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What's the prob?

My brother asked me to do this one (I didn't learn the little bridge at the end properly, just a rough take!):

What’s the theremin equivalent of Jaco only needed 4 stringz

Original tune - it has a strange effect on the bass track, sounds almost like a super fast slap back delay at times, I think maybe a shallow and fast chorus? Here I am after practicing a bit

I honestly don’t know - when I first got the bass it had P/J pickups but the core sound was still there. I think low action and a bit of clank go a long way to give definition to the sound. Normally you hear mustangs with flats (I had flats on mine too for a while) but they are really quite growly with rounds. Worth mentioning also that this bass is always in drop D tuning, again it seemingly defies logic because that shouldn’t work as well from a scale length and tension perspective but it does. I have no doubt that the woods involved play a part, particularly in how stable the neck is. But I think it’s a combination of everything, some educated guesses regarding pickup choices (tbh my options were limited by the existing cavities) and a bit of luck have been on my side, for once!! I’ll do a video to demonstrate the P sound a bit more clearly.

Thanks, me too - honestly I bought it for thumpy muted stuff but when I put rounds on it - and especially with these pickups - it’s been the biggest surprise and it’s so easy/fun/inspirational to play. In P mode through a big old amp = heaven! Even if I had imagined it could sound like this I’d have expected the action wouldn’t be low enough or the short scale wouldn’t work for my quite light touch and low action/flat neck, but it’s bang on, too 😁

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No? what about this one? This is partly why I sold my Celinder - the 70s jazz sound from this bass is massive, I have never had such a good P and J sound in one bass and if you told me it would be on a mustang I'd have thought you were mental!

As I said in the video description, I'm not 100% sure this is right, but it's a great tune to play!

I really think with this and my Orba 2 I will have the ultimate portable synth setup for pissing off colleagues and family. I take the Orba to work quite a bit and last time I forgot my headphones. After 5 mins of people being genuinely fascinated with it they started getting annoyed 😂

Yes, you can have mine when the band kick me out! I got my order email finally

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I don’t really use fuzz with the filter. Sometimes octave but mostly on its own. Yeah the grey one does gated, good fun but again not a sound I use. For more synthy sounds I use the Bassballs, palm muted and low sensitivity it sounds amazing for that.

Interesting, thanks. Yes my bass signal is quite hot actually but this particular sound is great with super high sensitivity because you get a lively bubbly sound with the resonance right up. Here is my normal setting which matches the mutron:

Yes, just found a great FX25 type filter sound using half trigger and some clean mix.

On the original turning the gain right down will also reduce the volume to zero

Ah right yes I see what you mean. I'll have a play later. I have yet to experiment with the static or 1/2 trigger on the meatball, too.

Thanks, makes sense - although I don’t recall it reacting to dynamics. Perhaps the frequencies around the notch are out of range with bass because I can barely hear it with the controls at both extremes. Not sure why it was added, and I don’t ever hear of anyone using it! I’ll go and have a play in a bit.

The Mutron doesn’t have static mode. However you’ve just reminded me about the Notch Filter mode on the Haz Mutron. Never really figured that out. At extreme settings it sounds slightly like a phased signal but does anyone know what it actually does?

What have I started!

Now I own the most scammed bass of all time

I wonder if that's due to the lack of a true bypass. I certainly found the tone suck quite pronounced with some instruments (probably least of all with a stingray, interestingly).

I think it is for most people. It's an idea to make it less easy to take sellers pics from other sites and list that item as your own elsewhere. Just trying to help, if you have any useful ideas to share please do.