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The B-side of the very well known hitsingle Merry Xmas Everybody by Slade. I bought the single when I was only 13.

Pity by Bad Religion, from their first album, How Could Hell Be Any Worse? The video editing was done by a Canadian bass playing friend.

Rorke's Drift by Sabaton

From Hell They Came by Misfits

Shining by Misfits

Walk Among Us - Misfits, a short one from American Psycho

Police Story - Chaos U.K. Hardcore Punk from the album Chaos in Japan, released in 1991. Tuning: D, G, C, F.

Sabaton time again, another power metal war ballad. This song, Talvisota, is about the Finnish winter war from 1939/1940.

Demons Are a Girl's Best Friend - Powerwolf. Due to copyright claims a link to my Vimeo channel: https://vimeo.com/332995860

TV Casualty - Misfits, one of the simplest bass lines ever.

Hybrid Moments - Misfits

The Separation of Church and Skate, a brilliant song by NOFX, from The War on Errorism

Die Monster Die - Misfits, from Famous Monsters, 1999

Rebound, a cover by Volbeat of Teenage Bottlerocket's original. Starring Ed O'Neill in the video, as Al Bundy of Married with Children. One of my all time heroes.

Misfits - Dig Up Her Bones from American Psycho (1997). Been busy in the 'studio' for quite a while...

Static Age by Misfits, covered on bass and “another random instrument”.

Misfits time again...

...and rotating, but then it's two positions only.

Would be interesting to have a bass with a pickup that could be moved back and forth. I once played one, see pic below.

Nope! Different active (vibrating) lengths are involved. Because the strumming position doesn't change, a shorter (fretted) string is strummed relatively closer to its centre. This affects the number of audible harmonics produced. Try strumming an open string at the 12th fret. It'll produce a relatively dull tone without the second harmonic. Of course the position of the pickup(s) plays an equal role. Also the length/gauge ratio isn't equal, which makes this even more complicated. A shorter piece of string means less mass, so less energy. That's why I chose equal fret positions (2nd) for producing the sound samples. The only variable was the string gauge, resulting in different tensions. It's a complicated matter with many variables. Not to mention how the behaviour of the neck and body, with a partly vibrating string compared to an open string, affects the composition of the tone.

I seldom use a pick, maybe one or two times a year. Some cards fall apart, depends on quality. These picks wear a bit faster than nylon picks.

A Do-It-Yourself Pick. An old credit card, made from good quality plastic, can be given a second life.

A year? Eight weeks is all roundwounds get, ten if I'm having a holiday. Flatwounds stay on way longer. The tests were performed with brand new strings.

Ideally a test setup should be completely neutral and 100% reproducible… but then we'd never know how string x or string y would sound on a specific bass, played finger style.

When still young, I could hear slightly past 20 kHz. About two years ago (57) I got as far as 16 kHz.