I'm an upright bass player mainly that's
my main bread and butter I've been playing
the double bass since I was 13 years old
electric bass sort of always been there
in there in the background but yeah
double basses is mostly my thing Turing
I've been touring all over the world last however many years I've lived in New York for five years
did my Masters at  Manhattan School of Music there and yeah haven't looked back
see the little bridge on a little angle
I guess that's to keep the string tension
my name is Sam Anning and I'm a bass
player from Melbourne, Australia and I'm
here doing a little review of the Silent Bass SLB-300 from Yamaha and
I'm pleasantly surprised
Ahh it's got the EQ in it, that's cool
there's a pickup and a mic, that's with
just the microphone and that's like pretty legitimate
apartment living in well here we are in North Melbourne
we've got the hospital across the road
and there's a helipad on top of that so
you have helicopters taking off I've got
police station right out the front so
you got cop cars, craziness so the
neighbors are pretty pretty tolerant to
noise but with the Silent Bass it's a
is really like with with no amplification or anything it's really
quiet and still feels like a real bass
That's not going to interrupt the neighbours
I play in a band with Andrea
Keller she's also a Yamaha artist and I
play lots of bow through effects pedals
and I find that with the acoustic bass
tends to feedback and there's other
problems you know playing with lots of
like loud guitar another bass Mick Meagher electric bass and he does lots
of loud drone stuff so it's it's hard to
get it to cut through sometimes and so
with the silent bass it would be the
perfect addition to that band because
I'll be able to drive a little harder be
able to cut through the mix and
add my little layer of something on top
it'll have incredible use on big stages where you
have to drive the amp a lot harder and
you know for sound people to take the
feed out of the amp will be super
manageable a lot more manageable
than the double bass
it's got a whole other thing going on it's really cool
