Turn GUITAR into a BASS

This is the most convincing bass guitar you'll ever hear!

[scrat]

The secret to any good bass player is the fedora they wear. The color, size and material is what truly makes a bass player.

[BearScatHumor]

Bass players been real quiet since this dropped

[tyrelllowery]

Funnily enough I’m the opposite. I play bass, but I don’t play guitar (or own one) so I pitch up in my daw

[dangerpin]

I actually did this when I started recording on a PC 20+ years ago, because I couldn't afford to buy a bass. It sounds like shit but it fills the bottom out. Yes, I just wrote "fills the bottom". 😮😊😮

[expertarcher]

Instructions unclear: I turned my bass into a guitar

[thomasapostolico]

bro really played the longview bassline 💀

[Mynoah]

I’m showing this to every bass player I know. nobody

[heather-vedg]

do more videos like this! it was so good!

[benferris]

The bass still has a difrent sound to guitar. But its pretty convincing to your average joe.

[DJLOSERMIND]

I used to do that just adding additional overdrive and a little noise compression with itti bitti distortion just for kicks...

Though after that I moved on to sampling

[ickebins]

Good news for bass players aswell..

Just tune your bass up 1 octave and you have guitar... Right?!?

[zubat]

The tough part comes when you take into account the distance between each string, It'll make slap a way harder and more precise technique, and It'll make you run the risk of having your strings wear out or maybe even break sooner than with regular guitar playing.

[understanding]

Bass players are tone snobs as well and we’d know the difference between a low octave guitar and a bass.

[DuffkaBigNerd]

Now the question can you do this in reverse? Can you crank a bass up by 12 semitones to get a convincing guitar sound?

[monsecko]

Bit lower than one octave, due to the thicker bass strings

[MaladyKayjo]

This is actually very wrong, and anybody who’s actually Played a bass knows this. The strings because of their thickness and size produce a different timbre meaning, even beyond the pitch they sound different, no, that could be emulated digitally but it’s not as simple as lowering your guitar by an octave. Sorry. So if you don’t really care about complete and total tone accuracy, yeah you can do it, seven nation army did it and it’s iconic, but if you actually want to make your guitar sound like a base, the best thing you can actually do is put bass strings on your guitar, yes, you can do that, yes, there is a guitar designed specifically for that purpose. It’s called the bass VI and it’s also iconic

[aranzabonanza]

I know this video was tongue-in-cheek but if people in the comments can't understand how bad this sounds (not due to audio quality) then they should probably get a bassist to play a part, or get much better at guitar before doing this.

[punkfrenzy]

I love how no one mentioned you played Longview😭

[skrillah]

Same thing can be done with bass to make a guitar sound

[derpatel]

Bassists have had theirs timbers shoverred