Recent content by Bread Knife

Now that is thinking outside the box. String spacing that narrow is giving me the willies just thinking about it, but if it works for you that's great! The 3D printed nut is a great idea, especially for an unusual project like this. Nice work!

Juan is the best and it's great to see/hear from him. Thanks for posting!

Sounds real enough to me, though definitely quite a lot of lows in that tone. I think some of the playing choices like slides are the main thing leading me to say actual bass guitar rather than since - it seems like more work to recreate that with a synth than it is to just play it on a bass. I...

Sadly, I can't see the video (embedded playback is disabled). What song?

Indeed, I was also going to suggest sticking with the Hi Beams a bit longer. I don't think any other strings really sound quite like them while offering the round core feel. It took me several months to adjust to them after years of playing only flats, but now they just feel like bass strings. I...

Wow, nice color. Sounds great in the video!

BLUE! I've been in need of a better compressor for bass; this might be the thing that finally gets me to pull the trigger.

I'm also guessing p bass with flats, but it's quite bright. Jamming along with my jazz bass/old hi beams I'm really not that far off. More importantly, what a track! Never heard this before. The bass tone is great, it's mixed plenty loud, and playing is excellent. The song is quite catchy as well.

I haven't played another jazz bass in years, so I can't really comment on any sonic differences resulting from the stack knob setup versus the typical VVT arrangement. I will say my bass (a 62 AVRI) sounds great, but that isn't necessarily due to the knobs. I'd say the main advantage is it looks...

Y'all don't hear a difference when you start rolling back the volume on one pickup with the other on full? I'm genuinely surprised this is a subject of debate. It's quite audible on my bass (stack knob setup FWIW). The neck down just a touch is perfect - it adds a little midrange cut to the...

I've never had occasion to change pickups mid-song (too fiddly), but I alternate between using the neck pickup alone and using both with the neck rolled back a touch. I'm still learning to love the bridge pickup solo sound and could be tempted to try it out in a band mix in the near future...

Hi Beams are, of course, quite bright when new as you note. I love them after the newness wears off and I can keep playing them for a long time after that. I think you should go with those first based on what you wrote. My experience with Sunbeams (many years ago) was that they are too dark for...

Incredible. I’m sure it sounds great!

There's a fairly well-established guitar tradition of "drop X" tuning being equivalent to drop D (DADGBE) with all strings tuned down until you hit "X." In this case, the guitar is tuned down 1.5 steps and then the lowest string an additional step, resulting in a BF#BEG#C# tuning (I think...)...

In general bass strings are pretty tough to play if tuned up, but that's certainly an option to match your guitar tuning. You should look for extra light/super light strings for the F#BEA strings (30/50/70/90 gauge or lighter) and keep your current B string if you want to use this approach...