Great information even for seasoned players. Absolute beginners usually don't know what they want in a bass. As superficial as this sounds, my advice is to get a bass that you really like the looks of. Playing on a bass that you enjoy looking at will enhance the playing experience. Once you play with it for a while you will discover what you like and don't like. Then use that information to get a more suitable bass months or years down the road. Just keep practicing. the more you practice the more u will know what u want in a bass
Thanks a lot man, this was really helpful. I just tried out a P-J bass yesterday and although I noticed the configuration, I had no idea what it was about, now I do.
This video was great, because being educated in any craft you invest time and or money is just good sense. I love the bass, the more I learn about it the more I appreciate it, and want to be a better player, and artist. How can you call yourself a proper bassist, if have no knowledge about the dynamics of the instrument. There are all kinds of suits, but you want what fits and looks good on you.
P bass is just wonderful for the Motown sound. I have had many bass guitars in my 53 years of playing, but I always seem to gravitate back to my Fender Precision bass.
I loved the way you thoughtfully laid out the information on buying a bass. You didnt miss anything! Also one does not have to spend lots of money to have a good instrument. I had a 300 dollar peavy fretless bass for 25 years and it served me well. Now I have an american made fender jazz fretless bass of better quality that will last the rest of my life but I slowly worked my way to that bass. I love the way you have all your basses lined up on the guitar rack behind you. Im a one or 2 bass kind of person because Im a creature of habit but regardless we are all on the same journey for the love of the instrument!
Pickup position is about decting the shorter wavelength harmonics by the bridge vs the longer wavelength and longer amplitude fundamental by the neck. The size of the stingray humbucker allows it to detect a bassier wavelength while the position detects the high harmonics. Not a lot of talk about the EB neck humbucker, the mudbucker.
I'm looking to buy a bass from rondo music and I can't decide if I want to get the SX 4 string or a 6 string, I play classical guitar already for about 15 years. Any suggestions?
ok... what are you looking to play in the bass world... i will steer you towards ash or alder tone wood bass wood has a softer less defined sound to it... uuuhhhh... with that being said... all else fails go 6 string... you have the versitility of playing low and playing high... you can also get strings that allow you to string up (eadgcf) rather than the normal (beadgc) tuning...its all on you
Besides classical I mostly play in funk and jam bands, with a little rock here and there but mostly funk and jazz. How much "TLC" would you say the SX six strings take, the stories I've heard typically go "They'r really nice quality IF you know how to set them up properly"
the 2 marcus miller basses. the rear pick-ups are the same distance from the bridge. youre measuring from the mounting plate. measure from the intonation adjusters.
This has been very informative. I've been playing guitar for over 30 years and am a lead player but recently looked into these Sx basses. On a whim I bought an Agile LP style guitar from Rondo last year and was pretty impressed with it so I thought I'd look into these SX models, mainly to save money and as a left handed player it's slim pickens for affordable basses, something I will only use for home recording and occasional jams. They have 2 or 3 I really liked so this will help me decide. I always loved P basses but the Jazz is cool too - never really looked into the slight differences so this really broke it down for me, tonally. Thanks man.
+ Faustino Garcia Recently picked up the Douglas WOB 826. Great 6 string bass for the price. It's got a nice, light feel to it and real easy to get around on it. Bully's got a couple of videos about it, so definitely check those out.
Thank you. I have a Squire P bass. I tend to fiddle around with bass if a better drummer than I am shows up :) PS, I LOVE maple. It's light, sturdy. I'm.crazy about maple for drum sticks. They're fat enough to get rid of 90%+ vibration that would end up going through your hand/arm
I have a Sterling sub ray4. The video doesn’t lie. It’s punchy, aggressive, and growly, as he pointed out with humbuckers. I notice it a lot in the low end, especially after I tried out a squier p bass. I prefer this, it’s the sound I want. If you were to have crap animal analogies for the sounds, I’d say the sterling sub w/ humbucker is probably elephant-like. The low tone is punchy and aggressive.
cool video. you ever mess with 12-string bass??? i love those. Doug Pinnick of King's X uses those alot. One of my favorite bassists by far. I also love the old Rickenbacker basses like Geddy Lee used to use. yeah i'd love to own a Fender Jazz. Very cool P/J bass!!!
I have average to short fingers, and I broke my pinky finger in fall when the doctors repaired it healed crooked into my ring finger on the left hand, aggravating when playing my bass on the higher notes just talking, you so got to protect your hands
What's up bass bro? I really enjoyed the video. I love how you explain and broke everything down. even though I have been around basses and guitars for over 20+ years, I still enjoyed it and I still learned something. but I was hoping maybe you could help me out with something. I have a Fender star caster PBase that I just purchased used. I recently installed EMG X pick ups on it and they are solder less. I installed them but the problem that I'm having is that the bottom pick up seems to have a hiss / scratchy sound whenever my fingers touch it and also something was causing it to cut out whenever I moved it, I say "was"causing it to cut out because what I noticed was that the cut outs on the pick guard for the pick ups was a little tight therefore causing the neck pick up to squeeze a little towards the bridge pick up and for some reason that was making it cut out whenever I would play and my fingers with touch the pick ups and the bridge pick up would cut out. It still has the scratchy sound when I touch it even though I filed out the cut outs on the pick guard but being that it is not squeezed so tightly they are not as sensitive but I know that if I go ahead and move that neck pick up it will cause the bridge pick up to cut out.
