{"id":10617,"date":"2017-02-08T11:33:29","date_gmt":"2017-02-08T16:33:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/?p=10617"},"modified":"2017-02-08T14:29:33","modified_gmt":"2017-02-08T19:29:33","slug":"noel-reddings-bass-tone-was-pretty-darned-good","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/article\/noel-reddings-bass-tone-was-pretty-darned-good.html","title":{"rendered":"Noel Redding&#8217;s bass tone was pretty darned good"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While playing in The Jimi Hendrix experience, Noel Redding typically did turn up his bass extra-loud just to be heard better&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;and we&#8217;re glad he did, because he had an amazing bass tone.<\/p>\n<p>While watching the video below, you will hear his &#8220;blare&#8221; loud-and-proud, even while playing slowly. You&#8217;ll also notice he favored playing up near the fretboard which added to his &#8220;warmer&#8221; style sound.<\/p>\n<p>A lot of attention is given to Hendrix, but without Redding&#8217;s bass, it just wouldn&#8217;t have been the same.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/WwaekyQhMfI?rel=0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Noel is playing a Jazz Bass, and yes, we obviously have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/jazz-bass\/shopby\/4_string.htm\">plenty of 4-string J-Bass pickups to choose from<\/a> to chase that vintage tone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While playing in The Jimi Hendrix experience, Noel Redding typically did turn up his bass extra-loud just to be heard better&#8230; &#8230;and we&#8217;re glad he did, because he had an amazing bass tone. While watching the video below, you will hear his &#8220;blare&#8221; loud-and-proud, even while playing slowly. You&#8217;ll also notice he favored playing up &#8230; <a title=\"Noel Redding&#8217;s bass tone was pretty darned good\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/article\/noel-reddings-bass-tone-was-pretty-darned-good.html\" aria-label=\"More on Noel Redding&#8217;s bass tone was pretty darned good\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":10616,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10617"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10617"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10617\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10616"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}