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Posted at May 27, 2016, 11:31 am:

My friend said that while he was watching a blink 182 interview, mark hoppus said he'd got a new custom built 6 string bass. He said the thestrings were tuned to a guitar but lower -

E
B
G
D
A
E

Does anyone know if this is true and where i can get a pic of it or some more info??

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Replies:

I think he got a Fender Bass VI.

he should really start playing on an 11 string ERB and go into huge ta...

oh my god, my ribs

thats wat i thought it was cheers

Wouldn't you love to see Jean Baudin just pound his face in with his m...

No, I'd just love Nuclear Rabbit to be as popular as Blink.

I thought baritone guitars were just tuned a fifth lower than guitars,...

Aren't standard basses tuned an octave lower than a guitar? Or is i...

I have no idea, that's just what i heard Maybe I'm on Special K?

I think you are on crack.

It wouldn't make sense for a baritone guitar to be an octave lower tha...

Maybe I'm on crack then.

My point exactly.

baritones are a fifth lower and basses are an octave lower.

"because you're.

So, therefore, the Bass VI isn't a true baritone, then?

I thought they in the beginning of the 6-strings history they tuned it...

its like a fender jaguar baritone or older bass VI.

if im right i think its only called a baritone because it sounds deepe...

omg!!111!!! lolrzs itz mrakz h0ppuz!!!11!!! lowsound

Ha, Hoppus with more than 4 strings

BTW threads about hoppus are aginast the rules, unless you guys want t...

Not a Hoppus thread.

Yeah, its probably just an old 6'er type thing.

yes it is, its about his "new" bass, therefore its about him...

Exactly.

anyone care?? lowsound

i think he's workin on a drum n bass prject w/ travis called plus 44

Well, I would like to hear him play a 6 string, and maybe see some pic...

so like DFA1979 but with a crappy bassline, how original lowsound

drum and bass genre? or drum and bass instruments? if its the first...

Okay, lowsound, I don't understand your logic here.

Obviously the guy who asked the question

Lowsound, just stop it.

Lowsound, stop.

*Gives FunkMetalBass a 3rd Gav Point for the Hamlet alusion.

"Frailty, thy name is WOMAN! Yeah, that's right.

He was a moner, a groaner, a desdemona.

I own the DVD, have seen it live 3 times, have performed it twice, dir...

ye they have and i dont like hoppus i was just interested in that bass...

fine you are the almightly mod, but i still say its a illegal thread.

I would like to say thanks to everyone saying this thread is not about...

I preformed the opening monologue to my English class when I read my r...

isn't a baritone basically a 7 string then?

Stop proving my judgments of you man.

Not that i support hoppus, but.

Reed: Good evening ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to tonight's perf...

No.

I want that to happen with Plus 44.

Actually, I was referring to the one about the history/biography of Sh...

so if i tune my bass in fifths its no longer a bass?? lowsound

Wow hoppus is getting a bass that is like a guitar but an octave lower...

you never know what can happen.

Then it's a bass in alternate tuning.

yes, you can tell by the way he plays super short scale necks, distort...

Or a very deep cello.

so why can't his be a 6 sting in an alternate tuning? lowsound

i think it would be a baritone cello, but i am probily wrong lowsou...

that sounds like the premise of short film.

great joke lol and thanks to lowsound for accepting the thread ent abo...

thats funny lowsound

Nevermind AP, I found it.

Because it's in standard guitar tuning.

Basically what AP is saying is that the STANDARD tuning of the instrum...

so if i tune my bass like a cello then its a baritone cello??? lows...

Lowsound.

Y'all are getting too technical.

He's producing for someone at the moment.

I shan't comment on Hoppus too much.

^ Yeah, it's a custom job or something.

all that hating on hoppus, who says he cant slap and tap and everythin...

^ Actually, he admits he can't.

so uh low sound you disappoint, and you stated to sound like sade when...

It is a Fender Bass VI, he uses it on one song off of the self-titled.

they already play mostly crap on the radio now this?

and release a solo album.

i think it'll sound cool.

Ever see that TBS commercial talking about "funny" (Assuming...

I think Travis is the only good one in the band.

Travis was a session ace drummer before he joined the band.

im trying to make a point.

so now i am being compared to sade because i am asking question??? i n...

...So why did you insult me again for telling you to stop being a jerk...

I hate posting this, but in these casses it is necesary.

why cant a fender strat be a 6 string bass in alternate tuning? why ca...

because they are in differant octives.

i was bashing/flaming hoppus like people usually do around here, then ...

yes lowsound

just so you know its octave

So.

meh, i have dyslexia.

no probalem i was just letting you know so that if you care to argue w...

hmm, so i guess that baritone is the opposite of alto then.

usually spelling has no impact on weather something is true or not, un...

For history, double bass was tuned strictly to 4ths because the positi...

this isnt my thing to say but its bothering me lowsound shut up.

i like to go by the octave because i am used to the choir terms, which...

to lowsound: my comment was late.

Yes, that's why a group of musician's aren't called an "acapella&...

so you get a crappy amp and a fretless bass.

consider it ignored lowsound

cool, now i know lowsound

When did this thread become about Lowsound.

some people put them all togetheri don't because i have ADD and a shor...

For reference.

i knew that, but never thought of doing it that way.

Lowsound has a learning problem.

thank you gav.

i have the attention span of a .

Lowsound: don't blame your ADD for other peoples being psychotic nazis...

ill admit that i was being a dick earlier, in fact i have already admi...

that was to the psychos that somtimes hang around these boards

Bringing this thread back to topic i think this is what he uses and ye...

i think mark is too stupid and dont know that he plays a guitar ^^ ...

I went to a show a few months ago hosted by the VOICE.

Can anyone get a sound clip of the fender bass VI

doesnt like .

I'm pretty sure Mark used it on the last Blink album, although I don't...

She has the Jaguar Baritone.

Eh That link about the Fender IV makes me wonder Why is Danelect...

No, not at all.

I saw a hoppus signed squier in my local exit a while back, £350

I really don't like this bass, baritone guitar whatever the heck it is...

Nah.

I was never saying we were failed guitarists.

It could happen

they made the longhorn in the early 60s i believe and it came in 6 or ...

hrrm, hoppus is on loveline right now

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!! **runs to bathroom**

I hear you on that one.

technically speaking it would be a minor 6th would it not, because if ...

That makes no sense.

er.

You my good man are correct.

And so simba is the circle of life

Not when you go down an octave.

Yeah but the string is tuned to E originally thus B is its fifth

No, because you're tuning DOWN to B.

4th down, 5th up

precisely.

I know my circles and everything.

http://www.

ok if hoppus doesn't show anything good in this new band then he offic...

so.

Baritone guitar = tuned a 5th below a standard guitar.

No, it means they have two guitarists and one bassist.

^^ahem bass GUITAR.

That's like a nickname for it.

so even though it is tuned like a guitar minus the two higher strings,...

A friend of mine once told me "I had when people call basses b...

so i suppose we call it a "banjo guitar" too?

Its a bass GUITAR because its a bass, in guitar form.

hahahahahaha that would be soooo funny.

If Blink were still together.

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