i've seen jack bruce from cream play a couple songs on bass with a regular electric guitar.

i use a fender strat right now, but im interested in learning some bass techniques. could i do this before i get a bass? just as a way to practice

i used to tune mine way down and play for fun. this doesnt work because the string tension would be too loose (no sustain, the note just dies)

could i re-string my guitar with 4 bass strings?

This post was edited by magikod on Feb 11 2009 06:56pm

you just buy a bass....if you did that you'd snap your guitar in half

lol

I have a boss me-50 pedal system. It has a bass booster that lets me play the entire neck an enitre octave down. I use it with my strat so its pretty sweet.

That's what I use too but it's not really THAT awesome. If you strum the string to much, it will fuck up the sound of the octave.

The later Boss GT series has a nicer bass emulator. Hell, the GT-3 I had for a while was ok. Though why waste the killer preamps on it on doing bass >.>

There are a bunch of Octave shifting pedals for guitar.

We actually octave shifted all of the bass on my metal bands recordings.



This post was edited by Ludafish on Feb 13 2009 04:28pm

you cant resting a strat with bass strings, the neck will snap, and you would need a longer neck anyway
just buy a cheap bass