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FWIW Vonderplanetz - Door to Midnight

Basses: Best: Music Man Stingray 4 3EQ fretless, 2005, just one off the shelf, nothing special, but feels and plays the best Second best: Music Man Stingray 4 2EQ, 2005, same as above Third place: Harley Benton MP-4, occasionally fitted with Tone Pump Jr. Rather good: Spector NS Pulse II Worst purchase: Fender AVRI '62 Precision Gear: Best: Ampeg SVT-3 Pro Second best: Aguilar Tone Hammer preamp v1 Worst: Ashdown Mi10 with a 3rd party speaker

Have you been vaccinated with seriousness?

They didn’t say “to play”, though, did they?

The strings look like D'Addario Chromes, so two times thumbs up Great strings for fretless.

Fender AVRI '62 Precision. I hated its very thin neck profile.

I wonder if there are some terabells and petabells on the YT as well.

They probably mean it actually is Squier, not Squire.

Every instrument from Harley Benton I had was crafted better than this. Sorry to hear about your experience @N64Lover. I'm crossing my fingers for it getting sorted soon.

Nothing to do with IBM z196 then? P.S.: sorry for off-topic.

I haven’t compared them personally, but a guy who bought one of The Duke from me, told me, it sounded quite the same as Fender PV63.

There have been rumours about Tonerider making PUs for one of those better known and more expensive manufacturers.

some of these maybe? https://www.palmer-germany.com/en/Products/DI-Boxes/

To me, it was a Jazz bass (especially a '70s one) with the bridge pickup's volume set full on and the neck one's for about a third but also a Stingray (it was 3EQ one), both strung with stainless steel roundwound strings (DR Hi-Beam), that sounded woody.

Here you go: Symphony X - Domination (Bass Line).

It might be a pickup from an American Standard Jazz Bass produced between 2000 and 2012. There is a thread on TalkBass, some posts of which are referring to 33753. I'm not sure I'm allowed to link it directly to a post here, but you might like to make use of the search function on that forum.

Apart from the specs of Pino's signature, it was one of your posts which made me strung one of my Rays (actually, both, until Chromes 40-95 have arrived) with 40-95 nickel plated rounds. It's what I call revelation. Now, I'm in love with thin rounds on fretless. Albeit, I must admit it wouldn't work in my first year with fretless. Of course, it'd be different by different people. As to me, I needed quite a lot of time with flats to understand (to some extent) how fretless works. I reckon it's gonna be a journey as long as life itself, but it's one of things which keeps me interested in playing the bass.

It's an irrational prejudice.

That was mean! 😁

It's a V7 5 string @Geek99 was speaking of.

A rationalist is a person or philosopher who believes that reason is the primary source of knowledge and the best test for truth, rather than emotion or sensory experience.

Rounds only on Precision, both on Stingray.

That's what I found: https://web.archive.org/web/20060504210453/https://bashkov2.narod.ru/giblin.htm I'm not quite sure whether it's authentic since there's hardly any other stuff on the Internet to compare with. I wonder if here's someone who knew him personally.

Each to their own? P.S.: in my opinion, it's a shame that speaking of famous fretless players, nobody ever talks about John Giblin. Does somebody know whether he played flats or rounds?

Isn’t that good for the ego?