Nicely done!
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Thank you very much, @Mac and @Paul_9207!
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Great job @robbp ! Very well done.
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great stuff @robbp !
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Very well done on the video editing 
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Hereās a video of me covering one of my favorite songs by one of my favorite punk bands: The Obituaries by the Menzingers.
Lakland 44-GZ
P: 100%, J: 100%, Tone 100%, running through SansAmp Bass Fly Rig with flat EQ, softune saturation plugin (apparently Iāve been mistakenly calling it āsoftoneā this whole time, oops), modest compression
I had a tough time keeping up with the eighth notes so I switched from my 0.60 orange Tortex to a .88 and found that helped a lot! I also tried the technique of picking closer to the bridge where thereās more tension to achieve more stability, and that also helped. Unfortunately, due to a shoulder injury that was really painful for me so had to go back to picking in the middle. Either way, I learned a lot from practicing this!
P.S. enjoy my cat staring into your soul for the first 30 seconds.
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@RoyB thatās great!
And your cat looks like they could be the singer, some of their movements seem to match the lyrics 
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Good job, @RoyB!
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Didnāt know that songā¦ But I guess I have to put that one on my Spotify motivational list for special occasions 
You did great and you looked like you were having fun while doing so
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Nice work and nice bass! I love those pickup and bridge covers.
Especially when you hit the Ramones covers 
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Whoa nice job @John_E - that is some Matrix level video editing going on
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Impressive - this one is a lot tougher then it first looks! The muted sound is spot on. How did you do it?
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This sounds great.
Still love that bass.
Creepy cat.
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Trust me, with the amount that he meows, that could easily be the case.
On play through ~22 the lyrics in the chorus certainly started to hit a little too close to home 
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I started learning Tae Kwon Do earlier this year. I have never been into sports, always been more on the nerdy side of lifeā¦ Iām slow, not a bit stretchy, have little to no strength or staminaā¦
So that chorus is literally what I hear in my head, every time I try to run a taeguk or do those kicks and stretching exercisesā¦
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Actually, I didnāt mute it at all! I just turned my tone knob all the way down to get the āmuddyā tone that you hear on the recorded version.
However, the song that Iām currently working on is an old Motown song and this one requires muting to get the right one.
For this one, I just use a simple foam under the strings near the bridge to try to recreate the tone of a Fender P-bass bridge cover (these ones came with a foam inside of it originally), like this one here:
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Great job @RoyB ! Not familiar with the song but your tone sounded spot on. Enjoyed it!
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one day weāll need a dedicated topic about that. I was talking about it today : Upgrade Day! Anyone Else Upgrading? - #1846 by terb
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I use the Nordymute from Nordstrand Audioā¦ A little costly, but so is this ābass thingā that we are all doing. I bought mine after talking to Carey Nordstrand at the NAMM show, but now you can find a lot of YouTube videos, from some of the respected names I see in these forums (Mark-Talking Bass, Scott, Ed Friedland, Bass The worldā¦ on and on). By the way, @robbp, after seeing (HEARING) your video, I had to make it my next song. Very well done.
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Thank you, @booker_t! It was really fun to play and record, even if I was nervous recording the video (other have stage fright; I have recording fright)!
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