![]() At this stage in my life I don't rule anything out. I've had musicians play on tracks with stuff I'd have never dreamed would work, only to find out that the strangeness of that track is what really made the recording "pop". It's funny sometimes what will "sit in the mix" well. It sounded beautiful, and fit the song perfectly. Recently, my bass player brought over his Ibanez 505 5 string, and did a "slap" bass track on one of our recordings on the 80-8. I bought and used a solid ash american P bass for about 15 years which always sounded nice on tape as well. I found that in certain cases short scale basses can be very effective when recording. The bass track sat in the mix beautifully, and to this day stands up as one of the nicer sounding bass tracks I've recorded. This made it sustain very well and gave it a brighter tone. ![]() He had installed a solid brass bridge and nut as I recall. Many years ago when I bought my Tascam 80-8, I borrowed my drummers music master bass, as I did not have a bass of my own to use. (which are also pigs imho, but that's for another thread)īut enough nostalgia: a Mustang and/or a Musicmaster sound NOTHING like a Precision or Jazz Bass. I guess the nicest thing I could say about them is that they're cleaner than an EB-x series Gibson.but they have none of the character of those basses No punch, no twang, just a false sense of deep that's only seems like it's low because it's got a really disproportionate balance of upper partials. But those Fenders just kinda go "blah" when you pluck their strings. And not necessarily because they're short-scale there are a few 30" scale basses I've played that are cool for a variety of idiosyncratic reasons. If I never play another entry-level Fender bass in my life, it'll be too soon. Four years later I got a Musicmaster bass, used that for another six months or so. ![]() Used that bass in my band for about 6 months when I was 13 years old. Very first bass guitar I ever played, way back in 1974, was a Mustang.
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