"BTW that's not "bass boost" but a bass-cut switch, right? Guys that work at Norm's should know this."Yes, but I wouldn't even comment on that, I understood what he meant. We're all nerds and trainspotters here. Life goes on whether you call it a baritone switch, frequency filter or bass boost. Glasses are always both: half-full and half-empty.
"So you'd rather have that EB2 demo re-done with rounds?"In the "rounds or flats"-string schism, I'm firmly in the "I don't care either way, just as long as there is four (or more) of them"-camp. My favorite string is really the one in the middle, which for hygiene and comfort reasons should probably be flat wound unless you are inclined to the rawer side of life.
But now that you mention it, with an EB-2 with the "bass boost" on, it doesn't matter whether you use (i) rounds, (ii) flats or (iii) even no strings at all. Nobody will be able to actually
hear you in any case, and only a deaf snake will perhaps be able to
feel a difference between all three ---> vibration sense.
I'm one of those terrible people who don't give a damn whether a bass is 50 years old or fresh off the rack, I just want it to work, or whether the amp is solid state or tube - I just need to hear myself.
Amps, speakers (I only know two kind, those who can survive me hitting all strings open on a bass with a pick at loud volume and those who can't, I recommend this as a quick test for any rig), vintage instruments, pick-up changes - isn't that something guitarists like to spend their time with?
I've written this before: If you entered an early 60ies recording studio via a time machine with a 2021 400 bucks Yamaha bass and a 2021 500 bucks solid state practice amp, they would fall to their knees there, think you are some superior alien life form and faster than you can say "
Gort klaatu barada niktu" happily throw all their vintage bass gear we find so desirable today into the garbage.