ISB @ Penn State..

[Calvin Marks]

Originally Posted by Ken Smith

I don't care if my bass sounds 5% better standing. If the bass is not good enough without standing, then get a better bass.

I've played some really fine basses that sound very muted when your knee/leg touches the back of the bass. That being said, they sounded terrific and vibrated properly when I played standing.

From my experience (albeit rather limited), flat-back instruments are more prone to muting.



Ken, the Brun book is all tertiary information. The author took so many of the things ridiculously out of context and failed to document some of the sources properly. That being said, there is some validity in what's being presented, but his opinions of it are often taken as fact versus conjecture.