What If You Replace Guitars With Basses? Or Bass With Baritone Guitar?

[@Femboy_lunges_at-u]

The only thing left to do is replace the drums with bass

[@metalpuppet5798]

Sad El Estepario noises

[@veglord_the_profane]

No, replace vocals with drums

[@Femboy_lunges_at-u]

@@veglord_the_profane Ohhh yeah youre right I forgot that part

[@deathmetalglenn]

This question is what led to the 8 string era of Meshuggah

[@JustinAdams_music]

As a guitar player, I enjoyed all basses way more than I expected and hated all guitars more than I expected.

[@NickLeonard]

@@JustinAdams_music bassed.

[@josephperkins-z7n]

Very interesting. I guess thats why people don't just give up on guitar and go for bass for their triple drop G# Djent single.

[@RogerSanderson]

The pinch harmonic with the all bass is kinda dope! I’d say all bass is cool for creative ideas. Say that with with the pinch harmonic repeats 4 times & the 3rd time has the all bass harmonic. Or some riffs can have that extra growl with the all bass.

[@metalprognosis]

That was fun. And some of the bass dominate mixes did sound real brutal.

[@Hiei999]

As a bass player, using these riffs, it sounded way better. Way rounder (minus the pinch). Of course IN THIS CONTEXT that you provided. Also if that is truly your bass DI signal, I am worried... those wave forms need some volume.

[@NickLeonard]

@@Hiei999 I did use the input gain on the amps to match the volumes. It doesn't really matter how loud or soft you record, within reason, there over 100db of boosting you can do digitally before introducing any distortion

[@Hiei999]

@@NickLeonard I was more joking, my bass DI always comes in hot compared to my guitar. Both are active pick ups, but preamp on my bass really adds girth I guess.

[@NickLeonard]

@@Hiei999 mine was active, but I cut the preamp out ;)

[@Durkhead]

The only thing i really got from this is i need to change my strings. Sounded cool though

[@taylolz]

Nile's Ithyphallic album has no bass guitar for those interested.

[@NikOlaArtStUdiO]

Played a lot of good guitars and sold, one day I bought baritone guitar, not looking back since.

[@visionswords5477]

I'm tickled by the fact that the first sounds exactly like something of "The Violent Sleep of Reason".

[@NickLeonard]

@@visionswords5477 I do listen to a lot of Meshuggah if you can't tell lol

[@Ugh_Ew]

Ya’ll should listen to Dianogah

[@zi248]

It’s fun, but where is low end?

[@georgewalker3702]

Try quad teacking the basses with the guitars, I think that would sound monstrous.

[@Typical.Anomaly]

3:02 Harmonic squeal on a bass? Hehe

[@thepwningeggnog]

Ok now have the guitar play the drum part

[@johnterpack3940]

Sounded to me like everybody was chugging the same riff. If there had been a dedicated bass line, the differences probably would have been more pronounced. Personally, I'm annoyed at the current trend of muddying the waters. You have bass players moving to 6+ strings to play the squeaky notes at the high end and guitarists drop tuning 7+ strings to chug the low tones. It's like they're in the closet, secretly wanting to play the other instrument but unwilling to admit it to themselves.

[@NickLeonard]

It would've been more pronounced, and a good idea if I ever revisit the topic, but the question I was trying to answer was: if someone only has a baritone, or only has a bass, and wants to play in these low tunings, how much of a difference does the instrument make? There are lots of bands and subgenres that live in these low tunings. If I was playing a more standard rock/metal style with the guitar and bass an octave apart, it would sound way weirder, but I don't think that would really be a question anyone has...