Show Us Your Basses (Part 2)

[John_E]

@totyasrac

To be honest I had Fender flats on my Sonic P (sold it as mentioned before) and I didn’t like how it sounded. Before that the Sonic had Harley Benton flats (cheap!!!) and that sounded good. Now on the 40th Anniversary I have La Bella Deep Talkin’ set and man it sings - just love it!

I have dove deep into the perfect string/pickup/bass combos. It’s crazy how awesome finding the right match can be.

Pickups and Strings - find your bass' tone

As many of you know by now I a bit nuts in several regards. Tone being one of them. I really strive for hearing a bass’ tone come through cleanly, and understanding how it can speak, then manipulate it. This may come from being a sax player, where your tone (or what they all call ‘sound concept’) is the single most important thing. The tricky part about sax vs. bass, is that you are part of the tone generation, so a setup that works for one person does not work for the next, based on throat,…