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Simple video I made using online bass guitar photos – to dedicate my appreciation of the bass guitar.

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Waka Waka . Arranged and performed by Igor Presnyakov .
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where is the best place to get recording studio equipment? i don’t want anything fancy, just the basic stuff that every artist uses. i don’t have anything right now, so i could use some suggestions on the basic stuff that artists use, where to get it, and what it does. if it helps, i have a guitar and ukulele. both are acoustic electric.
oh & this stuff is for a home studio. it’d probably be set up in my room.

Hello friend! First thing is first… before knowing where to buy it (That’s the easy part) you need to know WHAT to buy So here is a great little article on setting up a home studio:

http://www.audioneeds.com/forums/content.php?3-The-Startup-Studio

Also, you should seriously consider joining a community like http://www.audioneeds.com – it’s a great forum filled with sound engineers that are always asking and answering questions and discussing techniques in mixing and recording. I think it’ll help you a lot since you are interested in recording so much.

Good luck my friend!

I want to try some out and see how they feel, but i also want to find cheap ones online?
please help.

you can buy ICEMAN ELECTRIC GUITAR here http://www.amazon.com/gp/redirect.html?ie=UTF8&location=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2Fs%3Fie%3DUTF8%26rs%3D%26ref_%3Dsr%255Fnr%255Fi%255F0%26keywords%3Diceman%2520guitars%26qid%3D1265656249%26rh%3Di%253Aaps%252Ck%253Aiceman%2520guitars%252Ci%253Ami&tag=digitsy-marina-20&linkCode=ur2&camp=1789&creative=390957

I don’t really have a price limit, but I just want to know the range of prices for a pretty high quality bass + amps, or range of prices people usually pay for basses. Also, what kind of brands of bass would you recommend?
I’ve been playing acoustic guitar for 3 years and love it, and for the bass players out there, how does the bass compare to the guitar? harder? easier? just curious.
Any comments would be appreciated

What bass guitar you choose is really a very personal thing. You need to go and sit down at a dealer and try all the basses you are interested in. Fender and Ibanez make the best sounding bass guitars in my opinion. I bought the Ibanez because I play left-handed and they make an off the shelf left-handed version in the model I liked so I did not have to wait for it to be made. I love this bass (I have a 5-string) and it sounds great and has outstanding controls on the Bass itself so you can adjust the tone and volume on the fly. But, you need to go and play some basses to know which ones you like the best.

In the area of a high quality bass amplifier, I’m afraid that the industry has really let us down. First of all you need to understand that if you want a high quality tone from your low end, then the speaker’s frequency response is crucial. The E sting on the bass vibrates at approximately 41.2 Hz. So, you need to have a frequency response out of your speakers that is actually lower than that. That is called head room (or bottom room as the case may be). So, a frequency response of 38 Hz or below is probably adequate for a 4-string bass. The 5-string has a lower B string that vibrates at approximately 30.87 Hz. So in that case, you’ll need head room down to around 28 Hz to provide a high quality bass sound. DO NOT BE CONFUSED BY Frequency Range vs Frequency Response. A speaker can have the range of 28 Hz or 38 HZ but, the Frequency Response is what is important for adequate quality of sound. So, in my case (5-sting) there are NO bass speaker cabinets on the market that will take you to a 28 Hz response without spending huge amounts of money and many of those speaker cabinets weigh as much as 200 pounds (no, I’m not kidding). That’s a real problem to haul it around. So, after looking at all of the available options, I decided that the best and least expensive route was to first get a BOSS GT-10B Bass Multi-effects pedal which acts as a pre-amplifier and provides any possible sound I could want out of my bass, and then I run that through a QSC GX5 500 watts/channel stereo amplifier and that amp drives twin JBL JRX115 2-way Speaker cabinets http://www.guitarcenter.com/JBL-JRX115-15–2-Way-Speaker-Cabinets—Pair-773198-i1152805.gc (I need the 2-way because I sing and play guitar also so I need the high tones as well as the lows). But, the Frequency response on these speakers is only down to 50 Hz. That’s adequate for the A string on the bass but not the E or the B on my 5-string. So, I added twin JBL ES250PBK 400-Watt High-Powered 12-Inch Subwoofers that provide a frequency response down to 28 Hz (weigh less than 60 pounds each and cost only around $300 each) and now when I play a gig, I have other bass players coming up to me all the time asking what kind of amplifier I have that is turning out the awesome bass sounds. When I play, it’s that kind of bass sound that you feel even before you are aware of hearing it. So, when I practice at home, I just use the Boss GT-10B and a great set of head phones so, I don’t distrub the rest of the neighborhood. If you want that kind of sound, that’s what you need to do. The alternative for a 4-sting weighing in at 166-1/2 pounds is this little baby – http://pro-audio.musiciansfriend.com/product/JBL-SRX728S-Dual-18-Subwoofer?sku=600444 – but, the catch is it will only handle bass notes up to around 220 Hz or the third octave A right below middle C. The bass has notes that go much higher than that. So, that means, you still need to buy another speaker cabinet (12"ers maybe & spend another $800 to $1,200 perhaps) to handle those notes (220 Hz up to around 530 Hz). So, go figure!

I play guitar and am switching over to bass. Can a bass play on my guitar amp? I heard the phrase ‘bass amp’ many times, so I’m not sure.

Buddy Do Not play your Bass in your Guitar amp.. The bass is too low and it WILL blow your amp out…. happened to me before but you CAN use a guitar on a bass amp as long as u dont blast some crazy shreddin’.
Hope THis HELPS :0

I have Adobe Audition 3.0. I play bass myself, but I’ve never used any recording software before. I’ve tried to monkey with all of the different options and I can drop the vocals, but I can’t do anything to anything else. So is leaving only the bass line even possible? with Adobe Audition? Any help would be great.

No, I don’t think so.

Try getting the official bass track, if you can find it, instead.

I have a classical guitar right now and I’m looking into getting an acoustic with the steel strings and all that stuff. My classical guitar has 18 frets and 12 are open, so I feel as if it is too small. Am I right or is this guitar fine?

On a classical guitar, the neck usually joins the body at the 12th fret. That doesn’t mean the guitar is less than full size, but if you find you’re often reaching for those higher notes, you’ll probably want better access. Most steel stringed guitars join at the 14th fret, so you’ll gain a few there. You can also get either a classical or steel-string guitar with a cut-away, which lets you get all the way up the neck. (picture of a dreadnought steel-string with a cut-away: http://piccolosmusic.com/store/product/9198/Taylor-110ce/ )

Classical guitars do tend to have a smaller body than your average dreadnought acoustic guitar, although steel-string guitars also come in a variety of smaller shapes (e.g. the Martin OOO shown here: http://piccolosmusic.com/store/product/12402/Martin-000C-16RGTE-Aura/ ) The body shape mainly effects the sound, rather than the player, although the dreadnought shape may make you stretch a little if you have short arms.

The only thing you’d probably want to avoid is a 3/4 or 1/2 sized guitar, whose frets and strings are typically closer together than a full sized instruments. They’re good for kids, or if you want a more portable instrument. If you have average adult sized hands they may cramp your style. They typically don’t sound too great either.

Hope that helps.

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