Baloney Balderdash

Merry Christmas! Low - "Santa's Coming Over" Captain Beefheart - "There Ain't No Santa Claus on the Evening Stage"

Don't - Dinosaur Jr.

Moon Occults the Sun - Espers

Well, unlike Dungwall/Fartgas, a P with SS through a tube amp actually sounds classic and great, rather than like a sterile lifeless wet fart of a cliché that induces puke reflexes.

There, fixed it for you.

I swear I actually searched for such a thread before making this one, I guess the "owner" in the title of that thread would be the key to my failure, rather then the much more common "porn", "show", "post" or "let's see". I really did try my best to find it, before giving up and deciding to make one myself. At least I actually remembered to utilize the keyword function. *cough* (even if I missed adding "owner" in that one too)

Looks great! Transplanted the outstanding neck the of the 2010 production GSRM20 Mikro Bass in my OP to a 2017 production GSRM20B body in Weathered Black finish I had lying around, from a Mikro Bass I bought that had horrible fretwork, unlike the GSRM20 Mikro neck. Also pulled out the DiMarzio P again and re-installed the EMG Geezer Butler P, also wired directly to the output jack socket, which I relocated to the front, on one of the redundant pot holes. This is the result: I named mine "Dud Bottomfeeder", by the way. Here depicted in a more artistic manner:

Hasn't Boner anointed himself as the deputy of Dalai Lama? In that perspective I think it seems fair.

I agree that this would be the most sensible placement taking OP's intention with using it into consideration.

No need to challenge anything with something that has been the unchallenged norm for centuries, as far as I am concerned. In my opinion that is in fact not challenging at all really but rather regressing to conformity.

So what you are saying is that you take offence of someone taking offence, but not for clicks and exposure? Isn't that ironic.

I have to disappoint you, it is as unoriginal as his bass lines.

Are you playing up a stadium without PA support?

Only a pretty bad businessman would invest in new basses with the intention of selling them later, used, for profit. There are far more profitable ways to invest your money. Buy a bass for what it is intended to, to play it, if you want to invest money look somewhere else.

The only effective way to fight the unending tyranny of shims is to just consequently say no to play bass as long as shims are used in some of them!

Double reverse P. With a reverse P configuration you get better tonal balance across the strings.

No, noon would be flat, or that is whatever is "flat" for that pedal, otherwise it is working as a traditional regular tone control, that is a tilt type EQ (on pedals that is, the passive tone control on basses is a LPF), just labeled Filter (as is tradition of the original RAT pedals (though not reverse as the original RATs)). This is how a tilt type EQ works, that is a traditional tone knob (mind I don't know what the specific crossover frequency, range and curve is specifically for the Mosky Black Rat, but in general terms) : So yes, more bass, less treble, counter clockwise, more treble, less bass, clockwise.

I know as much that the California Sound that I own is much darker sounding than the American Sound I also own, and that is even when played clean, with the gain set relatively low, but there's a huge difference in the way they overdrive and the tone of that too, so yes, seems like they are in fact different. Also in case you don't know they are all clones of Tech 21's Character series pedals, though the California and Oxford has been discontinued for some time. I am really happy with my American Sound, which is a clone of the Tech 21 Blonde pedal, and use it as a cleanish bass preamp in my current pedal setup. The California is pretty good too, but as far as I am concerned where it really shines is for massively heavy distortion tones , currently I don't use mine though, and I do personally prefer the American Sound. But as a big fan of the Joyo Orange Juice, of which I own 2 units, both in use in my current setup, which is supposed to essentially be a seriously sized down Oxford clone, but without an integrated cab sim and with simplified EQ section to accommodate the miniature size, I am definitely going to soon snap one of these bigger fully featured Oxford clones from Joyo.

So since my 28.6" scale main Ibanez Mikro Bass is currently tuned to G standard tuning, as in 3 half steps above regular 4 string bass E standard tuning, I thought I would start a thread for bass players who have one or more of their basses tuned up higher than what is considered the norm (that is basically E, all fourths, standard tuning for 4 string bass, and B, all fourths, standard tuning for 5 or 6 string bass). That is weather we are talking about a 4 string one octave higher E standard piccolo tuning, a 5 string bass tuned E to C, a 6 string tuned E to F or E to E, a typical 4 string A or B standard, that is A to C/B to D, baritone tuning, an all fifths C to A cello tuning, or more esoteric variants of utilizing higher than regular tuning on your bass, be it on a sub short scale (bellow 30" scale length), regular short scale bass (around 30" scale length), or regular full 34" scale length bass. This thread is meant as a place for discussing alternative higher tunings than what is considered the norm for bass, or simply just as a place for you to get a chance to wave your uptuned bass freak flag, should you feel such need. To start out the discussion : I had used an F# standard tuning (that 2 half steps above regular 4 string E standard tuning), which has actually traditionally been used in classical music for upright bass solo pieces, for my 28.6" scale Ibanez Mikro Bass for quite a while, using a gauge .090 - .072 - .054 - .040 string set, composed of single D'Addario XL nickle plated roundwound steel core strings, the gauge .072 and .054 string actually being guitar strings threaded through the cut off ball end of old bass strings to be able to sit in the bass bridge, but then recently decided to re-string my Mikro with gauge .080 - .060 - .045 - .034 strings to tune it one half step further up to G standard tuning (why is explained following). It does make it lean a bit more in the 4 string baritone guitar than bass direction, but there is still plenty of bottom end to fill out the sonic space as a bass instrument, and it seems to work better for the kind of bass/baritone/guitar crossover riff writing/playing style that I currently use it for in a drums and bass duo, where I also have my signal run through an always on 1 octave up effect, to give an effect somewhat similar to that of an 8 string bass (with pairs of respectively bass and octave strings). This way chords work pretty much regardless of where I fret them on the fretboard without getting too muddy, and that thuddy, stacatto and somewhat dead, effect of playing the thickest string above the 12th fret, due to the reduced flexibility of the string caused by the shorter vibrating length of the Mikro's short scale length as you approach the upper end of the fretboard, has totally been eliminated with the lower tension and thinner gauge .080 low G string, which wasn't quite the case with the previously installed gauge .090 low F# string, also the gauge .034 high A# string seems to still just exactly have enough mass to be perfectly snappy and full sounding, like a real bass string, and not thin or anemic in any way, like as if it had been a guitar string. All together basically resulting in a tone that now sounds clear and vibrant no matter what I play at the entire range of the fretboard, while still having that full tonal quality with plenty of punch and snap typical of a bass guitar. Ironically the tone of my Mikro in some ways is now closer to what you would expect from a regular 34" scale bass, given the richer harmonic content of the thinner gauge strings, than it ever was before. Here is how my lowly, but very much beloved, Mikro Bass looks (though back when this photo was shot it was still equipped with the gauge .090 - .072 - .054 - .040 strings and tuned to F# standard tuning) :