Hey man great video I'm a drummer but I've really gotten into playing bass and I've become pretty good , just wanta thank you Bro for the knowledge. I seen your video of the Marcus Miller Bass comparison and I'm gonna order the vintage V7 ,,,I found myself doing bass lines in the studio for artist with my Sub 4 Sterling Bass and noticed I wasn't getting the sound I needed so gotta upgrade. I also seen on sale the Fender 70's jazz bass on sale at Guitar Center it was $875.00 but it's gotta scratch on it and they got it marked down the sound is incredible for a passive Mexican bass should I take a chance or get the Marcus Miller?
Nice Video ! what's your electronic configuration on the P/J Bass. I am building one and I was surprise to see almost the same configuration I had in mind. Mine is P/J quarter pounder pickup with a stacked volume tone knob, a balance knob, a stacked blackout preamp (bass/treble) and a toggle switch for active/passive
Ok so mine is single volume, stacked mid/pickup selector, stacked treble/Bass, with a mid range 3 position switch. I bought if for audere engineering and i believe it the classic preamp... i paid like 129 for the amp and had to sauter like three points... ground... neck and bridge pickup... i also shielded the cavity... just because the shielding came with the preamp...
I like the sound of a 4 string bass better, but in style of music the 5 string is needed more (octave playing) I not big on playing down the neck near the body. what do you think. God bless
i think you should get a 5... based on what you are saying you are limiting yourself to the first 12 frets anyway so you might as well add an extra sting to have more options... as for the 4 sounding better than the 5 i dont know about that...
Bully Tha Kidd yeah I agree I do have more 5 stringer than 4. what I'm saying is that the 5th (B string) sometimes I can't get the smooth low sound without the muddy sound and when get rid of the muddy sound with more treble and etc it sounds a bit clangy bell like sound. my sire alder rosewood v7 5 string bass is what I been asking many bassist how they tone the preamp to get a smooth clear B string without killing the nice Bright sound of the other 4 stringers. my m3 sounds great and I still love my v7 5 string alder body just looking to smooth out the 5th string
do slap bass on ash maple bass perfer to fingerstyle on Alder rosewood bass. I think if a bassist is more a slap bassist go ash maple if not then go alder rosewood for majority of fingerstyle playing. what do think? So I say Slap bass 75% or more of the time should go Ash maple / fingerstyle groove bass playing at 75% or more go rosewood alder. what do you think? sounds great. God bless
Great informal video! I got a SX P-bass 2 months ago. I was wondering how can I set it up and make it sound even better (like you mentioned at 15:05)? Is there a video somewhere around that touches on this subject? Also how bad is the hum on the Jazz bass when playing on a single pickup? Is it really that noticeable and how often do people actually play on 1 pickup?
bomis181094 yeah there are videos on UA-cam that teach how to properly set up basses. I never made one because I'm not an expert and I just learned how I like my bass to feel recently.
I see other options on Rondo Music......like the douglas sculptor 8.5lbs, are these any good? I like that they are under 9lbs, because I play in church and sometimes has to stand for a while. what about the Red Hadeen Vickers, never heard or saw this one before 9lbs. Am not too sold on the sx as they are all over 9lbs.
Jason Haynes I have the Douglas wob 826 and a few sx basses. if you like fender go sx if you are into modern basses go Douglas. I don't play my Douglas often because out feels like a toy... kinda cheap... sounds good tho if you pout a different pre in it.
hi my dilemma right now is between Sire basses i don't know which one to buy the V7 Vintage or the M7 both seems to be great basses, thanks for your video
thanks for the advice, i think i will do that, in the end i know i will buy both, i hope i can have a jazz bass sound out of that M7 i watched some videos where people nailed the jazz bass "Jaco" bridge pick up sound very well, thanks for your time
Just to let people know there many more options with pickups and style of basses out there , you don;t have to buy a fender if Fender were a car it would be Ford nothing special and mass produced . Its possible to buy beautiful hand made basses from exotic woods and far superior pickups for the same price JayDee for example, shop around try out different basses perhaps look for something comfortable to play as well as sounding good.
Hi Bully, i wonder if you could do a comparison between your vintage v7 and your regular v7. I'm interested in the different tones if there are that different. What do you think?
Bully Tha Kidd that was a great video as usual and I'm trying to make my decision on get a 5 string V7 with the rosewood neck or try the M3. I would like to have a 4 string as well. I may get both if I can get a M3, they're out of stock. And I like the silver pickguard, sweet.
What about the active bass? Is it the best of both worlds just like the PJ? I am looking to buy an active bass but i am also interested in the PJ but i'm not sure which one i should buy.
I have one little question, what type of bass is mostly used for playing heavier music like rock/metal? I'm thinking of buying a bass guitar but don't know what one.
