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Thanks. But when I go to youtube to listen for this less metallic 'clank', I can't hear it. E.g.

[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cf9j9KC6j_0[/media] That sounds like a perfectly normal jazz bass sound to me.

In this one, he's talking about growl and clank, but again it sounds like a normal bass sound to me. Is the growl the slight rattle he's getting?

In this video he doesn't start playing until about 4:30 or so. he spends the rest of the time 'explaining' in what to me didn't seem a hugely effective manner.

[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2KQxp8aR_g[/media]

Now I'm on this video, and there's definitely something going on there. Very twangy.

[media]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s46mFPjLX9c[/media]

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i always though the growl monster was something completely different :)
like JTUK said it can mean diferent things to different people, for me its a slight osilation character to a note just after the main attack, present in the sustain so the notes dont sound just smooth. It is a combination of things i think and certain basses have more of it than others like warwick $$, stingrays have it but they are slightly more fizzy/zingy. In the video he does get a bit of 'growl' but its very subtle. Specters have quite a bit of growl.

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[quote name='discreet' timestamp='1434736852' post='2802414']
This is a Sire Marcus Miller Jazz V7 I had for a while... I thought it was fairly growly.

[b][url="http://www.mediafire.com/view/7r52va7c65qarzq/JB%20Groove.wav"]JB Groove[/url][/b]
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fairly growly would be accurate, its more growly in the low registers though but it certainly had that 'character'

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It's funny how we refer to terms without actually knowing what the term really means....that Precision bass growl....mine doesn't and I would be scared if I picked it up and it actually growled at me...I would put it down and back away slowly!

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[url="https://www.youtube....h?v=32GsPfUnsRk"]https://www.youtube....h?v=32GsPfUnsRk[/url]



Thats "growl" in my book.

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[quote name='bassman7755' timestamp='1434738033' post='2802432']
[url="https://www.youtube....h?v=32GsPfUnsRk"]https://www.youtube....h?v=32GsPfUnsRk[/url] Thats "growl" in my book.
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Anyone else got a broken link?

[quote name='JoeEvans' timestamp='1434744380' post='2802525']
It goes 'bwaahhh'.
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I thought that was bridge pickup 'burping'... a bit like 'mwahhh'..?
Surely growling is more, 'Aroogah! Aroogah!' :D

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If P Basses can growl, then it can't be burping. It [i]could [/i]be grunting. Maybe it's more like blowing chunks. Or possibly some kind of groaning...

I think it may be that involuntary noise I make when I get up out of an armchair... 'ahhhh-ohhhh'... Or the current mrs discreet's night-noises, a kind of weird, loud moo-ing, interspersed with a hideous breathing sound like the death-rattle of a homeless. :mellow:

It's difficult to describe sounds in words, isn't it?

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[quote name='Annoying Twit' timestamp='1434734170' post='2802368']
I'm familiar with a lot of bass guitar sounds, but I don't really know what the term 'growl' actually means. I'm told my SR760 has loads of it, but don't really know what aspect of the sound that refers to.
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you're not making it angry enough, so it doesn't growl at you yet. ;)

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[quote name='discreet' timestamp='1434744726' post='2802529']
Anyone else got a broken link?
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[url="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=32GsPfUnsRk"]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=32GsPfUnsRk[/url]

Fixed hopefully

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