Recent content by monkeyland

I've always tried to do exercises the way that the teacher designed them. It keeps things consistent and promotes discipline. When playing live do what you need to do in the moment. Chances are that consistency and discipline will be there to back you up when things get tough.

If you look at the head of double base you notice that the nut is typically curved to allow the strings to angle back toward the tuning pegs. Those slots behind your nut are doing the same thing for you, but because the bass uses a standard design it doesn't look purposeful the way it does on a...

It's unfortunate that the MetroExpress 5 string come with the 18mm bridge.

Most of the time I just slip my bass into my Mono bag on breaks but if using a stand I like the Ultimate GS100. It's nice and stable, the hanging arrangement makes it easy to use with a Jazz Bass, and the hanger portion is a lower profile than the GS100 or Hercules so it folds down nicely. A...

I would not worry so much about not "messing up" but more about how to recover quickly. No one is perfect. A lot of those things in your list could assist with that for sure.

I have a weekly gig in a keys, bass, drums trio. We do a lot of stuff that you might call "jazz adjacent", and because of that we end up with a good amount of improv. So yeah a good amount of solos for me. I do not consider myself a great soloist but I can hold my own, and I try to always...

Sorry. I misinterpreted what you wrote. I thought you had verified that the volume pot was bad. With the right tools and knowledge you could track it down. It's typically that no power is getting to the preamp or that one of the pots has gone bad. Unfortunately it can be time consuming to...

I would stay with the preamp that you have and get a new volume pot for it. I never compared them in the same basses but I at one point had a Japanese Metro, an NYC(both stock) and a fender with the Sadowsky/warwick pre in it. The preamps had very small variations in their response. They could...

I think that strings are extremely subjective. Different basses take different strings in unique ways. For instance, I'm using Ernie Ball Slinky's on an MTD Kingston AG5 and I've never really enjoyed those strings on any other bass. I've been using Sadowsky strings on my Sadowsky basses for...

Yes. My company provided a whole stage with PA, Lights and band backline for a hallmark type movie, I think it's available on Prime. Myself and a couple of crew got asked to hang on the side of the stage and do "sound guy things". Of course all equipment logos had to be covered as usual. You can...

We truly live in amazing times where we can pontificate over readily available tools of this elevated quality. Once was a time that the standard answer was that you really can't get anything close to studio level compression from a pedal. Some people carried around DBX 166/266 in their racks...

I just picked up a used WD800 and am taking it out for its first gig tonight. I was at my office and had some of my Smaart measurement stuff handy so I thought I would do a quick measurement to see exactly what that passive mid control is doing compared to the other EQ bands. The screenshot...

In late 2017 I ordered a Sadowsky MV4 and when it arrived I knew that I had made the right choice. The only thing that pushed me off of that bass was wanting to give 5 string a shot and I eventually ended up with a really great MV5 through some horse trading. That bass put me at a point where I...

The bass in the video where he mentioned EMG was an M5-24 which was the Japanese made Metroline version of the Sadowsky Modern design. Originally the moderns, NYC and Japanese, came with EMG soapbars

I never would’ve known. It seemed so absurd that I just knew it had to be something that was somebody’s project.