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On 27/02/2021 at 15:47, Cuzzie said:

Not necessarily - there are some things you can’t quite get with a pick that fingers do, but also the same the other way round too - it’s just a different technique

Check out Bobby Vega, Cody Wright, Glenn Hughes, Dave Ellefson to name a few - they play super clean and complicated bass lines

Might be nice to add Colin Hodgkinson, John Gustafson, Carles Benavent & Joe Osbourn to the list

3 hours ago, mattbass6 said:

I stopped playing 6 string bass about 8 years ago. I moved to 5, and this past year, I’ve been exploring 4 string again and loving it. I still have a beautiful 5 string Vigier but haven’t owned a 6 for about 5 years. I will again, but it will be just for the studio ☺️
 

Hope you are well, and stay safe ☺️

Hope You are well & safe too.

I bet your shoulder it happy at the switch & I bet they sound fantastic.

But all this isn't helping My GAS for one of the Violet Fade ones!!! 😁
 

Very Nice. Do You not play 6 Strings any more Matt? Or are these as well?

Agree with both posts drTStingray

The players You mention were influences from the Soul/jazz funk side but add to the like players from other genres and the percentage is higher. The muting was the main thing one learned, and new strings or boil them was the way.

Blimey You had some nice amps when You started out LOL 😁

I had this for years, really liked it

5 hours ago, Reggaebass said:

Why’s that, is it because they were flats or because the strings wasn’t very good then 

For Me it they weren't the sound I wanted we saw flats as old guys strings. Plus with the "amps" we had (50w was big) you needed everything you had to cut through! And Rotosound had good adverts LOL

On 20/02/2021 at 16:40, CameronJ said:

FWIW I bought an Xotic XJ1T 5er a couple of months ago and it has true single coils, but Xotic offer their HRI (Hum Reduction Inductor) which fits in a little prerouted slot under the pickguard - I’m very tempted to buy one and have it fitted.

Word on the street is it doesn’t affect the single coil tone as much as Humbucking J pups do.

Isn't that a bit like how Alembic Dummy PUs work?

I have basses with single coil &  Humbuckers, but overall I think I prefer Singles. Like to try an Xotic

3 minutes ago, EMG456 said:

Spot on. All Fenders, Rics, Gibsons etc came with flatwounds on. Your first task getting a bass home was to change the strings! First new bass I bought which came with roundwounds already on was an Aria SB1000 in 1979.

Same here but mine was an SB700 probably 81ish . Wish I had held on to it!!! Much better for what I was doing than the Ricky

12 hours ago, Frank Blank said:

The album before this, Dance, had Mick Karn playing bass. I have heard people moan about Pino ‘copying’ MK on I, Assassin but he was asked to play like him so he was doing what was required. I think I’m right in saying that Pino used effects whereas MK always double tracked which gives MK a subtler sound imho.

I heard thats how Mick liked to record (listen to Dali's Car)

14 hours ago, EssentialTension said:

The flatwound strings fitted on 60s and 70s Rickenbacker basses, so I've read, were German made Maxima. No longer available but NOS are much sought after. IIRC, @Beedster sourced a set sometime ago. I might be imagining it.

I bought a Ricky in about 1978 (on HP) that had those on, I thought they were horrible! They seemed like someone had wrapped bakofoil  around them, I changed them straight away n binned them!!!!

The Strings on that Shaftesbury look like Roto Black Nylon.

From my memory most new US basses were fitted with flats in the 70's but most everyone changed them to RS66's

As for amps we thought HH were posh We had Carlsbro or own made!! LOL