{"id":4480,"date":"2013-07-29T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-07-29T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/?p=4480"},"modified":"2013-07-29T05:22:16","modified_gmt":"2013-07-29T10:22:16","slug":"what-would-early-1980s-bass-sound-like-if-it-were-recreated-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/article\/what-would-early-1980s-bass-sound-like-if-it-were-recreated-today.html","title":{"rendered":"What would early-1980s bass sound like if it were recreated today?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A common thread that anyone over the age of 30 says is, &#8220;they don&#8217;t make music like they used to&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, I beg to differ. Check this out:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><iframe height=\"315\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/nPvuNsRccVw\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"420\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>That, if you can believe it, <strong>is a new song<\/strong>. <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Treasure_%28Bruno_Mars_song%29\">Yes, really<\/a>. The song is <em>Treasure<\/em> by Bruno Mars, and if you can believe it, the bass guitar is turned <strong>up<\/strong> in the song. <strong>Way up<\/strong>. <\/p>\n<p>It is very, very rare to hear such a pronounced bass tone turned up that much in a modern mix, but there it is.<\/p>\n<p>And wouldn&#8217;t you know it, it&#8217;s ranked at #5 of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/charts\/hot-100\">BillBoard Hot 100 right now<\/a> at the time of this writing. Again, yes, really.<\/p>\n<p>So to any naysayer that ever said &#8220;bass is dead&#8221;, um&#8230; I don&#8217;t think so. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A common thread that anyone over the age of 30 says is, &#8220;they don&#8217;t make music like they used to&#8221;. Oh, I beg to differ. Check this out: That, if you can believe it, is a new song. Yes, really. The song is Treasure by Bruno Mars, and if you can believe it, the bass &#8230; <a title=\"What would early-1980s bass sound like if it were recreated today?\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/article\/what-would-early-1980s-bass-sound-like-if-it-were-recreated-today.html\" aria-label=\"More on What would early-1980s bass sound like if it were recreated today?\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":4479,"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\/4480"}],"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=4480"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4480\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4479"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}