What is a P.A System, I’ll try to answer your question here, there are variations of what the p a system can be called also, portable pa, sound system, pa systems, pa speakers system, music studio sound system, desktop pa system, dj sound system equipment etc, so no matter what you call it, here is a brief explanation for you below.

A Public Address System or PA system for short is simply in laymen’s terms, an electronic sound amplification and distribution system that takes an input from a musical device or microphone, puts it through some kind of mixer desk that controls the different levels and sound of the input and then amplifies the sound electronically, the sound is then pushed through the speakers louder than the original sound.

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The Bass guitar or Electric Bass Guitar is a generally a solid bodied instrument, there are hollow chambers in some Bass body’s to help reduce weight and increase instrument resonance and also some come completely hollow which also does the same.

Bass guitars, which can come in a multitude of varieties (four, five, six, eight or twelve strings), have a slightly longer neck and scale length than its Electric Guitar counterpart, also there are the fretted and fretless variety of Bass.

Bass’s follow the tuning of a normal guitar also, just one octave lower (E,A,D and G), the 4 string Bass guitar is the most common one played by most Bass players.

The Bass guitar has been used now only since, which is surprisingly to most, from 1930 when it was invented by Paul Tutmark in Seattle, see, not only Pearl Jam come out of Seattle.

The first mass produced for market Bass guitar (In the 1950’s) was manufactured by Fender, this was the start of the Fender Precision Bass and then soon enough, others followed by making their own versions of the Bass.

The Bass guitar is played with your fingers or thumb, by plucking, slapping, popping, tapping, thumping, or picking and so, you can get a wide variety of sounds with the Bass.

Since the 1960’s Bass guitar has become the most prominent bass instrument in the rhythm section of bands, recently this may have been replaced somewhat with the development of computers and advancement of keyboards and synthesizers.

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