- Features: * The Weekly DiScussion: who should make the Mercury shortlist?
- Reviews: * Leonard Cohen at Edinburgh Castle, Wed 16 Jul
- Features: * Tech (No) Logic #3: Cassette From My Ex
- Features: * When Darren met Dave: indie legends head to head
- Features: * Young Team remembered: Stuart Braithwaite on Mogwai's debut
- Reviews: * Naomi Hates Humans - Pipe Dreams And Lullabies
- Reviews: * Kaki King - Dreaming Of Revenge
- Reviews: * Flying Lotus - LA EP 1x3
- Reviews: * Mugison - Mugiboogie
- Features: * Truck Festival 2008: the DiS preview
- Features: * Johnny Foreigner's 2008 diary: June
- Reviews: * Band of Horses at Sheffield Leadmill, Fri 11 Jul
- Reviews: * Grand Archives, Sera Cahoone at San Francisco Slims, Sat 28 Jun
- Features: * DiScover: Jay Reatard
- Features: * Supersonic 2008: the DiS review
Drowned in Sound Event sponsored tours and events.
- * Subtle @ London Cargo, 21/07
- * Duel in the Deep @ London Catch 22, 22/07
- * Sparklehorse, Scout Niblett, Daniel Johnston @ Glasgow Old Fruitmarket, 23/07
- * Sonic Cathedral @ London Heavenly Social, 23/07
- * Ratatat @ London Cargo, 23/07
- * Wild Beasts @ Kendal The Brewery Centre, 25/07
- * Sparklehorse, Daniel Johnston @ Dublin Whelan's, 28/07
- * DiScover Sheffield @ Sheffield The Harley, 28/07
- * A Sunny Day In Glasgow @ Dublin Whelan's, 30/07
- * Mirror! Mirror!, Dananananaykroyd @ Edinburgh Cabaret Voltaire, 30/07
- * Mudhoney @ London Kentish Town Forum, 31/07
- * A Sunny Day In Glasgow @ Glasgow Nice N Sleazy's, 31/07
- * A Sunny Day In Glasgow @ Leeds Upstairs at the Library, 1/08
- * Club AC30 @ London The Luminaire, 2/08
- * Ratatat @ Glasgow The Captain's Rest, 2/08
hey bassists, help me out
no votes
?
by retro_punkman
i'm planing on buying a epipone thunder bird once i have enough monet, is this a good idea? also, ay basses you reccomend over the t-bird? thanks
- News: * Parts & Labor announce third LP details
- News: * Watch: new video from Midnight Juggernauts
- News: * Land Of Talk release second album in October
- News: * Lemonheads Truck warm-up cancelled
- News: * The Little Ones tour ahead of Morning Tide
- News: * Jarvis pens new songs for Wes Anderson movie
- News: * Get ready to party: Field Day is on its way
- News: * Shearwater confirm rescheduled European dates
- News: * The Last Shadow Puppets announce new UK dates
- News: * Vampire Weekend announce headline October tour
- News: * Stereophonics: double-date pre V Fest
- News: * Manic Street Preachers announce intimate Newport show
- News: * The Hoosiers blast Kings of Leon's dancing abilities
- News: * Dead Meadow announce September dates
- News: * Future Of The Left extend their summer road trip
- Board_threads: * The Quietus
- Board_threads: * Compilations...
- Board_threads: * SLIPKNOT.
- Board_threads: * Independent article: How Indie Ate Itself
- Board_threads: * Foals at Glasto
- Board_threads: * least embarrasing song ive ever heard
- Board_threads: * best grime song ever made
- Board_threads: * somerset house
- Board_threads: * Sugar
- Board_threads: * Best gigs are full of skinheads and where you get drenched in beer !
- Board_threads: * Good Instrumental bands please?
- Board_threads: * Panic are on Abbey Road on ch4 at the moment.
- Board_threads: * I'm listening to The Hold Steady for the first time
- Board_threads: * Bonn Scott era AC/DC
- Board_threads: * fugazi
Staff Contacts
|
RSS feeds 
|
T&Cs
|
© DrownedinSound.com
|
From the Archive - Andy Hopkirk: Is it just me, or is the Music Industry Shit?
|
T&Cs
|
© DrownedinSound.com
|
From the Archive - Andy Hopkirk: Is it just me, or is the Music Industry Shit?
Re: hey bassists, help me out
Re: hey bassists, help me out
Re: hey bassists, help me out
Re: hey bassists, help me out
Re: hey bassists, help me out
No they don't. Well, the standards don't, I can't say great thing about the affinitys or bullets, it has to be said. Standards are ok guitars. Spending £30 extra or whatever really makes a difference to the pickup and neck quality.
