It's New Year's Eve and I feel like it sneaked up on me. I don't have any plans, not that there's much to do with covid lockdowns still in full force. What are your plans, comrades? Any good online celebrations?
It's New Year's Eve and I feel like it sneaked up on me. I don't have any plans, not that there's much to do with covid lockdowns still in full force. What are your plans, comrades? Any good online celebrations?
Bass is a really fun instrument. I started picking mine up again for the first time in years and I’ve been loving it. Hope you enjoy!
Happy New Year and happy bass playing to you.
I got a super-short scale (28.6") 5-string very cheap Ibanez Mikro so right away I could plonk on it and also get ridiculously low notes. I have serious doubts about the low B string on such a super-short scale instrument. It might be crap but at least I'll still have a 4 string that's easy to play. Haha.
Happy new year!
I’m not familiar with short scale basses but a lot of five strings have touchy B-strings. The string is so fat that it’s kind of hard to avoid fret buzz unless you set it up properly. You can also try finding a smaller gauge string and just playinh more gently. You should be able to get something out of it, it might just take some messing with.
I wish it was 30". I looked at Ibanez's 30" cheapie: the TMB35. The weird headstock is too big (and tuners are too big too), the bass looks like a freak of nature, it only comes in mint green and it has neck dive. If it didn't have neck dive - I might have considered it despite my distaste for mint green and its oddness. Ibanez is the only game in town for cheap short scale basses.
I really don't understand why any sane company makes an instrument with neck dive. Weight distribution is not a quantum mechanics problem. Just design the damn thing intelligently so the neck doesn't dive!
Ngl I kinda love how awful it looks. I’ve always had a soft spot for ugly 70s colours like mint green.
Neck dive is the dumbest thing and it’s not even exclusive to cheap basses. As far as I know gibson thunderbirds still have it and they’re over $2k. Wild but people buy it I guess.
The weirdest thing about that is that you can reduce neck dive for t birds a lot if you just change placement of the belt strap. I kinda love thunderbirds, but the price is ridiculous. I mean, i get how they arrive at 2k, it's a giant chunk of mahagony with a neck-thru construction, if you get that handmade in the US or Europe, you always end up with about that price, but the epiphone thunderbird sounds almost exactly the same in spite of having a set neck and it goes for about 700 to 800 $ iirc.
I like a lot of funky stuff from the 70s but mint green is not one of them. I really don't understand why they only sell it one color.
Maybe if it was available in other colors (like black) - I could grow to like it.
That's another mystery I do not understand: other people.