Beedster

Great technique, awful tone 😕

This is reflected in the comment above re Rainey’s playing being so out of time, perhaps posted by someone who records multitrack in the digital domain, who is used to being able to line individual tracks up in time, and who believes that’s what good timing sounds like. More often than not it’ll simply sound sterile. I wish I knew what is the perfect algorithm for bass and drum timing, but I know that precise synchrony is hugely overrated 👍

Hell yes 👍

It affects tone a tiny but yes, but as so many have said, in an entirely unpredictable way. Even if the builder has access to extremely consistent timber, in which case variation within a batch is reduced, there will be variations between batches. You wouldn’t expect the same variation within, for example, one brand/model of PUP, bridge, even strings. The idea that one type of wood sounds consistently different to another type of wood when used as the board on a fretted electric bass is not supported by any hard evidence, all points are based on personal experience and opinion, no matter how well known and apparently qualified the source 👍

Now that's what I call bass playing, the timing, and the restraint, are extraordinary 👍

On iPhone it's apparent, on desktop fine BTW

Hey @Woodinblack, when i hit 'Submit Reply' it hangs, might just be me, appear to have made a couple of double posts because of it 👍

This And this

And courtesy Radio 6 I was introduced to this version this morning, and once again, the bass came across beautifully

Absolutely, and feel different, and both are important for many players and builders 👍

Absolutely, and feel different, and both are important for many players and builders 👍

Mmm, you don’t think that Sadowsky, as someone who charges premium prices for his products in part on the basis of building using certain woods, might have a horse in this particular race?

To a bass player no two basses sound the same, to an audience all basses sound the same. Anyone who gets into the tone wood argument needs to accept that it’s equivalent to the ‘eskimos have 13 different types of snow’ argument. Possibly true, but either way, it’s all snow.

Sympathy for the Devil 👿

More than a few folks on here have been bloody kind to me over the years, so if I can help someone out at a difficult time I’m more than happy to 👍

As was I 😆 Hope all’s well mate 👍

This 👍

That's different though mate, having nothing to do with audio quality and everything to do with originality which - in the antiques world which is really where the collectable end of the bass spectrum resides - is rare and therefore costly. Point taken though 👍

This was a very useful thread 👍

A similar finding to wine experts who, when various wines are chilled to the same temperature, can struggle to differentiate red from white apparently

Agreed 100% 👍