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I can highly recommend trying a 12 string bass - it's a lot of fun and sounds awesome..

This is my 12 string bass. It's a Waterstone TP-12
It's tuned standard Eee-Aaa-Ddd-Ggg (I have also previously tuned 5ths and 3rds instead of the octave for fun)
I've also played an 8 string bass (Ee-Aa-Dd-Gg), and while that was cool too, this thing actually sounds notably cooler
It's a challenge to play, but it sounds amazing....
I've also previosly owned a Hamer CH-12. That was a fairly decent instrument, but suffered pretty bad neck dive.

i played one of the hagstrom 8 string basses a while ago. it was pretty sweet.

doesn't jeremy - pearl jam use a 12 string bass? i'd check but eddie vedder's voice annoys me.

s_mcsleazy wrote: ↑

Sun Nov 28, 2021 1:41 am

...doesn't jeremy - pearl jam use a 12 string bass?...

Yep.
And the song "Why Go", also on the album Ten, is played on an 8 String bass (the rest of the album is a fretless 4)

I think Cheap Trick's bassplayer Tom Petersson was somewhat renown for using a 12 string (mine is supposedly his old signature edition - doubt he ever used that model though)

natthu wrote: ↑

Sun Nov 28, 2021 3:00 am

I think Cheap Trick's bassplayer Tom Petersson was somewhat renown for using a 12 string (mine is supposedly his old signature edition - doubt he ever used that model though)

Hamer invented the 12 string for Petersson. He may have played the "stock" versions at some point but his were essentially custom made and I know they differed from production models. One of his old 12s came through a guitar shop I managed about 20 years ago. It was wired for stereo. Apparently the humbucker went to some Marshall stacks and the P Bass went to SVTs. That would be something to hear!

The OP is talking about a bass version of a 12-string guitar, not a tripled 4-string bass.

countertext wrote: ↑

Sun Nov 28, 2021 7:45 am

The OP is talking about a bass version of a 12-string guitar, not a tripled 4-string bass.

I know, but these multi course bass oriented instruments are all roughly in the same ballpark. It's all relevent IMHO.

countertext wrote: ↑

Sun Nov 28, 2021 7:45 am

The OP is talking about a bass version of a 12-string guitar, not a tripled 4-string bass.

Well, that's what he was talking about six years ago. Now it's just kind of a zombie thread living off an appreciation for basses with a set of single or double coursed octave strings.

*EDIT to remove my ignorance of the Burns*

I've seen a couple Veillette baritone 12s come up in the markets over the past few years- Ernie Jackson (the only guy I know that has more 12-string electrics than me!) swears by them- sez they sound like thunder. There's one available (no affiliation) on their site:

http://www.veilletteguitars.com/special ... play=B#147

I have a bariXII on my dream list- maybe soon if the Omicron locks us all down again.