Doctor J

Meh-tallica?

My experience differs. When we were kids, a mate of mine could play all kinds of widdly-widdly stuff, very technically accomplished, exceptional coordination. He couldn't create to save his life, however. He had absolutely no creative gift, everything he wrote was mediocre and, when he tried to solo, is was just a mish-mash of licks of the players whose material he had learned through reading tabs. He had no musical voice of his own. That well was dry. I used to know a clarinet player in an orchestra for whom the idea of writing or improvising something of their own was an entirely alien concept which did not compute. Being a coordinated player does not correspond to being an interesting creative spirit and vice-versa. That this lad has taken the time to learn so much of other people's material and try to pass it off as his own suggests that he is not well endowed with a creative brain. At the risk of a generalisation, you'd expect creative people to spend their time... well... creating, rather than learning other people's material forensically.

How about the hits of your favourite Swedes and Morrissette done in an east African style... ... Alanis ABBAba

Few things in life are as aggressive as the G&L MFD. The G&L will get you a lot closer to the sound you're looking for than the DJ.

Shame he put holes for the polepieces in the top. You could have a lot of fun putting all kinds of different pickups in a cover like that. I'd love to hear what a pair of G&L MFDs would sound like in my Passion II

Loosen the neck bolts a smidge and move the neck a bit towards the treble side, get the strings centred on the fretboard.

Bluddy Holey

Replace it. Save yourself time and energy.

It's grand, he has set it up beautfully to do a "penny drops and I've ruined my career but now I'm digging up" video where he cries a little, finally acknowledges what he did wrong, outlines the mental struggles he has gone through which we don't understand and promises he's on the path to redemption to make everyone, who called him out for being a c**t, feel guilty. They're all the rage, these days. It's really society's fault, don't you know 🤣

No, man, dig up!

Always exquisite work!

Have you changed the string?

Alternatively... Fernanodopeth

Can you provide some pictures how you put the strings on?

Not a million miles away from the Lace Helix

If you bought it from China I would say there's a reasonable chance it's not quite the genuine article.

A quick scan through the classifieds reveals...

First thing would be to specify exactly which bass model you have, so the specs could be understood. From your description, it sounds like your passive mode is just bypassing the entire pre-amp circuit, in which case it would be far simpler to replace the electronics as a whole to one designed with an integrated passive tone control, such as a Sadowsky, East, etc. There are plenty of options out there.

How have you set the relief?

I'm of the opinion that studio is one thing and live is another. The studio is for dressing up a song in whatever garnish it needs to sound as good as it can be, for the rest of time, in passive listening situations. Live is for the musicians on the stage to perform a unique interpretation of the song and conveying the energy and emotion of the evening and environment into the performance. They're very different situations and they shouldn't sound the same. You shouldn't even try to make them sound the same. Backing tracks take away from the live performance experience. Give me perfection in the studio, passion on the stage. Imagine Live At Leeds sounding like the records, it's wrong, wrong, wrong 😂

Oozy Osbourne

Music I Like to Play 😉

I feel it's important to ask at this point... When Charlie played the gig... did he use UK subs? I'm sorry, I'm so sorry.

I really love the pickup positions of the Passion and the dual EQs of the Arpege. The Delanos are a very different sound from the Benedettis, would be a long battle to pick a favourite. Despite the bolt-on neck, the sustain and clarity of the Arpege is something else. It leads me to think that a Passion IV with that dual EQ setup would be something very special indeed.