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From: jimlynch@netcom.com (Jim Lynch)
Subject: Re: Advice on effects boxes
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest) 
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 20:28:51 GMT

In article <1992Nov18.225602.7990@reed.edu> jcherney@reed.edu writes:
>I'm looking for a "box," or whatever it's called, for my bass.  I spent most of
 the summer
>playing around with my friends's GSP 21 Pro, and I'd like to know what's availa
ble in that
>area for bass?  Something less expensive, hopefully... the GSP 21 has WAY too m
any features
>for me to use! But I am looking for stuff like noise gate, compression, chorus/
flange, etc.

TC electronics chorus. I'm told it's very high quality.

Newsgroups: alt.guitar.bass
From: whale@leland.Stanford.EDU (Stephen Schmidt)
Subject: Re: REQUEST: Tab for SOUNDGARDEN
Organization: DSG, Stanford University, CA 94305, USA
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 92 20:14:08 GMT

Tab for any Soundgarden song is:

G--------------------
D--------------------
A--------------------
E--0--0--0--0--0--0--

Repeat as needed. You _may_ need to transpose keys, or maybe not.  :)

For the humor-impaired: this is a JOKE! a JOKE!  aaaaaaaargh.....

slightly more seriously, it is possible to rely on TAB so heavily that
it interferes with developing your ear and your musical sense. Try to
figure it out on your own; then get the TAB for the parts you can't get.
Shouldn't be too many of those for most of the Seattle bands, though. Of
course, you have may have done this already.
-- 
Steve Schmidt			<><		   whale@leland.stanford.edu
I can no longer sit back and allow Communist infiltration, Communist
indoctrination, Communist subversion, and the international Communist
conspiracy to sap and impurify all of our precious bodily fluids!
Newsgroups: alt.guitar.bass,news.groups,alt.guitar.tab
From: miller@quiver.enet.dec.com (Brian A. Miller)
Subject: Re: PROPOSAL:rec.m.m.bass.tab
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 18:59:31 GMT


In article <1992Nov16.132301.11657@alex.com>, dec@alex.com (Doug Clinton) writes...
>In article <Bxs0B5.8AH@news.udel.edu>, webb@chopin.udel.edu (W Webb Pickersgill) writes:
>|> 	I would like to propose a new group called rec.music.makers.bass.tab
>|> There is a lot of exchange and request for bass music on the r.m.m.bass
>|> group and even some on the r.m.m.guitar.tab group.  I think that bassists
>|> should have a place to post music without having to weed out the guitar
>|> music.  Please post all interests to this new group, do not mail me them,
>|> (unless you really want to) so that everyone can participate in the creation
>|> of this new group.
>|> 					Webb
> 
>I think this is a great idea.

Agreed.  Bring on ...bass.tab !!!



> 
>-- 
>---------------------------------------------------------------
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>dec@alex.com				CP House,
>					97-107 Uxbridge Road,
>					Ealing, London, W5 5TL
>---------------------------------------------------------------
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Newsgroups: alt.guitar.bass
From: oscar@maths.tcd.ie (Owen Carter)
Subject: First bass
Organization: Dept. of Maths, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland.
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 20:31:09 GMT

I'm looking to buy my first bass and seeing as I know nothing about them, I'm   wondering what would be a good choice for a beginner. Something not too pricey- I'm left-handed which leads to extra expence- but something not too bad to startoff on. Any advice?                                                              Owen Carter oscar@maths.tcd.ie
From: gse9k@uvacs.cs.Virginia.EDU (Scott Evans)
Newsgroups: alt.guitar.bass
Subject: Re: Hipshot
Date: 18 Nov 92 22:06:28 GMT
Reply-To: thrash@virginia.edu (Scott Evans)
Organization: or lack thereof


>Does the hipshot alter the string tension or the string length?
>Does the string really stay in tune when this is used a few
>times or does the tuning really go out?


It actually, in effect, turns the tuning key a little bit.  The
screw limits how much it turns.  I've been using a Hipshot on my
Ibanez SG800 for about six months and I *really* like it.  It's
stayed in tune very well, is really easy to use, and doesn't 
pose a real problem when tuning up.


scott
Newsgroups: alt.guitar.bass
From: 900420p@ace.acadiau.ca (GRANT MICHAEL POTTER)
Subject: Exclusively BassTab
Keywords: No FTP for Me
Organization: Acadia University
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 14:37:06 GMT

     I am one of the FTP deprived.  A newsgroup restricted to bass tab only 
would make things a hell of a lot easier.  Damn guitar players.

