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That is genuinely a very good question I don’t have a proper answer for. Taking in account that Marcus Miller’s original jazz bass does indeed have the TCT, the only thing I can think of is that if atelier would put the TCT into their MM models the sound would be identical to Tomohito Aoki...

Guys I just wanted to clarify quickly here and warn everyone about the danger of using an AI in such an extremely wrong way. First - AI is an extremely advanced text editor, it’s not a person, and it couldn’t ever learn/analyse/know ANYTHING about Aoki San. An AI becomes so clever by multiple...

Blue steels for example came from Amazon, and silly me was thinking “oh yes, now stainless steel will excite the hell out of the magnets”. Surprise - they sounded dead on arrival. There is something sinister about stainless steel strings that were not stored in proper conditions and how...

In the video it seems in both cases with old dead strings and the new strings, the sound is ultra bright from the amp or DI he’s using, it’s so harsh. So I can imagine that if it brightens the old strings like this, maybe the old strings don’t sound that different initially.

I have a feeling that semi flags that were made for Aoki just have a “shaved off” outer core that was round wound and then shaved or maybe it’s a half circle shape, like a sphere cut in two halves? As the description on their package also says - the metallic zing zang is there, it’s just that...

音圧 (Onnatsu) — What Japanese Sound Engineers Really Mean, and Why It Changes Everything About How You Think About Bass Tone If you’ve spent any time researching Japanese bass players, vintage Japanese studio gear, or the city pop recordings of the 1980s, you’ve probably come across the word 音圧...

Please also don’t hesitate to check out this topic. Bartolini TCT — Comprehensive Technical and Tonal Reference Based on original Bartolini documentation OVERVIEW The Bartolini TCT (Bass-Mid-Treble Tone Control) is one of the most distinctive onboard bass preamp designs ever produced. It...

Bartolini TCT — Comprehensive Technical and Tonal Reference Based on original Bartolini documentation OVERVIEW The Bartolini TCT (Bass-Mid-Treble Tone Control) is one of the most distinctive onboard bass preamp designs ever produced. It belongs to the TCT Family of vintage 3-band preamp/tone...

Bartolini TCT — Comprehensive Technical and Tonal Reference Based on original Bartolini documentation OVERVIEW The Bartolini TCT (Bass-Mid-Treble Tone Control) is one of the most distinctive onboard bass preamp designs ever produced. It belongs to the TCT Family of vintage 3-band preamp/tone...

Bartolini TCT Family — Comprehensive Technical and Tonal Reference Based on original Bartolini documentation: vintage TCT, vintage XTCT, vintage old XTCT, and modern TCT Family instruction sheet 1. THE TCT FAMILY — ARCHITECTURE AND IDENTITY What the TCT Family Is The Bartolini TCT, NTCT and...

Bartolini TCT Family — Comprehensive Technical and Tonal Reference Based on original Bartolini documentation: vintage TCT, vintage XTCT, vintage old XTCT, and modern TCT Family instruction sheet 1. THE TCT FAMILY — ARCHITECTURE AND IDENTITY What the TCT Family Is The Bartolini TCT, NTCT and...

Bartolini TCT — Comprehensive Technical and Tonal Reference Based on original Bartolini documentation OVERVIEW The Bartolini TCT (Bass-Mid-Treble Tone Control) is one of the most distinctive onboard bass preamp designs ever produced. It belongs to the TCT Family of vintage 3-band preamp/tone...

guys, you are sharing more and more unbelievable music that was sitting and waiting for rediscovery :) So cool to be here with everyone! BTW about that delay thing, just wanted to clarify - I thought back then that it’s present in that form actually only in Sea is a Lady album and that Aoki San...

Guys actually, i figured it out a long time ago but didn’t write it here, and hiding it would be a disservice to Aoki Sensei, so i will leave my theory: In the album “Sea is a lady” and in a couple of other songs from other artists Tomohito Aoki has a very special sound. His bass is super...

Just found this, what do you guys think? You can literally program in the exact, precise frequencies.