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2 Girls 1 Cup... Oh, wait, song titles you say?... My Evil Twin - They Might Be Giants

Just fill the existing holes with standard wood glue, squeeze some tight fitting wooden sticks down in the holes, pinch or cut off the excess sticks above the holes, wipe away excess glue with a moist cloth and let it cure for 24 hours. After that you don't have to worry about this. Also just because the body wood of the bass is relatively soft doesn't necessarily makes it a crap bass, the Music Man Bongo Bass and several other relatively high end basses got bodies made out of Basswood, which is a relatively cheap and soft wood that is infamous for stripping screws if exchanging anything, but also acknowledged for actually being a great Tonewood.

If You Could Save Yourself (You'd Save Us All) - Ween

Wouh, that's pretty insane. Wish I had known this many years back when I played bass in a rock band using my 60W Ampeg B-15S, which sounded amazing and was just exactly as loud as I needed and wanted it to be, but unfortunately sometimes would fart out when pushed like that to near the edge of its maximum capacity. Also when I was calling it a "somewhat subtle effect" I naturally meant "somewhat subtle audible effect", I also pointed out that it regardless was still "making a quite significant difference".

Tie a hairband or similar tight around the strings and neck behind the nut at the headstock, or use one of these capos to do the same:

Happy Colored Marbles - Ween

I'm usually not into pop, but:

Original: Johny Cash's cover of it, from his "American IV: The Man Comes Around" album:

Frankly the recently released HoTone Ampero Mini seems like the superior unit for this kind of thing. And it is cheaper as well.

I am not sure that recipe would have given quite the same success to Johny Cash's "American Recordings" series of albums.

I am sure the main objective would be entirely different if you played in an original band, and certainly if you were composing your own music, professionally or not. And frankly I fail to see the point of covers that seeks to copy the original 1:1, why would I ever want listen to something like that when the original exists. To me the whole point of doing covers is to add your own flavor and perspective to them, your own artistic vission. Some of the very best covers are so because they bring something entirely new and original to the original songs.

50 Shades of Beige - Infuse Huddle

The Piano Has Been Drinking (Not Me) - Tom Waits

Well, it might be unscientific, but it pretty much matches the general experience and consensus about the advantages of using a HPF: Tighter low end and therefor improved overall definition and general tightness of the tone, and increasing amp and speaker effectiveness, since they don't have to deal with processing/reproducing excessive low end/sub frequencies, which also to some extend adds further to the first mentioned immediate effect. But yes, it is a somewhat subtle effect, though I'd say at the same time making a quite significant difference.

There's a difference semantically. When using "in my experience" rather than "in my opinion" it kind of insinuates that you came to a somewhat objective conclusion based on that experience, rather than just an opinion. But whatever, it's not like it is really all that important, or that discussing semantics is "on topic". In any case my reply was meant in a jokingly manner, as the"I fixed it for you" quote reply MeMe usually is, and the emote was intended to make that clearer.

There, fixed it for you.

Then again 3dB isn't much either, but still the difference in output between a 250W amp and a 500W amp. I'd say a low frequency response of 2dB can make a quite substantial difference in tone. Whether that then is for the the better or worse I guess is up to personal preferences, but personally I'd rather have it there and be able to cut it off if I find I don't want it. In any case a 12" speaker will move more air than a 10" speaker, which means, everything else being equal, be louder. And the difference in output from the Gnome between being hooked up to a 4 Ohm cab and 8 Ohm cab by the way would also only be just about 2dB.

The relatively light weight (34lb / 15.4kg) and quite affordable (385£/439 Euro at Thomann), but, as far as I gathered from reviews and demos, great Hartke HyDrive HD112, perhaps? According to the specs it also got an impressive low frequency response of 25Hz (-10dB)/35Hz (-3dB), and a switchable high frequency tweeter than can be set to either full on, -6dB, or off, respectively, making the upper frequency response go up to 17kHz (-3dB) when full on. It is rated to 300W.