Bring it on,

G.
Newsgroups: alt.guitar.bass
From: mje@pookie.pass.wayne.edu (Michael Joseph Edelman)
Subject: Re: Bass for $500 ?
Reply-To: mje@pookie.pass.wayne.edu
Organization: Wayne State University
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 17:12:57 GMT

You can get a Mexican-made Fender Jazz Bass for about $250 plus case, and
they're pretty decent. I've got my eye on a fretless right now...
             --mike
From: franko@cco.caltech.edu (Frank Filipanits)
Newsgroups: alt.guitar.bass
Subject: Re: Advice on effects boxes
Date: 20 Nov 1992 04:54:59 GMT
Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
NNTP-Posting-Host: alumni.caltech.edu

It's a bit pricey, but you might try the ZOOM 9030... it is truly sweet.

All of the presets sound good on bass, even the distortion/crunchy lead
guitar presets.  Most "general purpose" effects boxes can't handle bass
on effects like that, but the 9030 just gives you a crisp, ripping sound.

I noodled around with a number of effects boxes, and was _by_far_ most 
impressed with the Zoom.

Sure wish I had $700 to blow on one (+ the foot controller)

-- 
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Frank Filipanits Jr.    B.S. EE/Music, California Institute of Technology '92
>><< Go 'canes! >><<       M.S. Music Engineering, University of Miami    '94  
franko@alumni.caltech.edu   "I ain't evil - I'm just good lookin'..." A.Cooper
Newsgroups: alt.guitar.bass
From: jflee@hubcap.clemson.edu (finley lee)
Subject: Re: Bass for $500 ?
Organization: Clemson University
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 14:58:40 GMT

The best bass one could find for about $500 is the G&L SB2 - this is a
P-Bass style instrument with a p pickup and a j pickup.  They are a
product Leo Fender was working on when he died a couple of years ago.  I
personally like them better than either vintage Fenders or Music Man
basses.  Check them out!

- Finley
Newsgroups: alt.guitar.bass
From: whale@leland.Stanford.EDU (Stephen Schmidt)
Subject: Re: Bass for $500
Organization: DSG, Stanford University, CA 94305, USA
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 92 07:03:39 GMT

In article <92323.191923PXP8@psuvm.psu.edu> Peter Parisi <PXP8@psuvm.psu.edu> writes:
>Regarding versatility of sounds, when I was bass shopping and fretting about
>the variety of available sounds, one guy suggested that an on-board
>bass-treble control unit could give all the sounds you could want.  A J-bass
>could sound like a P-bass, he opined.  How much flexibility will this sort
>of gizmo afford?

  Typical salesman bullshit, I fear. A two-band EQ just isn't going to do
all that much for you, tonally.
  It will make up one of the differences between a P-bass and a J-bass, which
is that the bridge pickup on a J-bass has more high end than the mid-ish
pickup on a P-bass and by using an EQ you can boost or cut the high end to
make things sounds treblyer or bassier.
  However, there are a lot of other differences between a P and a J, such
as body shape and wood, pickup construction (split-coil vs bar, number of
windings) that affect the tone that this unit can't alter.
  Also, there's really not that much difference between an EQ onboard the
bass and one on the amp, unless you're also talking about making the bass
active (which maybe he is). If the bass is already active, then it just
doesn't matter than much which end of the circuit has the EQ unit. Some
people think that active v. passive is a major difference while others (me
included) haven't seen that much difference, at least in terms of quality.
They do sound somewhat different, but one's not necessarily markedly better
than the other. (Assuming we're talking about GOOD passive pickups.)
  Now, this isn't to say on-board bass/treble controls aren't nice things:
they are. But they will not make a bad bass sound good, and they won't
create sounds that aren't in the bass to begin with.

All MHO, of course :)
-- 
Steve Schmidt			<><		   whale@leland.stanford.edu
I can no longer sit back and allow Communist infiltration, Communist
indoctrination, Communist subversion, and the international Communist
conspiracy to sap and impurify all of our precious bodily fluids!
From: 6500topo@ucsbuxa.ucsb.edu (Rabid Rat)
Newsgroups: alt.guitar.bass
Subject: Beginner!
Date: 15 Nov 92 21:58:58 GMT
Distribution: alt

Hi!

What follows might sound as an incredibly stupid question:

I recently began to play guitar, and I also discovered my roomate
old bass. I wanted to experiment just a little but I discovered
I had no idea about how to tune it. I have a guitar tuner that
works pretty well. Can I use it? And can you give me the standard
tunings for the four strings? And what about the tablature for
some blues thing?? 

