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Old 12-23-2008, 12:34 PM   #100
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Originally Posted by yep View Post
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If you take the same approach to bass, and pound the hell out of the strings, playing with the kind of expressive, loosey-goosey timing that many guitar players do, the sound is apt to overload the pickups, the input stages (preamps), and everything else, producing the same kind of dull, farty, obnoxious-sounding lows that come from overloading cheap speakers.

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I wish I could tie our bass player to a chair and beat him senseless while I recite every word of that post. "If..! (punch) You..! (smack) Take..! (oof) The..! (sok) Same..! (smash) Approach..! (blam)...."
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