So I was just watching a video by a guitarists who plays an 8 string guitar. His video was in response to criticism to 8 string players, since the tone of an 8 string guitar is so low, that you may as well play bass guitar. He switched the roles of the guitar and bass in a recording of his to show the results of playing the bass guitar instead. Now, his point was that
he felt its better to use the 8 string as the melody and just keep bass guitar in the role of rhythm, but the comments in the comment section really made me happy : p Lemme show you some of them-
Calluth1 week ago
To be fair.. Bass as lead-voice sounds freakin' awesome!
Satan Overdose1 week ago
+Bung The Booce imagine a song without a guitar and a bass instead of it, especialy djent, it would sound amazing
Aphoticon5 days ago
Lead bass actually sounds pretty awesome
Jham K3 days ago
Is it just my own bias as a bassist and a bass lover, or playing the guitar part with a bass actually sound really good ? Good enough to be some serious business
LikanosVE72 days ago
The fucking bass as a guitar is fucking superior. GG EZ
Shanon Sizemore1 week ago
The bass sounds great as the guitar, but I didn't feel like it works quite as well for the guitar playing bass parts.
Eric Sawada5 days ago
Not gonna lie, I want to see a band do this type of stuff
Justin Brown4 days ago
check out Extinction Level Event. no guitars, all bass
Jesse McCormick6 days ago
This sounds really good. Maybe 8-string guitarists should just play bass.
Fancy FA2 days ago
Sounds better reversed. The strings on the bass actually have enough tension to produce a clear note.
Diesel Power2 days ago
well... i think, i don't need any guitars no more. bass is pretty enough for all parts of my music)))
Jim Dragon5 days ago
i would like to see a stoner band with two bassists one having a guitar like sound and one having, well, a bass sound and a drummer.
(I told him to look up Pinback btw : p)
Michael Clavelli10 hours ago
It sounds fantastic! It's much more intense and also much clearer!
SlickDude2 days ago
It honestly sounds really good, shit I'd say fuck the 8 string just go for the bass. Sounded pretty good.
dillan mcdaniel2 days ago
bass is better anyway
(best comment : p)
Adriano Chialastri2 days ago
You should try this with two basses and no guitars
(this is 100% true, why even keep the guitar, you can still have the bass play rhythm and melody at the same time, many bands have done this before : p)
There are a few guitarists on there making a big fuss about how you cant do that with a bass guitar, how it doesnt "sound right" ect ect : p But for the most part people really liked it, and a few people even said just lose the guitar. This has given me faith in humanity, haha : p