Re: [LAU] bassguitar

On Wed, Jul 02, 2008 at 08:47:43AM +0200, Svend-Erik Kjær Madsen wrote : I personally find that acoustic bass often have a quite porr sound. Recording them with a microphone is not that much a good idea (in most cases), as there will be lack of frequencies (bass, especially). There also often is some buzz problems with those basses, as the "lutherie" part of the bass is more important, and for an equal price you won't get the same electronics than a solid body. (got to see that, as most of -quite- good basses are active, electronics is often the first thing to fail with time...). And, the really important thing is that acoustic bass won't have such a "jazz" sound, but something much more like a "folk" one. By the way, you have to think about fretless if you're interested in walking a lot (if you thought about Marcus Miller as a jazz bass player, then, this is not true anymore! :)[1] I told you that, but actually I play on a acoustic/electric solid body bass, but it's quite a single isolated case (actually the bass is unic model): http://sebkhachott.pix.free.fr/albums_photos/2007_Freakshow_Artrock_Festiva… http://sebkhachott.pix.free.fr/albums_photos/2007_Freakshow_Artrock_Festiva… (the "luthier"'s website: www.leduc.fr) [1] Finally the first thing to ask is what kind of jazz do you mean? -- ============================== W.O.II /// Sebkha-Chott www.sebkhachott.net