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  1. Since I discovered this technique I have used it a lot. It's sort of an alternative to partly muting/palm muting strings, but it sounds a bit different, with a bit of an upper end subtle click, almost muted marimba-esque. It does require rather precise fretting though, or else you end up with a rattling sound that resembles that of not applying proper pressure when fretting a note the regular way. It's not about replying a lot of pressure though, but rather getting the position of your fretting finger almost dead straight right, as described in the OP. And I figure it doubles as great practice for playing fretless bass as well.
  2. And how do you know this is actually the case? You do realize that gear endorsements are extremely common all over the music industry, right? Nearly every single professional musician will have more than just one gear endorsement deal with various music gear companies. Seems strange to me why you want to single out Victor Wooten in specific, a musician that I only ever got the impression of, wherever I have seen him, to be an extremely down to earth and lovely human being. Jealousy?
  3. Well all playing, regardless of the supposed objective value or quality of what is played or the context it was played in, can essentially be reduced to a series of various techniques if that is what you want to make of it.
  4. Well, admittedly it doesn't exactly sound great in that demo either, but it does at least sound better, and not absolutely horrible.
  5. Hey! Nancy is my maiden name, and nothing's wrong with my absolute premium bull sized testicles!
  6. It seems that a lot of people seems to be of the assumption that technical playing is the opposite negation of serving the song or soulful playing, which is just nonsense. Of course it can be, but so can just turning out root notes, or any other type/style of playing for that matter, but it all depends on the context. From what many people are writing here it sounds like some of you are automatically dismissing everything as soon as it gets a bit too technical as bad, without actually listening. Context, context people. Also, do some people have an aversion against solo pieces, or is it just bass solo pieces, if then why is this, and if not, how can a solo piece serve the song, it is the song? Also I love the sound of bass as an instrument, one of the main reasons why i chose it as my main instrument. Why chose it as your main instrument of choice, if you don't like the sound of it?
  7. I have no issues with swapping between my 34" 4 string bass, my 4 string 28.6" scale bass and my 5 string 28.6" scale bass with a 16.5mm string spacing. Neither do I have problems with immediately adapting to the scale length of my 30" scale Bass VI or for that matter my 24.75" scale guitar, though it does take a while adapting to the really narrow string spacing of those two instruments every time I pick them up to play. Also I don't think neck dive is a general short scale bass specific issue.
  8. My Jerry Jones Neptune Longhorn Bass (kind of a high end boutique clone of the Danelectro Longhorn Bass). The guy who made these retired, and even if I had the kind of money to buy one used they extremely rarely ever pops up on the used market. And then my 28 5/8" scale 4 string bass that I had made out of Warmoth baritone parts, with a Seymour Duncan Rickenbacker Neck pickup in the neck position, and a Seymour Duncan Hot Rails guitar pickup in the bridge position. Don't have any pictures of the Jerry Jones, but this is what the sub-short scale Warmoth bass looked like (went a little overboard when designing the headstock admittedly): Both sounded and played absolutely amazing. Regret so much being stupid enough to sell both. Kind of regret about the Dan Amrstrong Plexi Bass too, which I had 2 of those slide in replacement pickups for, even if to be honest I didn't really like neither how it played or how it sounded.
  9. I am almost certain that it is that guy and his amp settings that makes the pedal sound like shit. He is a guitarist, not a bass player, and every single bass demo I have ever watched him do sound like shit (and somehow magically the same exact lifeless dull shit tone), no matter what he plays and what he plays through.
  10. The previous owner was a bit too happy about seeing the pickups, and just couldn't restrain himself, back when he first opened the box, and they were all new and shiny. Retrospectively I am sure he regret not at least using protection.
  11. No for that feature it would have been another 250 quid! That said for me, I agree, before seeing the results, just listening, my clear favorites were the Radial JDI and the Noble, probably with a small favor to the Noble. The Colourbox was the only one which I really didn't like, absolutely horrible tone.
  12. Nonsense, quite on the contrary there are too few VU meters! I would want 5 VU meters, 1 pre input gain, 1 post input gain and 1 post output gain, and then 2 additional ones, 1 for respectively the drive and the clean mix each! Now that would be a pedal to behold!
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