please critique my tone/technique

[themass]

hi, i'm converted guitarist and I have to do a few GB bass gigs. I can't cut my nails due to my regular acoustic guitar gig so I have to use a pick. looking for opinions on how to sound better. right now I'm using a heavy dunlop pick with lite roundwound strings (cause I have wimpy guitar hands).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bAW7ZWXdWlY

[adube810]

imo it sounds like you are rushing through them but it sounds good nonetheless

[grifff]

Sounded a tiny tiny bit muddy but other than that it sounded good!

[stuonbass]

Sounds a little pitchy, dawg. What did you think, Simon?

[Zombbg4]

Sounds great, both tone and playing. Wouldn't have guessed you were a guitard! I'd recommend playing a long with a metronome, or even better, a drum track to keep your time solid. It's a lot of fun.

[SirGrotius]

Sounds great, dude. I like how you're showing off your guitar in the background, too!

I couldn't quite tell but were you using all downstrokes?

I'm a finger player, but when I go to pick I tend to alternate between up and downstrokes. This is important for speed (and your health), and I don't think you can really tell in terms of the sound. Sometimes you have to do all downstrokes on the E string, of course, for big, beasty Metallica songs, but you get my drift.

Keep it up.

[duo8675309]

To really judge your tone I'd have to be in the same room, but through my laptop speakers it sounds fine. Maybe a little muddy but it could be a lot, LOT worse. As for your playing, your picking technique is great. I personally give it a little more attack when I play with a pick, but that's not an argument of bad technique, just technique. The only problem I can spot is that you're not stretching you're left hand out as much as you should. I can tell you're already good about using your pinky but try using your ring finger more as well. Also barring notes and playing the same fret spaces on different strings with the same finger doesn't work as well on bass as it does on guitar. I didn't notice you doing that but I figured I'd share that anyway. Overall though, you have absolutely nothing to worry about.

[themass]

thanks for the input. I will practice with the metronome more to help with my timing. for the video I was just going through a mixer into a powered speaker so I don't know if once i'm in a real bass amp it might stop it from being to muddy.