I think this is discusses before but i always find it hard to jusdge a bass sound, especially on youtube. Some songs I prefer to listen to youtube cos it's enormous compression made the bass even fatter and bigger than on an album track.
^^Agreed. I don't really try to discern whether it's bass A, B or C, or whether it's going through pedal X, Y or Z. I either like the sound or I don't. When I play, I don't try to emulate others' sound, I just set up so that I like what I hear from me. I'm just not that curious about telling a P from a J or a 60's P from a 90's P, active or passive.
Boring, I know.