He used a piece of foam with his Spector. That's the only bass I've ever seen him use foam. If we're talking about Police albums, I find it difficult to tell which is a fretless P and which is double bass (IIRC Synchronicity has 2 basses on every track)
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Double Bass Lazy Sting
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He used a piece of foam with his Spector. That's the only bass I've ever seen him use foam. If we're talking about Police albums, I find it difficult to tell which is a fretless P and which is double bass (IIRC Synchronicity has 2 basses on every track)
Huh? I never heard that on sync.
Omg is clearly fretless electric (or at least I can cop it perfectly on one so I assume it's not his upright). Most of the album actually. I'd like to know more about this doubling of basses he may have done and also where he used upright. Based on videos it was upright on the ballads.... But videos are meaningless.
Yeah. Now this is just what I read from a Police fan site. He alternated between the '62 Jazz, the '82 Steinberger L2, the fretless Precision and the Van Zalinge electric upright with a Boss chorus pedal added to some songs. Now apparently Every Breath was the fretless P and then electric upright. Wrapped Around Your Finger was the EU and then the Steinberger was added after and King of Pain was the EU with the fretless P added after. IMO Murder by Numbers was the fretless P, with a fretted bass with chorus during the outro. Just listen to that slide at the very end, it's quite dirty.
After listening to it, I think you're definitely correct about OMG being the fretless P, maybe with chorus too. I don't know how to play OMG, so I can't test it out, plus my fretless isn't a P either.
