joescartwright

I'd love to give these a try if they're available fairly soon...

I used to play a P bass with the Jamerson La Bella flatwound strings on and loved the tension of the strings as well as the sound. Last year a broke my wrist and have since changed to playing a short scale Fender Mustang bass because of the reduced flexibility, but I can't find any flat or tape wound strings that fit this bass and have anywhere near as much tension. Does anyone know of anything that might be worth trying to get better tension on a short scale bass with a through body only bridge? Thanks, Joe.

Thanks guys

So I'm going to build myself a bass, I'm looking for something similar to the sound on The Mars Volta's album De-loused in the Comatorium, specifically on the track Take the Veil Cerpin Taxt. I was wondering if there's any P bass know-it-alls that could suggest what kind of specs to go with (i was thinking ash body, maple neck and board) to best achieve this? I was also wondering if adding a single coil J style pickup in the bridge would detriment the sound of the P pickup? I might want to blend it in a bit when i need a bit more growl and focus. Here's a link to the track mentioned above; [url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kdPlXEtiG3g"]Take the Veil Cerpin Taxt[/url] Thanks in advance.

Thanks for all the input, i'll be sure to look around for everything that's been mentioned and see what i can get my hands on!

Hi Guys, I'm looking to get a distortion/overdrive unit which has the ability to blend the distorted signal with the clean one, so i can get a growly grinding kind of distortion but still keep my own tone, similar to dirk lance on incubus tracks like out from under. Any suggestions would be great. Cheers

Hi MoJ, I've been looking at the DHA pedals for a while but since i can't try them out anywhere am quite reluctant to just go for it. I am looking to get that really aggressive but very transparent driven tone that dirk lance gets on some of his work on incubus (Out from under, have you ever, under me umbrella) I know he got his sound from essentially bending a big muff with his dry sound, Do you think that one of daves pedals would be able to pull this off? And if so can it be done in the channel 1 section or does it need more drive than that? As i could always get a vt1 mark 3 if you can get that sound in channel 1. Here are some links to the songs if you don't have them yourself; [url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a5HM1OHnruU"]Out From Under[/url] [url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qhv9FrTrt-g"]Have You Ever[/url] [url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O5n9vfEumbw"]Under My Umbrella[/url] Cheers