Recent content by big_z_in_miami

Updated my MIM PJ with the hottest pups Seymour Duncan (SPB-3 and SJB-3) has. I wanted to go after the Steve Harris model concept. I used the same pots but cleaned them and double checked all wiring and improved the grounding to the bridge. I restrung with Harris flats (my other choice was...

I just got my Fuzz Deluxe and found with two different adaptors I have used with my other equipment it is a bit noisy. With battery, clean, clean, clean. The "other" equipment are my combo pedal and a drum machine, so I am guessing they have some internal filtering in them. I just picked...

I am relatively new to individual pedals, I got a Boss ME10, and use it occasionally, I use a Sansamp DI all the time now, to help get some 'presence', but I wanted something to get me some of that 70's heavy sound so I got the Bass Fuzz Deluxe. You don't need alot of fuzz with this pedal...

Good historical reference, the style was done on standard tuning on uprights, so no need to stray from that tuning/range.

To all, thanks for the comments, I agree on the standard tuning working just fine, and I was starting to look at inversion for those few cases, hit the root higher up in register where it is available on the fretboard and then use the chord tones lower below the root in those cases. I have...

I am shifting from blues to jazz, and finding a number of songs use Eb or Dm chords. and I could use the D below the low E. It appears the band wants mainly walking lines improvised over the chords. I only have four string basses, so my options are: 1) just play the D where I have it...

Hmmm, okay, that makes sense, but at what point do you transition from one string to the next, and do you strike the new string?

How do you play a slide that starts on one string and ends on another? Example: slide starts at 0 on first string (low E) and slides up to 16 on the second string (C#?) etc. How is that actually done?

I got the origonal post right away.....and it is right on the money. The other posters comments about Wooten's comments about articulation and dynamics....so dead on right. I have avoided playing AC/DC, although probably one of my favorite ass-kicking foot tapping, head banging rock rythym...

My band has a female singer, the band is strongly blues based, but play just about anything as long as we can groove and actually play it through. We do lean toward three chord basic structure stuff, so 12 bar forms are preferred out of simplicity. We recently learned Give Me One Reason...

Hey GL797, any chance you can tab some of that out? I have found only one tab for Junior's Eyes and it is only the main riff, but the chorus eludes me. Also, I like how you let it flow more and relax some of the fast parts, so it is a little unique each time, I think that adds depth to it...

For me it's #3 and #5. #3 is subtle but very usable tone for alot of stuff, if you need more than go to #5. I found the rest too distorted in general, but OD/D often need context. My feeling is once you get to a point where you can't tell it's a string instrument...then you might as...

I think Ed Friedland uses the same bass in his slap video, I was wondering what is was also, and figured a PJ that was modified to take the extra second bridge pup. I have a MIM PJ that is similar and don't feel the bridge pup was all that great and wondered about doing a similar...

I agree, they have alot more depth then most folks know, because they were early enough to be at the infancy of the metal genre. There is alot of alot of solid blues based playing hidden under all that distortion. Consider that the bass intro to NIB is a blues pentatonic solo in the Key of...

What guitar do you have (specifically)? I got a 2003 MIM P-bass with a PJ setup same as you describe and pretty much the same observation, the bridge pickup is lifeless, I'm pretty happy with the neck P pups, but would like more out of the bridge J pup..... Wondering if rewiring for...