Edit!!!: Damn, that memory.... Forgot I already posted this a couple of pages back. I could have sworn that there was no star, indicating that I already posted in this thread, next to the headline of this thread on the index page of this sub forum. Odd... Anyway, I apologize for this spam. But here we go again : This just 28.6" scale Ibanez GSRM20 neck + GSRM20B body Mikro Bass, that I pulled the stock pickups out of and installed an EMG Geezer Butler P pickup instead, wired directly to the output jack socket, the stock side mounted barrel type one replaced for a regular front mounted jack socket, installed in one of the redundant pot holes. This is actually my main instrument at the moment, and I have it tuned in tenor bass tuning (which among others Victor Wooten, but especially Stanley Clarke, makes wide use of), that is A standard tuning (as the 4 upper strings on a 6 string bass in regular B standard tuning), and strung accordingly with coated Elixir Nanoweb guitar strings of the gauges .068 - .052 - .038 - .028, threaded through the cut off ball ends of old bass strings, for the strings to not fall through the bridge string mounting holes. So without further ado: Here it is, Maple neck with a 12" radius Rosewood fretboard, and medium frets (they are slightly smaller than standard medium jumbo frets), an unusually light weight Mahogany body, and with various visual mods, name is "Dud Bottomfeeder" (knob closest to neck is now red though) : Love it to bits, and it is such a joy to play. Ponder on maybe replacing the tuners for the 2 lower strings (A and D (which would normally be E and A)) with the black tuners from the neck of the GSRM20B Mikro Bass that donated the body (that one had horrible fretwork, which I managed to ruin completely, doing a haphazard attempt to level them. The neck that is installed now, originating from my first GSRM20 Mikro Bass, on the other hand had perfect fretwork from stock), as well as replacing the bridge with individual ABM mono rail bridge pieces, milled from solid brass, and in the same instance reduce the string spacing from the standard 19mm of the stock bridge currently installed to 17mm instead.

My A** Is On Fire - Mr. Bungle

It's getting dark early these days.

Sigh.... ....Or ? :

Kid in the Corner - Low

I do realize the choice of pick is very much up to personal preference, but if you are looking for a warmer tone nylon picks tend to be in the warmer end of the spectrum, and using one of the round corners to pick, rather than the tip, would resolve in a somewhat fuller warmer tone as well. Finally there's also something like the Wedgie rubber picks, which while advertised to give you a tone identically to finger plucking doesn't really, but it does produce a warmer, rounder and somewhat softer tone, something that falls somewhat between regular finger plucking and a regular pick. Personally I prefer the 3.1mm Soft Wedgie pick, but they come in 3 grades of flexibility, Soft, Medium and Hard, and two gauges, 3.1mm and 5mm, and while perhaps sounding like awfully thick being made of rubber they don't really feel and respond like it. And this comes from a guy who otherwise prefer using relative thin picks. My favorite, beside the Wedgie Soft 3.1mm rubber pick, is a Dunlop Tortex .60mm, and it used to be the Dunlop USA Nylon .73mm, which despite being thicker, is actually slightly more flexible than the .60mm Tortex one, nylon being a softer more flexible material than Tortex, the latter as far as I gathered really being an altered Delrin formular/variant. The Tortex used for when I want a pronounced archetypical pick tone, with that prominent snappy emphasis of the attack that only a pick can give you, the Wedgie rubber pick when I want a softer warmer tone, cause while finger picking, the way I play (stroking, rather than plucking or striking, the strings relatively lightly with the outmost tip of my fingers/nails, in a slightly inward slapping motion, often combined with double thumbing and flamenco guitar style index and/or middle finger flicking technique), does produce a fuller tone (fuller in the sense of a more complex tone with more harmonic content, making the individual notes spanning over a fuller frequency spectrum), the Wedgie actually sounds softer/rounder and warmer than my fingers.

As I said, if you end up getting the TC Electronic Sub'N'Up I can guide you through how to get the most natural/authentic/realistic 1 octave up sound out of it, which I found myself after much experimentation with the different settings in the Toneprint editor, just send me a PM. Now mind that it will still sound somewhat artificial, at least if clean and nothing else done to it (with further EQ'ing than the Toneprint editor allows for and with the right high gain overdrive/distortion applied to it it gets much closer to the real deal, that is a distorted guitar sound though), but non the less as far as I am aware the closest any 1 octave up capable pedal on the market comes to the real deal (guitar/octave course 8 string bass, and that is as a stand alone unit, thanks to the Toneprint editor, I'd imagine though that if the T-Rex Quint Machine was run in a separate parallel chain and processed further through other pedals it likely would be able to get there too). I would really wish EHX would make a bass version of their Bass9 (that pedal is really astonishing at making your guitar pretty realistically sound like a bass guitar), for bass players that want to sound like a guitar or 8 string bass, but I do realize that the chances for that are probably minimally thin, as I would think the market is probably equally minimal.