Hellzero

Méo is making 30% on everything, but only tomorrow. Oops, it's not CoffeeChat.

Fingers crossed.

To me, the EBS Billy Sheehan pedals are too soft sounding, rounding all the growl of the pickups, but they suit his sound perfectly. And I love the way he's playing and his approach, but strangely I hate most of the bands he's been playing with... Go figure. 🤦🏻‍♂️

The Okko FX Motörbass might be worth checking out, especially as you're using a P-Bass humbucker pickup and not a single coil. The Harder (high mids) control will help you get that distorted sound you're after, which is typical from a single coil as @Cosmo Valdemar noticed.

Here it is:

Negative and ground cut, indeed the sound must lack some power... Let me a few minutes to give you the right wiring diagram.

A good shotgun in case some fools might think they would be welcome is more than enough to listen to the nature with my wife, and our cats or pets of the moment. Yes, I do hate human beings.

Great idea these aluminium position markers. Maybe worth putting some smaller ones on the treble side from the second octave on as it helps the in tune playing in the dusty end. Like this (it's a 28 positions):

As much as I love Jonas Hellborg and his playing (I have each and every album he recorded), this guy would put his signature on manure in no time as long as he gets money... So sad.

I would put as many pickups as possible. 🤪 Leo didn't get it right the first time on this one, for sure. 😈

Got it back yesterday, a very rare Peavey TL-Six (Tim Landers signature first edition, circa 1989). Amazing bass for sure.

Go 12" radius. 😉

Excellent job and all by hand, congratulations! If you ever need to wind more pickups, use an old turntable at the slowest speed, it works very well. Back in the day, I modified an old Lenco turntable as it had the 16 and 78 rpm speeds too and used the original counter weight system (without the arm, of course) to have a kind of automatic right pressure wire appliance. That said, I never heard of the leadwood (Combretum imberbe) and indeed it's a really heavy and hard wood, just a tiny bit softer than the African blackwood (Dalbergia melanoxylon) which is one of the hardest wood and really good sounding for a fretless. I had a De Gier fretless with this African blackwood fingerboard and it was really singing very easily and absolutely not taking the marks of the strings, ... and soooooooo dark! And for those interested, here is the top 10 of the heaviest (and hardest) woods: https://www.wood-database.com/top-ten-heaviest-woods/ Following this build with a lot of interest. PS: I'm not showing off when naming the woods in Latin, it's only because it's the easiest way to recognise the species.

The smallest valve combo turned all the way up will do the job as it was the idea. Last time I saw them live, the bass was simply oversaturated all the time. You can also make holes in the speaker(s) cone(s) the way Lemmy did.

You small player, here I bring you 200 bass players!

I formed a quatuor some 22 years ago with 3 basses (one holding the same groove all along, one being always distorted with effects and one being a soloing fretless) and a terrific drummer, we rehearsed during 6 months for a unique concert, which by the way was sold out (some people must be masochistic as we had a standing ovation). There was only one tune of close to 47 minutes called Stuyvenbergh (Arhythmic Deconstructing) and the band was called Mildje! (written exactly like this). This is a never starting piece going into different places at the same time, sometimes gathering and ending up like a hope, which was an utopia. The Stuyvenberg(h) was Queen Fabiola's castle and afterwards the place were the Belgian government took some of its decisions, so you might better get the approach. We only recorded one rehearsal just to see if the arhythmic deconstructing was in place. 🤦🏻‍♂️

It reminded me I tried to play both parts at the same time on a fretless and went completely nuts, but I came close just before I heard the sirens with the blue lights and they gave me a nice shirt buttoned at the back.

Christoph Dolf, the very nice chap behind BassCulture in Germany, made me an exact copy with a rosewood cover, which sounds better than the original. It certainly must be the tone wood cover. 🤔🤣

I was already closed, sadly. ☹️