Baloney Balderdash

That looks amazing, and the price looks just as amazing. 111£/129 Euro at Thomann. Also, for what it is worth, it is all analog. Might need to get one of these. Had it also had an adjustable LPF and HPF it would have been perfect.

Leenardo Czars, Pinocchio Palmino and Jammy Jamson. All they ever did was noisy farts. And they smell too!

Not my full collection, but just shot this with my mobile phone: From left to right: 4 string 34" scale Aria Pro II Laser Electric Classic (Ash body, 3 piece Maple neck, Rosewood fretboard) 5 string 28.6" scale Ibanez GSRM25 Mikro Bass (Poplar body, Maple neck, Jatoba fretboard) 4 string 28.6" scale Ibanez GSRM20B body + GSRM20 neck Mikro Bass (Mahogany body, Maple neck, Rosewood fretboard) Aria Pro II tuned in regular 4 string bass E standard tuning 5 string Mikro Bass tuned in G standard tuning, as in 3 half steps above the upper 5 strings of a 6 string bass in regular B standard tuning 4 string Mikro Bass tuned in A# standard tuning, as in 1 half steps above the upper 4 strings of a 6 string bass in regular B standard tuning Beside that I also own: Harley Benton GuitarBass (Bass VI) - Egmund (exeptionally crappy, basically unplayable, short scale vintage late 60's bass) - Epiphone SG Special (electric guitar) - Santana (short scale classical nylon string acoustic guitar)

Adam Clayton

Green Mind - Dinosaur Jr.

It's No Good Trying - Syd Barrett

I never played covers, always having played in original bands/projects, at the moment working on solo projects, so the basslines I primarily play are self composed, hence me listing them not making much sense for you. I do occasionally play parts, melodies or riffs/bass lines from other people's songs though, but I find it must more fun to write/compose my own original lines. Beside that I practice a lot of improvisation, simply to get better at improvising and coming up with consistent stuff on the spot, so again no predetermined basslines as such involved. One of my favorites though is one of my composition that basically consists of an identical folky intro and outro riff in C Dorian, and then a long folky improvisation in between in C Dorian, though building around certain riffs/licks that I have developed as I have played it quite a few times by now, so that the improvisation is just not mindless noodling in C Dorian but kind of got this sort of fluent form, that while being different every time I play it still have certain blocks of melodic lines and riffs that it, while those also varying slightly from time to time, kind of builds around. I call that composition "Dorian OdysC" (originally it was titled "A Dorian Odyssey" and was played in A Dorian, but with the tuning that I have found works best for me, C Dorian happens to work best for this composition).

This is my "amp-less" setup: Though my main point with this is consistency of tone regardless of whether I rehearse at home through headphones, at band jam/rehearsal through a PA speaker, or live through a PA system. But as you can see I use a combination of no less than 4 preamps to obtain the exact tone I desire.

Triangle Walks - Fever Ray

I might be daft, and not trying to be snarky, but I fail to make any sense of this whatsoever, seems to me that the sentence kind of contradicts itself. What does this mean?

Vintage voiced pickups could mean either 50's, 60's or 70's pickups though, which all got a different general basic character to each other, plus then variations within those.

Sound of Silence - Simon and Garfunkel

This is true! Would give you much more extra output power than getting an amp with double the power rating (500W, as that would only equal to just about +3dB).

Same as my band jam/rehearsal and live "amp-less" setup. My main idea with this being consistency of tone regardless of whether I rehearse at home through headphones, at band jam/rehearsal through a PA speaker, or live through a PA system. : Though my Sennheiser headphones are dying, and are currently held together with tape, after over 20 years of faithful service, so for rehearsal currently I use a set of ultra cheap Behringer studio headphones, the BH470 ones, which are actually surprisingly decent. They do not have quite the same clarity and neutral flat response as the Sennheisers, there's a bit of a boost of the lower frequency spectrum and they lack some detail in upper frequency range compared to the Sennheisers and reality, as you basically get with all cheap headphones really, and I wouldn't use them for producing music/mixing, but they do actually work really well for rehearsing bass. So if anyone's on a really tight budget and need a set of headphones exclusively for practicing bass I can warmly recommend the Behringer BH470 studio headphones. Also I don't have a photo of my current setup, but here's at least a shot of my current main instrument of choice (old shot, and the fretboard has darkened quite a bit since this was shot, and also taken on a browner hue, as Jatoba tends to do over time when exposed to sunlight):

Not if you plan to tune it E to C, and the upper strings, in my opinion, would sound better, and it'll be much easier to do melody and especially chord work on.

When The Earth Moves Again - Jefferson Airplane

Looks very 80's.

Looks cool, but it has extremely poor upper frets access.

The best phaser ever!

Transdermal Celebration - Ween

I love it! Sounds nice too.

To answer your actual question, yes, there is another way of grounding the bridge: Run a slim piece of conducting self adhesive copper shielding tape from under the bridge (of course after removing the bridge), and then, stuck to the body of the bass, down into the pickups cavity, or in the other direction, down under the pickguard and into the control cavity, and then, inside the pickup or control cavity, solder a wire to that strip of copper tape, and from there connect the other end of that wire to where you would normally connect the bridge ground wire. That will work exactly just as great for grounding the bridge as a regular bridge ground wire.

Or just get yourself a short scale bass that'll fit into a guitar gig bag like me. Though being 6'4" I still need to remind myself of having to duck every now and then, to avoid the top of the bag/head of the bass hitting the upper ledge of doors.