Tait Posted June 30, 2008 Share Posted June 30, 2008 Obviously it depends on a bit of everything, but what do you think the main contributer to your sound is? Bass? Amp? Technique? Personally I'd say my basses are my main contributors, my Taitycaster and Soundgear sound completely different. I always keep my amp on the main settings and change the settings on my bass, although i do sometimse use my "deep" switch on my amp. What about you? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Burpster Posted June 30, 2008 Share Posted June 30, 2008 Similar to you. I leave the big tonal changes to the basses. Amp and (minimal) effects stay pretty close to the same settings most of the time. Changes in tonal timbre are provided by different voiced intrsuments. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveK Posted June 30, 2008 Share Posted June 30, 2008 [b]Fingers[/b] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StanRobinson Posted June 30, 2008 Share Posted June 30, 2008 [quote name='SteveK' post='229866' date='Jun 30 2008, 05:17 PM'][b]Fingers[/b][/quote] +10, fingers Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stewart Posted June 30, 2008 Share Posted June 30, 2008 Yes - Fingers, then strings... (Specifically, Tru-Bass are unlike anything else I've tried - One bass always has a set on, and I use it in a trad. Blues band.) Mostly Thomastik flats on the others... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cheddatom Posted June 30, 2008 Share Posted June 30, 2008 My sound comes from my bi-amp rig with sh*t load of EQ, my 25 pedals, and my technique (swapping from finger to slap to pick to all kind of nonsense). My basses sound very different, but I can use my rig to make them sound the same. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jakenewmanbass Posted June 30, 2008 Share Posted June 30, 2008 (edited) [quote name='SteveK' post='229866' date='Jun 30 2008, 05:17 PM'][b]Fingers[/b][/quote] you got there before me. fingers, fingers, fingers, bass, fingers, fingers, amp, fingers,fingersfingersfingersfingersfingers and the only other thing that matters. FINGERS oh and 1/2lb of funk Edited June 30, 2008 by jakesbass Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oscar South Posted June 30, 2008 Share Posted June 30, 2008 (edited) Type of and how dead my strings are and room acoustics, I use the same bass (TRB1005) with the same floor FX and EQ settings almost exclusively and the amplification is variable. Also to jump on the bandwagon, fingers I guess. Edited June 30, 2008 by Oscar South Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lowhand_mike Posted June 30, 2008 Share Posted June 30, 2008 fingers strings bass eq amp eq in that order Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bassicinstinct Posted June 30, 2008 Share Posted June 30, 2008 [quote name='SteveK' post='229866' date='Jun 30 2008, 05:17 PM'][b]Fingers[/b][/quote] Absolutely and undoubtedly true IMHO. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
budget bassist Posted June 30, 2008 Share Posted June 30, 2008 Basses here, i play a musicman, and it's the musicman sound i went for, not the ashdown sound Plus the musicman and my tobias are COMPLETELY different beasts. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ahpook Posted June 30, 2008 Share Posted June 30, 2008 i'd prolly say.. 1) bass 2) settings on amp or pedals 3) plectrum (just to be obtuse) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
waynepunkdude Posted June 30, 2008 Share Posted June 30, 2008 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ahpook Posted June 30, 2008 Share Posted June 30, 2008 [quote name='waynepunkdude' post='229921' date='Jun 30 2008, 06:34 PM'][/quote] /highfives/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thisnameistaken Posted June 30, 2008 Share Posted June 30, 2008 (edited) Fingers for me. I use a slightly unusual three-finger picking technique that I've only ever seen me and Percy Jones do (somebody else pointed out that I picked like Percy Jones - I'd never seen him play). Not that I sound anything like Percy Jones of course. I do like mixing things up with effects, and I have a couple of good basses, but I think my right hand has more to do with "my" sound than anything else. Edited June 30, 2008 by thisnameistaken Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ped Posted June 30, 2008 Share Posted June 30, 2008 My heart says fingers but my head says that although they can alter the sound to some extent, they couldn't alter the sound as much as a pickup type/placement and the like, otherwise everyone would play the same bass. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnnylager Posted June 30, 2008 Share Posted June 30, 2008 Fingers or plectrum - must be, I sound f***ing rubbish even with expensive gear! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oscar South Posted June 30, 2008 Share Posted June 30, 2008 I think the influence of fingers on sound is hugely overrated, yes it has an effect and some players have particularly distinctive technique, but for the most part you can group pretty much all fingerstyle players into a few subcategories within which any differences would be minimal and players would generally be indiscernible. It kind of bugs me that since a few well known players have made a big deal or had a big deal made over their distinctive technique that every bassist and his son goes around telling people that his technique is special and unique. You are not special. You are not a beautiful or unique snowflake. You're the same decaying organic matter as everything else. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jakenewmanbass Posted June 30, 2008 Share Posted June 30, 2008 (edited) There are of course elements that are important in the make up of all the equipment we use to amplify our hand movements, which is to my mind the most pertinent description of playing. Take it back a stage and you're talking about your ideas, take it back another stage and you're talking why [i]those[/i] ideas, emotion, feeling, sexuality, drive, anger, laughter the list goes on. As a double bass player I [i]must[/i] impart all those elements when playing music as it is the most untrammelled version of me I can possibly muster, and the point of contact for me is my fingers in both hands. For a while when I first signed up to basschat I had a personal statement, after a while I removed it as I felt it was a little pretentious but here I feel it's right to restate it: "I try to never underestimate how much I am physically responsible for the sound I produce, on both double and electric" I suppose in this thread I'm saying it goes even further than that, music to me is an essential, it's food and water and sunlight, I simply have to put everything into its performance that I am capable of, anything less and I'd rather give up and probably die. No fingers and I couldn't do it! Edited June 30, 2008 by jakesbass Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jase Posted June 30, 2008 Share Posted June 30, 2008 It's the player him/her self. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jakenewmanbass Posted June 30, 2008 Share Posted June 30, 2008 [quote name='Jase' post='229970' date='Jun 30 2008, 07:49 PM']It's the player him/her self.[/quote] you said what I was trying to say but in a lot less words Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jase Posted June 30, 2008 Share Posted June 30, 2008 [quote name='jakesbass' post='229973' date='Jun 30 2008, 07:51 PM']you said what I was trying to say but in a lot less words [/quote] I know, sorrrrry .....I'm daft sometimes Jake, I realised after I hit the Add Reply button Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ped Posted June 30, 2008 Share Posted June 30, 2008 But I think the actual SOUND comes from other things more than the player's technique. A Musicman sound, for example, cannot be achieved on anything else (apart from a V bass obviously lol) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jakenewmanbass Posted June 30, 2008 Share Posted June 30, 2008 [quote name='Jase' post='229977' date='Jun 30 2008, 07:55 PM']I know, sorrrrry .....I'm daft sometimes Jake, I realised after I hit the Add Reply button [/quote] twas meant as a compliment matey Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jase Posted June 30, 2008 Share Posted June 30, 2008 [quote name='jakesbass' post='229980' date='Jun 30 2008, 07:56 PM']twas meant as a compliment matey [/quote] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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