I always found hard to have a good, consistent sound with the 4 fingers technique. The pinky always produce a weaker sound. I use what i call the 3 and a half finger technique. I pluck down with my ring finger, middle, index then i pluck up the string with indez again. There is another way to...
I've bought a fretted 6 strings and it was a decent bass. I've bought a fretless 6 string and it was the worse bass that i ever owned... Could go either way in my experience
BC rich zombie exotic classic... Crazy neck dive, the strings where about 1 inch from the neck, regardless of the adjustement, fretbuzz, and the shape was so unconfortable... after a rehearsal or a gig, my thights were blue beacause of the sharp edges... sold it for less than half the price just...
Maybe not as death metal as you may like, but Dan Briggs from between the buried and me. He does a lot of groovy melodic basslines, probably one of my favorite bassists. You should listen to the album "colors", that where he does the most interesting things on the bass. Also, i'm pretty shure...
I've had a similar situation... I took a long break, took my mind of the band, got into different styles of music and got back and started to jam again with the band with a clean head and another point of view, and it broke the routine that surrounded the rehearsal time. I bealieve that after...
Try piccolo bass string, they are basically long guitar strings, there are many makers out there try http://www.bassstringsonline.com/ in the piccolo section, you will find what you need
I was just stating my own opinion. My brice bass had some issues, still does. When I said quality, i meant the overall construction. I still cannot bring the neck to a good playability, I dislike the tone coming out of the pickups, among many things. I'm not the one who is judging the quality...
I'd recommend the LTD, you'll get more quality. I own a brice fretless bass and it need a lot of adjustment and some upgrades before beginning to feel good.
I've never did anything special to instal my flatwounds, and never had any problems with it. But if you want to check some info, you should see the string section on talk bass, it's realyy resourceful for info like these
So i did this during the weekend with one of my frineds (Vostre Roy on this board). I still need to do some sanding, but i'm very excited to see the final outcome of this project, I will post some pictures this weekend when I'll be back in town from work. Cheers!