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Title: Seinfeld "bass"
Post by: ilan on June 02, 2016, 12:03:20 AM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oVldNNHQWVw

Title: Re: Seinfeld "bass"
Post by: slinkp on June 02, 2016, 12:50:32 PM

For decades, I have despised Seinfeld for teaching people that's what bass should sound like.   >:( >:( >:(

Title: Re: Seinfeld "bass"
Post by: Basvarken on June 02, 2016, 12:58:51 PM

I've always found it so obvious it was not a bass.
That's just not how a bass sounds.

Title: Re: Seinfeld "bass"
Post by: Pilgrim on June 02, 2016, 01:24:41 PM

Quote from: Basvarken on June 02, 2016, 12:58:51 PM

I've always found it so obvious it was not a bass.
That's just not how a bass sounds.

Thank heavens!

Title: Re: Seinfeld "bass"
Post by: Granny Gremlin on June 02, 2016, 02:28:58 PM

I've always hated that tone, but I do agree it just works for Seinfeld.  Absolutely nowhere else. Probably because it is such a ridiculous charicature of what a bass is; like the characters in the show are of people.

A younger, pre-bass-playing me just assumed it was some wanker slapping a Steinberger (I probably didn't know they were called that at the time, but I had seen enough of those ugly fuggers to know I was not interested) or Roland synth bass.

Title: Re: Seinfeld "bass"
Post by: Dave W on June 02, 2016, 04:49:39 PM

I always thought it sounded like synth bass.

Unfortunately (IMHO) some people do think that's how a bass should sound.

Title: Re: Seinfeld "bass"
Post by: Hörnisse on June 02, 2016, 07:24:50 PM

Never watched the show. 

Title: Re: Seinfeld "bass"
Post by: slinkp on June 02, 2016, 09:26:57 PM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9kyzF2unjQQ

Title: Re: Seinfeld "bass"
Post by: gearHed289 on June 03, 2016, 06:58:39 AM

I was always surprised when people thought that was a real bass guitar. But, I was heavy into synths when samplers came around, so I was very familiar with that 12 bit "slap bass" type of patch.

(http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-jNQWKEvrTRQ/UClUUunJkLI/AAAAAAAFBK0/qwf6opwLCoc/s1600/%2524%2528KGrHqV%252C%2521ncF%2521LJQIKviBQFdQvU%252BlQ%257E%257E60_57.JPG)

Title: Re: Seinfeld "bass"
Post by: uwe on June 28, 2016, 12:50:05 PM

Quote from: slinkp on June 02, 2016, 09:26:57 PM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9kyzF2unjQQ

Now that's more like it! Whether you like slap or not (I generally don't), this has a immediacy no synth can match. Plus she has mulit-color strings, a pretty face and a lovely smile.

Title: Re: Seinfeld "bass"
Post by: slinkp on June 28, 2016, 03:01:54 PM

Yeah she's cool and a good player no doubt, but I don't much care for that sound from a real bass either :)
I liked her Barney Miller clip better.