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You can always use a larger gauge string for more tension and clarity on the low strings. I personally use a .145 gauge string for a low C on my 34" and can get the fundamental to sound clear even on my crappy practice amp.

Coming from the cello, I was already comfortable with 4-stringed instruments. I tune my 4-string in fifths as well, which gives it the range of a 5-string plus 1 semitone. Seeing Colin Marston live and watching his videos really opened my mind to the possibilities of extended range basses...

My first bass. Ibanez Roadstar II 1986 tuned to CGDA. Nothing special but I've been loving it since I started playing in December (I've played Cello for 10 years, but started playing bass for fun to join a band with some friends). :)

Thanks, that's exactly what I was looking for! Love Magma and can definitely see the connection in style. I'm fairly new to bass guitar, so could you explain what pushing the front end of an amp means?

This website has a general selection of labtops listed side-by-side for comparison. If you want to stay with Apple, the Macbook Air is a good option for under $1000, but be warned that you will need to buy adapters if you want to use anything that isn't connectable through the USB or headphone jack.

Additionally, this spreadsheet originally posted in the fifths tuning thread is useful for estimating the tensions needed for non-standard tunings. In your case, you would use the free tuning option, which for an equal tension set of roughly 40 lbs. suggests gauges of .179, .118, .087, .064 and...

(Not sure if this is the right place to post this but...) I was wondering what type of setup would have been used by the bassist in the band Eskaton to create the semi-fuzzed tone used throughout their 4 Visions album (see 3:25 in the video for an example). To these ears it almost sounds...