@@BullyThaKidd I've only seen 1 metal bass player playing with humbucker, the rest just goes with the jazz style, it is solid, very diverse in my opinion, you can play either low background tones, or you can make slappy noises. Is jazz bass a good option, because that's what I'm borrowing from a friend to learn it.
If I'm not mistaken, Leo Fender created the Music Man Stingray for Louis Johnson. Louis's style of play had him retuning his bass while gigging. I don't know if the Stingray keeps tune better that's just the story I remember. Leo also created the G&L. I'm not a player, I just some times play at it...LOL!!!
This video is a bit old, is it too late to get a answer? I'm about to start my journey with a bass but i dunno what to choose, my favorite player is justin chancellor from tool, and obviously i cannot afford to get on of many of his bass guitars. So can someone point me to the right direction to get a affordable bass so i can have fun trying to play his music?
Musicman doesn't sound very bright. On the low strings it sounds even more mellow than a P bass in my opinion. On the higher strings they sound bright but in a very extraordinary way and that's why i think the Musicman Stingray is the best bass ever made
Like I said before it is solderless so I checked all the wires the wires look and seem fine they all plug into the little prongs nice and snug so I don't know what else it could be I even checked my output jack and that's super snug and all the waters going or coming from that or all in place snuggly fastened. The only thing I can think of is that the pick ups or just screwed to begin with and that's why he sold them on eBay and I got GOT. Lol
If it makes a popping scratchy sound there is a strong possibility its a grounding issue... This issue is a problem considering its solder-less, which means you have to send the pickups back to EMG to fix or risk voiding warranty... Now grounding can be the pickup touching the screws or a wire stripped back and is now grounding on a neighboring component. if it wasn't solder-less i would tell you to solder your bridge pickup negatives and output jack casing together to have the same point of reference... but since its solder-less the only thing i can say is send it to EMG or who ever sold it to get a working product.
Bully Tha Kidd .OK thanks a million. Being that it's solderless the first thing I noticed reading was that grounding it was unnecessary. So I want to head and took that ground wire coming from the bridge area in an away from touching anything of the new pots so I really don't like anything is touching that wire. I also thought it was a shielding issue but i usually associate shielding with constant humming sounds. I'm going to see if I can trace back somehow who I bought them from it was off of eBay.
tip: if your cavity is shielded 1. make sure each cavity shares a common shield meaning each compartment has a bridge between them. 2 Use electrical tape to cover any problem points that could possibly touch pots and stuff... i found those out on my own... use if you like.
I like how you give Leo Fender credit for the jazz bass. It's not like the P-bass was the first bass guitar Leo Fender designed or anything... Or that he also designed the Stingray bass (What you're calling a humbucker bass).... Or that he's responsible for all bass guitars because he invented the instrument...
I would normally say your right except... your not... In the 1930s, musician and inventor Paul Tutmarc from Seattle, Washington, who was manufacturing lap steel guitars, developed the first electric string bass in its modern form, a fretted instrument designed to be played horizontally.Around 100 of these instruments were made during this period. Around 1947, Tutmarc's son, Bud, began marketing a similar bass under the Serenader brand name, prominently advertised in the nationally distributed L. D. Heater Music Company wholesale jobber catalogue of '48. However, the Tutmarc family inventions did not achieve market success. In the 1950s, Leo Fender, with the help of his employee George Fullerton, developed the first mass-produced electric bass. His Fender Precision Bass, which began production in October 1951. The 1970s saw the founding of Music Man Instruments by Tom Walker, Forrest White and Leo Fender, which produced the StingRay, the first widely produced bass with active (powered) electronics.
Bully Tha Kidd Thank you. I stand corrected on the inventor of the electric bass. I've seen Fender credited for inventing the bass guitar several times, but your guy checks out and was around first. I'm not sure if I have to clarify that the Precision Bass is a P-Bass, but I will because I'm not sure if you're disagreeing that Fender designed the P-Bass. The original does look quite a bit different from the modern models, but that's how the P-Bass started (Fender Tele-Basses are a throwback to the old P-Bass design). I'm also not sure if you're disagreeing about the Stingray. Are you saying that it doesn't count as being designed by Fender because other people also contributed? If so, I wasn't trying to say that he designed any of them in a vacuum. Maybe that was a bit rude, I just thought it was funny that you listed 3 of Leo Fender's designs and said you give him credit for one of them. The guy really had a massive influence on the bass industry, but there are categories of bass that he wasn't involved with. I can think of a couple unique Rickenbacker designs and the violin bass off the top of my head.
Not at all. Im not a historian nor a linguist i did the video to give complete newbies some information. I didn't even know what a bridge was or where it was located on the bass when i first started and i wished someone would have let me know stuff before i just followed the tend and dropped like 800 on a overpriced jbass and crappy peavey bass rig. So yeah the more info out there the more people can hopefully make better decisions. Thats all i did the video for... one of my friends was asking questions and asked me to document and show pictures of what i was talking about. i did one better... Thanks for commenting and thanks for watching.
