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Just a few cable management improvements thanks to a hole saw and Amazon's wide range of cables!

possibly, all my basses have a symmetrical curve where they stand so I don't have a problem.

You've got 10 pedals. . . . . . ?

I love zero 7, didn’t realise he was the guy. So much thought in his bass lines that are just enough for the song.

Spanking new round wounds, huge attack with right hand to push the pre-amp into the red as well. It’s a great bass line with loads of energy, I’m surprised how sloppy some of the bits are. Did they really decide to go for this as “the take”. Lots of string noise and undampened strings around 1.10. Some timing issues and inconsistent attack later on. Flea is great, but this isn’t perfect!

Thank you Ian.

This one was for me. Chuck Rainey's part for 'Haitian Divorce' from the 1973 Steely Dan album, 'The Royal Scam'. https://bilbosbassbites.co.uk/haitian-divorce-steely-dan/

Apparently no good for jazz basses (according to two reviews on Amazon) shame if that's the case.

He always sounds like that.

No, wait. I can procrastinate a little longer, I could move the existing pickup's wiring to go through the selector switch and the switch output to the volume pot. Needs doing anyway...

Amazing the amount of overdrive/fret-buzz & rattling there is in the original.

We play this. Can't say I'm ever particular about getting the tone 100%. We only have guitar, bass and drums. No one has ever said to me "Great song, but you need to be playing a jazz with the bridge pickup on full". Play hard. In fact, we get people up and singing along to this without fail.

50 minute afternoon spot at Ellesmere Port Summer Jam today. Only our third ever gig. It's a slow ball to get rolling right now but we're getting there. We all use IEM straight into the desk. It always sounds fine at rehearsal but I need to do more work on my gig mix as it's never as well defined. Played well, pretty happy all round. Sun came out and people listened. Nice things were said afterwards. Unfortunately the wrestling show had finished by the time we got off stage sonny plans for a top turnbuckle band pic were scuppered. Here's a little phone clip of Macy Gray. Of course, our friends & family managed to catch the bit where I trip over my lead, nearly stack it then hit the wrong note. IMG_6550.MOV And some Jamiroquai with added photo bombing. IMG_6547.MOV

Selector switch arrived today, so it's big drill time - no pressure, yay! Going super careful, I put masking tape over the hole and its edges, then went up 1mm at a time from 9 to 12mm. Despite the tape, I did chip the finish a little in one place around the hole, but thankfully not a big bit and hidden by the dress washer. Attack a perfectly nice bass with this monster using a hand drill? No, it wasn't scary at all, lol. Unfortunately, that's all the "easy" jobs done. Next step is to make a template for my pickup route, then take a big, deep breath and attack the front of the body with forstner bits and a router.

The Anadime was the next choice - in fact it was the first choice and I'd been hunting for one for a while, but one never showed up, then this got me excited. I'd used an Anadime before at a bass bash and thought it was very pretty sounding. I tend to use chorus more for that tool-like swirling vibe than the classic 80's use (with bass at least) and this seems to nail it perfectly. It seemingly adds a layer that just makes everything sound awesome. Excited to experiment with it over the next week or so.

The Devil Made Me Do It - The Golden Earring

OK. I've listened to that and in my opinion that song works really well arrangement-wise amd sounds really tight with nothing wrong. So I went in search of more examples and found a live one from a few months ago. Others can search if they're that bothered. 1. The keyboard player has a full size 7 octave stage piano! 😳 In the video I've watched they're really bashing out the same notes as the bass, with double octaves. I think they're used to playing alone and have a bit to learn about ensemble work. In that situation the keys needs to chill, absolutely no need for those notes, and playing like that will clutter up the sound space because they won't be exactly in time, and any 'groove' (playing ahead or behind the beat) from the bass player will be lost. Especially when the drums are joining in. I suspect the video you have posted was recorded with protools and has had all the notes quantized and aligned. So live it probably sounds quite a 'mess', and that's probably more the problem. So yes, get the bass and keys to meet up separately from the rest of the band and have a sensible chat about bottom end arrangements. Is that a 5-string bass there as well?

musical is good for a pedal, I picked up an Anadime chorus and had it at the same time as the Tech21 bass boost chorus - the Tech21 could do more - the Anadime just was more musical - good effects don't sound like effects - just glued on change in tone