Man, I love that song. Great job Lanny.
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Great song and great cover, you were clearly having a blast 
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Another great job, @Lanny . . .
This track brings me right back to the late 60âs, and is one of the reasons I got interested in bass in the first place.
All best, Joe
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Here is my last cover for the 2019 season, with some sludgecore from Arkansas
Sleuthfoot - A Little Suffering
I have some habbit of this kind of sludgy bass lines, but the biggest problem for me here was the tuning, because this song is in Drop-C (which is CGCF) or at least thatâs the way I transcribed it. With the 45/105 gauge I have on the SBV, the strings tension is very low, barrely playable, and this requires a very precise control over the attack and finger pressure on the frets. Iâm wondering how this kind of line will feel with the low-tuning dedicated bass Iâm currently building, with huge 65/130 strings !
Fun fact : this song has been released very recently, only two weeks ago (dec 13 2019) 
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DAMN @terb!!.. You KILLED it!! The attack was frigginâ awesome! Not an easy song to play to at all. And to try with 65/130âs?? Damn man, thatâs gonna be like banginâ lows lower than whale shit dude!! Pickinâ notes on the suspension wires of the Golden Gate Bridge!!
Anyway, LOVE the attack on this one, and⌠And damn man⌠No greenie??
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haha thank you @Lanny ! youâre right, this kind of song is not so easy. the timing especially is very critical. There are some variations, a lot of âreboundsâ, some tempo slow down, and the pattern is not always very logical to me (and thatâs something I like).
Greenie was out of the game here : with 40/100 strings there is no way to go lower than Drop-D. but the SBV works pretty well for those heavy stuff, as the low end can remain relatively tight thanks to the pickups. and I like the not-very-appropriate surf music look 
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Damn! That was intense.
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Awesome!
So the whole reason I went to Ochanomizu yesterday was to try and find these English Bass Centre Elites strings. The Peter Hook signature ones are 65/105 and that huge G string just has to sound awesome. It hadnât occurred to me to go with a larger E string though. Thatâs a really really good idea, looking forward to hearing how it works out for you.
My only worry is the nut might need to be filed out to accommodate it.
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Great bass face the whole time!!
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I know yâall are Fender fans, and Greenie is great, but his SBV is just a rare and amazing looking bass - always happy to see it come out 
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yeah Iâll need to do this for sure. I already did it on guitars, but this time I might try to make a new nut from scratch. wait and see.
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Great job, @terb - and you seem to have introduced a new category as well - âspeed coveringâ 
However, I think you really need a fiver for this kind of music, no??!!
Anyway, happy New Year - looking forward to your 2020 covers!
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sorry I donât get it ! 
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Sorry, was being too âslangyâ in my language⌠I meant a five-string bass 
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ah ! 
in fact 5-string basses are very rare in all the stoner/sludge/doom world. a down-tuned 4-string works great. we mostly see Fender Precision and Rickenbacker 4003 basses : fat and punchy instruments.
for now I mostly play in drop-D so Greenie is currently set up for this tuning, and in most cases itâs enough in the low range. but for lower pitches I plan to set up the Jim Harley PB for BEAD/AEAD which is the tuning (standard/dropped) of the four lower strings on a 5-string bass. it should be a nice addon to my existing basses and so, this BEAD/AEAD Precision will use the four lower strings of a 5-string set to archieve the 65/130 gauge :
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But wouldnât it be easier?? Or is it too much âposerâ to wield a 5-string??
I guess what you are doing is turning a 4-string into a âpseudoâ-5-string and leaving off the G string as it probably has no use anyway in that type of music!?! 
Anyway, off to buy some line seed oil, such that I can treat the fretboard as I am about to change strings and lower the action on my P copyâŚ
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I donât think it would be easier, it would just be useless ! exactly like 7-string guitars, nobody uses this in stoner/sludge/doom. tuning to drop-D or drop-C is not more complicated than having too much strings, I think. Well I guess it depends on how you see things. Personnally I like to keep things simple and I donât want 5 strings if I need only 4 !
yeah ! what do you plan for this bass ?
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Very nice, @terb . . . 
Great way to finish off 2019 . . . and wish you a Happy New Year!
Cheers, Joe
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Nothing as advanced as what you are doing 
New strings and learning how to adjust the action and do a proper setup in that context! Plenty of âexcitementâ for me there
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I was going to say that at 35" scale, your TRB-II is absolutely perfect for drop tunings, but then I remembered it was a 5-string.
Still, should be able to keep decent B-string tension at AEADG if you want to try it. Or even better, ADADG
Hmm, now you have me wondering about ADGCF.
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