I have flirted with bass for many year on and off. Started with 4 stringers, but bought a 5 string 18 years ago and never looked back. 5 string basses came and went over the years an I eventually bought an uber bass (Fender custom shop). All was well and good, but for some reason I had a hankering for the simplicity of 4 string again. Bought a status 4, but never got on with it, it felt like something was wrong to be honest. Anyway, I hung up bass playing for the best part of a year, only to get into it again in the last 2 weeks. Suddenly the 4 stringer feels like 'the one' and 5's feel weird. The big question now is do I kiss my supreme bass goodbye?
Anyway, do you prefer 4, 5 or more than 5 bass strings?
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"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
... or 12?
:-/
5 with orchestra as I need the lower range. Happy with 4 for almost everything else.
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"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
seems like a pretty good number to me
If possible, 6.
8 is better.
I like 15 so it goes below the range of human hearing, it really fills out a band mix.
Mostly 4 or 5 though.
Then again I've only ever messed with 6 on a "normal" guitar and I've been playing that for ages, so...
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