This is part band spam and part revelation:

Ive always been a "bright punchy piano-string lots-of-rich-harmonic structure" type of bass player for most of my needs ( I also do the "fake fretless" facsimile and "fake upright" facsimiles when needed)....but, recently, I started this blues project. The bass tones I was using were just too stringy and "new", no matter how much re-EQing and shaping I did...So I did something completely unorthodox and unheard of for me: I took one of my 4-String Jazz basses and put a set of black tape nylon flatwounds on it -- and I shuddered as I strung it....However, when I plugged it into the pre, there it was! The tone I was looking for --- just goes to show that I'm still old enough to learn how to eat vegetables!

music: http://soundclick.com/share.cfm?id=13435474