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Beautiful...!

[sub]Pity about the drums in the Tillbrook-clip... tempo going up and down.[/sub]

[quote name='owen' timestamp='1321990968' post='1445280'] The tuning will settle. I love mine so much I have commissioned a 5 string one. [/quote] That's a comforting thought.. thanks !

Ordered one of these at Bassdirect for my birthday and I've been enjoying it a lot since last week ... It's just very handy to have around when you're watching tv or sitting outside in the garden. No need to plug in amps or drag cords across the room since the sound is more than audible enough when played alone.. Plugged in however it sounds huge and fat ...and it inspires (the most important factor). Thicker than a Precision but still enough definition. Only disadvantage for me is the tuning..it detunes quickly and you need to retune a lot.. Maybe the strings need some time to settle ? When it arrived it was detuned more than an octave lower and it took nearly half an hour to get all the strings to pitch.. Edit : other disadvantage : when you get used to the smaller scale of the fretboard and you go back to an electric bass, it takes some time to get back into your old habits.. When I took my Sandberg and played it again it felt like a truck when I compared it with the Kala. Conclusion : I love it and actually every bass-player should have one.. Short clip with the Kala.. [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ygdrHhOul58[/media]

He played it on a Pedulla Buzz in the studio..

[quote name='bassatnight' timestamp='1321563482' post='1440799'] Thats a great job with the neck, sounds lovely too! Is that a passive? If so BIG sound. [/quote] Thanks, it's a passive bass..you cannot change too much, just has volume and tone and a switch for parallel/series.

Bit off topîc but this is Paul with a Dutch bass-player who does a great job... Pity that the voice is gone.. [url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b-Qv8SYYat4"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b-Qv8SYYat4[/url]

[quote name='AndroWal' timestamp='1321414039' post='1438884'] Wombatboter, I posted on your Youtube link also... Great playing! Really enjoy your melodic sensibility. Question for you....seems that your Wal is very punchy...is it so in itself or do you have your amp adjusted to gain this? I have Wal 5s and they don't have the immediate attack/pop you have. Curious how to acquire it as I play with a light touch and want that fast attack/punch. I do get close by adjusting my amplification...but it's interesting as I still don't get that immediacy. I can quite easily on my Zon fretless... Thanks. [/quote] Thanks for the kind feedback.. I think the sound is there anyway ...the amp is flat and actually it all has to do with the fingers. I have owned around 12 Wal basses and I never had any problems to get this particular sound out of it. I do play hàrd so I don't have a soft touch when I play a bit faster. If you play with that hard touch (which seems to work for me) and play above the pick-up it's actually hard to not have this sound. I use a bit more "meat" when I play more mellow parts.. Have been playing the Pedulla ànd the Wal last week and it's still hard to pick one as a favourite...There's something in a Wal which is unique but the neck of a Pedulla plays like butter.

Wings over America - the triple live album by Paul McCartney and Wings around 76-77...great songs, a superb bass-sound (one of the best live bass-sounds I have ever heard on an album). I wish he had never got rid of that horn section he used back then (keyboard Wix could never replace them with his synths) Joe Jackson - The BBC sessions (Graham Maby plays even better than on the studio-albums) Level 42 - Physical Presence Japan - Oil on Canvas. James Taylor - Live (Jimmy Johnson flies through this great repertoire)

This remains my favourite...ok, it has the technique but more than that ...this grooves, has a nice melody and has a vision. How some people can call this "non-musical" or "only made to impress" remains a mystery to me.. He keeps on inspiring me..I'm not too fond of that God-thing either but he remains an amazing and unique bass-player. [url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ve37F3Ee9Ow"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ve37F3Ee9Ow[/url]

I bet he sounds great on any bass he picks...he's got gold in his fingers.

I bought a Fodera Monarch once and I loved playing it at home, fast neck, really low action...just great. Finally I took it along to a gig and it just drowned in the mix, I couldn't hear a thing, something in the midtones which were lacking.. I kept going back to the amplifier and turned the controls but it didn't really change a thing.. I had the impression after two gigs that it just didn't work in a mainstream band, I have to admit it was the standard Monarch version (costed me around 3000 euros second-hand), not the expensive model although I had a picture of Wooten playing my bass in the UK. I sold it after a while and I found more "usuable" sounds in cheaper basses...

[quote name='J.R.Bass' timestamp='1319145894' post='1410651'] [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YckuBinXc64[/media] New recording of Santana's smooth. [/quote] Great playing, really enjoyed that.. a great rhytm section with confident playing. Nice guitarsolo at the end too.. Heard the original just the other day on the radio and the bass-line captured my attention. Just good solid bass-playing with excellence in the details.

I think "Refuge of the Roads" has the best fretless playing ever..

Thanks.. I asked to put some epoxy on the fingerboard.. For the moment there are some flatwounds on the bass but might be I go back to roundwounds.

Bought a Pro last summer and just had it defretted... Not the best clip (it sounds more boomy in my new house) but it gives an impression.. It's a rather "limited" bass (just volume and tone and a switch) but it delivers the sort of sound I'm after.. [url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yWUGf3GFKFs&feature=player_embedded"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yWUGf3GFKFs&feature=player_embedded[/url]

I can't help it but it still gives me the impression that someone doesn't take the music that serious if he has to read it..I know that sounds more harsh than it is supposed to. Songs I really love I don't have to read since I would like to know them by heart.. With all due respect to Barney but anyone with serious reading skills should be able to reproduce the same part as long as it's written out... When I see someone without charts he/she gives me the impression that it's the musician him/herself I hear and not the person who has written out the bass-line..