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Post by LeoThunder on Aug 16, 2018 11:02:41 GMT
All these Roger Waters, Jimi Hendrix, Eric Clapton or Whatever Legend signature models are shameless cash in's. I wouldn't even bother looking at them.
As to the rest, well, I don't really see the point either as a potential instrument buyer. It is a communication exercise and I feel it benefits the players more than the manufacturers at first, which is a good thing. To the manufacturer, it is a long term investment. Guitar maker helps guitar player along and if a couple of these guitar players become legends, the guitar maker becomes part of it. At some point, people start to want a guitar like that played by Jimi Hendrix or Jimmy Page. In the meantime, the rising guitar player spends time advertising the brand through his own signature model. The bells and whistles he had someone put on it are completely irrelevant. It's a guitar.
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Post by LeoThunder on Aug 16, 2018 11:29:36 GMT
I should add that people like Martin Miller and Tom Quayle went a good part of the way of selling me an Ibanez AZ, even though I would never consider their signature models. They demonstrated and showcased the instruments in a way which made me want one, presented them as capable of the type of music I wish I could play. I won't buy a Prestige or Premium model but the day a Standard becomes available, my wallet will be in danger.
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Post by JAC on Aug 16, 2018 12:38:30 GMT
You can get good bass strings from Fender for 15€. Flatwounds and tapewounds will be more expensive but they last forever. I suspect normal, roundwound bass strings last for about half of forever. Brightness is not meant to be a quality of the bass sound, it's only something people can talk about and some fall to the illusion that what goes away is valuable and they must have it at all cost. A psychological phenomenon much more than the expression of a musical taste or an objective need. Steve Harris (Iron Maiden) plays flatwounds, by the way, not some extra-bright things to be renewed twice per gig. Carol Kaye, a pioneer of bass playing in the 1950s, played tapewounds and only got new ones when she got a new bass… I never changed my strings and I got them used with the bass. I can turn the active EQ all up to crispy or I can cut the highs, boost the bass, pluck right beyond the neck pick-up and make it sound like a double bass. It's fun. I wouldn't worry about strings too much. Each to their own. Some people prefer bright strings and the tone that goes with them. Others prefer flats and that tone. Others want different tones for different basses/songs/styles. We each have a preference and none of them are wrong, otherwise this wouldn't be music.
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Post by salteedog on Aug 16, 2018 15:08:34 GMT
Someday when I reach the end of the internet I think I'll check out the drummers' forums for tone skin debates.
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Post by LeoThunder on Aug 16, 2018 15:11:45 GMT
Someday when I reach the end of the internet I think I'll check out the drummers' forums for tone skin debates. Cymbals are the real thing to watch out for. I think we should have cymbals on bass guitars too.
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Post by JAC on Aug 16, 2018 15:17:10 GMT
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Post by LeoThunder on Aug 16, 2018 15:57:12 GMT
There was a time when musicians debated the character of modes. Then there was a time when they debated tone.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 16, 2018 18:53:32 GMT
Someday when I reach the end of the internet I think I'll check out the drummers' forums for tone skin debates. You can bet there are tone stick debates too. Our new drummer played with wooden sticks for a while then said he will try the same drum fill with softer sticks and took out another pair of Wooden sticks He is good though ! (but couldn't nail Samsara song).
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Post by Deleted on Aug 16, 2018 18:54:32 GMT
There was a time when musicians debated the character of modes. Then there was a time when they debated tone. Modes are overrated, Tone Is King
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Post by LeoThunder on Aug 18, 2018 17:45:56 GMT
I like the sound of tapewound strings. One day I'll have to try some.
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