Baloney Balderdash

My Aria Pro II CSB-300 Cardinal Series, made on the legendary Matsumoku factory in Japan, sometime in the early 80's, that I bought recently: 32" scale length, Ash body, 3 piece Maple neck, with a Rosewood fretboard. After a thorough setup it plays non less than amazing, and sounds great! Definitely pleased with this buy! I did have to lower the bridge saddles as low as they go to get them to my preferred just about 2mm string action low E string 12th fret, but it is perfect as is now, so not really an issue. The pickup is a bit noisy when not touching any metal parts, so might need to shield it properly at some point, but as said, it does sound great, and is quiet, as long as touching metal parts or strings. Being used to playing 28.6" scale basses for the last past 10 years or so I am surprised how effortlessly this bass is to play. It does have a pretty chunky neck, but it is pretty narrow, with a string spacing of just 16.5mm, like my main 5 string Ibanez GSRM25 Mikro Bass. Nice to finally have a bass again that can be tuned in regular E standard tuning, without compromising the tone. I am also positively surprised with how little fret wear it got, practically non. I have given it the name "Dud Bottomfeeder Sr.", after my 4 string Mikro, which is named "Dud Bottomfeeder II".

Joyo Moonbase Essentially a Tube Screamer with a clean blend, which is exactly what the original Ibanez Bass Tube Screamer is. Edit!: Just looked it up, seems I remember wrong, it doesn't actually have a clean blend, so it's just a Tube Screamer clone marketed for bass, which is strange cause most of Joyo's other drive offerings, designed with guitar in mind, actually works better for bass than this.

Born to be Wild - Steppenwolf

B#

A goblin?

To me it sounds thin, farty and mid scooped. But I digress... I suppose this is a somewhat thin tone too, but at the same time monterous, and very snappy and punchy, I love this P tone:

I do own a Laney 15W Ironheart IRT-Studio Aniversery Edition, with a poweramp/transformator DI output, and build in load, so no conection os speakers is necessary for it to operate. This is how it looks (random Google photo): And an old 50W Dynacord Bass-King produced in Germany in the early 60's (my actual unit), which sound non less than astonishing, but is in need of new power tubes, and a bit of work, like cleaning pots: Currently though I use the poweramp section of an old 120W solid state Peavey guitar amp, to power my "amp-less" setup, 2 always on tube preamps, one as the very beginning of the chain and one at the very end, is part of this setup though.

Trying hard to get more viewers on my YouTube channel with this hip clickbait thumbnail

One word: Wagner!

This is an old composition of mine, so couldn't enter the competition, even if it fits very well into this month's "topic", but just recorded this take of it : A single track solo bass surf math rock (or progressive surf rock, if you will) piece, played on my just 28.6" scale length 5 string Ibanez GSRM25 Mikro Bass, "Mr. Growly - The Noodlemancer", tuned in G# standard tuning (that is as one half step bellow the upper 4 strings of a 6 string bass in regular B standard tuning, plus a high E).

Theremin?

This is awesomely chaotic! Love it!

First Bass : 4 string 34" Aria Pro II Laser Electric Classic Go To Bass : 4 string 32" Aria Pro II Cardinal Series CSB-300 Your Bass : 5 string 28.6" scale Ibanez GSRM25 Mikro Bass tuned to G# standard tuning (as in the upper 4 strings of a 6 string bass in regular B standard tuning, plus a high E)

I think it would had been a good idea to add "writing/composing" skills to the list. Year started playing: 1994 (I think, might had been 1993) Number of basses: 6 Number of instruments played: Them all! (only really know how to play bass and guitar well though. And then I don't know if computer and midi counts as an instrument, but am highly skilled at that too) Music theory: 3? (I know the basics, but I can't read nowhere near fluently, I would have to sit and point at the sheet with my finger, counting each note) Technique: 6 Groove: 6 Heft: I play very lightly, but heavy.... If I have to I can go to 11 Writing/Composing: 8 (yes, again it would be very cumbersome for me to write in standard notation, but multi track recordings and midi grit has been invented)

Totally micro-timey, man...