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History Of The Bass 1990 - 2000s
The 1990s saw the popularization of the acoustic bass guitar and extensive use of 5-string electric. This is also a great time period for innovation bass as on-board electronics is rapidly improving. The use of preamplifiers and equalizers in the guitar's on-board system that allowed for a wider range of clean sounds. This also allows for a much-improved, articulate attack came in and slap techniques. This technique has always been widely used in funk and jazz genres, but became more popular in stone, metal, and alternative as proven by its use in such bands as Korn, by Reginald "Fieldy" Arvizu, and The Red Hot Chili Peppers, by Michael "Flea" Balzary.
In the new millennium has seen bass guitar radical transformation, adaptation, and improvement. Extended Range Basses (ERBs) now comes as much as 12-string octave variation without duplication. There are also 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, and 11 string option in various Erb. In 2004, luthier Michael Adler built the first 11-string bass. He followed it the next year with the first 12-string. Both guitar music has the same range as a grand piano.
Pickups moving forward with the use of optics that uses an infrared LED to sense movement of the optical string. Most LED pickups combined with PIEZO pickup because the LED can not feel the buzz or the resonance that can carry traditional pickups. This gives a cleaner sound while still able to take advantage of all the techniques and style of play.
In 2010 electric bass guitar will celebrate the birthday-75. At that time the bass has been changed from stock-piece solid Alder and Maple with single-coil magnetic pickup and no electronic goods that living, breathing piece of history that has been, and will continue, the driving pulse of music and musicians everywhere.
In the new millennium has seen bass guitar radical transformation, adaptation, and improvement. Extended Range Basses (ERBs) now comes as much as 12-string octave variation without duplication. There are also 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, and 11 string option in various Erb. In 2004, luthier Michael Adler built the first 11-string bass. He followed it the next year with the first 12-string. Both guitar music has the same range as a grand piano.
Pickups moving forward with the use of optics that uses an infrared LED to sense movement of the optical string. Most LED pickups combined with PIEZO pickup because the LED can not feel the buzz or the resonance that can carry traditional pickups. This gives a cleaner sound while still able to take advantage of all the techniques and style of play.
In 2010 electric bass guitar will celebrate the birthday-75. At that time the bass has been changed from stock-piece solid Alder and Maple with single-coil magnetic pickup and no electronic goods that living, breathing piece of history that has been, and will continue, the driving pulse of music and musicians everywhere.
