Doctor J

It's already EQ'd. The serial wiring of the pickup gives it a very musical mid-bias which really doesn't need anything but the most subtle of caressing. Bypass the EQ on you amp and roll off a little high-end to taste.

Let's go 😁

Zappa wasn't playing Sex On Fire down the Dog and Duck, however.

I know I was totally into his screen wife 😁

No harm in adding some of your own flavour but, if the rest of the band start doing this too, it usually sounds like a mess and takes a crap on the song. Remember you're playing a song and be sympathetic to that, be musical, rather than a space filler.

"Described on its Twitter feed as "three pals in a band from Dryburgh" Makes sense. There are four of them.

I believe it was 1606.

Slovenia was decent, too. The bass presence is strong in this one.

This is how you do three minutes of entertainment

Those Aussies just rocked the living sheeeet out of the house. Cap doffed in their direction.

Fact of the day: Ray Winstone pronounces 'cancel' and 'council' in the very same way. Same for 'county' and 'can't he' It's a funny old game.

Yes, just the lead vocals, the backing vocals are pre-recorded, too.

Wear two pillows over your crotch to extend the gut slope down to knee level.

I've used .110 for E and I'm currently using a .147 for a low A, .120 for D sounds about right.

Sonically, not so much. However, the way it was lazily strung up, as Downunderwonder has outlined, is unforgivable. Verboten. There is no good reason for it to be so. Down with that kind of thing, now, in the future, in the past, in other dimensions and especially on the living room floor.

That misalignment of the strings over the bridge pickup is something which could not be lived with in the world of bass, nor in the world of soft furnishings.

15 with the school band in a national competition, 16 with my own band

Jaco only needed the number 4

Warwick Streamer Spector NS/LX Godlyke Deity/Disciple Bacchus 24 Vigier Passion IV Ibanez SR Ibanez BTB

Better play it on a Theykulele then.

The bass-du-jour for a lot of downtuned stuff is a Rickenbacker 4001 or 4003, which isn't even 34" scale. It's also not unusual for the strings to be hit very hard indeed, in these genres. You just need the right strings with an appropriate amount of tension to handle vibrating so slowly with some integrity 😉

Boiling just removes some of your bio-crud and finger-gick which gets into the winds and makes the strings go dead in the first place. If you drink the juice left over it is like eating placenta, apparently, the crud absorbs musical energy from the vibrations of the string, you get rejuvenated musical energy and it's like having bass super-powers* * This is a lie and you may die a painful death. Don't drink the string juice!

It's your strings. I'm currently playing an old 34" ESP Jazz tuned tuned ADGC. You need big strings, bigger than the likes of a .125 or .130, something that's just a .20 increment bigger than your E string doesn't work, your low string needs to be a good step bigger. I use one of these https://www.amazon.de/dp/B000OR75QQ/ref=pe_27091401_487027711_TE_SCE_dp_2 with three from this set https://www.amazon.de/dp/B00AQBT3GK/ref=pe_27091401_487027711_TE_SCE_dp_1 This works.

Unless you're offering to put the logos of one brand in particular, I can't see you getting mainstream traffic 😉 There are quite a few vendors already who offer high quality necks with fancy woods, if desired, but it's a very, very niche market. You have to think about what it is about your necks that will stand out and make people replace such a fundamental part of their instrument and, perhaps, lose the headstock shape and logo they covet.

It's from 1986