A personal explanation of why green basses are the best and have the best tone

[hamfist]

Well, it's pretty obvious to anyone with half a brain that green is the colour of "tone". Basses in green, particularly lighter shades, are also way cooler looking in every way.
Basses are made from wood, from trees. Trees produce leaves, which are .... green. Wood naturally produces green things, it's the natural order of things. Wood, green and basses, all together in a holy trinity.
Here is evidence......

[url=http://www.ephotobay.com/share/green-jazz.html][/url]
[url=http://www.ephotobay.com/share/statwest-main-b.html][/url]
[url=http://www.ephotobay.com/share/westone-ray-body-front.html][/url]

Please feel free to agree and to post other evidence.

[Mornats]

For the colour-blind amongst us, this is also a lovely green bass.

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[redstriper]

Dennis agrees:

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[planer]

[quote name='hamfist' timestamp='1413730606' post='2581297']

[url=http://www.ephotobay.com/share/statwest-main-b.html][/url][/quote]

That is mint, what a beauty... ;-)

[ezbass]

My favourite colour is teal green, put that on a bass and I'm a happy chappy:

[URL=http://s308.photobucket.com/user/ezbass/media/StingBodysmall.jpg.html][IMG]http://i308.photobucket.com/albums/kk344/ezbass/StingBodysmall.jpg[/IMG][/URL]

Unfortunately I no longer have this - shoulda, woulda, coulda; GAS, as ever, saw it's departure

Edited October 19, 2014 by ezbass

[stingrayPete1977]

I was going to say teal green ftw!

[PaulWarning]

probably the best Green bass in the world[attachment=174172:634bac5c2fb65f65e9df918c4680045a.jpg]

Edited October 19, 2014 by PaulWarning

[iceflow]

[color=#282828][font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif]"Basses are made from wood, from trees. Trees produce leaves, which are .... green. Wood naturally produces green things, it's the natural order of things. Wood, green and basses, all together in a holy trinity."[/font][/color]

[color=#282828][font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif]Flawless logic[/font][/color]

[dannybuoy]

[Machines]

Not my photo but identical to mine:

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[DaveFry]

I have one that used to be Blue . It yellowed over the years down here in my sunny island and became Green ;


However my other Green one has the Green Tone , agreed . ;

Carvin LB 76 , maple neck and wings , ebony board.
" Soft as an easy chair ,
Fresh as the morning air ... "

[deepbass5]

Love green basses, but of course everyone knows Red basses are the loudest

[planer]

It's the same with bikes. A green Kawasaki is always faster than the same bike in a different colour. It's the law.

[KiOgon]

http://www.ephotobay.com/share/green-jazz.html
I'm sure I saw that 1st bass - the Status - on the Ocado website & they've just been awarded "Best Organic Supermarket" so it must be

[TheSiberian]

Looking to a sister highly scientific thread about the importance (or not) of the wood in construction of a bass I would say that green wood is not the best for basses but...I recently purchased the new Bonsai Bass and now I really begin to understand and I am doing now my best to play it while it gets greener.
Just from time to time I add some water... I hope sooner I will have a double neck. ":0)
Best

Edited October 19, 2014 by TheSiberian

[theyellowcar]

Yay! Green club!

[Annoying Twit]

What everyone has to remember is that both sound and light are energy, and it is possible to convert from one to the other. Hence, light that is adsorbed by a bass body is converted into heat in the form of heat in the body, which is vibrational energy of the wood molecules in the body. When the strings are plucked this also creates vibrations in the body, which are converted to a signal by the pickups. While primarily the pickups pick up the vibrations of the strings, if the body is also vibrating, the pickups are moving in relation to the strings, and this will colour the sound picked up by the pickups. In this way, the colour of the bass body will affect the wavelengths of light adsorbed, rather than reflected, by the bass. In effect, the sound of the bass is being changed by light pollution. The only solution is to make sure that you always play your bass in pitch darkness. This will prevent light pollution changing the tone of your bass, and lead to a clean, unpolluted, sound.

[yorks5stringer]

I thought Warwick were the greenest bass manufacturer?

[url="http://www.warwickbass.com/en/Warwick---Company--Environmental-protection--Environmental-protection--Our-commitment-to-environmental-protection.html#current_site_id"]http://www.warwickbass.com/en/Warwick---Company--Environmental-protection--Environmental-protection--Our-commitment-to-environmental-protection.html#current_site_id[/url]

Edited October 19, 2014 by yorks5stringer

[Annoying Twit]

[quote name='yorks5stringer' timestamp='1413746099' post='2581521']
I thought Warwick were the greenest bass manufacturer?

[url="http://www.warwickbass.com/en/Warwick---Company--Environmental-protection--Environmental-protection--Our-commitment-to-environmental-protection.html#current_site_id"]http://www.warwickba...current_site_id[/url]
[/quote]

Warwicks are among the basses most susceptible to light pollution of the sound. Most logos are quite reflective, and reduce the amount of light energy that enters the bass body. Warwick, with its tiny little W logo, suffer most from light pollution. However, the old style Rockbasses with the large logo are among the best basses for reflecting incident light away from the bass. I'll be very kind and offer to swap my old style Rockbass for a German made Warwick. Form an orderly queue.

[Paul S]

[quote name='planer' timestamp='1413733641' post='2581331']
That is mint, what a beauty... ;-)
[/quote]

I'd say more pistacchio than mint, but colour is so subjective...

[hamfist]

[quote name='Paul S' timestamp='1413747875' post='2581554']


I'd say more pistacchio than mint, but colour is so subjective...
[/quote]

You have a good eye sir. Painted in Plastikote Super in Pistachio !!!

[BassTractor]

Finally a thread where one doesn't shy away from scientific data as a base for developing real insight.
Here we go again then (as they have been shown earlier):


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Note that these are different basses, and that the woman showing the classical way of doing things is not me.

Edited October 19, 2014 by BassTractor

[TheSiberian]

[quote name='BassTractor' timestamp='1413751282' post='2581588']

...and that the woman showing the classical way of doing things is not me.

[/quote]
Hmmm... I can clearly see a moustache under your makeup...

Edited October 19, 2014 by TheSiberian

[Funky Dunky]

[quote name='Annoying Twit' timestamp='1413745278' post='2581509']
What everyone has to remember is that both sound and light are energy, and it is possible to convert from one to the other. Hence, light that is adsorbed by a bass body is converted into heat in the form of heat in the body, which is vibrational energy of the wood molecules in the body. When the strings are plucked this also creates vibrations in the body, which are converted to a signal by the pickups. While primarily the pickups pick up the vibrations of the strings, if the body is also vibrating, the pickups are moving in relation to the strings, and this will colour the sound picked up by the pickups. In this way, the colour of the bass body will affect the wavelengths of light adsorbed, rather than reflected, by the bass. In effect, the sound of the bass is being changed by light pollution. The only solution is to make sure that you always play your bass in pitch darkness. This will prevent light pollution changing the tone of your bass, and lead to a clean, unpolluted, sound.
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Epic post!

[John Schoen]

Mr. Tee agrees with the OP.

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