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Flip Joint (The Contortionist).... Post Math Rock? Solo bass, single track, 2nd take, instrumental, played on my 28.6" scale 4 string Ibanez GSRM20B Mikro Bass, equipped with just a single bridge EMG Geezer Butler J pickup, from the P/J set, wired directly to the output jack socket, and tuned in B standard tuning (baritone tuning), recorded through my "amp-less" setup directly into my Zoom H4n handheld recorder, and only edited through a simple Wav editor.

It's been some time since last I posted in this thread, I think I posted pictures of these basses before though, but these are the latest shots, and there are a couple of minor mod changes too. First my main: My 5 string Ibanez GSRM25 Mikro Bass, that I named "Mr. Growly - The Noodlemancer" : It features a Poplar body, and a Maple neck with a Jatoba fretboard, the stock neck J pickup have been disconnected, as it was faulty, and the stock bridge J pickup has been wired directly to the jack output socket, and it is strung with Elixir Nanoweb coated nickel-plated roundwound hex steel core guitar strings, gauge .080 - .062 - .046 - .036 - .026, tuned in tenor bass, G# standard, tuning, that is like one half step below the upper 4 strings of a 6 string bass in regular B standard tuning, plus a high E. And then my 4 string Ibanez GSRM20B Mikro Bass, that I named "Dud Bottomfeeder II" : It features an Okoume body, and a Maple neck with a Purpleheart fretboard, the stock pickups has been pulled out and replaced for just a single EMG Geezer Butler J pickup, form the P/J set, wired directly to the jack output socket, and it is strung with Elixir Nanoweb coated nickel-plated roundwound hex steel core guitar strings, gauge .068 - .052 - .038 - .028, and tuned in B standard, tenor bass, tuning, as in one octave above the lower 4 strings of a 5 or 6 string bass in regular B standard tuning. Both just 28.6" scale length.

Thank you for trusting me this honor. Looking at the poll though, it seems I was caught up, but that might have happened after the voting officially closed? (also the numbers doesn't add up 10 voters should equate to 30 votes, and there is only 27). In any case image have been send in a PM.

Well, I am not buying a bass as an investment, if I was I would be a poor businessman, considerably more profitable things to invest your money in. I am buying it to actually play it. And to me it would be worth much more, though not in money. Knowing I can earn money on something I don't enjoy playing is pretty worthless, even pointless for that matter.

No way I would ever do that! If I had that kind of money I'd have luthier make me an amazing bass exactly to my personal preferred specs.

Ha, ha, cool... Sounds like a Mr. Bungle demo from the Disco Volante album that never made the cut.

Thank you! Honestly probably sounds more like Pentangle than Syd, but hey Spectacles does kind of rhyme on Pentangle, so it all makes sense.

I love this! Sound very Air -esque.

So I put on Syd Barrett's spectacles, and this is what happened... : As one of the fathers of psych folk and lo-fi, here's an improvised instrumental lo-fi psychedelic folk piece in honor of the genius that is Syd Barrett. First take improvisation, played on my 28.6" scale 4 string Ibanez GSRM20B Mikro Bass, equipped with just a single bridge EMG Geezer Butler J pickup, from the P/J set, wired directly to the output jack socket, and tuned in B standard tuning (baritone tuning), recorded through my "amp-less" setup directly into my Zoom H4n handheld recorder, and only edited through a simple Wav editor.

The reverse delay model in the old Zoom G1on, G1Xon, B1on, B1Xon, MS-50G, MS-60B and MS-70CDR is pretty damn great, actually.

I finally pulled myself together to upload "Hole Song" by an old musical project Janosch, that I was one half of together with Markus (Jesper Marcussen), on YouTube. Originally released on the compilation "Danelectro" Lead vocals and rhythm guitar: Jesper Marcussen Lead guitars (except guitar solo*), bass and backing vocals: Jacob Læby (me) Backing vocals: Michelle Kappel Drum machine, synth, *guitar solo, production and mixing: Per Chnöeldh And genre wise we are around some relatively lo-fi indie rock/pop. Recorded somewhere around 2001. (cover/video art is from the 4 track EP "Inhere Outhere" by Janosch, that was released previously to this track, I shot the cover photo) - And the latest actual worthwhile serious track that I made, although not that new, is a remix of the track "Elastic2" by Fencepost, per request. But this is with my solo drone/ambient project, Fjernsind, and something entirely different, experiemental dark ambient/drone. Rather radical remix might I add, and created and released in July 2019. I even made an actual animated video of sorts for it:

Yes, and that despite me specifying that I played a 5 string bass, so...

Ok, this doesn't look like me at all:

As I also mentioned it could be that the magnets are stronger too. To give an example the DiMarzio Model P and the EMG Geezer Butler P, both passive pickups, and while they both have just about the same DC resistance, which would indicate similar amount of coil wounds, the magnetic field of the Model P is much stronger than that of the Geezer, which results in the Model P having a considerably louder, hotter output than the Geezer.

Pure nickel, I would say. Forget that, I misunderstood the question, this is obviously the other way around (no pun intended).

P pickups generally have more wounds on the coils, increasing DC resistance, which increases output, the two halves are also connected in series, which again, among other things, increases the output. The J pickups only got on coil, and usually with fewer wounds on the coil than your typical P pickup. Finally the strings vibrate more nearer the neck, and less towards the bridge, which effects the strength of the "input" signal to the pickups. The signal the J pickup picks up is simply weaker to begin with than the signal the P pickup picks up. Other than that it is possible that the P pickups got stronger magnets installed, increasing the strength of the magnetic field, which again increases output. It's pretty common by the way that the P in a P/J Bass is louder than the J pickup. But they can be balanced, if one uses a weaker P pickup and a stronger J pickup. Often though in a P/J you just use the J pickup for adding extra upper range flavor to the P pickup, and usually won't solo the J pickup.

Oh, it is definitely an EHX POG in some form, yes looks like the Mirco, if OP should want to nail the exact tone. But just about any decent polyphonic octave up pedal should do.

Well, the octave up would be blended with parallel clean signal, my best guess in about equal measures, just using the regular dry/clean signal blend on your octave pedal. And there is a keyboard playing too, which might confuse you.

Digital polyphonic octave up, blended with parallel clean signal, maybe a hint of reverb or very subtle delay, I think that is basically it. Mind there is a keyboard playing too, which might confuse you.

I decided to stick to the format/concept of single track bass improvisation, with only edits done to it in a simple Wav editor, so here I bring you: The astonishing psychedelic Faux Electro Dog Simulation™ : Take 1 of a free improvisation with some minor post production edits in a simple Wav editor. Played on my 5 string Ibanez GSRM25 Mikro Bass, that I named "Mr. Growly - The Noodlemancer", tuned in G# standard tuning (as in one half step bellow the 4 upper strings of a 6 string bas in regular B standard tuning, plus a high E string), through my "amp-less" setup, directly into a hand held Zoom H4n recorder.

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Here you go: Based on an old concert photo : Based on a more recent selfie: I can't say any of them are particular accurate to my actual looks.