Guitar pick, rather small looking for Bass work, and she did indeed add more felt to the Fender P-Bass stock damper sponge that comes under the old "ashtray" cover as well. Interesting because of the sound she was able to achieve when most other Fenderbass players were *removing* the stock sponge damper and "ashtray" cover altogether.

Her amp for all of those sessions was a box stock Fender Bassman amp, as well, no mods. But that is more an indicator of what can be done in a studio with mic techniques, etc. than anything else. After all, James Jamerson used one of those little Ampeg bass amps where the tube chassis flipped out of the top of the single 15" speaker housing. The old Ampeg "R2D2" as I like to call 'em.


--Mac