Thanx to everybody

Rat

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From: cwa@oasis.icl.co.uk (Christopher Adams)
Newsgroups: alt.guitar.bass
Subject: Re: Level 42
Date: 17 Nov 92 09:42:13 GMT
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL3

RE: The previous response.

For anyone who likes the good L42 instrumental tracks. They released their
demo album quite a while back. (The Early tapes 1979-1980) All the stuff they
did before the "Level 42" album. At has excellent stuff that normally only gets
a like airing now like "Mr Pink" (my favourite), "Almost there" and loads of
others that I can't remember the names of.

        .-----------------------------.-----------------------------.
        | Mr.Zap ---*                 | Organising C programmers is |
        | aka Chris Adams             | like trying to herd cats.   |
        | cwa@getafix.oasis.icl.co.uk |         -- Unknown          |
        `-----------------------------'-----------------------------'
From: cwalker@canopus.bucknell.edu (carleton walker `93)
Newsgroups: alt.guitar.bass
Subject: Re: Advice on effects boxes
Date: 20 Nov 1992 23:50:08 GMT
Organization: Bucknell University, Lewisburg, PA
NNTP-Posting-Host: canopus.cs.bucknell.edu

In article <1ehr33INNp3n@gap.caltech.edu> franko@cco.caltech.edu (Frank Filipanits) writes:
>It's a bit pricey, but you might try the ZOOM 9030... it is truly sweet.

	If your worried about price, check out the Korg A5. It costs
about $250 and includes a compressor/limiter, EQ, dyna-exciter,
chorus/flanger, reverb/delay. It contains many presets, but is also
programmable. 

Carl Walker
(yet another plug for the A5)
--
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Bucknell University			 Rotten ones behind,
Lewisburg, PA				 Keeping plastics in our pockets,
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Newsgroups: alt.guitar.bass
From: fredh@cv.hp.com (Fred Handloser)
Subject: Re: Building a bass
Organization: Hewlett-Packard Company, Corvallis, Oregon USA
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1.3 PL5
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 00:26:43 GMT

Len Moskowitz (moskowit@panix.com) wrote:
: 
: They run from about 30 to 36 inches.  You should choose what feels most
: comfortable to you.

That's basically true.  I built a bass using a neck from a
cheap bass (the neck is very nice though) a long time ago
and it is still the only bass I have and use.  It is a short
scale length (I think 30 inches) and lately I've been thinking
of buying or building another one with 34 inch scale length because
it seems like the E string is too mushy at standard tuning.
I think a longer scale length would help this since the 
string would be tighter for the same note.   My main concern
is I've gotten used to the 30 inch scale length and I know
I will have to stretch more on the 34 inch scale length.

--

  --------------------------------------------------------------------
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  Corvallis, Oregon
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Newsgroups: alt.guitar.bass,rec.music.makers.bass
From: birdman@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (Christopher Kush)
Subject: Soundgarden Bass TAB (go hiro, get busy...)
Organization: Northwestern University, Evanston Illinois.
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 09:44:59 GMT

To the poster requesting Soundgarden...

I have worked out basslines for several Soundgarden songs.  Some I know are
right, and the rest I kinda gleaned by copping the guitar lick.  (Many
Soundgarden basslines are just the guitar riff an octave down.  Produces that
super-heavy wall-of-sound effect...)

These I'm reasonably sure of:
	
	"Gun:" (in 4/4) -- Tune down to D, and then...

  | e e e e e e e e | e e e e e e e e | e e e e e e q | e e e e e e q  |
D-:-0-2-3-0-2-3-0-0-|-0-2-3-0-2-3-2-0-|-3-2-0-2-2-2-r-|-3-2-0-2-2-2-r-:|


	"Power Trip:" (Triplet in 4/4) -- Plain E tuning.

  | q e.s q q |		      | q e.s q. e.|
A-:-----5-7---|  (main riff)  |-----5-7----| (hang phrase-the q. is really
E-:-0-5-----5-|               |-0-5------5-|  q+1/3, not q+1/2)

	"Loud Love:" (4/4) -- Plain E tuning.

  | s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s |
D-:-----5-----------------------5---|
A-:---7-----5-7---4-7---5-7---7---r-|
E-:-0-----0-----0-----0-----0-------|

"Outshined:" -- Down to D again.

G-:---------------5-------|
D-:-0-0-3-5-3-0-3---5-3-0-|

"Get On the Snake:" -- Plain E tuning. 

  | e e e q e q
D-:---------2-0-|---------2-0--|
A-:-2-0---------|-2-0---------:|
E-:-----3-0-----|-----3-0------|

"Room a Thousand Years Wide:" (6/4) -- Tune down to D...

  | e e e e q q   e e e |
G-:---------------2-2-2-|  (I realize it doesn't add up to 6, but trust me--
D-:-0-0-0-0-0-2-0-------|   ride the open D until it fits, and then play
                            the other notes. It *is* in 6)

On the two where I haven't included time, it's because I can't quite figure it
out.  Give the songs a listen and the notes will fall into place on their own.

