6stringbassist

[quote name='fusionbassist1' post='86550' date='Nov 10 2007, 05:47 PM']my only thing to contribute to this debate is that in my eyes bass is a role rather than an instrument with 'x' amount of strings or 'x' amounts of frets. As long as you're playing lower than the melody instruments and contributing some bass frequencies to the mix then i honestly don't care what's producing these sounds. it's then down to the tone you want, whether that be a synthetic keyboard like bass sound, bass guitar, tuba etc is up to you. If high notes is what you want then in the same way it shouldn't matter what kind of instrument is making the sounds. it's a fact that at the higher frets of even four string bass guitars you're starting to dabble in guitar freq territory but you don't hear people complaining about that on such a level either. Anyone's opinions on what I said would be very interesting for me o read through [/quote] True, in fact anything higher than Eb (6th fret on the A string) is a note that's also on a guitar. And why do bassplayers who choose to play a 4 string, appear so smug about it when posting their comments on this sort of thread.

[quote name='bass_ferret' post='86525' date='Nov 10 2007, 04:55 PM']Is that the best you can do? I'd say the looper is more important than the 6 string and with the greatest respect to Steve (i dont think it was intended as a performance) was boring boring boring![/quote] No, it's not the best I can do......it was purely meant as an example of someone playing a 6 string bass. He couldn't obviously do it without the looperlative, but that immaterial, it's the piece of music that is important.

[quote name='16Again' post='85987' date='Nov 9 2007, 03:28 PM']I agree with you bilbo! I'm a firm believer that if you cant do it with 4 or 5 strings, why bother doing it at all! Get a guitar. IMHO. [/quote] [url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g7IofD4lSq0"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g7IofD4lSq0[/url] This is what can be done with a 6 string, can't be done with a guitar, very hard to do with a 5 string unless it's fitted with a high 'C' string, and I don't think can be done with a 4 string. Obviously this all depends on your creativity, open mindeness and above all desire to want to play something a little bit different, and push the bounderies a bit.

[quote name='dood' post='85823' date='Nov 9 2007, 10:40 AM']Mebbe it's because I have a 610 opposed to the 310.. that would no doubt sound different. Should have clarified that really.[/quote] I'd like to try a 6x10, I bet that'd sound pretty good. But I do think that our observations of equipment is very subjective, one mans 'mid scoop' is anothers 'flat' sounding cab, while someone else describes a cab as being 'flat sounding' while someone else hears a 'low mid bump'. I think it's best to try a piece of gear yourself, and let your own ears decide.

I've been experimenting this last week with some flats.....there's not much of a selection for a 6 string bass. TI flats, I wasn't overly impressed, and they were the most expensive. The main thing with them was the odd guages, a 136 B and then 100, 70, 56, 43, 33. They felt OK, perhaps a little too loose, and the sound wasn't really to my liking. Rotosound RS77s - way too much tension, for me anyway. Quite a nice bright sound, I could get a reay nice Stanley Clarke sound out of them, they were just way too tight though. Status hotwires......my favourites and they were actually the cheapest as well. Just the right amount of tension for fast fingerstyle funk or jazz, and a very balanced sound, not too much of anything, enabling you to EQ in the sound you need....highly recommended.

I always thought my 3x10 had a low mid bump, we all hear things differently.

You should be able to get pretty much any sound from your Accugroove, that's why they're so great...there's no real EQ built into them. The Demeter will give you a nice tube sound, the Trace poweramp shouldn't really give you anything.

Your Sei is going to be special, looks really nice.

What..........you mean you aren't having a Shuker made !.

I get a very 'vintage funk' sound....... think Stanley Clarke circa 1976, from my Accugroove tri112l, probably due to them being very open to EQing, I'm not having to EQ anything out before hand if you see what I mean. I'm using an Alembic pre into the effects return of an Epifani UL502, my bass is a Bart/John East loaded Modulus Q6, just like Dood says above, the 'vintage' bit is definately coming from the amp, certainly not the cab or the bass.

[quote name='beerdragon' post='80508' date='Oct 28 2007, 05:30 PM']Yeah i saw a picture of Flea on Mag cover with that, my first thought was that straps not going anywhere, but it did'nt do help esthetically for the bass[/quote] Yeah, I know what you mean, but neither will a nasty big dent resulting from it crashing to the ground. What I did was glue the screw into the body, it wasn't actually superglue, but something called "sticks like sh*t", that's actually what it's called. The last time I put straplocks on I just smeared some of that around the twirly bit of the screw prior to screwing it in.

Do what Stanley Clarke does, just screw your strap onto your bass with a large washer, it should never come off then.