Instant bassist: some thoughts

[mickeymix]

OLP make some good knock-offs of Music Man basses ....cheap too!

[gatorjj]

I went with a low end Ibanez (GS200L), with the "Boom" knob.

[cwight]

Squire Jazz for me. Dirt cheap off Ebay.....

[bluesydude]

I went with a low end Ibanez (GS200L), with the "Boom" knob.

Ditto.

But I use my Variax 300 tuned down an octave. Sounds pretty good when played thru one of the X3Live bass patches.

[Wedgebill]

"Boom Knob" sounds like a medical condition to me :rolleyes:

[GuitarSlinger]

I first got a Squier P-Bass and after learning it was a one trick pony and not much fun to play and that the P-Bass sound was not for me, I dropped some dough on an MM bass. Just like guitars, you'll need to choose one that makes the sounds you need.

[gatorjj]

Shhhhh! the guitars are sleeping!

[Wedgebill]

Don't go making that loud boom sound with your knob then !!!!

[rufedges27]

I am using the KORG PX5D, it has some great bass sounds on it as well. I just pick one of those, turn my treble most of the way down and record, doesn't sound half bad.

[atalwar]

Well, i got tired of emulated bass, vst and other ways so i went and bought an ARIA jazz bass the other day. Sounds great, though i have to learn to play bass now too.

A decent vst for bass i have heard is broomstick bass.

Also you can get very good results just from your guitar using pvtranspos vst plugin to detune an octave, ,boost the signal and use some cab sim like boogex or keFIR to load ampeg cab impulse responses. You can do all this in rw using any multifix chainer, like multifxvst or chainer.

[redbaron]

...when I started with RW, I had this mother of all ultra-cheap basses, a "Marlin by Hohner" J-Bass copy. The neck was bent like a longbow, but after the 5th fret intonation was gone anyway.

With this paddle I found myself delivering the groove for the likes of, well, many of the bass-less above. After a while - all that was before Joshua001 joined - I thought: I've got to offer a better service to my non-bassing fellow Riffjunkies! So I bought a 5-string Yamaha. A week later though, everyone had enough of my two-tone on-the-beat bass playing and shot themselves a cheap one on ebay. Since then, the quality of rifflinking and riffcasting in this community has markedly gone up.

So you could say that the prevailing aversion both against bass VSTis and bumbling bass amateurs ruining everyone's casts is one of the secrets of success in this happy family!

[GuitarSlinger]

Ah come on now, we all know that guitar players make the best bassists, "cough" John Paul Jones.

[mickeymix]

Ah come on now, we all know that guitar players make the best bassists, "cough" John Paul Jones.

Add Skunk Baxter (Bass for the Doobie Bros, guitar for Steely Dan), Paul McCartney and Duff McKagen to that list..........

[randy]

Don't forget Roger Waters!

VSTi support is coming folks. Mostly likely in the fall and hopefully before the winter. That's the best prediction I can make. We almost had it ready for the last big update (2.2), but we had to drop it at the last minute.

Please do me a favor though and don't let this thread turn into a feature request fest.

[rease101]

I'm too cheap/lazy to buy a bass, so I just use my strat with the gearbox sub-octaves, then after recording use the RW post-production effect shaper-bass boost. I know it's not a real bass, but it sounds ok as long as you stick to the fat e and a strings.