If anyone out there knows any others (especially "Big Dumb Sex," "Flower,"
"Hunted Down," "HIV Baby," "Nothing to Say," or "I Awake,") *please* let me
know.

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Newsgroups: alt.guitar.bass
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 11:56:02 -0500 
From: "Philip S. Americus" <pa0t+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Subject: REQUEST: Tab for SOUNDGARDEN

Does anyone out there have any bass tab for any Soundgarden songs?

I'm looking  for the tab for "Flower" in particular.

Thanks,
Phil
Newsgroups: alt.guitar.bass
From: saiasr@JSP.UMontreal.CA (Saias Remi)
Subject: Bass for $500 ?
Organization: Universite de Montreal
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 04:22:37 GMT


 Hi, i've been playing bass for 16 months,
and now, i wanna buy a new bass, cause i 
can't bear anymore playing with my first bass,
which is really poor quality...

I'd like to pay $500 (can$) up to $700.
I want a bass which has quite a lots of capabilities...
I mean, i play all kinds of music, and so, i
wanna have  all kinds of sound, jazz,funk,blues,rock....
and i don't know anything about pick-up.

A few days ago i had the chance to play with a
Steinberger(with a graphite neck i think), and i
found it really great: good feeling(frets...), light weight...
Is there a more affordable bass with same qualities...?

	Thanx.		Remi.
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Newsgroups: alt.guitar.bass
From: whale@leland.Stanford.EDU (Stephen Schmidt)
Subject: Re: Beginner!
Organization: DSG, Stanford University, CA 94305, USA
Distribution: alt
Date: Sun, 15 Nov 92 23:22:11 GMT

In article <6711@ucsbcsl.ucsb.edu> 6500topo@ucsbuxa.ucsb.edu (Rabid Rat) writes:
>I recently began to play guitar, and I also discovered my roomate
>old bass.

Your roommate is an old bass? How nice! I bet it doesn't snore or anything...
   :)

>I wanted to experiment just a little but I discovered
>I had no idea about how to tune it. I have a guitar tuner that
>works pretty well. Can I use it?

Sure. If it's a good tuner it'll work just the same as for guitar. If it
doesn't you can still use it; just tune the string at the 12th fret (ie,
at the octave) instead of the open string. Or you can tune the first harmonic,
also at the 12th fret.

>And can you give me the standard
>tunings for the four strings?

Low string to high string:  E A D G. Same as guitar, one octave lower. This
is why you can tune your bass at the 12th fret using a guitar tuner.

>And what about the tablature for
>some blues thing??

The basic blues walk is something along these lines. I'll do this in the
key of G arbitrarily, but you can do it in any key. What it is is the
progression 1-3-5-6-b7-6-5-3 in the given chord, the chords moving as

I I I I IV IV I I V V I I

About two zillion variations on this theme exist, but this seems to be the
most basic variant. All notes are quarter notes, so I'm gonna omit the
measure bars.
If you play the I pattern in 2nd position (ie, index finger at 2nd fret,
one fret per finger) then you can play the whole thing without a shift
until you reach bar 9, which you shift up to play the V pattern.

G--------------------------------------------------
D-----------2--3--2-----------------2--3--2--------
A-----2--5-----------5--2-----2--5-----------5--2--
E--3-----------------------3-----------------------


G-----------2--3--2--------------------------------
D-----2--5-----------5--2-----------2--3--2--------
A--3--------------------------2--5-----------5--2--
E--------------------------3-----------------------


G-----------4--5--4--------------------------------
D-----4--7-----------7--4-----------2--3--2--------
A--5--------------------------2--5-----------5--2--
E--------------------------3-----------------------
-- 
Steve Schmidt			<><		   whale@leland.stanford.edu
I can no longer sit back and allow Communist infiltration, Communist
indoctrination, Communist subversion, and the international Communist
conspiracy to sap and impurify all of our precious bodily fluids!
Newsgroups: alt.guitar.bass
From: jimlynch@netcom.com (Jim Lynch)
Subject: Re: Building a bass
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest) 
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 20:34:37 GMT

Ralph Novak has developed a design in which the scale length varies. It uses
a 'fanned' fret design. He built my current bass before he came up with the
innovation.

