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What is everybodys opinion on passive basses compared to active basses and the pros and cons of each talking about all aspects of playing them both wether it be blending in with the band, soloing up high on the fret board, their sound in general, clarity, low end, anything.

What is everybody's opinion on coated nickel strings compared to regular nickel strings when playing hard rock/grunge/metal?

I have been using Ernie Ball nickel roundwound slinkys for a long time now playing stuff such as: ALL Metallica, Pearl Jam, Alice in Chains, Stone Temple Pilots, Emerson Lake and Palmer, Rush, Iron Maiden, Steve Vai and a few others, but I mainly play Metallica. I also tend to use a Sansamp Bass...

I am looking to buy EMG humbucker style pickups for a 5 string bass and there are so many different models to choose from. The models I am looking at are the 40P5, 40DC, and 40CS pickups. Anybody with experience playing those 3 models, testing, and comparing the sounds against each other with...

From playing Music Man Stingray 5 basses I love their sound by far over any other active bass i've ever played. They have the same high output, bright sounds, and clarity that I guess are characteristics that all the active basses i've played share, but the Stingrays seem different to me though...

On the Metallica albums Ride the Lightning and Master of Puppets, I listened to a few of Cliff's bass tracks on certain songs and I noticed that his sound is always fuzzy and alot of the times muffled, why is that so? It seems listening to the albums that his bass sound has clarity and is just...

I was told by someone that on the Kill em' All recordings that Cliff Burton used flatwound strings. Is this true? Here are some sound samples: It is almost believable that Cliff did use flatwounds on Kill em' All because IMHO on the bass track it sounds like some flatwound strings I...

Does anybody think an electric bass guitar can fit in with a classical setting? And not classical like Symphonies and Orchestral arrangements within the past 100 years, i'm talking more on the lines of really technical piano parts from the Baroque period and stuff like that. I have already...

What is the difference in sound between round core strings and hexagon core strings?

I have a deluxe p bass special, I took the J pickup out and installed an original '62 p pickup in the place of the stock p pickup. I am trying to a get a vintage sound about like Donald "Duck" Dunn had on the original Blues Brothers movie. So which string do you think would better fit that...

Okay I know the difference between Nickel and Steel strings and what each sound like compared to the other. But I have never heard or seen or know anything about nickel on steel strings. So what do nickel on steel strings sound like and how do they compare in sound to regular nickel and steel...

Check this video out. That is an awsome sound for the bass solo he did, but what in the world effects did he use?? I know he uses Ampegs, Fernandez Gravity 5 bass, Dean Markley 4 string set with Ernie Ball B string (back then in 2006), and the effect he has sounds like a Sansamp Tech 21...

Okay here is something I can't understand. Rob Trujillo used to use Dean Markley strings and just mid to late last year got a deal with Dunlop. He has signature sets of steel strings that are supposed to be what he uses. But all the videos on youtube I have seen of him playing live and in...

Does anybody out there know what strings Cliff Burton used? I used to use Ernie Ball nickels and got curious as to what strings he used. From all the strings I have tried at first I got close to his sound with a set of DR Sunbeams because of the low end growl and the smoothness on the highs. But...

I am looking to buy a Rickenbacker bass and of course they produce 4003 basses now instead of 4001. All of the players I have heard on Rickenbackers played 4001 and their sounds are incredible. But I am wondering what is the main differences between the 4001 and 4003? I mainly need to know the...