^Now that you're done working on your "tight 5", let's get back on track.

Nate Dort wrote: Sun Jul 27, 2025 6:39 pm Talk me out of buying an 8 string bass (the type with octave strings, not some potato coffee table funk/jazz thing).

I've never played one. Give me the pros and cons.

I think this is a great idea! Those Hagstrom ones are pretty rad and I've definitely gotten very close to pulling the trigger on one. Do it!

four_oclocker_2.2 wrote: Tue Jul 29, 2025 4:57 pm ^Now that you're done working on your "tight 5", let's get back on track.

Nate Dort wrote: Sun Jul 27, 2025 6:39 pm Talk me out of buying an 8 string bass (the type with octave strings, not some potato coffee table funk/jazz thing).

I've never played one. Give me the pros and cons.

I think this is a great idea! Those Hagstrom ones are pretty rad and I've definitely gotten very close to pulling the trigger on one. Do it!

See, this is the real reason you shouldn't get one. A true gear horder is telling you to do it. The amount of bodies this guy has piled in his basement for every drum snare he owns is literally holding the building up.

llllllllllllllllllll wrote: Tue Jul 29, 2025 11:04 am

surfrider wrote: one guitarist of the next band said to me, why the fuck do you even bother with a big old out of date thing like that, when you can just use THIS!

So happy that at least one other person was amused by this beautiful post. "Partridge-laden" has stuck with me since I read it.

tallchris wrote: Wouldn't the one playing the upper octave just be a guitar player with four strings?

That's no fun, we're re-inventing "Nashville tuning" on a P-bass.

https://www.daddario.com/products/guita ... ong-scale/

Hmmm, 50-40-28-18......am I going to try this on a short scale?

https://theonion.com/ironic-porn-purcha ... 819565403/

Here's where I'll mention that I've always wanted to setup a standard 34" scale bass as a "tenor" bass, so with the lowest note/largest string being your normal A string, then tuned A-D-G-C, or basically a baritone without the highest strings.

tallchris wrote: Wed Jul 30, 2025 10:56 am Here's where I'll mention that I've always wanted to setup a standard 34" scale bass as a "tenor" bass, so with the lowest note/largest string being your normal A string, then tuned A-D-G-C, or basically a baritone without the highest strings.

Or a Fender Bass V without the low E!

tallchris wrote: Here's where I'll mention that I've always wanted to setup a standard 34" scale bass as a "tenor" bass, so with the lowest note/largest string being your normal A string, then tuned A-D-G-C, or basically a baritone without the highest strings.

+1!

I have taken a middle step to this w/ The Thin Blue Duke (which is short scale) and tuned UP to G-C-F-A#. Seems like at least on this instrument that G is the lowest note that still sounds good w/ bashing distorted power chords on. It's fun!

I know 5-strings are unfashionable here but I have mine strung E A D G C and it’s fun

Dr Tony Balls wrote: Wed Jul 30, 2025 11:08 am

tallchris wrote: Wed Jul 30, 2025 10:56 am Here's where I'll mention that I've always wanted to setup a standard 34" scale bass as a "tenor" bass, so with the lowest note/largest string being your normal A string, then tuned A-D-G-C, or basically a baritone without the highest strings.

Or a Fender Bass V without the low E!

I always string/tune A-A on a bass 6 or similar guitar. Just sounds/feels a lot better to me.

Kniferide wrote: Wed Jul 30, 2025 2:00 pm

Dr Tony Balls wrote: Wed Jul 30, 2025 11:08 am

tallchris wrote: Wed Jul 30, 2025 10:56 am Here's where I'll mention that I've always wanted to setup a standard 34" scale bass as a "tenor" bass, so with the lowest note/largest string being your normal A string, then tuned A-D-G-C, or basically a baritone without the highest strings.

Or a Fender Bass V without the low E!

I always string/tune A-A on a bass 6 or similar guitar. Just sounds/feels a lot better to me.

I'm talking this:
not this:

Dr Tony Balls wrote: Wed Jul 30, 2025 2:08 pm
I'm talking this:

I completely forgot Fender made those. Only (?) cool 5 string bass.