The Cobalts just sound different, not better - kind of a middish-metallic quality, horses for courses. Works well on some basses, but not all. OTOH, with the amount of distortion he uses, he could be strumming shoe laces.
Me, I'm no cobalt worshipper, bomb or otherwise ...
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there is neither speech nor language, yet his voice is heard among them ... -, but I have a few sets (of cobalt strings, not cobalt bombs I hasten to add!) lying around which I sometimes use without any all too revelatory acoustic orgasms ensuing.
The appeal of (heavily) distorted bass escapes me. I like an amp with as much headroom as possible
so it doesn't distort no matter what I do, distortion is something
I had to live with back when my rigs were too small, not going back to that, thank youl!
Even though I have an Orange Little Terror, I find myself playing my Ampeg SVT (never set by me to distort) and Markbass a lot more, I tire of the Orange's distorted sound after about three songs.