Here’s a strange admission: None of our previous recordings have featured a bass guitar.
The low-end was always supplied by either a synth (the Realistic MG-1 is a personal favourite) or an electric guitar EQ’d down an octave.
That’s all changing on Tortoise, as a while back I stumbled across a real beauty of a bass guitar. It was a gamble, as the price reflected that it didn’t actually work, but that’s never stopped me before. A wire connecting the pickup windings had disconnected, which made for an easy fix.
The end result is a real nice 1970s Univox quasi-P-Bass copy that plays like a dream (not that I know much about dreamy bass guitars…).
Get yourselves acquainted, as this bad boy provides the bottom thump for half the songs on the new album…
I play the same bass, they sound great! Love flatwound strings on it.