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The owner didn't care for the typical mid-scooped Jazz sound and was trying to compensate.

Anyone have a Olympic white Jazz with a rosewod board, tortoise shell pickguard and white/creme pickup covers? I'm wondering how that combination would look with the pickup covers? Thanks.

There are a couple of things I do when I'm playing with someone whose timing is suspect. I play a lot of different styles of music and these tricks work in pretty much any situation I'm in: 1) I always try to make sure that every note that comes out of my bass is played with authority. You...

Interesting. Thanks for your help Francois and moles.

Thanks! So Presto Nylonwounds and Eurosonics are the same string?

Does anyone know how to get in touch directly with the manufacturers of Eurosonic strings? If you do, please either post or PM me their contact information. Thanks!

Thanks for the response Bassamatic. I kind of figured. I wonder what other bassist/singers do. Like, what does Esperanza Spalding do? Does she just record the bass and vocals together and just let the blend be whatever it is?

Hi Bass Players, I was recording with my band on Saturday at my house. We wanted to cut most of our songs live so we had me singing into a Neumann KMS 105 and had a 58 clipped on the mic stand closer to the ground for my bass. The problem is that there was too much bass bleeding into the...

Another vote for Steve Swan.

I had a Mondial. I didn't like it very much and sold it in early 2010 after it sat in its case for about four years. I bought it pretty impulsively because it's a gorgeous bass (the white body had mellowed out into a great cream/ivory color), but I'm really more of a passive solidbody type of...

I was in a similar situation a couple of weeks ago. I had a really bad cold, couldn't talk for a couple of days and had a painful cough. I had a gig where I had to do a lot of singing and I wasn't sure how I was going to do it without having a coughing/choking attack. I bought a huge bag of...

"Now we'd like to introduce the most important member of the band, Philip the Bucket."

I'm one of the greats of Country Slap Bass. Seriously.

Husker Du!

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