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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?

I'm the opposite - to me it's soulless, glossy, over-produced and empty. Mick sounds amazing thanks to autotune.

Nothing Left - Machine Head

Thought of another one - I adore Jack Bruce but can't get along with Cream... I blame Clapton. Thankfully JB had a magnificent solo career!

Flight of the Ibis - McDonald and Giles

I love Duff McKagan's tone and style, but Guns 'n' Roses... no, no.

Savoy Truffle - Beatles

Ah Ha - Butthole Surfers

Eh? - Pulkas

I was actually chatting to a mate about this yesterday. In hindsight, The Burning Red is a much better album than its reputation would suggest and, apart from some unfortunate rapping, isn't really a Nu-Metal album at all. It has aged well. Supercharger, however, definitely is 😆

Margate - Chas and Dave

Dangerous - The Who

Blimey.