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Great, now that's going to be in my head all night... In your room - Depeche mode

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So..... Sidestepping the inevitable tonewood handbags... Please. We've already established that it sounds great plugged in, it feels good to play. We're talking 'vibration feedback through the body' What are the elements that contribute to that? Is it wood, paint thickness, paint colour, bridge, strings, marketing hypnotism? 😁

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Ah yes. That's a much better description than resonance!

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As the OP It's not a big deal, just something I noticed and was curious about. I like to feel my instruments reacting when I play. Electric, Acoustic, semi acoustic, clarinet, pianos all react with your body in one way or another and influence the way you feel when you play. Most of my bass playing is at home at relatively low volumes at the moment so the big amp vibrations are minimal. The bass I'm talking about is an Ashdown short scale Grail. I'm comparing it to Sire V7 fretless and Cort Artisan B5. The ashdown sounds better than the cort plugged in imo but the resonance in the body is better (more rewarding?) with the cort. I'm not advocating that basses should be resonant or not, just curious and wanted to explore the topic.

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Thanks everyone, I'm wondering if it's the bridge, my others have substantial chunky modern bridges and this has a Wilkinson bbot style. Or perhaps the quite thick paint compared to thin paint? I changed the strings to chromes and it feels a bit better than the originals which were pretty dead and the XLs I replaced them with. Maybe the higher tension works better? I'm just thinking out loud really. Its fascinating all the myriad differences there are between basses that influence how they feel to play.

What factors affect resonant basses and how important is it to you? I just got a new bass and I'm getting nowhere near the same feeling of resonance in my chest when unplugged. It's all fine and sounds decent when plugged in, but I'm missing that feeling of connection. Any thoughts?

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While I can't compete with the bling of @JohnDaBass@JohnDaBass, I got this short scale ashdown Jazz Grail this week. Sounded enormous at rehearsal last night.

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