{"id":11936,"date":"2018-01-08T11:28:18","date_gmt":"2018-01-08T16:28:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/?p=11936"},"modified":"2018-01-08T11:28:29","modified_gmt":"2018-01-08T16:28:29","slug":"aston-barrett","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/article\/aston-barrett.html","title":{"rendered":"Aston Barrett knows how to get an upright sound out of a Jazz Bass"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Aston Barrett, nicknamed &#8220;Family Man&#8221; (even before he had children,) is a Fender Jazz Bass player who plays reggae music.<\/p>\n<p>Amazingly, he is able to get an incredible upright sound out of the Fender J:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/amqnBjL08jc?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Aston is known to use a custom <a href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/2ElllfS\">flatwound set of strings<\/a>. He has said in an interview that custom sizing was chosen from a 5-string set (even though he plays 4-string) and that Fender sends him 6 packs of strings once a year. <\/p>\n<p>In studio, Aston uses Ampeg amplification, but in live settings he has been known to use the Acoustic 370. Part of how Aston gets the sound he does is by using bigger 15&#8243; or greater speakers.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7pA4Ky48hQQ?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Aston&#8217;s playing style is not flashy, but it&#8217;s in tune, sounds good and has a reggae groove that&#8217;s very pleasing to the ear.<\/p>\n<p>What does bass for reggae music sound like? It sounds like Aston Barrett.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aston Barrett, nicknamed &#8220;Family Man&#8221; (even before he had children,) is a Fender Jazz Bass player who plays reggae music. Amazingly, he is able to get an incredible upright sound out of the Fender J: Aston is known to use a custom flatwound set of strings. He has said in an interview that custom sizing &#8230; <a title=\"Aston Barrett knows how to get an upright sound out of a Jazz Bass\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/article\/aston-barrett.html\" aria-label=\"More on Aston Barrett knows how to get an upright sound out of a Jazz Bass\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":11937,"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\/11936"}],"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=11936"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11936\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11937"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}