Before buying a bass should you know about the info-bass below:
A How to Take Care of Bass
1.place bass correctly
Laying the right guitar is supine, with the neck portion facing upward bowed. Typically, after playing guitar the guitar will be put in the position of the tip of the upper neck pinned to the wall. While the guitar body at the bottom of the stick on the floor surface. So, the bass guitar is placed in a slanting position.
This is not good for the guitar because it will make the crooked neck slowly. If you have a studio or stage performances which contains musical instruments, to remind all players to put a bass guitar correctly.
When you have a fee, buy a stand for your guitar. It will support your neck guitar safely.
2. Has Case
There are two guitar case, which is hard atai soft, like the cover of a book. Hard-case is usually made of wood or plastic that is strong enough and thick; very safe to protect the guitar. This fitting is owned by the guitarist who is often on tour and traveling.
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3.Ganti strings
Make it a habit to change your guitar strings one set at a time, this is to prevent the color of the markings between the strings sound new and old strings. So if you have long strings and broke one of them, disarankanuntuk replace everything.
4. Never in slam
be any genre you like but must keep emotions gan.
if the flow of hard and difficult technique may play but do it all once you slam the bass guitar because it's not a bass guitar bass.
5. Clean the Fretboard
Remember, when you clean the fretboard, use a blunt object, not tapered. Use, for example, a guitar pick, not a knife. Because when using sharp objects to scrape the fretboard dikuaturkan it anyway. Then after clean, wipe again with a jersey material.
Fretboard is breeding places climb with sweat and dirt from fingers. If left too long, can even become crust. Every time you change the strings, wipe all his fretboard.
Create a sleek, shiny shiny meaning, so people who saw it said, "Pretty good!" or, "Cool!" How?
Wipe your bass guitar with jersey material, good body, neck, and all parts of the guitar strings. For pick-up section at the bottom of the strings are a bit difficult to clean the dust, could use a paint brush.
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B.Choosing Wood For Bass
Each type of wood is believed to produce a different timbre .
90 % of material used for a stringed instrument is wooden . In general, based on the color of his voice or tone of wood types of wood can be classified into two types: hard woods and soft woods .
It is important for us to know what type of wood used in the body of the bass , besides we know the type of wood used for the neck .
Number and Name of wood Treble Mid Bass Heavy Violence Description :
1 . Alder 6 7 6 , medium , soft - med , cleaning Nicely balanced tone , rich mid .
2 . Mahogany 5 7 8 , med - heavy , soft - med , Warm and rich mid and low , clean and smooth high .
3 . 8 5 7 White Ash , heavy , hard , low and edged Punchy high . very aggresive sound .
4 . Swamp Ash 8 4 6 , Ex.light , Soft , Extremely light weight , very dry sound .
5 . 7 6 5 Hard maple , heavy , Ex.hard , Attacky tone with quick response , nice balance with mahogany back .
6 . 7 6 5 Maple Soft , Medium , Medium , Beautiful quilted / flamed grain , nice balance with mahogany back .
7 . Padauk 8 5 5 , Heavy , hard , Bright and dry sound with tight bottom .
8 . Bubinga 6 7 9 , Ex.heavy , Ex.hard , Very chunky , heavy bottom . heaviest wood .
9 . Walnut 7 8 6 , heavy , hard , Plenty of mids , warm tone .
10 . Koa 6 8 7 , Med - Heavy , Med - hard , Rich and warm mid range .
11 . Rosewood 5 8 6 , heavy , hard , creamy and warm sound with rich body .
12 . Ebony 7 7 6 , heavy , Ex.hard , Mostly used for fingerboard , attacky sound .
13 . Basswood 6 6 5 , light , light , Wide range of balanced tone , but less close to alder body .
Each type of wood is believed to produce a different timbre .
90 % of material used for a stringed instrument is wooden . In general, based on the color of his voice or tone of wood types of wood can be classified into two types: hard woods and soft woods .
It is important for us to know what type of wood used in the body of the bass , besides we know the type of wood used for the neck .
Number and Name of wood Treble Mid Bass Heavy Violence Description :
1 . Alder 6 7 6 , medium , soft - med , cleaning Nicely balanced tone , rich mid .
2 . Mahogany 5 7 8 , med - heavy , soft - med , Warm and rich mid and low , clean and smooth high .
3 . 8 5 7 White Ash , heavy , hard , low and edged Punchy high . very aggresive sound .
4 . Swamp Ash 8 4 6 , Ex.light , Soft , Extremely light weight , very dry sound .
5 . 7 6 5 Hard maple , heavy , Ex.hard , Attacky tone with quick response , nice balance with mahogany back .
6 . 7 6 5 Maple Soft , Medium , Medium , Beautiful quilted / flamed grain , nice balance with mahogany back .
7 . Padauk 8 5 5 , Heavy , hard , Bright and dry sound with tight bottom .
8 . Bubinga 6 7 9 , Ex.heavy , Ex.hard , Very chunky , heavy bottom . heaviest wood .
9 . Walnut 7 8 6 , heavy , hard , Plenty of mids , warm tone .
10 . Koa 6 8 7 , Med - Heavy , Med - hard , Rich and warm mid range .
11 . Rosewood 5 8 6 , heavy , hard , creamy and warm sound with rich body .
12 . Ebony 7 7 6 , heavy , Ex.hard , Mostly used for fingerboard , attacky sound .
13 . Basswood 6 6 5 , light , light , Wide range of balanced tone , but less close to alder body .
BODY
Most bass guitar body made of wood . This body is made in such a way that it can be combined with either the bass neck is bolt on or set neck . However, if the design of the bass is neck - through , then the body is made into two wings which are then incorporated into the sides of the neck .
The materials for the body manifold. Until now still in debate which is the best material to make a bass body . A timber must have the following criteria to be used as a body . Among them are the characters sound good , easy to set up , has good stability and accept the given finishing .
For options on the market Low End , wood Basswood is the most commonly used . Higher market share prefers wood Alder , Mahogany and Ash . Then the wood is widely used for display Flamed Maple , Birdseye Maple , Quilted Maple , Spalted Maple , Wenge , Red Wood , Zebrawood and Paduak . However, wood is rarely used to be made in a body due to its price , and also the characteristics stocknya tone . Examples bass using Solid Flame Maple is what makes the series Pedulla MVP and fretless Buzz .
Some companies are also making alternative materials from solid perspex . Body made with this material will look attractive , but the body has excess weight . German company named Sandberg bass models offer this to Rammstein bassist Oliver Riedel named . Another with Ibanez Ergodyne series that makes his bass with a body made of a material Luthite . This is a man-made material that it feels , and weighs his voice is similar to the ideal timber . Unlike the Steinberger company that solves the problem of a body made of wood , this company makes the bass without a body mounted to the neck . So that is visible is a bass that consists only of the neck alone .
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