EssentialTension

I think you are talking about compliance not tension ... some explanation of the science below, if anyone is interested: https://www.liutaiomottola.com/formulae/tension.htm https://www.liutaiomottola.com/myth/perception.htm

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It's more complicated than you might think ... 😉

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It's all in the compressor fingers. There you go. 😣

Thanks Mart, I feel better now.

Thank you. But I expect someone will be along soon to explain why I am wrong.

General rule number one: all other things being equal, a 30" scale bass will be lower tension than a 34" scale bass (i.e. if at same pitch, and same string mass per unit length). But, general rule number two: all other things being equal, the shorter the string you are plucking the less compliant it will be - especially if you get nearer to the bridge - even though tension on a string remains the same all along its length. Hence, a 30" scale bass might be lower tension than the 34" scale yet be experienced as less compliant.

I'v played that song but never heard two basses. And by the look of the video one fretted, one fretless.

If I remember correctly, it has two Jazz pickups refitted at an angle to cover E-A strings separately from D-G strings; so likely bi-amped thus explaining the extra control knobs.

That bass was being used in later stages of The Move and early ELO as well as Wizzard.

The early 1970s version of Captain Beefheart's Magic Band had a dedicated bassist, Roy Estrada (named Orejon by Captain Beefheart, i.e. Don Van Vliet) and also an occasional second bassist Mark Boston (named Rockette Morton - who also played guitar and was sometimes credited as 'rhythm bass'). The rest of the band were Art Tripp III, (Ed Marimba - drums), Eliot Ingber (Winged Eel Fingerling - guitar), and Bill Harkleroad (Zoot Horn Rollo - guitar). Plus the Captain himself, of course. There's sometimes two basses here. It may not be to everyone's taste:

And in the 1950s and 1960s Fender had a marketing guy called Don Randall who was very good at his job. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Randall_(Fender)

You can drop a Precision bass down the stairs and quite possibly pick it up and play it. It may not be in tune but the headstock will still be attached.

If only! But someone here is 23, I'm sure.

Hazard a guess, go on.

Could you see the wood for the trees?

Do you remember when it was woodland?

It's a mystery.

+1 +1 +1 Is he back?

Apologies for being pedantic but ... the 1951 P bass with a single coil pickup was different to the 1957 and after P bass with a humbucking split coil pickup. Hence, the benchmark P bass you seem to refer to, if it is such , was 1957 not 1951, and that 1957 P bass was not the first. And, I suspect, not everyone will agree about 'grand-daddy' or even 'most recognisable'.

Just been listening to that - it's great, whoever it is. Did Carole Kaye play upright? Blimey, quoted from 2009! That's even before the BigBeefChief was banned! Double bass on These Boots are Made for Walkin' was Chuck Berghofer, I believe.

I've used black nylons, Roto and La Bella, with an under bridge piezo without separate saddles, with no problem. I can't see why under separated saddles should make a difference unless separated saddles sit more or less firmly on the piezo depending on if they are lifted or lowered. Metal not nylon, but I have found La Bella Deep Talkin' Flats 760FS standard gauge work well for 'acoustic bassy' tone.