Seinfeld "bass"

[ilan]

[slinkp]

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

[Basvarken]

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

[Pilgrim]

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

Thank heavens!

[Granny Gremlin]

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.

[Dave W]

I always thought it sounded like synth bass.

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

[Hörnisse]

Never watched the show. 

[slinkp]

[gearHed289]

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.

[uwe]

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.

[slinkp]

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.