from classical to guitar. I've pretty much lost all semblance of knowing the notes on guitar, I'm just trying to get good at it. Maybe..someday..I'll learn the notes. Maybe.

My BF is a classical guitarrist (by profession) and he listens to punk

 

[Shmeir]

well, i originally played the violin!! then it was keyboard/piano then guitar, then drums and now bass

just today i single handedly composed my new bands second track, needless to say im quite pleased with myself

we still need a vocalist tho and i dont know of any any who can vox!!

 

[Eramaajarvi]

Hehehe

Fate is a teaser. I do vocals and have no metalheads to do a FULL METAL band here...

 

[Gadlor]

Eramaajarvi:

Don't talk to me about punk. The guys in my band listen to nothing else...its pretty bad, whenever I go to play with them I'm assaulted by punk covers of the Backstreet Boys, The Sound of Music(for jeebus sake this is horrible), and everything else under the sun.

 

[Shmeir]

my heart goes out to u Galdor, before i joined a band i was forced to jam with this guy in my street who liked punk and grunge!! all we ever played was Blink 182 and Nirvana and greenday

 

[Eramaajarvi]

No no no, this is cool punk stuff, like NOFX or Ramones... BLINK 182 IS NOT PUNK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Aborted Fetus]

Originally posted by TrueBeliever
Anything I do know I just learned from my brother, who currently has a Cort Curbow 5-string fretless, and he just ordered a 900-watt Mesa Boogie 6x10.

If anyone here wants a 4x10 SWR cabinet, I know someone who is selling it.

He does have an amp to power that, right....? Because a cabinet by itself is pointless. You need probably 500+ watts to work with a cabinet with that power rating. Having a weak amp increases the chances of clipping the amp and fucking up your cabinet royally (as in speakers crap out). Having too much power, and you could damage it as well, but that's not likely in this case (it will happen if you plug a 400 watt amp into a 30 watt cabinet ).

Anyway, keep that bass a-rockin'.

PS: SWR...blech!!! uke: :Smug:

 

[opacity]

can any of you musicians explain me, what's the big difference between a neck that's screwed on the body and one that goes through, regarding the end-result (the tone) ?

and what is a bass supposed to sound like with this neck ?

 

[Eramaajarvi]

Ok I'm not sure I got the question right...

This thing on this pic seems to me like the back of the bass.
Every bass has the neck going trough, you just don't see it on every bass.

 

[opacity]

???
there's the neck-through-body type and the usual kind which has the neck fixed with screws on the corpus (as much as I know)

 

[Aborted Fetus]

Originally posted by opacity
can any of you musicians explain me, what's the big difference between a neck that's screwed on the body and one that goes through, regarding the end-result (the tone) ?

and what is a bass supposed to sound like with this neck ?

Neck-thru basses tend to have more sustain, as the vibrations from the strings and neck can pass all the way through the body, while bolt-on basses (that's the "official" term) tend to have more punch/attack and not as much sustain because of the way it is constructed. Notice I said "tend to have..." because these characteristics vary and really depend on the woods, construction quality, and the player. You can have a neck-thru that bites like no other because it could have, for example, a graphite neck with an ebony fretboard and wenge or shedua for body facings on an ash body core paired with Seymour Duncan Quarter Pounders (pickups) and basically destroys your above average bolt-on that's built to "rock." Like-wise, many cheap bolt-ons won't have that great of an attack or sustain.

The bass that you're talking about is probably trying to make the best of both worlds by having the neck run deeper into the body, but I doubt it'll have a significant effect. Of course if you're looking for a bass to play metal or rock with, I'd highly recommend a straight-up bolt-on. At least that's what I prefer for my heavy needs. Plus there's a ton of other basses out there in that price range that will blow said Washburn away.

Hope that helped.

 

[opacity]

ay, thanks for your help
I wouldn't mind keeping this thread alive

 

[Aborted Fetus]

No problem.

Oh, one more thing I forgot to mention earlier. Looking closely at the pic, you can see that the 4 holes in a row at the bottom of the neck are for the strings to pass through before getting to the bridge and then over the neck, through the nut into the tuning pegs. The purpose of the string thru body design is to further increase tension and possibly overall body resonance, basically furthering the neck-thru characteristics. Some people claim that it does make a significant enough difference, others claim it's crap. I haven't played a bass with this design, so I can't give my input. So you can make whatever you want of it.

Questions? Well then, moving along....

 

[Shmeir]

man, u really know ur background information dont ya?!!?

 

[Aborted Fetus]

I try.

 

[opacity]

it's sort of hard to imagine for me that in an almost completely technical device, the sort of wood really does play a big role? I mean, can you really hear if this bass is of this wood and the other one has a softer tone and hence is made of that wood? I know I would blame it on the amp!
but who am I