Innovations!

[maxrossell]

[quote name='clauster' post='969231' date='Sep 27 2010, 10:45 AM']Being, at heart, mostly a fan of the Precision bass, I have to say NONE![/quote]

+1

Hooray for luddites!

[tauzero]

The face straightener. At least I assume that that's what certain manufacturers use when they produce their price lists.

Would fretlessness be counted as an innovation, being as bass guitars stemmed from the notion of emulating the double bass which doesn't have frets?

Silly me, I've got one. The Ashbory.

[zero9]

[quote name='flyfisher' post='967355' date='Sep 25 2010, 09:44 AM']The OP referred to 'innovations in the bass world' - do we take that to mean [u]unique[/u] to the bass world or merely the adoption of things?

Electric basses, jack plugs/sockets, class D amps etc are certainly all good innovations, but not unique to bass and not, I believe, even developed specifically [u]for[/u] the bass world before being adopted elsewhere.

Is there anything truly unique in the bass world (at least at the time of its innovation) - apart from low notes?[/quote]

The thumb rest?

[benh]

[quote name='BottomEndian' post='969184' date='Sep 27 2010, 09:57 AM']Hmmm, indeed. I'm sure they're beautifully constructed and finished instruments (if a little bulbous around the lower bout for my liking), but yes, you'd probably only really buy one for the electronics.

I say this having never even been in the same room as one. Could be the bass of my dreams in terms of playability, but at the same sort of pricetag that could get you a pair of matching fretted and fretless ACGs (for example), it'd just continue to be the bass of my dreams.[/quote]

I must say that after playing a 5 string fretted and a 4 string fretless Enfield at Bass Day last year, I had a serious GAS attack for one......... until he told me how much they cost, and I cried a little on the inside.

[Happy Jack]

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Oh, hang on, did you say "[i]innovations[/i]"?

[lozbass]

[quote name='Musicman20' post='969150' date='Sep 27 2010, 09:24 AM']Lightweight amp heads. Whether they be A/B or D.[/quote]
I'd agree but go further - the DI box (a favourite tool towards the end of my 'career')

[Bilbo]

I have to hold out a flag for IT: home recording technology, transcription software, Sibelius etc, the internet. There is so much more material for the developing player to absorb nowadays compared to the darkened cupboards we all learned in in the early 1980s!!