Bully Tha Kidd I'm right there with you on regretting not having basic knowledge when you're an absolute beginner. I kind of went the opposite route from you and got an incredibly crappy Rouge P/J configuration bass and some 30 watt amp I can't even remember the brand of. It's probably actually a good idea to just introduce the styles of bass that you did because, for the most part, you pretty much know what to expect when you get something that looks like one of them. I will say that from personal experience (yours might be different), the P-Bass style tends to be a little more consistent than Jazz Bass style in terms of sound. One other kind of nit-picky thing is that the "Humbucker" category might cause come confusion. The reason is that most modern P-Bass pickups are split humbuckers and some Jazz Bass also humbuckers. I've owned several P-Basses over the years, but I've never owned one with a single coil pickup. I actually bought a Mexican Fender Jazz Bass without realizing it had single coil pickups and didn't realize that was one of the reasons I hated it's sound until years after I sold it, I probably could have thrown a couple of Seymour Duncan Hot Stacks into it and it would have been fine. They look a lot like guitar humbuckers and that's what you get when you type "humbucker bass" into google, but it's pretty confusing to call them humbuckers when there are all kinds of bass humbuckers. I don't actually have a better name for them and I could be overthinking it, but I thought it was worth bringing up. Oh, and I'm incredibly jealous of your V7s. :)
awe man great thing is marcus miller basses even at the top end are still 600 dollars cheaper than a fender usa... so thats about the only reason why i have 3 right now... i spent 400 (rosewood 5) 500 (maple vintage) and 300 (m3)... all the basses combined still cost less than a fender usa... and a ernie ball musicman and many other boutique basses.
Allen Brown I know right I wanted a 4 or 5 string but my dad said that all bass are the same it don't matter so he told me to start with his bass but it's wasn't that hard it's actually easy and I'm used to it.
Great information even for seasoned players. Absolute beginners usually don't know what they want in a bass. As superficial as this sounds, my advice is to get a bass that you really like the looks of. Playing on a bass that you enjoy looking at will enhance the playing experience. Once you play with it for a while you will discover what you like and don't like. Then use that information to get a more suitable bass months or years down the road. Just keep practicing. the more you practice the more u will know what u want in a bass
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Daniel McMillan haha
The girls love it.
Nice video man! Great channel too. God bless.
Learnt more in 5 minutes here than hours elsewhere. Great content. Thanks for sharing your passion with the world
Thanks a lot man, this was really helpful. I just tried out a P-J bass yesterday and although I noticed the configuration, I had no idea what it was about, now I do.
cool man glad i could help out.
Nice video. I'm glad to hear good things about Rondo basses.
i like the SX basses i had one that was great
This video was great, because being educated in any craft you invest time and or money is just good sense. I love the bass, the more I learn about it the more I appreciate it, and want to be a better player, and artist. How can you call yourself a proper bassist, if have no knowledge about the dynamics of the instrument. There are all kinds of suits, but you want what fits and looks good on you.
I got them same pickups under tape. LOVE THEM
Thanks for all the great info
this video explains EVERYTHING about types of bass. thanks for sharing your knowledge. thank you!
no problem just doing what i can to help those that dont know
That jazz bass looks badass to me, and i don't even know a whole lot about basses lol
Good information. Thanks brother.
Much love and appreciation for this one Bully!!!
I see that wrist band on the bass 1:55 lol. I used to always have a “Buckle Up 4 Chi” wristband on the top horn. RIP Chi
Great video. Definitely learned a few things. Thanks.
thats all i am going for thank you... hit me up if you have any questions.
Thanks for this video. I'm wanting to learn to play bass and no one has done any where near as good of a job as you explaining the different bases.
Great info MAB. I needed this info.
Great video! Thanks for sharing it!
Always a good video. when I started somebody told me I had to start with a 4 string but I bought a 5 first. I love that low B.
hey man its all up to you... anything is possible
I also started on a 5. It made 4 super easy afterwards, but I kept going back to 5. I'm a full fledged 5 stringer.
Wish I would've done the same...these 4 strings just don't get the job done at chutch
Great introduction to bass, thanks.
Informative . Thanks !
So happy i found this video i was just about to get a new bass and i found someone new to subscribe to
“There’s no rules to say you can’t do it- only haters say you can’t do it” truth.
That dice knob is dope af
P bass is just wonderful for the Motown sound. I have had many bass guitars in my 53 years of playing, but I always seem to gravitate back to my Fender Precision bass.
Great advice and presentation man. Thank you kindly.
I loved the way you thoughtfully laid out the information on buying a bass. You didnt miss anything! Also one does not have to spend lots of money to have a good instrument. I had a 300 dollar peavy fretless bass for 25 years and it served me well. Now I have an american made fender jazz fretless bass of better quality that will last the rest of my life but I slowly worked my way to that bass. I love the way you have all your basses lined up on the guitar rack behind you. Im a one or 2 bass kind of person because Im a creature of habit but regardless we are all on the same journey for the love of the instrument!
I have 2 Basses a B.C. Rich Beast NJ Series 4 string & LTD Tom Araya 5 string I'm pleased with both
Pickup position is about decting the shorter wavelength harmonics by the bridge vs the longer wavelength and longer amplitude fundamental by the neck.
The size of the stingray humbucker allows it to detect a bassier wavelength while the position detects the high harmonics.
Not a lot of talk about the EB neck humbucker, the mudbucker.
