Whats Wrong With Me - Planetjazzbass

Hey mate thanks for your kind review...There's a couple of areas that effect my bass tone...Firstly I play with my fingers pretty much exclusively so I can get good dynamics with my right hand 80% of your tone happens right here..I also play a lot over the bridge pick-up (on a Jazz Bass)this lets me get heaps of attack..also my pup mix is about 90% Bridge.10% Neck...I only use passive pup's with the treble cranked full on...My strings are (Fretted Bass)D'Addario XL Pro Steels .045-.100 (Fretless)Ernie Ball Custom Gauge 5 String Flatwound .045-.130.....I play the fretless straight through Native Instruments Guitar rig then a compressor in my DAW (Ableton Live)...With my Jazz I first go through an Old Zoom 506 Bass pedal(which I have tweaked to my own herbs and spices) then direct into my interface and a compressor in my DAW....all my playing is live...in this fashion though occasionally I might over lay some Harmonics...I've also hand wound my Jazz's pickups so their super fat and juicy..I've got enough wire I think for about 100 pickups..so I'm set for life!...sometimes I might tweak the tone a bit post production but not very often...hope this answers your question mate..thanks for your interest...cheers planet :)

Haha...yeah Rob the funny thing about punk music is I quite like it..went to a few shows in London in the 70's and I always was amazed at the audience's complete disregard for the actual quality or content of the material that they were listening to...it didn't seem to matter,just being there and jumping up and down in drunken oblivion was the thing...Pretty good from the bands perspective..you could be totally off your face,play anything at all and still get a standing ovation....If only it were that simple!...cheers dave.

Hehe...now what goes on in the back of limo's stays in the back of limo's.......I've only ever been in one...and it was strictly straights ville...cheers

Hey mate..I'm glad you enjoyed the tune...I just couldn't resist Johnny's acapella..wish I could do that!...haha no bowing please..You know that scene in Monty Python's The Holy Grail..were Arthur's pretend riding retinue comes across some mud splattered peasants in a ditch..and asks directions?...that is my favourite line on the whole elitist class system ever!...cheers planet

Hi Gizz..Ha!..yeah it's a bit difficult not to sound unique with Johnny screaming his lungs out...I would imagine he might have had a small amount of Dutch courage to help him with the performance ;)cheers planet

Boing..boing..I can't play and pogo at the same time...but I can look menacing and if required kick people in the (wherever)...You know I always fancied myself as a member of the Pistols..(but I would've had to have a hair cut and start a safety pin collection)....cheers planet

Hi Splish..that's great man..I suppose this really is punk rock..I was vacillating for awhile on what genre to pick.....thanks for the support...cheers planet

Hehe..thanks UltraB... the Pistols are one of my favourite bands..a lot of people dismiss them and reckon they can't play..their one of the tightest units when they were at their peak....cheers planet

Yeah mate that's definitely going to happen..and speaking of which well have to get together soon for a trans Tasman effort....cheers planet

Hi Rei...you mind reader you!..I was really channelling a live sound and ambience on this one...rip up a T-shirt and join us on stage!...cheers planet

Thanks mate... I'm glad you like the funny side of this when I first heard Johnny's acapella I just cracked up..and thought "got to do something with this"...cheers planet

That's a definite certainty mate!...you know it was interesting listening to the acapella by itself,I could here your breathing and intake of breath!..and imagined you holding forth somewhere in the old U.S. of A....I could hear you from here!...cheers planet