Anyone else use their nails for a different tonality?

[I<34080]

Recently I've stopped biting my fingernails and they're are getting long enough to pluck the strings, playing with my amp and bass flat I can tell there's a huge difference.

[MattAT]

I hate playing with long nails. I play a lot better when they are cut short.

[SpawnofHastur]

I have very short cut nails, but I use them to get really bright harmonics.

[PJSShearer]

It's another option to throw in there - finger pads, finger nails, slaps, pops, plectrum.

[TimWilson]

Not on purpose, but it happens. I've learned to always keep nail clippers in my studio gig bag.

[jgsbass]

I am known to take my thumbnail on my right hand and scrape it along the string surface to get it to "bow".

[Byzcat]

I'm actually growing out the nails on the first two fingers of my right hand to get a sharper attack.

I can't play with a pick- I need the fingers of both hands to be moving in coordination with each other, or else my right hand knows not what my left hand is doing.

[gjbassist]

I purposely leave my right index and middle nails longer. I don't always use them but it is nice to have them if I want a different tone.

[Lesfunk]

I chew my nails terribly. I've never been able to play that way