Nice description on what bass to get
Very good video! Nice bass arsenal👍
Dude, you are awesome. Straight Up.
lol thank you. lol that made my day... i dont even want to know why you feel that way ill just take it at face value and keep one moving lol
I'm looking to buy a bass from rondo music and I can't decide if I want to get the SX 4 string or a 6 string, I play classical guitar already for about 15 years. Any suggestions?
ok... what are you looking to play in the bass world... i will steer you towards ash or alder tone wood bass wood has a softer less defined sound to it... uuuhhhh... with that being said... all else fails go 6 string... you have the versitility of playing low and playing high... you can also get strings that allow you to string up (eadgcf) rather than the normal (beadgc) tuning...its all on you
so... ash 6 string bass... higher tuning if you want to do the solo work... you can also look at the douglas 826 or the brice 6 string
Besides classical I mostly play in funk and jam bands, with a little rock here and there but mostly funk and jazz. How much "TLC" would you say the SX six strings take, the stories I've heard typically go "They'r really nice quality IF you know how to set them up properly"
This was incredibly helpful.
Well said, great video, very informative 👍🏻
Thanks for the video Allen, it was very helpful!
Great content. Subbed!
the 2 marcus miller basses. the rear pick-ups are the same distance from the bridge. youre measuring from the mounting plate. measure from the intonation adjusters.
thanks for making videos. i love all the information you provide. subbed
Great channel :) Greetings from Poland.
Great video. Thanks for the info, you really helped clarify a couple of things out for me there! Keep up the good work man
This has been very informative. I've been playing guitar for over 30 years and am a lead player but recently looked into these Sx basses. On a whim I bought an Agile LP style guitar from Rondo last year and was pretty impressed with it so I thought I'd look into these SX models, mainly to save money and as a left handed player it's slim pickens for affordable basses, something I will only use for home recording and occasional jams. They have 2 or 3 I really liked so this will help me decide. I always loved P basses but the Jazz is cool too - never really looked into the slight differences so this really broke it down for me, tonally. Thanks man.
I just Subbed. Great channel and great info. Thanks!
I'm actually impressed with the Douglas 6 and the SX 6. gonna have to look into those.
well I customized mine so they won't be as awesome but yeah they are great basses.
+ Faustino Garcia Recently picked up the Douglas WOB 826. Great 6 string bass for the price. It's got a nice, light feel to it and real easy to get around on it. Bully's got a couple of videos about it, so definitely check those out.
Thank u gentlemen. Appreciate the feedback and looks like that's going to be my next purchase.
Ayyee got to love the free promo lol
Oh one more thing, you're a awesome bass player Bully. Much respect.
Thank you. I have a Squire P bass. I tend to fiddle around with bass if a better drummer than I am shows up :)
PS, I LOVE maple. It's light, sturdy. I'm.crazy about maple for drum sticks. They're fat enough to get rid of 90%+ vibration that would end up going through your hand/arm
I have a Sterling sub ray4. The video doesn’t lie. It’s punchy, aggressive, and growly, as he pointed out with humbuckers. I notice it a lot in the low end, especially after I tried out a squier p bass. I prefer this, it’s the sound I want. If you were to have crap animal analogies for the sounds, I’d say the sterling sub w/ humbucker is probably elephant-like. The low tone is punchy and aggressive.
cool video. you ever mess with 12-string bass??? i love those. Doug Pinnick of King's X uses those alot. One of my favorite bassists by far. I also love the old Rickenbacker basses like Geddy Lee used to use. yeah i'd love to own a Fender Jazz. Very cool P/J bass!!!
nah man the largest i ever messed around with was a 7 stringer in guitar center... i think i have a video of that on my channel somewhere
Oh you also like King's X and Rush? I'd like an octave pedal to get the 21 string bass sound. It would sound nice on my 5's.
nice man :) i was looking something like this a month ago when i bought my p-bass xD
did you tryed a music man stingray too? i compared them to the jazz and p basses and felt in love with it :D
Nice video
I have average to short fingers, and I broke my pinky finger in fall when the doctors repaired it healed crooked into my ring finger on the left hand, aggravating when playing my bass on the higher notes just talking, you so got to protect your hands
thanx`s star! Bassplayer`s unite! Stay on the 1 my comrade!
good stuff
i appreciate that thanks for watching
Hi When I took a look at the sire site how do you know which bass is which . cause Im likin the vintage one .GO RAIDERS lol.
its listed when you search basses one will say v7 the other will say vintage v7 or v7 vintage...
I am curious about your video to compare the Sire V7's
nice menn
What's up bass bro? I really enjoyed the video. I love how you explain and broke everything down. even though I have been around basses and guitars for over 20+ years, I still enjoyed it and I still learned something. but I was hoping maybe you could help me out with something. I have a Fender star caster PBase that I just purchased used. I recently installed EMG X pick ups on it and they are solder less. I installed them but the problem that I'm having is that the bottom pick up seems to have a hiss / scratchy sound whenever my fingers touch it and also something was causing it to cut out whenever I moved it, I say "was"causing it to cut out because what I noticed was that the cut outs on the pick guard for the pick ups was a little tight therefore causing the neck pick up to squeeze a little towards the bridge pick up and for some reason that was making it cut out whenever I would play and my fingers with touch the pick ups and the bridge pick up would cut out. It still has the scratchy sound when I touch it even though I filed out the cut outs on the pick guard but being that it is not squeezed so tightly they are not as sensitive but I know that if I go ahead and move that neck pick up it will cause the bridge pick up to cut out.
