Cuzzie

I’ve used a few in the focusrite range, they are all good, the iTrack One Pre is very very cool, nowt wrong with an iRig HD either

Mod it - it’s probably never going to be a ‘classic’ in years to come and it’s not a limited edition - that’s not to say it won’t be a good bass. Ifnypu don’t like the rout it can always be professionally filled and refinished and be barely noticeable. Double P basses are cool. With the switch I would only consider what YOU will use, for example I would never have a switch bridge, neck, both As I would never use the bridge alone, but a neck/series/parallel I might. Horses for courses - mod and enjoy

Probably one of the coolest things is the noise gate added in, small thing but mighty useful

This is the nuts

I had it as dirt/distortion in the HPF and Chorus in the LPF running parallel to the clean signal-glorious

KMA Audio Machines - The Tyler is a great bit of kit. I started a wee thread on it on here with some decent you tube videos on it. There is so much you can do with compression, dirt, modulators etc. They offer a money back guarantee 14 or 21 days and also warranty for 5 years I think. Its worth a shout for sure

And Ida is super cool

Lots of good advice here. I used a 5 banger for a while and didn’t find too much of a ‘transition’ problem. Sometimes I think we create hurdles that are not there, or perpetuate dogma written down, so a mindset gets created to fail rather than flourish. I played it like a 4 string and when I wanted a lower note Between E and B I added it in if I thought the song sounded better, if I thought it was played better up an octave I did. I didn’t play it exclusively, but I played it more than the 4. Ultimately Drop D or drop D down half a step suits what I do - that’s about it. Have some fun with it!

With the above comments to me Marcus Miller is right up there as one of the bests - he tends to play what the song needs despite all the chops in the world. I prefer him on other people’s stuff to his own though

I’ll add I have probably laid hands on most of the basses in the range (Aside from some sig models and newer ones like The Lionel) and probably all ageing points. Without doubt the aged ones are better feeling and playing IMHO

And for a longer answer - it’s hard to put into words, it will sound a bit soppy as I know it is an inanimate object, but it definitely felt like I should play differently on it compared to a new one - it’s the old comfy slippers feel about it. Its a great experience

Yes

I do love a bit of dUg, bless him his mum passed away a couple days ago. Corey, seemed ok, maybe an underlying tension, but the performance and vocal performance was astounding

Corey is still immense

barmy

I have to admit Muzz is my favourite by far, i really didn’t mind stain, and i quite like the recent album although its is a bit ‘ver produced’ and heavily compressed. Having seen them on their Vivid tour last year, Doug was spot on as was the whole band His pedal board was nuts !

https://ruokangas.com/company/ I do like this guy in your back yard

That’s exactly the point - you cannot look at the view numbers on the videoS and say, yep people like slap because it got X amount. Brandy won’t hit the same heights, it’s not as popular - she has 280k subscribers so getting 80k in a day is probably par for the course. She is a nice player for sure, the more popular the song, the more views no matter what technique is used. No offence to her but I would say Bobby Vega Is an infinitely better player and those 3 videos I posted involving him combined don’t reach one of her pop covers. Pick, finger, slap n pop, tapping, finger slapping like Doug Wimbish-horses for course - done well at the right time sound great

nowt to do with it being Dua Lipa, it’s all even views across all her videos....

It’s a great great film, saw this some time back and watched it more than once - great tunes - glad you stumbled on it and enjoyed it

@krispn you are right and wrong - people prefer slap - these videos have been up for a total of nearly 20 years combined and has only just about gained parity with That slap video up for 4 weeks, nowt to do with Dua Lipa being in the title of the other one for making it rank higher in searches....... @dave_bass5 we need to drum up business on pick playing. My playing is crap in general even though I prefer a pick, you pop a video up of the same song with a pick For the whole song, let’s see where we can get to - that’s the real test, I am thinking a million maybe. We’ll get this guy to do our counting...... IMG_9634.MP4

Agreed - one of the reasons I gave a gozillion options of not run of the mill!