Telebass

[quote name='SpaceChick' timestamp='1379664018' post='2215304'] I frequently beat myself up over my playing.... My slap is weak.... My fast runs are struggling....I can hear dead notes as they should sound but I can't translate that in my playing..... I get cross and frustrated with myself!! I practice as much as I can with a full time job and home commitments, but if I'm honest with myself, I tend to focus on getting the lines right for the band stuff rather than dedicating time to improving me technique generically, so it's hardly surprising that I'm frustrated with my progress. However, when people listen to my band recordings, they think we sound professional and tight and that my playing is pretty much spot on. If I won the lottery tonight, could give up work and could spend all my waking hours bass playing, maybe in 10 years or so I could give Mark King or Pino Palladino or run for their money. However, I reckon I'll settle for being a competent bassist. As long as I can hold my own in whatever band I play in and enjoy it and I don't stuff it up then that's OK for me, as my guitarist isn't Eric Clapton, my keys isn't Elton John and my drummer isn't Ginger Baker! But bring us together and we make good sounding music... And surely that's what really matters! [/quote] This.

[quote name='charic' timestamp='1379670904' post='2215451'] I'm not usually one to correct spellings but it will help your search. You want "pedals" not "peddles" [/quote] So glad you did that! I was beginning to grind my teeth!

This is why, after 40+ years, my Precision now has a Jazz width neck. I realised that I disliked Jazz basses because of the sound and shape. But put that neck on a Precision, and bingo! Different world. Even going back to a B neck P is hard. I'd never cope now with a 1.75 inch job.

I think, on the whole, that you're right, but like so much else, depends who's doing it, and on what. Depending on setup and stringing, as well as technique, I imagine it's possible to get pretty close with an electric, but uncommon to 'not hear the difference'. If you go back to the earliest days, when even the amplified electric was not that much louder than an upright, then it was probably a great deal easier to not know the difference on pure listening. This test has been done. Take a 52 P-bass, set up and strung as in 1952, an original 26 watt Bassman, set on medium volume, play with thumb. "...the loudest upright you ever heard!" Today's instruments and, particularly, amplification, don't really allow it to get that close any more, without serious effort, that is. That's my take on it.

Markbass CMD121H for small gigs or sessions, LMIII and Barefaced Super 15 for the loud stuff!

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