Hey man great video I'm a drummer but I've really gotten into playing bass and I've become pretty good , just wanta thank you Bro for the knowledge. I seen your video of the Marcus Miller Bass comparison and I'm gonna order the vintage V7 ,,,I found myself doing bass lines in the studio for artist with my Sub 4 Sterling Bass and noticed I wasn't getting the sound I needed so gotta upgrade. I also seen on sale the Fender 70's jazz bass on sale at Guitar Center it was $875.00 but it's gotta scratch on it and they got it marked down the sound is incredible for a passive Mexican bass should I take a chance or get the Marcus Miller?
Nice Video ! what's your electronic configuration on the P/J Bass. I am building one and I was surprise to see almost the same configuration I had in mind. Mine is P/J quarter pounder pickup with a stacked volume tone knob, a balance knob, a stacked blackout preamp (bass/treble) and a toggle switch for active/passive
Ok so mine is single volume, stacked mid/pickup selector, stacked treble/Bass, with a mid range 3 position switch. I bought if for audere engineering and i believe it the classic preamp... i paid like 129 for the amp and had to sauter like three points... ground... neck and bridge pickup... i also shielded the cavity... just because the shielding came with the preamp...
Im coming from electric guitar, what would be the most familiar and comfterably for me?
Any thoughts on an Ibanez SR300e and a Yamaha TRBX-504?
I like the sound of a 4 string bass better, but in style of music the 5 string is needed more (octave playing) I not big on playing down the neck near the body. what do you think.
God bless
i think you should get a 5... based on what you are saying you are limiting yourself to the first 12 frets anyway so you might as well add an extra sting to have more options... as for the 4 sounding better than the 5 i dont know about that...
Bully Tha Kidd
yeah I agree I do have more 5 stringer than 4. what I'm saying is that the 5th (B string) sometimes I can't get the smooth low sound without the muddy sound and when get rid of the muddy sound with more treble and etc it sounds a bit clangy bell like sound. my sire alder rosewood v7 5 string bass is what I been asking many bassist how they tone the preamp to get a smooth clear B string without killing the nice Bright sound of the other 4 stringers. my m3 sounds great and I still love my v7 5 string alder body just looking to smooth out the 5th string
do slap bass on ash maple bass perfer to fingerstyle on Alder rosewood bass. I think if a bassist is more a slap bassist go ash maple if not then go alder rosewood for majority of fingerstyle playing. what do think? So I say Slap bass 75% or more of the time should go Ash maple / fingerstyle groove bass playing at 75% or more go rosewood alder. what do you think? sounds great. God bless
Churchbass3 NTG I slap either way so what ever
Nice vid. Where'd you get the chrome knobs for the Sire? Just got a V7 Vintage myself
on one I bought then off Amazon... the other it came with the bass...
Really loved this video. I'm thinking of getting a 4 string SX P bass as a beginner guitar. Do you cover amps and preamps in any of your videos?
riacharda yeah I do. Feel free to take look.
Great informal video! I got a SX P-bass 2 months ago. I was wondering how can I set it up and make it sound even better (like you mentioned at 15:05)? Is there a video somewhere around that touches on this subject? Also how bad is the hum on the Jazz bass when playing on a single pickup? Is it really that noticeable and how often do people actually play on 1 pickup?
bomis181094 yeah there are videos on UA-cam that teach how to properly set up basses. I never made one because I'm not an expert and I just learned how I like my bass to feel recently.
Ok, thank you for your response. I'm still a novice so I have no idea how I want it but I'll keep on searching :)
I see other options on Rondo Music......like the douglas sculptor 8.5lbs, are these any good? I like that they are under 9lbs, because I play in church and sometimes has to stand for a while. what about the Red Hadeen Vickers, never heard or saw this one before 9lbs. Am not too sold on the sx as they are all over 9lbs.
Jason Haynes I have the Douglas wob 826 and a few sx basses. if you like fender go sx if you are into modern basses go Douglas. I don't play my Douglas often because out feels like a toy... kinda cheap... sounds good tho if you pout a different pre in it.
Jason Haynes search Douglas basses on you tube then search Douglas that should tell you all you need to know.
hi my dilemma right now is between Sire basses i don't know which one to buy the V7 Vintage or the M7 both seems to be great basses, thanks for your video
KamiKaZe Jazz Bass well get the m7 its more expensive then off you like it go back and the v7... problem solved
thanks for the advice, i think i will do that, in the end i know i will buy both, i hope i can have a jazz bass sound out of that M7 i watched some videos where people nailed the jazz bass "Jaco" bridge pick up sound very well, thanks for your time
KamiKaZe Jazz Bass you should be about to do it... you can choose coils so you should be golden in that respect.
