Bass FAQ

[alanchia]

you'll get different tone. actually the overall make/material/pickup determines the tone.

 

[whitestar]

Anyone got any idea where can I get a set of .040 - .100 (.040 .055, .070, .100) flatwound gauage strings?
The one I'm using is a little big for my bass. Is a 0.45-.100.

 

[jonthebassist]

where can you get a warwick bass in singapore?

 

[alanchia]

where can you get a warwick bass in singapore?

Swee Lee has it.

 

[Resetti]

Swee Lee has it.

just a reminder to compare prices with other sources first before making a purchase

 

[BKKSBTY]

Hey. What's the difference between active and passive basses?

 

[cool-beans]

An active bass is a bass with onboard equalization, ie, you can tweak bass/mid/treble directly on the bass. This makes the bass more versatile tone-wise. You'd need a battery inside the bass to run it though.

I personally prefer passive basses, as I know what tone I'm looking for. I'm also just downright terrible with knobs.

 

[Z3r0_G]

not entirely true. you can have an active bass without onboard eq as well. as in my case.

 

[shinobi]

active bass means electric (battery) power is used for the electronics.

an active bass has a preamp. a preamp basically increases the gain of the signal.

it may have active pickups. an active pickup is any pickup that has a capacitor in its design.

 

[Diesel]

I used to play bass many years back when young. Now I am trying to get back what I've miss for these many years. Despite my past short experience, I am still pretty much a noob because I didn't really know much of a bass guitar itself, such as what types of pickups - J or P, what length of neck and number of frets, active or passive.

Here is my noob question : Can I actually plug in a headphone into an active bass so that I can practise at night ? I have a newborn baby and find it difficult to do so without her jamming along with me... just joking on the latter statement

I do have a practise amp and I used to plug my headphone to the practise amp's phono output to play in "silent night", but if active bass can do without powering up an amp, I might just get a bass with active circuit for convenience sake instead ?

 

[Composer of Requiems]

I've done that with my Audere preamp. Of course it might not sound as good, but it does its job.

 

[AlNino10]

It'd sound pretty bad really, tried that long ago. I'd suggest picking up a bass VOX. It's a simple small device which plugs straight into your bass output jack. And it has a headphone jack, as well as an input jack for the convenience of jamming along with an mp3 player, phone, laptop etc..

 

[Diesel]

Thank you for the VOX suggestion ! I think you open up another alternative to my long waited desire... I stopped play for so many years and now I see so many interesting stuffs never seen during those times.. uncle old already... hahaha

P.S. I was still trying to figure out HOW TO play along with my favourite songs on my CD or MP3 earlier... :X

 

[alanchia]

or get the Tascam MP3 bass trainer (MP-BT1) which I always use to play along to worship songs prior to actual band rehearsal.

http://www.tascam.com/product/mp-bt1/

 

[fretless6]

Or just have ur bass amp in the same room with ur computer. Play an mp3 on the computer and just jam along. Don't need deafening volume to do that.

 

[DonovanLesterSia]

+1 for the Vox amplug.... really convenient.. Get one of those gps holders for the car and you can do this!

http://www.talkbass.com/forum/showthread.php?t=693751&highlight=ipod+car

(he's using the new iRig... but it works with a vox amplug)

I just got this setup..... pretty nifty! You can walk around the house, do some laundry, cook dinner and watch some tv. All with you bass strapped on!!!

 

[Diesel]

thanks for these great gadget... and someone please teach me how to do laundry with the bass guitar ! Do I hang the clothes over the neck or use the frets as washboards ?