Looking at buying a new bass, direct sound comparison inside PLEASE HELP!

[Humidfume]

Hey guys!

Looking at buying a new bass from a friend so I recorded 2 basses here, one is my old bass and one is his new one.

Bass A is my old LTD B-55 5 string and Bass B is an Ibanez BTB200.

I'm going to look into putting a 5 string set on the Ibanez and using it as a 4 stringed 5 string

Bass A plays 2 bars,
Bass B plays 2 bars,
Repeat with guitars.

***EDIT***

First player is now a cleaner bass tone for better choosing!




Let me know your thoughts ASAP please guys!

Joe

 

[marios.blythe]

bass A = better in my opinion! fat and huge! bass B has better low end!
which is which?

 

[Humidfume]

bass A = better in my opinion! fat and huge! bass B has better low end!
which is which?

I'll post it up when more people get in on this. Want to keep it as unbiased as possible

 

[davidzz1988]

To me, bass B sounded more defined and had more low-end, So i'd say B man!

 

[Humidfume]

To me, bass B sounded more defined and had more low-end, So i'd say B man!

I should have made this a poll

 

[XxSicRokerxX]

I liked A alone, in the full mix I think I liked B better. Hard to decide.

 

[slo77y]

B

 

[HvO]

you should test and compare different pitches and all strings!

 

[D_A_V]

Like XxSicRokerxX I liked A alone, but in the mix with the guitars B glued nicely with the rest. So I would say B as bass is not a solo instrument.

 

[NecroDM]

Bass B sounds better to me.

 

[MrBongo]

B.

did you put the same strings on them?

 

[neonlight]

Yeah B has a nice lowend, sounds really good.

 

[tomas_almeida]

I prefer B's low end but A's mid range. However, can you post a cleaner example? That distortion changes the character too much.

 

[Humidfume]

I prefer B's low end but A's mid range. However, can you post a cleaner example? That distortion changes the character too much.

Thanks for the feedback guys! And yeah man I'll do it now!

 

[tomas_almeida]

Having listened to the cleaner example I can say I prefer B, but both basses seem to have old strings, and I wonder if B has more recent strings and that is affecting the comparison.

 

[Humidfume]

Having listened to the cleaner example I can say I prefer B, but both basses seem to have old strings, and I wonder if B has more recent strings and that is affecting the comparison.

Certainly they both have old strings. But I really can;t afford to buy 2 sets of strings for this comparison hahaha! That would set me back £40 - £60 JUST to work out if it was worth buying.

I'm in debt too much as it is hahaha

But no the bass you are referring to has 3 year old strings, whereas Bass A has less than a year old strings.

 

[tomas_almeida]

Ok, then it doesn't affect my opinion.

 

[Humidfume]

Ok, then it doesn't affect my opinion.

Seems like practically everyone prefers B!

Any thoughts on putting a 5 string set on a 4 and playing the 4 string in B... the way a 4 is built vs a 5 etc... this 4 has exactly the same scale length as my B-55 5 string. So I'm guessing it'll be cooler?

 

[marios.blythe]

@VeneMorte may i ask how you process the distorted bass sound? it sounds so good !

 

[Christian WUFU]

The BTB sounds waaaaaaay better. I'm kinda biased though because I love that model haha