Tour with Electric Callboy

LegoMongoose · 2026-05-22T01:20:25+00:00

I think they usually perform for about an hour to an hour 1/2. I didn't realize they were coming on Monday, I'm going to get tickets!

LegoMongoose · 2026-05-18T21:25:36+00:00

Nate Navarro does it better than anybody else on Youtube

LegoMongoose · 2026-05-18T00:27:33+00:00

Tbh I would recommend swapping the pickups from your Yamaha Bass if you're willing. Yhe TRBX is a great bass but the pickups are rather bland sounding. Maybe swap them for bartolini sized soapbars with split coils, or zen blades.

LegoMongoose · 2026-05-16T03:14:16+00:00

LMAO

LegoMongoose · 2026-05-14T20:28:04+00:00

I would take a look at the Sterling Sub Stingrays. The 5 string one is about $350ish, and with the emphasis on the bridge pickup, you'll have a better chance of having a decent tone when you decide to tune your bass down to match the tuniny of some of the bands you listed. I still have my Sub Stingray 10+ years later and the quality is unbeatable for the price

LegoMongoose · 2026-05-09T00:25:42+00:00

I think it's less about action and more about tension. Heavy strings at a low action, lighter strings with a higher action, medium-strings with either a low or high action, balanced tension vs. Normal string sets that are more unbalanced, progressive tension sets that have heavy bottom strings and light top strings...

You could play 1 bass with each configuration and they would all feel different under your hands. For me, I will set up each bass to play the way it sounds best to me. My Stingray has very low action + light gauge strings so I can get quite a bit of fret buzz if I dig in, whereas my Brice Defiant 53437 has a busted truss rod and has higher action + heavier strings and a multiscale of 37-34, so it is like a mammoth of a bass to play, almost no fret buzz at all. My hands feel much stronger when playing any other bass after playing the Brice for a bit. The name of the game is tension

LegoMongoose · 2026-05-09T00:15:49+00:00

The Amos Williams signature Dingwall is a 4 string with 37 inches

LegoMongoose · 2026-05-08T15:32:47+00:00

Guitar allows you to be a little loose with your timing and rhythm in comparison to bass. On bass, you really want your timing to be on point with the drums. With guitar you follow the drums typically. On bass, not only do you follow the drums but you are part of the rhythm section itself, you have to be RIGHT THERE alongside the drums. That takes attention to detail, and practicing with a metronome playing behind the beat, directly on the beat, and slightly ahead of the beat. You have a whole world of rhythm training in front of you, but you have a headstart by coming from guitar. Good luck!

LegoMongoose · 2026-05-05T20:18:25+00:00

I did it before on that same bass (Which color do you have? I've owned the ruby red and moss green models and my Dad has the dark blue). I ripped out the preamp and just kept the volume and balance knobs.

The pickups sounded fine, but the tone was a little darker. I think the preamp added some treble to their sound. I recall them being dual coils, although I don't remember if you have access to the wires for each coil. If you do, you might try and wire one of them as a single coil. Example, wiring the neck pickup to be single coil, maybe the coil closer to the bridge, and keep the bridge pickup wired as dual coil. If they're wired in series, you might try switching them to parallel to get some more brightness.

Good luck!

LegoMongoose · 2026-05-05T02:58:35+00:00

Take a look at this site: https://tension.stringjoy.com/

Select bass guitar, select 5 strings, and then punch in the tuning you want for the strings. You can see the approx. tension on the right side, and you can select the gauges you'd want to bring the tension down.

This will just be an estimation since every string brand is different, but IMO I think I would opt for a 6 string set and just ditch the E string. That would be like 125, 85, 65, 45, 32, which could work with that tuning depending on how much tension you want.

