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Meshuggah Though his bass is tuned in drop B / F# standard tuning. That is B - F# - B - E - A. For playing an octave lower for older songs written on 7 string guitar, but unison/same octave with newer songs written on 8 string guitar, rather than tuning his bass ridiculously and inaudible flappy low down.

America Drinks & Goes Home - The Mothers of Invention

As already said the 4 lower strings are tuned exactly like a standard 4 string bass, and it features a 30" scale length, so same as a standard short scale bass, but with 6 strings, tuned like a guitar, only an octave lower, and with narrow string spacing like a guitar as well. The Beatles used it as a regular bass on quite a few tunes, whenever John Lennon or George Harrison had bass duties, instead of Paul. "Helter Skelter", just to mention one, is an often used example of this. And The Cure used it on most of their songs really, played by Robert Smith, but more as a melodic instrument. You can see him play it on pretty much any live shot of The Cure, or in the music video for "Pictures of You".

Most of these builds look amazing! Love your style!

I'd like to be able to do this: But it is completely and utterly unrealistic that I'd ever be able to learn it, even if I did a genuine effort.

I use a Turbo RAT clone myself, the Mosky Black Rat on the Turbo setting, and am extremely satisfied with how it sounds and how it blends with clean signal (via my Boss LS-2), and I am extremely picky with tone (the Mosky does have a darker tone, and retains low end a bit better than an original Turbo RAT), but I have no experience with the FAT RAT. Though if you want to try out how a FAT RAT works for you Joyo makes a very cheap but great clone of the FAT RAT, that as far as I have gathered only received positive reviews and general praise, the Joyo JF-21 Splinter. 33£/39 Euro at Thomann : https://www.thomann.de/gb/joyo_jf_21_splinter.htm Though I have always been told that the Turbo RAT is the best RAT for bass, cause it retains low end better than the other variations, but I am sure that comes down to personal preferences and taste, as well as specific application/context, and as said I have no personal experience with the FAT RAT (with both switches on the Stock setting it works as a classic regular RAT).

I love that one! Wish I owned one. It is such an original and elegant design. A shame it was discontinued way too early, because of.... well let's not offend anyone... But this is why we can't have nice things, unless paying more than I could ever afford.

May I ask why are you hidden away in a corner of the very back, behind the keyboard player? But since you are why couldn't you just sit down on a chair and play?

These are the always on effects of my "amp-less" setup: So a combination of several preamp stages makes up my "amp-less" tone, but I suppose the NUX Melvin Lee Davis Bass Preamp + DI being the main one.

Really I could see the FreqOut being used for somewhat more traditional bass playing too, the same way as people use synth pedals to sound like a synth bass. The FreqOut can be used for much more than simply emulating feedback.

Because I play a 5 string 28.6" scale bass, tuned in G standard tuning, as in 3 half steps above the 5 upper strings of a 6 string bass in regular B standard tuning. And I really play it more as sort of a 5 string bass/baritone guitar hybrid, or like you would a Bass VI type instrument. And I plan to use it with a TC Electronic Ditto X4 Looper pedal, as the main instrumentation, with a backing track of drums/percussion, and more flavor oriented additional instrumentation. And this setup will be used for my drone/ambient project as well. I also plan to sometimes use the FreqOut in conjunction with the Sub'N'Up, which is loaded with the Organ Emulator patch, and both those sometimes in conjunction with the Sample Sustainer.

Still haven't gotten down to rearranging my pedalboard, so I still use a temporary pedalboard free setup, consisting of just my always on effects, my dirt pedals, and my delay. But this is the most likely outcome of the rearrangement, using an online pedalboard manager (note that some of the pedals are placeholders, as some of the online app I used lacked some of my pedals): - The EHX English Muff'n is really an EHX Black Finger, tube driven optical compressor, though used more so as a tube preamp stage, with minimal compression dialed in - The XVive Golden Brownie is really a XVive Undulator tremolo pedal, though exclusively used for it's great buffer and never actually engaged, which are to be mounted under the pedalboard. - The HoTone Wally Looper is really a HoTone Trem tremolo pedal - The Mooer Black Secret is really a Mosky Black Rat, RAT clone - The Arion Stereo Chorus is really a Monarch MFL-22 Stereo Flanger (which is a rebranded Arion Stereo Flanger)

The bass sounds great, pretty awesome bass line too, though not my personal taste of music, but does sound good, despite the low quality.

Yes, personally in that price range I would chose a Harley Benton over a Squier, any time!

Remember to plug the current screw holes. Just fill with wood glue and squeeze down some slightly oversized sticks/strips of wood.

Looks like a deformed solid body Longhorn bass (which I by the way love the looks of). That said I can think of much worse looking basses. And yes, definitely single cut basses also looks wrong to me, especially the "whale hump" ones, butt ugly, though I have actually seen a couple of single cut basses that looked genuinely great.

Also, you might want to invest in a neck plate (or make one yourself) to prevent the screws from gradually sinking into the pocket wood over time from the tension, potentially causing the neck to loosen in the pocket, and to help distribute the tension of the neck screws over a greater area, giving an overall more tight and study neck/body connection.

That is with the octaver and thumbinator running in a parallel signal path, or? And A0 or A1?

Looks great. The string spacing at the bridge is pretty wack though. To me it looks something like 15mm - 18mm - 17mm - 16mm, from low B to high G string.

Glorious! This is a pretty nice video someone made to it :

Definitely paint the bass green. Not enough basses in green finish, which is the greatest finish ever for a bass (even if I sadly own non myself). Red would look great with the green pickup too though. Cool project. I like the rough look.

My Own Bare Hands - Ween

That's was pretty damn amazing!