Baloney Balderdash

I just got in here to point that exact fact out!

Why not get one with blank or checkered paper and draw your own bass tab lines with a straightedge and a pen? Checkered paper would make it easy to draw straight lines with a straightedge, but at the same time not get in the way of the lines, especially if it is blue print and the pen you use is black.

That is beautiful! Congratulations!

Chocolate Town - Ween

Definitely this, eventual also harmonics into reverb and then into some light bright distortion.

He usually plays 4 at shows too, also with Bela Fleck, or at least used to. And I've never watched any concert videos or otherwise with him where he doesn't play his trusted 4 string Fodera Yin Yang Monarch bass. Time to upgrade to 5 string when you can play this without any mistakes :

There's no real relation between talent and number of strings, I mean just look at your average guitarist. Or Victor Wooten, who is a pretty dedicated 4 string player, or Stanley Clarke for that matter.

I'd say Gibson custom guitars with pre-snapped and repaired headstocks are even more stupid (though it does probably make the headstock less prone to snap off compared to non pre-snapped models).

You don't need perfect pitch or to learn all the different scales. All you need is to pay attention to shapes on the fretboard, and how different intervals between notes sound, and to realize that all the common scales are really just the exact same scale, the Major one, starting at different points (which is called modes), which then magically becomes the root note. It does help if you learn all the notes of the fretboard though, but again paying attention to shapes and intervals, and the relation between these, helps with that, and playing a 5 string bass helps easier making sense of all this too. Learning the different chord shapes, and more exotic scales (which though, when learned, you can use the exact same principle on as with the Major scale), will help you as well.

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I really think Spector basses look ugly. Something deformed and very clumsy about their body shape. But the ultimate bad taste is single cut, "whale hump", especially 5 string, boutique basses with maple burl or flame tops with a blue/green transparent, sort of burst, finish that looks like a cliché amateur new age abstract painting.

Maggie Bjorklund - "Lysglimt"

Is it though? What makes it super then? Doesn't is somehow chemically/physically bind it self to the surfaces it is applied to with a pretty strong bond? If you actually tried this yourself I of course will take your word for it.

And "amp-less" setup that will secure consistency of that, that is giving me approximately the same tone whether I practice at home though FRFR studio headphones, at band jam/rehearsal through a FRFR PA speaker, or at a venue through their PA system. Which happens to be what I use currently. And it looks like this on written form: As said currently in the process of completely re-arranging my setup, so only my always on pedals that gives me my basic "clean" tone, and the pedals that gives me my overdriven and distorted tones are currently set up, but this is pretty what it is going to look like (mind some of the pedals are place holders, as the online pedalboard manager app lacked some of the pedals in my setup): And this is my preferred instrument of choice: A 5 string Ibanez GSRM25 Mikro Bass, feauturing a just 28.6" scale length, Poplar body, and a Maple neck with a Jatoba fretboard, the stock neck J pickup have been disconnected, as it was faulty, and the stock bridge J pickup has been wired directly to the jack output socket, and it is strung with Elixir Nanoweb coated nickel-plated roundwound hex steel core guitar strings, gauge .080 - .062 - .046 - .036 - .026, tuned in tenor bass, G standard, tuning, that is as 3 half steps above the 5 upper strings of a 6 string bass in regular B standard tuning. I named it "Mr. Growley - The Noodlemancer".

Won't superglue fix that grub screw to the thread so that you won't be able to adjust it again?

Use your ears and adjust so that the output balance across strings. Numbers are useless, especially when not knowing what kind of magnetic pull your specific pickups exerts on the strings, and what strings you use. About 3mm low string side and about 2mm high string side with strings fretted at last fret is a good bet of a starting point though, but you would probably want to adjust downwards from there, to avoid too much magnetic pull on the strings, until the output across the strings is balanced. Note that the closer the pickups get to the strings the bigger difference in output and tone relatively to the adjustments made will be.

Hire an assassin and have them kill all your band mates as well as the guitar tech, just to be absolutely sure the accident doesn't repeats. Then get an appointment with a shrink to have him prescribe some strong antidepressant drugs to help you deal with the trauma of your tragic loss.

No, but it has to do with not everything Jaco did being the Godsend example for all mankind to follow blindly. And there is certainly no need for spamming this topic with quotes of my reply either. Context, fella, context, it was a reply to something, look at the quote above the reply you quote me for. Also I suppose dark humor is not everyone's favorite cup of tea, or to even get for that matter.

I Can't Put My Finger On It - Ween

He also only needed a butter knife to remove the frets of his bass, and got beaten to death after provoking a bouncer at a bar, neither of which comes to mind as something I would recommend anybody doing. There is more to life than partying, and certainly to music as well. Personally at least most of the music I create, and most of what I listen to as well, aspire to more than that.

Thanks. Well, I don't play in any band at the moment, and it is not really supposed to cover the role of a traditional bass. It's more of a low tuned melodic/chord instrument, and I plan to use it in various solo projects I got going, along side a regular bass. I am also working on a stoner/doom rock project that I named "all I nil", where the idea is that this bass, along with drums and vocals are going to be the main core instrumentation, with a bit of more flavor oriented instrumentation added, sort of covering both the role of bass and guitar, but really being something unique on its own, and I already wrote a couple of handful tunes for this project, where the "bass" parts and mostly the basic form of the songs are more or less in place. This is really what got me started tuning my 4 and 5 string Mikro Bass up like this, with above mentioned project in mind.

I just recently converted to playing my 5 string Ibanez GSRM25 Mikro Bass as my main instrument of choice, from my 4 string Mikro Bass, though having a just 28.6" scale length I have it tuned to G standard tuning, that is 3 half steps above the upper 5 strings of a 6 string bass in regular B standard tuning. So really closer to a baritone guitar tuning wise, but with only 5 strings, wider string spacing (16.5mm), and tonally really sounding more like an actual bass. I do however play it as you could perhaps imagine one would a hybrid between a bass and a baritone guitar. My point though being that, while I struggled a bit adjusting to it at first, eventually I actually really felt it a relief having that broader range on the fretboard vertically, and it really seems to make a lot of sense that you basically have 3 octaves within hand/finger reach, and gives a lot of freedom. Here it is, named "Mr. Growley - The Noodlemancer", by the way :

I must admit I liked how the reverse "Strat" jack socket looked, also seems to me that it would be more practical considering jack plug/cable insert. But it is your bass, so of course what matters is that you like it. The black hardware I agree with though, definitely suits it much better than I would imagine chrome hardware looked on it.

Lullaby - Low

Just to specify, the reason why the processing takes longer the lower the frequency of the incoming signal is is that the wave length gets longer the lower you go, so it takes slightly longer for the pedal to actually get a signal that it is able to detect/track as a specific note. So no matter how fast the processor and algorithm of the picthshifter is there is simply a physical limit to how fast it is possible for it to track.