mario_buoninfante

One thing I think is often omitted is that when it comes to "70s-early 80s" reggae and dub, a lot of the time the bass was recorded straight into the mixing desk, no amp head/cabinet involved. Just something to keep in mind when thinking about the reggae/dub bass sound.

Anthony Jackson

Oh gosh, yes please!!!!! His playing on AH's Secrets is insane. And that 5 string Alembic...

Michael Manring

yeah, fretless basses are bad... as*

Nice! The maple fingerboard (I think it's maple) makes me think of a snappy, bright sound but, I was wondering how the MM style pick-up is affecting the "Spector sound"

Nice pics and gorgeous basses. Intrigued by the blue 5 string Spector with the MM pickup, is that a Euro?

Surely this has been posted already, but the price is going down https://reverb.com/uk/item/62655776-bacchus-left-handed-global-series-bass-wl-434-naho-m

Yap, I know all basses can have noise issues. I was genuinely interested in the noise source and whether or not had been isolated/found.

Ah ok got it. Pretentious/offensive/provocative/troll mode ON, uh? Your second post is based on fried air. And your first one is just provocative in the most boring way possible. Have fun If fun is the right word

Ok, seriously now. Slim necks aren't faster than thicker ones. It's subjective. All good so far. Then things went south when you tried to sneak this in Not sure how that is THE main point, since it wasn't even mentioned initially and there is no obvious/direct link between your first post and this mentioned above.

I think you might be wrong, thin necks can definitely be considered *fast. You ain't said faster * fast = connected or attached in a way that is not easily unfastened

I might have been out shopping when they were delivering "The only irrefutable way to slide your hand/thumb on an electric bass - vol. 1"

as an Italian I'd rather have an olive oil one

Well, Picasso could draw like Raphael and that knowledge allowed him to break the rules and come up with Cubism. The guy didn't just wake up one day and invented a new style.

At the risk of sounging a bit too stiff, I think that harmony alone is not the right term to use. Harmony is one of the pillars in music together with melody and rhythm and refers to something specific.

Learning how to walk the bass will give you that and I genuinely believe that there is no substitute for that since it requires: 1. Improvisational skills - walking bass lines are created on the spot 2. A level of understanding of harmony 3. Good rhythmic skills 4. Stamina - walking the bass is not that easy 5. A good melodic sense in order to make sinuous bass lines that effortlessly move between chords

Interesting you get noise with P basses. Have you got to the bottom of it? Any noise source in your place? eg neon lights

tuning the guitar in Eb doesn't mean they moved away from 440Hz. they transposed

That is a great way to put it! I agree 100%. Also, semantic is quite important. Words are important, and we shouldn't take the meaning out of them, or just attribute them a meaning they don't actually have. I think here we've been confusing "music business" with music itself (the art).

just saw this at the National Museum of Musical Instruments in Rome - not from the 80s though

maybe we can file that under "improving"

Some good info here too