Favorite Gear (bass)
 

I just wanna discuss some gear with the fellow bassists on this website.

Right now my favorite bass is my Schecter Stiletto 5, played through my Ampeg SVT4-PRO w/ Hartke PRO 4200 cab and Hartke 215 BXL cab.
I also have a Peavey Grind Neck-thru 5, A Cort B4, and an Epiphone Les Paul 4
along with my Boss Bass Overdrive and Ibanez Weeping Demon Wah.

So let's hear it.
Whattaya got?

i know there's a thread specific to basses somewhere but the mods don't seem to notice this subforum much.

my personal bass of choice is a Samick 5 string fretless. my backup is a 4 string fretted Aria Pro II cat series. both are strung with d'Addario chrome strings (flatwound).

i usually run them through a Warwick Sweet 15 combo amp (first version). got a great deal on this when the 2nd revision came out, 8 band EQ vs. 4 knobs. my alternate source is a custom traynor cabinet and acoustic head. 300W or so, it's something my drummer had picked up from his buddy's older brother back in the day haha.

as for pedals, my most consistent bass effects are a russian big muff, Danelectro delay, Ibanez phaser, Crybaby bass wah, and a volume pedal.

Fender Jazz

right on, man. What's your main forte as far as playing goes?

Right on,man. I learned on a fret-less Fender Jazz. Nothing like it in the world. I appreciate your honest simplicity.

my main forte is sound intensity. i don't approach music the same way as most, it's not to be pretentious, it's more like the difference between being right or left handed.

my friends and i only play for our personal enjoyment. we don't know what we just did, nor do we have any clue what we'll do next, but we most definitely know what we're doing in the moment (most of the time haha)

what about yours?

In my band we tend to write music that would help us to become better players. That is to say, most of the riffs we write are some of the most challenging we can try to imagine.
Personally, Most of my riffs just come from freestyling. Or, I'll have a beat or a beat idea in my head, and I'll jut build a riff from that. A lot of my guitar riffs tend to be more bluesy and mellow, probably because I'm not the best guitar player. Whereas my bass parts can either be as spasmodic and fast as possible, or in the tradition of the "bass player" I write an even, underlying simplified bassline to keep things grooving and solid.

I don't know if you're the guy that checked us out or not, so here's a link.

AFTERMATH

I play the Schecter Elite 4. With the EMG Dual pickups. I run that through my Boss chorus pedal and a Bootzilla Bass Wah Pedal. Ampeg SVT-4 Pro head unit. Rackmounted along with my dbx 166xa compressor/limiter/gate, bbe sonic maximizer/ and furman power conditioner. Playing through one Ampeg 4-10 HLF at the moment. May add a 15 at some point. im also currentlu shopping for a rackmount multi effect processor, not sure if you have any reco's, but if you do let me know.

p.s. I HATE 5 strings.

Bass Pods by Line 6 are actually really nice. I usually use one in the studio, and I'm pretty sure they have a rack mount version.

p.s. not much of a jazz man, are you?

Not a huge fan of the line 6's they sound too digital for me. Im looking for something with some accurate sounding effects. Might go to GC this weekend and play around.

p.s. yes actually i was in a jazz outfit for about 9 months back in Indiana. I just prefer a four string Bass is all, and i noticed you and dave say you play 5 strings. Thought I would throw that out there.