Bolo

??? Signature models ARE marketing gimmickry. Edit: Hiram got here first.

Basic is a skill in its own right.

Seems many bass players are more obsessed with the size of the kit than most drummers are ?

Annoying your in-laws should be reason enough.

Maybe Ministry had a greater impact on me with the psalm 69 album. You can always wake me up for some Bolt Thrower though, the music just rings true. Also love their integrity and DIY attitude.

Bolt Thrower

Clover, lollipop, Y shape are the most common I think, Sperzel do some slightly different ones. Don't know why choice for bass tuners is so limited compared to guitars.

We'd send this guy home for the rest of his stuff. Can't turn up for a metal gig with just a pot and a wooden spoon!

The LS-2 is brilliant. Put bass A and it's effects chain (if any) in Return A, and bass B in to Return B. Set the dial to the top position for toggling A<>B. Adjust the level of each channel, loudest first to 12 o'clock which is unity gain, and lastly adjust the weakest signal to be as loud as the first. Problem solved!

With Dead Skin Mask and all other Great Intro's a distant second.

This saved it. A spare headstock? Good thinking!

But don't. Just in case.

I sing and bass in my originals band, you'd think I could remember the lyrics I write. Without the music I have near zero recollection of the words! It's become part of our writing process that we get the music right first, then I play and mimic sounds to get the melody and rhythm in place. Once I'm confident everything works I'll bring out the poetry and fit it in place. Without the music as my crutch I'd have great difficulty quoting even a single verse of my own material

Loxx. Do the trick for me. Nice and flat too.

Only some owners seem to experience this problem, usually after a home 'pro' restring and setup...

I try not to sponsor people whose ideologies or actions I disaprove of. Not saying I'm an angel but that would be hypocritical I think.

Get the one you like most, someone else will like it as much as you do.

Engl 2030 rackhead. I've been using mine for 10months now. It's a straight shooter, easy to use, punchy as anything and headroom for days.

I try to play the music I love. Can't imagine playing music that leaves you cold can lead to a passionate perfomance! Like working at a copy shop and calling yourself an artist, weird!

[quote name='YouMa' timestamp='1509973011' post='3402923'] Most overrated man in music [/quote] Not by a long shot, and I do not think much of him. It could always be worse bieberboybandbullpoo.

I thought this would be about the Gene Simmons bass!

Deusenberg, lovely instruments!

3+2. 4 stringers can't handle me.

[quote name='stingrayPete1977' timestamp='1509630566' post='3400435'] That focused sound right in the ear will be doing far less harm than all that crashing and bashing you'd get normally. [/quote] With the speaker only millimeters away from the eardrum it takes very little to move enough air to overload the hearing system. Since you have more control over IEMs you also need to take more care in keeping the volume down.

[quote name='Geek99' timestamp='1508792459' post='3394522'] I bought a bass off Leigh Gordon of morcheeba. It had the most sky high Jamerson action I’ve ever seen - eight full turns over time to take it [/quote] Turns? Sounds like relief, not action.