Bully Tha Kidd absolutely whenever of both i choose is a win - win situation, thanks again
Just to let people know there many more options with pickups and style of basses out there , you don;t have to buy a fender if Fender were a car it would be Ford nothing special and mass produced . Its possible to buy beautiful hand made basses from exotic woods and far superior pickups for the same price JayDee for example, shop around try out different basses perhaps look for something comfortable to play as well as sounding good.
great info here man.....what do you recommend for a first bass, Active or Passive? And why...
Jason Haynes depends o.k. the music you are getting down with... but me if I could start out now id get a 4 string Adler rosewood sire v7...
I would get that one because it had a switch that allows you to go passive if you want
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Question bro might be common sense. $120 ibanez or a bass bundle (bass n speaker) for $200 at a music store. which one would u pick?
Hi Bully, i wonder if you could do a comparison between your vintage v7 and your regular v7. I'm interested in the different tones if there are that different. What do you think?
alright give me some time to get it together.
Dont know if you seen it but i finally did that video
Bully Tha Kidd that was a great video as usual and I'm trying to make my decision on get a 5 string V7 with the rosewood neck or try the M3. I would like to have a 4 string as well. I may get both if I can get a M3, they're out of stock. And I like the silver pickguard, sweet.
What about the active bass? Is it the best of both worlds just like the PJ? I am looking to buy an active bass but i am also interested in the PJ but i'm not sure which one i should buy.
HazyMan id look at the sire pj bass. That will be my next purchase I think that will be the end all beat all bass for me.
Allen Brown I'm looking into getting a 5 string ibanez :D do you think it's a good choice?
I have one little question, what type of bass is mostly used for playing heavier music like rock/metal? I'm thinking of buying a bass guitar but don't know what one.
If I were u I would go the humbucker route... double or single hb. Look ibanez or Jackson if u are on a budget... hope it helps
@@BullyThaKidd I've only seen 1 metal bass player playing with humbucker, the rest just goes with the jazz style, it is solid, very diverse in my opinion, you can play either low background tones, or you can make slappy noises. Is jazz bass a good option, because that's what I'm borrowing from a friend to learn it.
yeah its a good choice... especially if its free for now.
@@BullyThaKidd For now it is, but when I buy my own, it's okay if I buy a jazz model?
@@BullyThaKidd I found a starter set on the internet, including strap and all, but it's a pj. Which, I don't know if it is optimal.
Thanks . when you ordered yours it only took about a week to get ?
uh right around that yeah
If I'm not mistaken, Leo Fender created the Music Man Stingray for Louis Johnson. Louis's style of play had him retuning his bass while gigging. I don't know if the Stingray keeps tune better that's just the story I remember. Leo also created the G&L. I'm not a player, I just some times play at it...LOL!!!
This video is a bit old, is it too late to get a answer? I'm about to start my journey with a bass but i dunno what to choose, my favorite player is justin chancellor from tool, and obviously i cannot afford to get on of many of his bass guitars. So can someone point me to the right direction to get a affordable bass so i can have fun trying to play his music?
Did you make a decision on a bass?
Musicman doesn't sound very bright. On the low strings it sounds even more mellow than a P bass in my opinion. On the higher strings they sound bright but in a very extraordinary way and that's why i think the Musicman Stingray is the best bass ever made
Good info thanks. GO RAIDERS!!
A stingray
I've played my uncles status bass and oml is it punchy. its like a fricken piano
Bully what do you prefer soap bars or jazz pick ups
Depends on what music I'm playing.
@@BullyThaKidd Gospel for example
Like I said before it is solderless so I checked all the wires the wires look and seem fine they all plug into the little prongs nice and snug so I don't know what else it could be I even checked my output jack and that's super snug and all the waters going or coming from that or all in place snuggly fastened. The only thing I can think of is that the pick ups or just screwed to begin with and that's why he sold them on eBay and I got GOT. Lol
If it makes a popping scratchy sound there is a strong possibility its a grounding issue... This issue is a problem considering its solder-less, which means you have to send the pickups back to EMG to fix or risk voiding warranty...
Now grounding can be the pickup touching the screws or a wire stripped back and is now grounding on a neighboring component. if it wasn't solder-less i would tell you to solder your bridge pickup negatives and output jack casing together to have the same point of reference... but since its solder-less the only thing i can say is send it to EMG or who ever sold it to get a working product.
Bully Tha Kidd .OK thanks a million. Being that it's solderless the first thing I noticed reading was that grounding it was unnecessary. So I want to head and took that ground wire coming from the bridge area in an away from touching anything of the new pots so I really don't like anything is touching that wire. I also thought it was a shielding issue but i usually associate shielding with constant humming sounds. I'm going to see if I can trace back somehow who I bought them from it was off of eBay.
tip: if your cavity is shielded 1. make sure each cavity shares a common shield meaning each compartment has a bridge between them. 2 Use electrical tape to cover any problem points that could possibly touch pots and stuff... i found those out on my own... use if you like.
Bully Tha Kidd
Right I gotcha, thank u.
Wahw man the sire m3's are all sold out!
dont trip thats normal... mine was like that so i had to wait like 4 weeks before it even shipped to me... its worth the wait tho.
By the way, how heavy is the sire Alder v7?
