Cosmo Valdemar

Take It Off The Top - Dixie Dregs

Nigel sold me his EHX Hot Wax - quick delivery, great packaging and in excellent condition.

A great bloke to deal with. Thanks Nigel!

I picked H, but definitely not a Stingray! 

A nice, simple passive pickup - like a Thunderbucker - right in the P position. Not that that's a particularly common sight, but I reckon that would do the job for me in any situation I found myself in.

Ready For Drowning  - Manic St Preachers 

Floaters in Mud - Sepultura 

Fat Man - Jethro Tull

Falling Forever - Paradise Lost

Walk Idiot Walk - The Hives 

On 24/12/2020 at 12:59, Bill Fitzmaurice said:

That's not so much using a pick as it is having a new set of light gauge round wounds. Entwhistle got very close to that tone finger style, though you wouldn't know it after ham fisted mouth breathing producers were done. Listen to 'My Generation', one of the few tracks that managed to get past them with his real tone.

... which was recorded with a Fender Jazz and La Bella flats 😉

I'm The Greatest - Ringo

Home on The Strange  - Geddy Lee

40 minutes ago, AndyTravis said:

ESP/ltd Horizon/304 - elegant teardrop.

I prefer the original with the upside down tuners.

Unfortunately it's prone to ham-fisted restringing, like the poor Bass Collections

11 hours ago, shoulderpet said:

I think it is only the more expensive Hofner flats, I think the contemporary flats are Chinese made

I can't remember the exact ones on mine. Hofner flats with a dark green silk wrap. Lovely they are too!

I should add that I didn't actually buy the strings myself - the bass was a gift from my Dad a few years ago, and on the advice of Thomann he also bought the strings, a hardcase and replaced the black knobs with Hofner teacups.

30 minutes ago, shoulderpet said:

Yeah it may be that I was unlucky, with the Hofner contemporary flats, they are very inexpensive for flats so it may be that the quality control is a bit hit and miss, if they are working well for you then no need to change them 

I might be wrong but I think the Hofner flats are rebranded Pyramid Golds.

Congratulations on the new bass. They're wonderful little things. I've had mine a few years now and it's the happiest instrument I own. 

I normally play with a trebly, distorted sound, so when I pick up my Hofner I'm about as far away from normal as I can be, but it's such a joy to play and the thump it makes is like nothing else.

Mine wears Hofner flats and I've never had any problem with them. Mind you I want that massive bass thump from this bass - no need for top end or sustain here! 

Lonely Wind - Kansas

24 minutes ago, Doctor J said:

Sepultura - Quadra 

Still pushing the boundaries, a really creative and aggressive effort.

 

This was a stonkingly good album. 

Napalm Death's Throes Of Joy In The Jaws Of Defeatism was magnificent also.

Screaming Black and Blue - Godzilla Black

Kissing Willie - Jethro Tull

Night Run - UFO

Ready For Drowning  - Manic St Preachers 

On My Hotel TV - Skunk Anansie

Tea Dance - Terrorvision 

Seventh Wave - Devin Townsend 

45 minutes ago, Stub Mandrel said:

It may be partly the isolation process, but to me these tracks always sound more middly, more handling noise, much less even between notes and more 'human' timing but always very different from what you might hear from a demo of a bass rig...

That I do agree with.