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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?

In my (admittedly short) experience with Fender 9050, they didn't feel much different to Ernie Ball Group flats. I've got two sets of Ernie Ball Group III on two basses, and to me, they feel and sound very good. I play with a lot of slides and small corrective movements, for those being fretless basses. It might feel different on a fretted one though. My only fretted bass is a Stingray strung with Cobalt flats. I think it might also be about one's mind-set. Mine was "it will work whatever effort it needs". P.S.: Dunlops are fine, but they also are bloody expensive. They feel a bit smoother though. Each to their own.

The allegedly good ones wouldn't have known they were good if there hadn't been any allegedly bad ones.

I wonder what would Mr Orwell have said about it, had he still been alive.

Yes, they were. It’s where mine came from.

In this bass, there is a simple output socket connected directly to the PU. I quite like how it sounds passive.

Pink Floyd "Wish you were here" springs to mind.

Stratitis maybe?

I wouldn’t have written it, if he was. Seems like my take on humour wasn’t very successful. Sorry for that.

Sorry, I was on Holiday. @RAY AGAINST THE MACHINE why wouldn't you consider buying a P instead?

It’s some sort of blasphemy, really. Everyone needs a Precision. Or maybe three.

These days, it seems quite a popular deed, so here is mine. Music Man Stingray EX, ebony fingerboard, originally 3EQ preamp. The latter is now replaced with a 2EQ M05400 (once again, thank you very much @Hellzero). The treble pot is C500k. Strung with Ernie Ball Extra Slinky 40-95.

Said @Hellzero and took mystery to bed.

It'd be hard to compete with @tauzero, but the second place is mine for sure.

It may jolly well be. I've bought two Chinese fretless necks of eBay thus far. They are very well built. The only issue, aside of side dots placed where they would be on a fretted one, with the first (with coated maple fingerboard) was its width at the nut (38mm). The second one was more of a hit than I expected. Although described as having a rosewood fingerboard, it's actually got an ebony one. At least, it looks and feels like ebony. Love it. As for the first one, I'd love to ship it free of charge should anyone here need one. The screw holes at the heel are drilled to fit into a Sire P7.