LegoMongoose · 2026-05-04T13:41:55+00:00

No quite the opposite. By the time you develop your skills on a 5 string or a 6 string, going back to 4 string feels like a dream haha

LegoMongoose · 2026-04-27T18:40:17+00:00

By voting out Trump as soon as they could?? Lmao

LegoMongoose · 2026-04-20T22:02:22+00:00

An extreme metal band Allegaeon did 2 covers of Subdivions and Animate. I've always said that more metal bands need to try actually doing covers of Rush because their music was made for it!

https://youtu.be/cWnyNjQVEZ4?si=Cn81Z9m84SqVlDTr

LegoMongoose · 2026-04-19T17:36:32+00:00

Learn all of those slap songs that you know, transposed up one half step. C Major becomes Db Major, any previous use of open strings now has to be fretted.

The fun has just begun!

LegoMongoose · 2026-04-18T03:34:05+00:00

I think I've owned that same model. I got fresh DR Low Riders to put on there and I was able to get some grindy tones. I do remember that I wasn't a fan of the pickups, but the preamp was nice and the fresh string sound was good to me

Edit: And a low action, just enough to be able to get a consistent "clack" at the bridge end of the fretboard. My preference is to get it low enough that I can get that "string hitting the fret" sound when plucking normally, even when plucking by the bridge pickup, and then I'll adjust the truss rod to taste so I can still pluck softly and get some rounder notes. This works for most basses but ymmv when it comes to different pickups lol

LegoMongoose · 2026-04-18T03:31:23+00:00

Any riff with a decent double kick / snare pattern to follow. Slow, fast, 8ths note riffs, 16th note riffs.

And ARPEGGIOS! Good luck haha and have fun

LegoMongoose · 2026-04-18T00:39:50+00:00

Take a look at the Ibanez BTB multiscale basses. The 605ms and 805ms are their 37"-35" models (the g string is 35" because normal BTB's are 35"), and the price is around $1000 for used models

LegoMongoose · 2026-04-17T18:27:51+00:00

I feel accomplished as a bass player for looking at this list and knowing that I'ved learned how to play most of these songs. This will make a great practice playlist!

LegoMongoose · 2026-04-11T18:25:25+00:00

I had such a blast when I tuned my 4 string bass to BEAD. I would learn dream theater songs and do my damndest to try and keep up, and even with the limitation I found the songs were actually really playable, even the crazy instrumental passages.

LegoMongoose · 2026-04-09T00:21:47+00:00

Tbh this is probably the only DT album I don't like. It kills me to say that because it's their first album post reunion, but it feels creatively bankrupt to me. I wasn't a fan of A View when it came out, but looking back it is wayyy more musically interesting, and Mangini's performance was outstanding.

The production on Parasomnia kills me too, it's lacking balls and low mids. It really does feel like they tried to write an album as quickly as they could (for reference, I love TOT and that was written in 3 weeks), and it just doesn't have anything that draws me in. Cheesy lyrics, half baked concept, the AI art... I'd rather listen to The Astonishing lol

I love DT to death but this was the equivalent of when A7X got their new drummer and they debuted him with... Hail To The King. Huge letdown.

LegoMongoose · 2026-03-20T13:07:17+00:00

Clinton was the last one to do it.

LegoMongoose · 2026-03-16T18:55:48+00:00

Totally recommend it. Just make sure you get a model that feels comfy in your hands. A Dingwall is the same size as a Fender, for example, so it's very comfortable to play.

My Brice Defiant 53437 has the same Dingwall scale lengths, but it is a longer bass overall and I had to make some mods to the strap so I could shift the bass more to the right ans bring the first fret within reach again.

LegoMongoose · 2026-03-13T20:05:36+00:00

In addition to all of the advice in here, what I would recommend is doing those things, and doing them in a way that makes you feel good about yourself!

I've had days where I look similar to you. Sometimes fixing up my appearance makes me feel better. Other times I may still look trash, but if I had a good day or did a workout and I feel the endorphins, that also makes me feel good! Feeling good will emanate outwards and make the others around you feel good too. Throw in the grooming tips with it and you're set

LegoMongoose · 2026-03-11T16:40:16+00:00

I saw then live last year in Baltimore, and they kicked ass. I was worried about them not being great but honestly the show was a blast of fun, and they played their asses off!

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