Unfortunatley, it was a vote for "No, he never used flatwounds" .
I've been trying to emulate his tone using roundwounds and it only recently occured to me that the reason I couldn't get the balance between "mudiness" and "bark" quite right, might be that Bruce was using flats!
Back to the drawing board then, unless anyone else has a different opinion?
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The answer is no. His tone (I assume you refer to the early records) is a P, with rounds, run direct and with extreme use of compression - sometimes one comp daisy-chained into another, probably an 1176 or two.
The answer is no. His tone (I assume you refer to the early records) is a P, with rounds, run direct and with extreme use of compression - sometimes one comp daisy-chained into another, probably an 1176 or two.
Thanks for that takeout !
Sadly, my EBS Multicomp doesn't do "extreme", or I'd give it a go!
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Did Bruce Thomas use flatwounds on his P Bass? 
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