Cosmo Valdemar

Lung - Type O Negative

Threatening Skies - Obituary

The Bully - Lemon Twigs

I Will - Beatles

I Don't Like The Drugs But The Drugs Like Me - Marilyn Manson

Assuming the bass was ordered unseen... The Consumer Rights Act 2015 governs businesses selling goods or services at a distance and under the Act, a business must ensure: Goods are as described. Goods are fit for purpose and of satisfactory quality. That if goods are faulty, the business must give a full refund up to 30 days after the item was purchased.

Even if it's delivered to you brand new, spotless and unplayed, you're entitled to a refund. If you've got concerns about the frets and electronics, get a refund and buy a decent one somewhere else.

Hmm... I wouldn't be happy with that. Personally I'd get a refund and spend another £50 elsewhere in the knowledge that you'll get an instrument in the expected condition.

What bass is it? If it was purchased new could they not replace it? You should be within your rights to request that.

Keep Moving - Madness

Copses In Their Mouths - Ian Brown

I thought CoF's cover of Sleepless was better than the original.

The Intense Humming Of Evil - Manic Street Preachers

Sweet Amber - Metallica

Exactly. You've got very little to lose! My experiment didn't give me the result I'd hoped for but it still sounds interesting.

This is going to take some getting used to 😄 How does it compare to your Thumbs?

P * s s - Pantera

Alice also covered Sun Arise many years ago, but we can't hold that against him.

Manhattan Project - Rush

Rocket Ride - KISS

From experience, adding a capacitor to a bridge pickup won't make it sound like a Rickenbacker, nor will it particularly change how the pickups interact with each other. A Rickenbacker pickup sounds like that regardless of the cap, that just changes the character slightly. I added a cap to the back pickup on a BC Rich and it certainly thins the tone out... at the moment it's got a push/pull for series/parallel output from the pickup but I might change this to switch the cap in and out instead. On a Rick, when both pickups are full on with the cap engaged they interact very differently, resulting in a less scooped, hollow twang like you'd get with a Jazz, for example. On my BC Rich it still has that hollow twang to the top end but still retains the mids, if that makes sense. By all means try it, you might have more luck than I did! Picture for no reason other than it's a cool looking bass!

Everything Must Go - Manic Street Preachers

You mean, you don't have to hit it so hard? 😁 To be fair, the video is an attempt to recreate the early KISS sound, so aggression, pick and slightly farty distortion are the way to go.

Exactly! I expected burpy 16th-note hell from that pickup position, and instead it absolutely roars!

Someone's made a replica of Gene Simmons' legendary lost LoBue bass from the 70s and blimey, who'd have thunk a Mudbucker in bridge position would sound so good?