Newsgroups: alt.guitar.bass
From: hlh5721@zeus.tamu.edu (JIMI HENDRIX)
Subject: Re: Best o' Rush
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41    
Organization: Texas A&M University, Academic Computing Services
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 04:49:00 GMT

In article <1dv5fhINNphn@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu>, jms27@po.CWRU.Edu (Joseph M. Steiner) writes...
> 
>Why not begin with Chronicles which has bits and pieces of
>many Rush albums.  Take some out from the library to audition
>them, then buy the ones you like!


Yeah, but no collection should be without "moving Pictures" and "2112"!!

Together with "chronicles" you should have a good collection for under 50
bucks (C.D.).  



LEE HUDDLESTON,                 
Texas A&M University,
College St. TX

"This views expressed are mine and are not necessarily those of
  Texas A&M University, its faculty, staff nor students"
Newsgroups: alt.guitar.bass
From: gse9k@uvacs.cs.Virginia.EDU (Scott Evans)
Subject: Re: First bass
Reply-To: thrash@virginia.edu (Scott Evans)
Organization: or lack thereof
Date: Tue, 24 Nov 1992 01:29:35 GMT

I would definitely advise checking out the new issue of Bass Player.
There's a really good article by Jeff Berlin on buying a bass, as well
as a bass shootout that's very informative.

Also, I'd recommend the Peavey Foundation.  It's a great bass for the
money; a friend of mine bought one this summer and I was *really*
impressed with how good it felt for under $300.



s
Organization: Penn State University
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 19:19:23 EST
From: Peter Parisi <PXP8@psuvm.psu.edu>
Newsgroups: alt.guitar.bass
Subject: RE: Bass for $500

Regarding versatility of sounds, when I was bass shopping and fretting about
the variety of available sounds, one guy suggested that an on-board
bass-treble control unit could give all the sounds you could want.  A J-bass
could sound like a P-bass, he opined.  How much flexibility will this sort
of gizmo afford?
Newsgroups: alt.guitar.bass
From: fredh@cv.hp.com (Fred Handloser)
Subject: Re: Hipshot
Organization: Hewlett-Packard Company, Corvallis, Oregon USA
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1.3 PL5
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 21:23:34 GMT

Michael Murphy (mjm@sabal.cis.ufl.edu) wrote:
: It takes a few minutes after that to get the stop screw for
: the low note (D) tuned right.

Does the hipshot alter the string tension or the string length?
Does the string really stay in tune when this is used a few
times or does the tuning really go out?

--

  --------------------------------------------------------------------
  Fred Handloser
  Corvallis, Oregon
From: jimlynch@netcom.com (Jim Lynch)
Newsgroups: alt.guitar.bass
Subject: Re: looking for a bass to learn on
Date: 23 Nov 92 15:19:34 GMT
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest)

Try a place in Berkeley called Subway Guitars. It's on Cedar, phone 
(510) 841 4105...
Newsgroups: alt.guitar.bass
From: mojo@reed.edu (it's alright ma, I'm only bleeding)
Subject: Ovation CC74 (was Re: Bass for $500 ?)
Organization: rarely
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 01:27:50 GMT

In article <1ebjadINNg2d@matt.ksu.ksu.edu> mortense@matt.ksu.ksu.edu (Alvin Nor Mortensen) writes:
>On a completely unrelated note: Has anyone tried the acoustic bass
>guitar by Ovation (Model CC74)? It's a roundback acoustic-electric. I saw one

I saw the one in the American Musical Supply catalog too, and was
intrigued enough to ask a local music-store guy about it; he says it's a
cheapo plywood-top import, comparable to the Applause line.

I have played the similar bass sold under the Applause name, and the tone
just sucks.  No low end at all, and just kind of a "boomp" in the
midrange.  (I'm speaking of acoustic tone---I didn't plug it in.)

	NT
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I sent her.  She made good       @   mojo@reed.edu         @  _have_ an
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Newsgroups: alt.guitar.bass
From: clements@roof.Princeton.EDU (John Brinckerhoff Clements)
Subject: finger/pick/flipper maneuver...
Organization: the Marlin Fitzwater Quartet
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 04:05:11 GMT

  Interesting technique that I'm using, and I wonder if this is old hat
or just passe:  occasionally I'll be listening to a loud thrash number
(Jazz is my typical oeuvre) and I'll be siezed with the need to play
along.  Out comes the trusty axe and away we go (take, for example,
Christ on a Crutch--damn fine hardcore band).  I find, though, that for
the really fast numbers I get the best speed by positioning my hand
above the fingerboard and using one finger (straight) like a pick on one
string, i.e. flipping it back and forth across that one string.  Anybody
else employ this technique?

john clements
21, help ftulkish