SteveXFR

Mrs Robinson - The Lemonheads

The Polyphony of Animals - Earthtone9

Secret Canine Agent - Viagra Boys

Yes, absolutely. To become that good requires a certain level of nerdyness to put in the thousands of hours of practice.

I played a multiscale. Not sure I'm good enough to be nerdy but the prog metal bassists who normally play them definitely are. I'd recommend trying one though, utterly pointless unless you use the low B string a lot, then it really makes sense

Anything to change tone is not an upgrade. There is no better or worse tone, only different tone. We all have different tonal requirements to fit with our band and the genre we play. A funk bassist would hate my super bright sounding strings and high output pickups but for me, they're great.

I almost forgot, I bought my daughter a MIN Jazz bass for Christmas. As a music student she should be nerdy BUT she doesn't even like prog or jazz. She's in alt rock, shoegaze and punk bands but I think only uses the jazz bass for the shoegaze band and that's definitely neither cool or nerdy.

I wouldn't touch that thing! Surprisingly, it's been for sale for a long time.

Is now a good time to bring this up? https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/194368628626?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&mkrid=711-127632-2357-0&ssspo=CkguqlEPQQ6&sssrc=4429486&ssuid=9V8HKDKxT8C&var=&widget_ver=artemis&media=COPY

Red red wine - UB40 Has this done ever been played outside of a wedding party?

I'm not so sure about him having ADHD. Some of the typical characteristics just aren't there with him. He's almost the opposite in some ways. He's certainly not sane though.

Better a tight G string than a saggy one.

Really? Most of my friends have been metal heads since I left school nearly 30 years ago and I've never got in a fight. The one time it got close, some idiot wouldn't stop bothering my girlfriend (now wife). In the end, me and my mates dragged him behind the pub and stole his clothes instead of beating him up.

I'd say even then, over here at least metal was uncool. Metal heads are the nicest, best people though.

When was metal ever cool? Metal has always been for misfits and outcasts. I love metal but I'll be the first to admit it's not cool.

I had a 36" multi scale 5 string. I used it to play sludge metal. Very, very not nerdy. Simple riffs played fast and low with an unnecessary amount of distortion. I really liked that bass, an Ibanez SRMS805

Those aren't nerds. Those are people born in to incredible wealth pretending to be nerds while paying real nerds peanuts to do the actual nerdy work. I've seen R&D jobs advertised at Tesla and the pay and benefits are crap even by engineering standards.

Those are basses for stock brokers, dentists and lawyers. Nerds rarely have lots of money, they spent it all on dungeons and dragons.

I go to the nerdiest, proggiest metal festival and jazz basses are a rarity. Warwicks and Status' are the most popular 4 strings and Zon are the most popular 5 string. Jazz basses are really popular in more traditional metal and stoner metal. I don't think anyone has played a BC Rich without wearing either sparkly lycra or corpse paint.

I always modify my P basses because I hate the stock bridge. I know I won't get my money back but also, I don't think it's worth the effort of refitting the stock bridge and setting it up again. If that puts some people off, that's fine, someone will buy it.

I used to have a Two Notes Le Bass which has since disappeared on to my daughters pedal board so I'm in need of a new preamp. I really liked the nice bit of valve overdrive from the Le Bass and found the DI really useful so I was going to get another but I see it's been superseded by the Revolt. I think I might find the modern drive channel really useful as well as the vintage channel. Has anyone used both? Is the new one as good/better?

Scheduled Diarrhea - Clown Core

Up The Bracket - The Libertines

Unfortunately the don't do a Stingray style humbucker but Tonerider pickups are pretty good and decent value. I've used their classic P style pickup before and it sounded great. A good upgrade on my old Squier, at least as good as Mexican Fender pickups.

Some ceramic pickups are more powerful than some alnico pickups although that doesn't really effect tone. My old Sterling Ray35 sounded really close to a MM Stingray and that had alnico pickups with a Darkglass tone capsule preamp.