{"id":7017,"date":"2015-03-11T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-03-11T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/?p=7017"},"modified":"2015-03-11T11:20:23","modified_gmt":"2015-03-11T16:20:23","slug":"what-does-an-8-string-octave-bass-guitar-sound-like","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/article\/what-does-an-8-string-octave-bass-guitar-sound-like.html","title":{"rendered":"What does an 8-string (octave) bass guitar sound like?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The word <em>octave<\/em> was purposely put in the title of this article because some players hear &#8220;8 string,&#8221; and believe that means a tuning of something like F# B E A D G B E. That&#8217;s not what this is. This is a 4-string doubled with 4 more octave strings, as in eE aA dD gG (the lower case letter is the high octave note.)<\/p>\n<p>Check out this video to hear what one sounds like:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><iframe height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/wmuWCIkK0QM?rel=0&amp;showinfo=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"560\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h3>Is the 8-string even necessary when good octave pedals exist?<\/h3>\n<p>If you want a sound similar to the above, there&#8217;s a much cheaper way to get it compared to buying a new 8-string. Use an octave pedal like the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/aguilar_octamizer.htm\">Aguilar Octamizer<\/a>. That effect does allow clean (the dry bass signal) and the octave signal to blend together at the same time to emulate an 8-string bass in wonderful ways:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><iframe height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/mNs7Qv-6jrA?rel=0&amp;showinfo=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"560\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The best part about using the octave pedal? You don&#8217;t have to buy a new bass to get the 8-string sound.<\/p>\n<p>What do you think? Is getting the 8-string worth it, or just get the pedal instead?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The word octave was purposely put in the title of this article because some players hear &#8220;8 string,&#8221; and believe that means a tuning of something like F# B E A D G B E. That&#8217;s not what this is. This is a 4-string doubled with 4 more octave strings, as in eE aA dD &#8230; <a title=\"What does an 8-string (octave) bass guitar sound like?\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/article\/what-does-an-8-string-octave-bass-guitar-sound-like.html\" aria-label=\"More on What does an 8-string (octave) bass guitar sound like?\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":7016,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[46],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7017"}],"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=7017"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7017\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7016"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}