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You mean the bass playing itself like butter.

But it's only working if all the hardware is in titanium.

Everything by EST is just fantastic. I can't say one album is better than another. They are all terrific.

So, let's start with the start : Henry Purcell used this approach first, if I'm not wrong. Then almost 300 years later, the serial and minimalistic music composers used this cell composing to outrance and introduced the principle of added moving layers in their own cells. And Michael Nyman digested all this to become a master at it. Sadly Esböjrn Svensson passed away, but he surpassed everyone. A bit of a fast summary for the kind of music I love a lot, I admit, but going fast can help, sometimes. Love this from Gogo Penguin : And worth listening to this uncut version of Brandt Brauer Frick, Bop :

Microtonal is also linked to the temperament used. For example, a lot of Turkish music doesn't use the same equal temperament as Bach decided. In Indian music, the traditional music is microtonal music using Shruti, which is the smallest interval a human can ear and it can vary widely depending, of course, of the human being. Microtonal music can sound out of pitch for Bach conditioned ears, but is not when it's your culture or you've immersed yourself in that musical culture and learn to listen differently. There's is this YouTube channel dedicated to (Turkish) microtonal music and is worth a listening : https://youtube.com/c/TolgahanCogulu

These cream pickups covers are greeny by nature, so there's something likes 5% of magenta excess to become correctly balanced if you look at the knobs. Derailment over.

You are welcome, Johannes. All your recordings are excellent stuff, always a delight to listen to. Maybe being a Mick KARN fan myself helps...

I'm sure it's the new Mike + The Mechanics signature model. Woohoo greasy !

The more tilting the neck has, the more pressure on the saddles the strings will have, increasing the dynamic and the response of the instrument and also its power. The opposite tends to destroy the dynamic and making the strings really flappy and dull sounding, or sometimes even so dampened they seem dead. A neck totally parallel or level to the body will mean less to no pressure on the saddles whatever break angle you might give them inducing a great loss in dynamic. This principle is applied to instruments with a "vibrating" table like a jazz guitar, any acoustic guitar, a double bass or any instruments of the classic quintet, but there's a maximum point after which the pressure will void the string vibration. Check the tilting of a double bass and the break angle of the strings on the bridge and you'll understand the process.

That "thing" deserves an award @PaulThePlug, but I don't know which one...

∆∆∆ Indeed ∆∆∆

The new album of @leitnerjoe is out and is called : Ohrwaschlrennatz. It's an excellent album with great playing and compositions. Buy it, it's really worth it ! And as always with him, you can feel the fun even if you don't understand (Bavarian) German. https://leitnerjoe.bandcamp.com/album/ohrwaschlrennatz

Another Wishbass... 🤢 🤮

The price is well made too. 🤯

I understood that, no worries, I've done the same a lot.

Not a perfect match at all, but a match, as the knobs have a shade of magenta in their colour, but it may be a brownish hue as the white balance of the photo isn't right.

An early Fender, of course !

I've been setting up instruments for more than 35 years including a decade as a professional, so it means thousands of instruments, and sometimes a shim is needed for two main reasons : - The neck tilting, as there must be one to allow some dynamic. - The break angle at the saddle, as there must be one otherwise there won't be enough pressure meaning the string will get out of the slot very easily and the string will sound almost dead or really dampened. If these two points are met, no need for a shim, just remove it and set up the instrument perfectly.

As I wrote, it all went wrong in the 90's and don't talk about social medias, shows and store since the 90's. I was so fed up by this really bad slap everywhere that I stopped going to the shows in the late 90's and just couldn't keep my mouth shut in the stores. I hate slap because of all these abuses, but when it serves the song, it can become really interesting, but it's so rare. Only a few players have the ability to turn slap into music and we all know their names.

The RMC/Hipshot bridge will be far better. 😉

I was using my DP127 with the good old DP123 Jazz Bass and the balance was perfect with the DP127 a bit more away from the strings than usual. Otherwise, you could try the DP 147 which has a similar output level.

Delirious ! I need one !

Nope. He doesn't have a mono eyebrow.

But ToneRider do.