Epiphones suck because they cost twice as much as guitars that are no better than them. They're made by a company called Samick, so they have to pay samick a bit extra for them, and then they just slap the epiphone name on and sell it for a wad of cash just because they're owned by Gibson... they're not even made by Gibson.
I have a Squier Std Jagmaster which cost £210, and it is exactly the same as my friend's Epiphone LP Custom except that it isn't uncomfortable to play sitting down.
In fact, the only thing I don't like about the jag is that the tuners don't lock... and that the intonation on mine needs a tune up.
Re: hey bassists, help me out
Re: hey bassists, help me out
Re: hey bassists, help me out
Re: hey bassists, help me out
Re: hey bassists, help me out
Fender make Squier guitars, but Gibson only own the Epiphone brand. Epiphones are made by Samick based on Gibson plans, so they cost more because there is a middle man buying the guitar at one stage, and gibson can charge more for the guitar because people will buy it.
I guess if you;'re after a thunderbird there isn't loads you can do.
Re: hey bassists, help me out
200 quid. by thunder that's a fair price.
Re: hey bassists, help me out
Re: hey bassists, help me out
It would be pretty foolhardy to buy a new epiphone when there are so many cheap cheap vintage guitars out there for a couple of hundred bucks...have a look around on ebay and www.gbase.com You could get something cool and unique
The epiphone is crap, but it looks cool, so maybe that is more important...even a piece of shit will still play okay.
Old squiers are amazing, better than proper fenders from the period (early eighties)- I bet you could get an early jap squier bass for $3-400 dollars, and they are the bollocks (good).
Re:- the epiphone/gibson squier/fender thing, To be fair, epis and squiers are both made in far eastern factories and then have logos slapped on them. They might be paid for by Fender and Gibson, but basically it is farmed out work. One has no more kudos than the other.
Re: hey bassists, help me out
Squier guitars are actually made by Squier, who are owned by Fender.
Epiphone guitars are made by Samick, who aren't owned by Gibson.
Re: hey bassists, help me out
Epiphone guitars are made by Samick, who aren't owned by Gibson."
Maybe so, but for many years squiers and japanese Fenders were made in the Fuji Gen Gakki factory, who also made Ibanez- and those are without question the highest rated Squier guitars ever made- which kinda belies the concept that Fender owning the factory makes the guitars somehow better... The current Squier guitars are okay, but not even a status quo iron-on patch on those babies.
I'd possibly consider going for a seventies Fender musicmaster bass if I was in the states and looking for a first bass...if you can get around the myth that long scale=better. I use one of these on my bands first two albums, and it kicked ass. Easy to find one for $300
Re: hey bassists, help me out
Re: hey bassists, help me out
Ibanez
is tempting. I have a GSR-200 which is my first bass but it's really quite solid. Only disadvantage is no active electronics and that. Better value than the Fender and Gibson copies from what I've seen.
Peavey
Get a Peavey Dynabass. They are really good and look super as well
T-Bird
woo punkman! the bird is my current bass, and unless u shell out a lil extra for a mex fender u won't get much better than the t-bird for those dollars. the sound is fantastic, the only bad thing about the bass is that it's neck heavy, which is minorly annoying
yeah...
i've heard that a lot, but i've also heard putting the strap peg directly behind the head stock, like an sg, counter acts that
howdy
hi babe whats up i signed up for drownedinsound like you asked how has your day been garett?
singer found
ME!!!! im a singer and i need a band who will work!!! my current wont work or take lessons i took my lessons so i know what im doing they are the ones who need the help and im tired of waiting so you neede a singer i found one
hey!
get your own thread! just kiddin, hey, people out there, she is GOOD!
ha ha ha
your a comedian dude
FP
Fender Precision is what you need; The T-Bird looks cooler but the Fender is a much better all round guitar. Rickenbacker is distinctive with loads of attack but in my opinion is a tad toppy. No it has to be the Fender P. But hey, what do I know I'm a drummer.......
i'm sick and tired of fender!
it seems like almost every bassist plays a p or j-bass, geddy's is an exeption cause it's got some sort of faulty wiring that gives it a super low end. but i barely see any bassists who don't play fenders, and besides, i like the thought of dual humbucers over a single split coil.
It's those fucking rock basses you should be sick of
Nowadays everyone plays one of those rock basses, like ibanez makes. Those fucking suck. And so do those musicman ones. I hate them hate them.
I think that those les paul basses are pretty good. Unfortunately they also cost about 5 months wages, which sucks a major's cock.
hven't seen any of the les pauls
and musicmans rule, i tryed out a bongo (yes i know, a very queer name) and it kicked ass! ibanezes do not make any good basses. the iceman comes close though.