Blog of Will

  To complete the bass story for now, I need to tell you about my most recent instrument. After the album was recorded, I went on a road trip with my guitarist friend, and we ended up in Andertons in Guilford. It’s a lovely shop, filled with hundreds of instruments and staffed by an enthusiastic and knowledgeable team. I had a list of basses to try out, almost all of which were options for a second precision bass which I intended to string with roundwounds, rather than the flatwounds that I had on my main P Bass. For those of you that aren’t bass nerds, roundwounds sound brighter and flats have a vibe that I equate to sounding more like a double bass. They don’t sound anything like a double bass, but that’s how I hear them. The thing about flatwounds is that, once you’ve put them on a bass, your main reason for removing them would be that they have snapped. Flats can stay on a bass for years. Roundwounds, on some people’s instruments can get changed much more regularly. As you ca...