Recent content by JdoubleH

The magic solution everyone learning fretless bass needs: Muscle memory. It's both magic and totally completely real. Otherwise nobody would be able to sing in tune. Just as a singer trains his or her vocal muscles, you simply have to train your hands and ears to do it, and get your brain out of...

This thorn is still in my side, and several of "The Professor" Nick Harrison's AI covers are still lingering in my brain. My wife loves several of the songs, and insists he MUST have sung the vocals- or somebody did. More research was necessary and I googled whether he was actually singing. The...

I started out in the same place... I have a set of the ZX10Pro, and they worked well for home practice, but found they're a bit scooped and bass heavy for me live along with slightly harsh upper end. I also found them difficult to keep in my ears due to the thickness and the weight of that...

My coworkers refer to it as "Almost Intelligent".

Oh I fully agree with the need for labeling- and probably also the option to filter it from search results, recommendations, etc on streaming services.

The other day I pulled up Meg Myers' version of “Running Up That Hill” on Spotify for my wife. I had just heard it playing in the store I had just returned from, and couldn’t wait to share it with her. It’s a really good cover of the tune. When the song ended, she said, "hey why don't you put...

I had a 'need'* to cop the Tom Petersson 12 string bass tone into two amps thing. I'm not willing to invest in a 12 string bass** for one or two songs, so I took a pedalboard approach- with an EHX Nano POG splitting an octave up from my dry tone, and directing the octave up to a Line 6 POD...

Thought I'd post a link to my reply in another thread asking about case fit in the Pelican V800 I just flew with it and it worked out pretty well, but for anyone on the fence, I made a few comments how the SKB is WAY easier to roll around. The wheel placement of the Pelican kind of sucks for...

I have the Pelican V800 and recently traveled with it. I can confirm the Mono M80 fits inside it, however I chose to use a Protec Contego instead, because it has several advantages in my eyes. One being the closed loop fabric on the inside, which velcro sticks to nicely. The neck pad / block is...

Another update... I have a return label for the B-Axis, but I'd really love it if I could fit them in something, if just to try them out! I pulled the pickups (Dimarzio Area J and Ultra J) from my MJT body fretless to see if the B-Axis will fit. Nope. The tabs are wide of the routes for both the...

Curiosity got the better of me. I pulled them out of the box and measured. The ears on the neck pickup measure 29.68 at the widest (base of the pickup). The neck pickup ear routes in the Lull m4v body measure 29.20mm across. I located my unloaded body- can't remember the origin. It's unfinished...

Flash forward... looks like these are a still a little oversized. I just received a set of B-Axis J44J-L/S for my Lull M4V fretless, and the opposite happened. The bridge pickup fits, but the neck pickup is too broad at the mounting ears to fit the route. The original pickups were Fralin single...

I will echo that the side dots are really all you need. Muscle memory is an amazing thing! Playing fretted or fretless, you commit patterns and intervals to muscle memory. Let your hands do what they know how to do, and use your ears to help you fine tune. The real beauty of fretless is that...

more VU metering on pedals plz

This should be on the "quick start" leaflet in the box!