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Cake - I will survive video shows the bass player playing a bass with a mudbucker and the tone seems to back this up, there is just something there in the lows that you just dont get with a P bass, sounds great , that being said I think this kind of tone will be lost in the mix easily in metal , I think if you want a warm sound but dont want to get lost in the mix you might need 2 pickups , one to provide the warmth and one to provide the mids, the Seymour Duncan SPB-2 will give you the warmth and the mids but dont expect anything remotely bright sounding from that pickup.

Thanks, not a bad idea

Thanks I will keep an eye out for one

Hi all Have never really been much of a slap player but been getting more into it recently. I have a little bit of arthiritis in my hands and find that if I play a lot of slap my thumb hurts a little bit at the point where the thumb makes contact with the string, my slap technique is sound so its an arthiritis thing rather than a technique issue. Just wondering if there is anything I can use that anyone knows of to protect my thumb? I know Mark King uses gaffa tape but obviously tape is fairly thin so you need to use a fair bit of it each time, hoping someone has a good suggestion , thanks

Can't wait to see the outcome of this

I think there is definitely some truth to this when applied to P pickups, I have tried a number of P pickups and they all sounded more similar than different, they all had strong bass and low mids and comparatively less highs than for example a J pickup, even the brighter P pickups were not night and day brighter, I have found that strings make more difference. The other thing to try is 500k volumes and a no load tone pot. I dont have direct experience with but wiring one of the higher output P pickups like the Dimarzio split P or model P in parallel might be worth trying

I was considering one of these when I was looking at combos , hearing this makes me happy I chose a Fender rumble , surprising a 250w combo isnt loud enough to be gigable

I remember trying out amps at the Bass centre way back and I was looking around 100w ish and I remember loving the tone of the Trace Elliot Commando amp but compared to the other amps of the same kind of power it was like lifting a suitcase full of lead

As i am getting older I could do with a button that scoops the mids...............around my gut area

The Contemporary actually uses the same pickups as the more expensive German made Hofners however the control panel is slightly different and manafactured more cheaply than the control panel on the German Hofners, the tonal difference between the Contemporary and the German made is likely down to this as well as the German made being fully hollow, I had the opportunity to play one of the German Hofners and compared to my Contemporary it definitely had a darker, woodier tone. Also worth noting is that the hollow body Hofners are usually around 5ibs weight so super lightweight which some people love and some people not so much

That sucks, sorry to hear that, all of the wilkinson pickups i have tried have been really good so it is a shame that they would not take the time to try and sort this

Ok so having sourced a Duncan Quarter pounder after fitting it I have gone to adjust the pickup height and the solder joint joining the 2 halves together has snapped Honestly Seymour Duncan get your act together, this happened with my Spb1 as well, if Roswell and Wilkinson can do decent solder joints on a pickup a third of the price why cant Seymour Duncan? If anyone wants a Quarter pounder P pickup drop me a message and I will do you a good price for this pickup

Hi I know ive already said it but I really do think you should contact Wilkinson as this cannot be right, those pickups have got to be faulty , https://www.jhs.co.uk/contact-us

This is a real shame as all the Wilkinson pickups I've had have been excellent products, I really think you should try and contact Wilkinson about this

Yeah I think it is the combination of that and the (I assume) slightly sloppy feel to the drumming, would be interesting to hear the song with a straight 4/4 beat with the snare on the 2 and 4

Have always liked this song but the drumming on this has always bugged me, I know it is in time but for some reason it has always sounded a bit off starting from when the drumming starts and getting worse during the verses, what is going on here? Thanks [YouTube] [/YouTube] https://youtu.be/yCd1vXsvkV4

Nice lookign bass , are those mudbuckers? (high output, lots of bass etc) , btw thats one mad mid scoop you have on the amp

Yeah they are quirky strings for sure, in the 95-35 gauge the tension is fine but I would never use 105-45 with Rotosound, they would make good money if they brought out a flexible roundcore version of their strings . I am less impressed with their short scale strings which are awful, you'd think since they have been makign them since the 60s they would know that the short scale strings are dreadful

Hahaha , this comment is priceless

The high standard of the videos in this thread, both the quality of the playing and the video quality is enough for know im not sharing any of the footage of me lol

So this is 2 basses in one? If that is the case I can only imagine how cumbersome that would be to play. Anyhow I pretty much never play 2 basses at a gig, at a gig im very much a one bass for everything kind of player, I cant be arsed with faffing around swapping basses, making sure the volumes of each bass is matched so im not too loud/quiet etc

Im sure we have all heard our share of bass myths from the slightly dubious to the outright ridiculous , thought it would be an interesting idea to share them in a thread , for the sake of keeping things nice lets avoid discussion of tonewoods, I will start with some of the myths I have heard You should never remove all of your bass strings, you will warp the neck of your bass and it will be unplayable - scary thing about this one is I was told this by my then bass teacher who was also a session musician, I have since then removed all of the bass strings from basses many times when I clean them or if I fit new pickups The orange drop capacitor myth - For some reason there is always someone somewhere that thinks that the orange drop capacitor is some kind of magic bullet for tone, its not Cleaning your frets will improve your tone - Im not going to say which company made this claim but it was a company that (of course) makes fret cleaning products String through body increases string tension - heard this one so many times , not true

Ok we have a setback, i removed the bolts on the neck, there must have been a patch of varnish that I missed that had not dried sufficiently, I thought I had given it more than enough time to dry properly, the neck is glued solid into place!!! Im going to stick a set of the highest tension set of spare strings I have and hope the tension breaks the seal, if that doesnt work I think I might have to admit defeat and stick with the satin finish, its a decent finish anyway I just thought the Danish oil would be better Edit: tried that didnt work, try applying force by hand, still no joy, Satin finish it is, its certainly durable I will give them that

Ok thanks