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    NO electronic music is as good as real instruments.


    My opinion, of course.
    Oh and bass guitar is awesome and I love watching bass players play.

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    If you don’t like bass, you could try smashing one of your speakers (can’t remember which). That way—in one or two songs, at least—you won’t be able to hear the bass guitar track. Though that would mean you may have to jetsam a few other parts of the song (as well as having a mono? track), but I’m sure they’re all expendable if it means getting rid of that horrid bass. Or you could just change the panning. Whatever works for you.

    Me, I quite like bass guitar. :) My sister plays it, and she can make some pretty funky sounds come out of it. I jam with her sometimes, and though I have never jammed with a machine, I guess it wouldn’t be as fun as it would with a human. My aunty’s father also plays it, but I don’t really like playing guitar with him because sometimes he has this jazz stuff which he makes me do. I don’t really like it because I’m not too good at either instrument (guitar or bass guitar).

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    Quote Originally Posted by blim View Post
    Do you know anything about music Fisher? I suspect not judging by your original post. Do you think an acoustic guitar can be replicated accurately on a computer? I admit as technology improves it gets closer but as of now nothing matches a live instrument.
    o rly?

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    I can't understand how you can get to a place in your head where you loathe an instrument so much. I'd love to know how you reached this conclusion. Besides the whole "synth bass > bass" argument, which is pretty crazy; like saying a programmed drum machine is preferable to a live drum kit.
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    You can simulate any instrument in the world with a computer, you know. -.-

    Also, bass guitar is the coolest instrument ever.

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    How on earth could you get the exact same sound from a computer, as you could from Flea, or Les Claypool. It can be mimicked, but the original sound would have to be laid down by an instrument.

    Basses rule. They're a necessity. Every rock band has one, every symphony orchestra has one or more.

    If your into that boom-dee-dee-boom techno crap people try to call music, they I could see how you would think a computer could replace a bass. However for music composed and played by humans weilding actual instruments (which I personally refer to as "real music"), a bass is as necessary as any other instrument.
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    Fisher, why do you hate bass in the first place?
    Try listening to rock with no bass at all, it's so incredibly... dry.

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    By your logic, nobody should ever play any instrument ever.

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    Gorrilaz are an amazing band, but its completely electronic, even the voice of 2-D isn't sung by a real person, however I love that group.

    However real instruments do sound better, I think they way you implement it is just as good as the skill put into the playing.

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    There was some band in Sweden that obviously performed live by using cell-phones once.
    That sounds really cool.

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    OK.... what would you do if you turned up to a live performance and in the place of where the bass guitarist would be standing there is a small computer playing annoyingly dull base sounds.
    So don't be stupid and say playing bass is pointless.

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    How would you perform a sythetic bass live then? Real instruments will always been stuff that's sythesised or mangled by a computer.
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    rock without bass is a huge no when you come to think about it. bass is more important than it seems and true music appreciators listen to the bass and realize how much it matters.

    would black sabbath have became the biggest rock band in the world without Geezer Butler?

    take away any vital instrument and the music is suddenly not as good.
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    I love a song with a great bass line
    rawr

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