joescartwright

I double checked the fit and played around with the rotation of the pickup bit it just wasn't the sound I was after. Each to their own I guess. I've found that the stock pickup is super sensitive to the placement of the bridge within the little plastic bit, If i move it even a tiny bit from where it's currently set it sounds dreadful but there's a sweet spot where it sounds genuinely pretty good. The Fdeck hpf pre makes a world of difference too, I don't like the sound at all without it.

I got the full circle and wasn't too impressed, it was pretty nasal and took a lot of eqing to get a good sound. Then I tried the yamaha pickup with my Fdeck pre, sounds pretty darn good, probably should have thought of that before i spent a fortune on a pickup! Thank god for Thomann returns policies...

I'm thinking of putting a full circle on my Silent Bass and have seen that a few other people have done it and liked the results. I was just wondering if anyone know which sized adjusters to buy? I don't have a calliper to measure the current ones so any info would be super helpful. Cheers!

I've heard a bunch of good things about Belcantos but I think that the tension might be too much for me (I'm used to Velvet blues which have a few kilos less tension per string). Has anyone had any experience with tuning the Solo set of strings to standard pitch? If so how did it sound/feel? Cheers in advance.

Scratch that, I've just seen Bassico do them and they're miles cheaper there.

Thanks for the replies! Yeah, I was pretty lucky with the bass!!! Which gauge of the Velvet Garbos did you use, the standard or the lights? From what I hear they look to be a fantastic pizz string, which is exactly what I'm looking for, the sound clips on the Herve Jeanne bass string matrix sound amazing but wowzer are they expensive! Anyone know if a UK/EU stockist that's reasonable?

So i've recently been given a Yamaha Silent Bass by a friend and want to switch the strings over to something of a better quality. I really love the sound of gut strings on an upright, I know I'm never going to get there with this set up but I was wondering if anyone had some advice as to what might get me going in that direction? It's mainly the articulate 'snap' at the start of the note and the shorter, less growly sustain that I'd like to aim for. So far I've been recommended Evah Pirazzi's and Innovation Silver Slaps, any thoughts? Thanks in advance!

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