How to Choose Your First Bass | #MyFirstInstrument | Thomann
Julia shows you some of the things you should pay attention to when choosing your first bass! How do the different pickups sound like, should you get a 5-string as a first bass and why it could make sense to get a short scale. Hopefully this will help you a bit to choose your very first bass! Gear used: https://bit.ly/3mxuxr5 Recorded and mixed with Universal Audio: http://tho.mn/uadx1 Monitors optimised through Sonarworks: http://tho.mn/sonar Interesting bits and pieces: 0:00 Intro 0:39 The Pickups 1:03 Playing Singlecoil Pickup 1:44 Playing Split Coil Pickup 1:59 Playing Humbucker 2:07 4 or 5 String Bass? 2:47 Playing 5 String Bass 2:57 Scale Lenght? Short Scale? 3:34 Playing Medium Scale Bass 3:42 Fretless Bass 4:11 Playing Fretless Bass 4:25 Roundwound and Flatwound Strings? 4:42 Playing Roundwound vs Flatwound Strings 5:03 Please comment if you have any questions! 5:24 Thanks for watching! Webshop: https://www.thomann.de Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/thomanninternational Twitter: @thomann https://twitter.com/thomann Instagram: @thomann.music https://instagram.com/thomann.music Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/thomannde/ Visit our blogs: GER: https://www.thomann.de/blog/de/ ENG: https://www.thomann.de/blog/en/ FRA: https://www.thomann.de/blog/fr/ ESP: https://www.thomann.de/blog/es/ ITA: https://www.thomann.de/blog/it/ NED: https://www.thomann.de/blog/nl/ FIN: https://www.thomann.de/blog/fi/
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