Jason Haynes around 9lbs but I have the 5 string version
Jason Haynes you might want to look at the sire m3. its 299 and its really light. double humbucker pickup
Jason Haynes I did a review on it. so you can check that out as well
After years of internal discussion, I have decided that that four note advantage of the 5 string is not worth it.
1okanaganguy cool... i believe it depends on the music you play...
I like how you give Leo Fender credit for the jazz bass. It's not like the P-bass was the first bass guitar Leo Fender designed or anything... Or that he also designed the Stingray bass (What you're calling a humbucker bass).... Or that he's responsible for all bass guitars because he invented the instrument...
I would normally say your right except... your not... In the 1930s, musician and inventor Paul Tutmarc from Seattle, Washington, who was manufacturing lap steel guitars, developed the first electric string bass in its modern form, a fretted instrument designed to be played horizontally.Around 100 of these instruments were made during this period. Around 1947, Tutmarc's son, Bud, began marketing a similar bass under the Serenader brand name, prominently advertised in the nationally distributed L. D. Heater Music Company wholesale jobber catalogue of '48. However, the Tutmarc family inventions did not achieve market success. In the 1950s, Leo Fender, with the help of his employee George Fullerton, developed the first mass-produced electric bass. His Fender Precision Bass, which began production in October 1951. The 1970s saw the founding of Music Man Instruments by Tom Walker, Forrest White and Leo Fender, which produced the StingRay, the first widely produced bass with active (powered) electronics.
Bully Tha Kidd Thank you. I stand corrected on the inventor of the electric bass. I've seen Fender credited for inventing the bass guitar several times, but your guy checks out and was around first. I'm not sure if I have to clarify that the Precision Bass is a P-Bass, but I will because I'm not sure if you're disagreeing that Fender designed the P-Bass. The original does look quite a bit different from the modern models, but that's how the P-Bass started (Fender Tele-Basses are a throwback to the old P-Bass design). I'm also not sure if you're disagreeing about the Stingray. Are you saying that it doesn't count as being designed by Fender because other people also contributed? If so, I wasn't trying to say that he designed any of them in a vacuum.
Maybe that was a bit rude, I just thought it was funny that you listed 3 of Leo Fender's designs and said you give him credit for one of them. The guy really had a massive influence on the bass industry, but there are categories of bass that he wasn't involved with. I can think of a couple unique Rickenbacker designs and the violin bass off the top of my head.
Not at all. Im not a historian nor a linguist i did the video to give complete newbies some information. I didn't even know what a bridge was or where it was located on the bass when i first started and i wished someone would have let me know stuff before i just followed the tend and dropped like 800 on a overpriced jbass and crappy peavey bass rig. So yeah the more info out there the more people can hopefully make better decisions. Thats all i did the video for... one of my friends was asking questions and asked me to document and show pictures of what i was talking about. i did one better...
Thanks for commenting and thanks for watching.
Bully Tha Kidd I'm right there with you on regretting not having basic knowledge when you're an absolute beginner. I kind of went the opposite route from you and got an incredibly crappy Rouge P/J configuration bass and some 30 watt amp I can't even remember the brand of. It's probably actually a good idea to just introduce the styles of bass that you did because, for the most part, you pretty much know what to expect when you get something that looks like one of them. I will say that from personal experience (yours might be different), the P-Bass style tends to be a little more consistent than Jazz Bass style in terms of sound.
One other kind of nit-picky thing is that the "Humbucker" category might cause come confusion. The reason is that most modern P-Bass pickups are split humbuckers and some Jazz Bass also humbuckers. I've owned several P-Basses over the years, but I've never owned one with a single coil pickup. I actually bought a Mexican Fender Jazz Bass without realizing it had single coil pickups and didn't realize that was one of the reasons I hated it's sound until years after I sold it, I probably could have thrown a couple of Seymour Duncan Hot Stacks into it and it would have been fine. They look a lot like guitar humbuckers and that's what you get when you type "humbucker bass" into google, but it's pretty confusing to call them humbuckers when there are all kinds of bass humbuckers. I don't actually have a better name for them and I could be overthinking it, but I thought it was worth bringing up.
Oh, and I'm incredibly jealous of your V7s. :)
awe man great thing is marcus miller basses even at the top end are still 600 dollars cheaper than a fender usa... so thats about the only reason why i have 3 right now... i spent 400 (rosewood 5) 500 (maple vintage) and 300 (m3)... all the basses combined still cost less than a fender usa... and a ernie ball musicman and many other boutique basses.
Heehee. Why didn't you tell them the plain truth brother ? "Want to play bass ? Get a Sire. " Period :D
lol for some people options are more important lol
@@BullyThaKidd True 😀
Lol I started with a ibanez 6 string bass lol
dang thats one heck of a learning curve
Allen Brown I know right I wanted a 4 or 5 string but my dad said that all bass are the same it don't matter so he told me to start with his bass but it's wasn't that hard it's actually easy and I'm used to it.
Davie504
You watch Davie504 I bet
SuRIKE not really
Allen Brown i thought you did bc you mentioned like 12 strings and 24 strings
Seems like all your videos have 1 dislike lol
you are too strong to be a bass player