Basses with a bad reputation attached.

[Freuds_Cat]

What kind of shallow silliness associates a particular brand of bass with a style of music?   Pointy shred-shaped Jacksons et. al., maybe, but but Warwick?  Having never paid attention to anything metal at all excpet a bit of Metallica and Ozzy, I think of Jack Bruce when I think of Warwick.  And the guy who used to play for Shania Twain, and some British neo-funk kind of band (Jamaroqui maybe?).

No, basses with "bad reputations" to me would be like Gibson's long-scale EB-3, most Peavey basses.  Those instrumens are good, but they have a reputation for not being good.  OK, the Peavey T-40 weighed a ton and was an oversized gutiar isntead of a bass design.  But the original Fury, Foundations, the great Jeff Berlin Palladium, and the Cirrus basses are very good basses.  So were the RJ-4, the Dyna Bass, and the Unity Series basses.   

But they ain't hip, some of them didn't look very attractive, and the "Peavey" name on them made/makes people dismiss them for reasons other than their sound, utility, quality of construction, etc.

jte

I pretty much agree with you jte, BUT!

I just cant imagine Phil Lesh playing this



Mind you, I cant imagine Uwe in spandex either and its his so................        

[ilan]

That Dean bass looks so good I almost don't care how it sounds. It's like something a superhero would play.

(we need an emoticon for "I'm serious")

[ramone57]

It's like something a superhero would play.

then it's perfect for Uwe!   

[Chris P.]

 

At the moment I'm reviewing a Eastwood Airline Bass. It isn't that well sounding, it's hard to play with four volume/tone controls right above the pick ups, but what the f*Ck. It's just a great and mean looking bass!!!!

[Blazer]

At the moment I'm reviewing a Eastwood Airline Bass. It isn't that well sounding, it's hard to play with four volume/tone controls right above the pick ups, but what the f*Ck. It's just a great and mean looking bass!!!!

You probably need to put some flatwounds on it, to really get the MOJO of such a bass going. Short scale basses with that typical rubbery feel work the best with flatwounds.

[Chris P.]

Hmmm... I miss some clarity, which will be even worse with flatwounds I guess.

I posted this a while ago in another thread: I used flatwouds on my T-bird and the tone just died (Ask Basvarken), I used a flatwound P with flatwounds which was okay, but not that great.

A while ago I changed the strings of my Shadows Bass to normal roundwounds, while Burns UK advices to use flats. Man! That bass came to live immediately!! What a bass!

[Dave W]

If you're mssing clarity, flatwounds sure won't get you closer.