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0:00 Intro
0:44 short sistory
1:02 Pick Groove
1:22 Woods
1:42 Tone Control
2:00 Tone Push/Pull
2:11 Conclusion

[@lenniecondellone7834]

Stop feeding my GAS! 🤣

[@stefanbogner6237]

You speak for me

[@cedcobasse]

I have the red one, I owned more than 30 basses, sandberg, fender, status, lag, human base, ibanez, Yamaha, Godin, many cost more than 2000, this guild is one of the best

[@GlennJimenez]

I have owned many famous guitar brands and my $700 guild is my favorite

[@HFVidShotz]

Now I MUST learn how to play bass guitar.

[@CharlesWillisBonsai]

Reminds me of the Jack Cassidy Epiphone basses that Jay Bentley from Bad Religion modded to use P bass pickups.

[@muchopomposo.6394]

Terrific stuff, as usual! Keep up the good work. 👍🏻

[@peekaboo4390]

Very nice and any serious bass player should have a semi in his or her arsenal. I have my sweet 74 Yamaha SA-75 with TI jazz flats that sounds and looks incredible.

[@maximeputigny1135]

Phil is such a great bass player. 👍

[@thebassmatrix]

Thank You 😃🙏🏼✌️

[@tony.guitarplayer]

EMG Precision pickup should works really well on that bass

[@jonpeterson7133]

Bought one. Love it.

[@stephentesta9106]

Nice tone

[@invisiblejesus]

Wow... I'm generally a tone cranked/bypassed sort of guy, but goddamn that sounds good with the tone rolled down.

[@allanritter2671]

Just bought one and gigged with it recently. Got a lot of good compliments on the sound - tone was rolled off the whole night. I don't play with any effects just slight compression. It has some neck dive that I wasn't used too coming from an Elite Jazz bass so I replaced the tuners with some Hipshot ultralights and that took care of that. The string spacing is a tad wider than my Jazz but wasn't too uncomfortable and I quickly got acclimated. Love this bass and the trade off in weight with that Jazz means it will probably be my go to for the next couple of shows. Didn't replace with flats yet but the guitarist liked that punch that came trough with the rounds so we'll see.

[@musicmaestrodj]

Great comments! Where is the bass made? Thanks!

[@jreid641]

Cool bass

[@markbass354]

very nice mister Gregor

[@geraldp494]

Rehm is a Beast on Bass

[@JustusVidyo]

wow, what a beauty

[@jared338]

Phil has the Ham hock hands as a bass player should

[@PizzaBall_]

I’m stuck between this or splurging a little and getting the Schecter Corsair. I’m a P bass fan through and through, so this having a precision pickup instead of two T Birds (the Schecter) is kind of pushing me towards the Guild.

[@liamtahaney713]

Ugggh i hate proprietary parts. If i could put a delano p bass pickup in that i think id buy it immediately

[@toninomereu2192]

someone knows what kind of case it's required for this instrument?

[@david-xavierkopp9463]

Moin Gregor, kannst du mal eine Demo vom "guardian of the worm" machen? Grüße!

[@born2grooveu]

how much does it weigh? in pounds

[@luismariojimenezrodriguez8924]

Epiphone Jack Casady ☺️❤️

[@jbf6639]

Why isn’it as good as the starfire II except for the pickups ?

[@fullhd6598]

Semihollows sounds great with Flats !!❤

[@HamptonGuitars]

So do all short scale basses in general.

[@davidabsalon7539]

HOLA AMIGOS ME RECOMIENDAN ESTE BASS STAR FIRE I, O STAR FIRE II ¿

[@pbasswil]

Anybody else notice, in the playing clip @ 1:12 , the drastic change in tone between the full-and-round-sounding E string and the thinner-and-brighter A string??

[@julien56457]

I feel like the E string is played palm muted and the A string isn't

[@michaelkeefer4293]

Beautiful bass and great tone! Makes me wish I had a use for it. BTW, ever think about doing a video on your watch collection?

[@unduloid]

I heard you can use them to make music.

[@sirpatrickofgoober6603]

Killer intro!

[@thebassmatrix]

Thanks 😃🙏🏼

[@Belman5]

It's just not a slap bass! Looks lovely, and yeah.....flats all the way on this one.

[@downhillblur708]

No one ever looked bad playing a Guild

[@FransvandenBergeMuziekschuur]

Great bass player.

[@thebassmatrix]

Thanks man 😃🙏🏼✌️

[@FransvandenBergeMuziekschuur]

@@thebassmatrix Thank you. You had a connection with the bass. If you owned it I think you should raise the action just a hair. That bass will sound even better when you have to work it I imagine.

[@thebassmatrix]

@@FransvandenBergeMuziekschuur Absolutely! ✌ i recognized, with (semi-)hollow basses, the strings response feels slightly different in the right hand and for what one could need some moments to get adjusted to when putting out real chop-playing... as we had quite a schedule to go through on that day, and I just grabbed the bass and we recorded the intro, and we wanted to get everything done in the 1st take if possible, I went for something steady & more straight, to get it nailed smoothly... 😎

[@FransvandenBergeMuziekschuur]

@@thebassmatrix that’s a fair way to go about. I just heard low action. And i could hear the power in your hand/fingers. That bass would do great in recordings. With either flats or round wounds.

[@thebassmatrix]

@@FransvandenBergeMuziekschuur Haha, cool, you felt it 😎👌🏻 i was already amazed how great the slaps sounded on it 👍🏻

[@zulu5157]

What a beautiful looking bass. Looks much more better than it sounds.

[@jkf9167]

It's got an old-school midrangey sound. It sounds like it has round wound strings on it, where flats would probably be more complimentary to the bass. I like the sound enough. That midrange sound is often great in a mix.

[@zulu5157]

​@@jkf9167 Yes, this is definetly a flatwound string bass.

[@cedcobasse]

Got one with flats, really better than round for this bass, if you like old scholl

[@turnfordguitars]

You didn't tell us the price!

[@Giambijuice]

This is roughly a $700 bass. His definition of affordable and mine are very different 😆

[@simonbowkett124]

Lot harder to slap on a Starfire II 😳

[@Terrible_Peril]

I get by just fine overall 🤷‍♂

[@simonbowkett124]

@@Terrible_Peril Popping too …. with the front pickup jammed up to the neck? Well done. I am in awe of you. 🙄

[@Terrible_Peril]

@@simonbowkett124 yes, popping, too. there's sufficient space. you can also employ a more Larry graham anchored-by-the-bridge kinda between the pickup style.

[@chrs-klly]

Judging by the swelling and cuts his knuckles, the guy playing the bass was in a scrap the night before recording this.

[@robertmudrow8034]

in the gay bar lol

[@RobVespa]

Surprisingly affordable?

[@observenotify8604]

The best frequency and vibration of bass is still a hidden secret.

[@jared338]

🤫

[@ej3342]

I love your videos! Would you do me a favor and say, "I need your clothes, your boots, and your motorcycle."?

[@edeledeledel5490]

What I really want to know is what is the sustain of any bass guitar - none of the demonstrations EVER tries this. They just fiddle about showing how clever they are. Pisses me off.