{"id":6843,"date":"2011-10-06T08:23:45","date_gmt":"2011-10-06T08:23:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.musicademy.com\/?p=6843"},"modified":"2019-08-02T11:30:12","modified_gmt":"2019-08-02T11:30:12","slug":"ask-the-expert-recommendations-for-a-bass-guitar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.musicademy.com\/blog\/ask-the-expert-recommendations-for-a-bass-guitar\/","title":{"rendered":"Ask the Expert &#8211; Recommendations for a bass guitar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Ayush Jain writes:<br \/>\n&#8220;I am looking forward to buy a new bass, I am searching for a pretty durable and hard solid bass. I mostly play on low tuning (Standard C) so gonna buy a 5 string bass.Can you suggest me some companies and models.I generally play progressive metal and I need a good sounding bass for slap and pops too :). My budget is around 470 US$.<\/p>\n<p>Andy replies:<\/p>\n<p>Its difficult to recommend things against a US budget as we are based in the UK and prices work out differently there. However, I was always a fan of the Musicman SUB basses that came out 3-4 years ago. If you can find one on Ebay it should be within your budget &#8211; these were US made but a bargain price to begin with. If you can find one you are onto a winner.<\/p>\n<p>That said &#8211; if you are tuning down to low C you may find some buzzing with any bass so it might be good to get it set up for that tuning too.<\/p>\n<p>If anyone else has any recommendations for Ayush then please share them here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Ayush Jain writes: &#8220;I am looking forward to buy a new bass, I am searching for a pretty durable and hard solid bass. 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