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Who by Fire - Leonard Cohen

!!!This is NOT a Precision Bass!!!, and even short scale, and that is even sub-short scale, just 28.6" scale length, which though would be the same scale length as the discontinued Fender Precission Jr., or the current production Squier Mini Precision, basses. And it does have an EMG Geezer Butler P pickup installed, wired directly to the output jack socket, though in reverse orientation, which I prefer for the balance it gives across the strings, rather than emphasizing the difference, as the traditional orientation of a P actually does. But also I did entirely remove the J pickup. My point with this however is that I do love the sound of P pickups. Not growly like J pickups, and with a somewhat more limited frequency range, but fatter, punchier, snappier, and somewhat raunchier/cheekier than J pickups, definitely slightly more compressed tone, though usually still fairly sensitive to playing dynamics compared to regular humbucker pickups. And they just sound good. Compared to J pickups they are far from as picky about strings, EQ settings and amps/cabs, perhaps because of the narrower frequency range and slightly more compressed tone, they will sound good almost regardless what you throw at them or what you run them into. So here's my not very faithful or authentic impersonation of a Precision Bass, but the closest I got to the real thing, and very much loved, my Ibanez GSRM20B Mikro Bass, named "Dud Bottomfeeder":

I use these Harley Benton rubber washers, and they work perfectly as they are supposed to: https://www.thomann.de/gb/harley_benton_strapmaster_pack1.htm 1.7£/2 Euro for a pack of 4 (2 pairs). And comes in grey too.

And remember the notes you feel like hitting are almost always the exact right ones! This goes for both 5 and 4 string bass though.

Fire of the Mind - Coil

Perhaps you would appreciate a Wedgie rubber pick. They come in two gauge, 3.1mm and 5mm, and three hardness grades, Soft, Medium and Hard:

Just saw off that wood blob/tumor with the Squier shaped mole on hanging off the end of the headstock, and it would actually not be too bad.

Ibanez does a couple of genuinely great affordable 6'ers too. The cheapest Ibanez 6'er plays and sounds great. Which would be my personal choice over the Squire. Actually the Harley Bentons as well.

The Zoom Ms-70CDR allows for using up to 6 effect slots per patch, the B3 only 3. Also while I genuinely think a lot of the this generation digital Zoom effect models sound genuinely great the octavers and pitch shifter effect models definitely aren't among those, pretty terrible sounding if you ask me. The 160 comp model is a great sounding compressor though, good call. The EQ models are as good as any, and most of the modulation, reverb and delay effects, with the right amount of tweaking, are genuinely great as well in these units (the effects in these units in general is all about allowing for much more tweaking than most other digital effects in other multi effects including the later Zoom generations, and part of why I love this generation of digital Zoom effects in particular). Amp and drive emulations are pretty crappy however, unless you are going for a crappy digital sounding drive effect, and the octaver/pitchshifer effect models are truly horrible, again unless what you are going for is a crappy glitchy pitchshifting effect. And while the synth models are actually decent in these units, the Boss SY-1 definitely would be a much better choice if synth sounds is the primary concern.

I am pretty sure I know what you mean, but personally I like how that sounds. It gives the synth sound definition as far as I am concerned, rather than just being one smooth sausage. It probably comes from how the clean fretless bass sound mixes with the the synth sound, and I think you could get around it by refraining from mixing in clean tone.

Ah, I couldn't find that piece of information when I looked at the specs for some reason. Thank you.

No info about the string spacing. Hoping it is 16mm.

Sophia - "The River Song" :

The River Song - Sophia

I am a big fan of that generation of Zoom digital effects, I use a Zoom B1Xon that has a central spot in my setup myself, and I am certain both the MS-70CDR and B3 would be able to do this, using one of the specific synth effect models in them. However I never really used the synth effects in mine, so afraid I won't be able to help you. But perhaps one of these other experienced Zoom multi effect users can? : @andruca @stewblack

No, but I do use and love my Zoom B1Xon multi effect, which was release just about 5 years later than the Boss GT-10B, in late 2013. So also a fairly old digital unit. The distortion and amp modeling frankly sucks though, but a lot of the rest of the effects sound genuinely brilliant (and the distortion effects can still be used as special effects). I use it mainly for reverb and delay effects, but most of the modulation effects sound excellent as well. It is worth to notice that some of the much sought after digital reverb effects are of even older date, so CPU power is not everything, what matters to a considerably larger degree is how the algorithms are done (of course somewhat depending on the specific effect simulated/emulated, distortion and amp modeling does seem to be more demanding in order to sound realistic).

Gauge .104 is pretty insane for flatwound strings. Personally I would use a gauge .095 to .040 flatwound set, even if they got more tension, probably closer to a regular roundwound gauge .100 to .045 set, than the .095 to .040 roundwound set I normally use for my bass in E standard tuning.'

I'm Insane - Dinosaur Jr.

It should, thanks for noticing and correcting me!

Just tell them it's safety precaution in case a string should break, you'll have a spare one ready available, without having to use time on first removing the broken string, then installing a new one.

For slide bass, obviously (currently using a flat naturally polished hollow stone though). And... For hammering the strings, for a Dulcimer effect (currently using a pen with rubber grip though). Also... I'd like to get this one for being able to capo "open" strings chord shapes for slide bass (it's the dAndrea Spider XXL Capo that can be used for 5 and 6 string bass):

Run Run Run - Velvet Underground

+1 to floating thumb technique, gives you more freedom and flexibility in your plucking hand, and not least it is the absolutely most effective way to mute strings you don't play. That said, even to start with, I had no issues going back and forth between my 4 string, standard 19mm string spacing, bass, and then my 5 string, 16.5mm string spacing, bass. Guitar and Bass VI however, every time I play those, which doesn't happen too often, my fingers will stumble over the strings on both my fretting and plucking hand because of the narrow string spacing until I've played it a while and gotten used to it. But we are all different, what might not be an issue for me might for you, and the other way around.

I play bass on this on these 2 songs, from the EP "Are We Enemies" by Menfolk :