Recent content by Thomas S Loomis

Totally agree on this - I never wanted to go to a p bass, until I heard that R 40 tour, and now I'm rethinking all my approaches basses and tone. Although I will say his use of sansamp really helps with all those basses. Can't get over the green jazz that made it over from the Clockwork Angels...

Love flats myself, although I find that the use of flats are very specific. I have a set of warm brights on a maple fretless five and it's really nice and fat sounding. I find it really useful with a pick as well; sometimes getting that tone where I'm just cutting through the midrange with...

Are these the passive ones? I am looking for a set of these...

I played a Schecter through a bunch of amps at Guitar Center and couldn't get a bad sound out of it - so I went for the five string of the same Schector, but sadly it just didn't have the same mojo as its little brother so I didn't buy it. But it had a real chewy funky mid range that reminded me...

- That's interesting... I wonder if that had anything to do with availability, or distribution. - the reason I quit using rotos, around that time, was that each set I bought had a dead string or two and in a couple packs they were all dead. Had something to do with salt water and being stored in...

R 40 Favorite Moments... Thunderbird on I think Animate, and that pair of blue/green jazz basses. My 70's 5 build is a surf green with a maple w/ black block & binding - red-ish brown tortoise shell pick guard - badass bridge, alder body - all the geddy goodies with a b string. The massive...

Wow, I was just on this thread looking for info on Geddy's string choice on his jazz basses and you guys make for an entertaining read... I re-created my 70's fender in a 5 string style because my fender sounded so much like Geddy's at the time - mainly that counterparts/echo era - I finished...

Been reading through here looking for specifics on "Wire color" - I'm trying to identify a set of jazz pickups I have with red/black leads - these may be from my 70's fender Tri-bolt that was sold with Duncan's installed, can't remember if I kept them or sent them with the bass...