Hi everyone! Today I'm gonna record a
song using mutes on my bass. I find those
was quite interesting because when bass
guitar electric bass guitars were
invented and introduced in the early 60s
it was quite common to find mute on them
they usually take the shape for example
of a piece of foam jammed between the
bridge and the bridge cover that's the
way Fender did it for example. Now the
reason for them is because the electric
bass guitar was introduced at the start
to be a more practical replacement for
double bass because it's less bulky
because it's easier to learn being a
fretted instruments, easier to carry
around but by and large bass players and
bass manufacturers, instrument
manufacturers still believed that the
bass should be able to sound like a
double bass and the mute were there to
achieve that. I'm gonna play a song today
on my Rickenbacker where even to this
day the mutes come as standard. They are a
piece of foam that's inside the bridge I
hope you can see see it here it's sort
of a black piece of foam. You engage it
by turning these screws here and
sometimes it gets a little bit jammed so you need
to alternate the 2 true screws maybe it's
not super practical to do on stage but
once they're engaged it's a really nice thing to
to have in terms of sound. So I'm gonna
play a song on that. One thing I would
recommend if you're using it is always
to double check your tuning which I've
done already, double check your tuning to
make sure that the mutes pushing on the
strings haven't affected your tuning just
to make sure it still sounds correct.
I'm gonna play a song by The Animals, it's
called We Gotta Get Out
Of This Place
and so let's go, I hope you enjoy that
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