[RACHEL LOY PERFORMING WITH 54 SECONDS]

RACHEL LOY: Rachel Loy, 54 Seconds, bass player. I found it in a pawnshop and it has a Jazz Bass body and P-Bass neck. When I pulled it down, I was like, “Oh, it’s pretty.” I played it and I was like, “This neck kicks ass,” and I turned it over and I’m like, “Who’s Mark Hoppus?” Oh well, and he was like the bass player of Blink 182 too. I guess it’s his bass, and I was like, “Okay, cool.” I like this bass, it’s cheap, and my Pedulla five-string had just got stolen for my car, and that like I had since I was 13, and so I had to get something fast and relatively cheap, you know, so I got this. It’s Mark Hoppus’ bass and I put a tone knob in because I only had a volume knob, and I replaced the pickups with just some American P’s because I just wanted to have that P-Bass sound and that’s what I got and that’s what I play through now. I love it.

I had it set up a little bit high because at that time I was really used to playing like, you know, the really technical basses with the really low action and so I noticed -- fast, yeah, greasy basses, you know, and I was like, “You know what, I feel like that’s a weakness,” so I put the action a little bit higher and I’ve kept it always since.

PATRICK OGLE: [INDISCERNIBLE]

RACHEL LOY: Yeah. Yeah. I play it a little harder, sounds great, much better to pick, you know, it’s more versatile and I can make it just sound just so smooth now that I’m used to it.

I had a Pedulla Rapture five-string. It doesn’t change a whole lot. If I want a low D I just tune down, and I honestly didn’t really use anything below the D, even when I had a five-string. The first time was like, you know, you get really excited about your first strings that you’re like oh you’ll play the [EXPLETIVE] out of it, you know. You’re just like muddyu all the time, and then you get to the point where it kind of evens out and you use it every once in a while and I don’t, you know, I don’t really miss it. Every once in a while, I’ll miss the E-flat. I’m not going to tune down just to get E-flat. Or there’s a five-string that have like the high C instead, and that’s cool like if you’re doing melodic stuff. There’s not a huge market for that, and if you’re like the main, if you’re like the solo bassist, yeah I mean sure. There’s a time and place for that. It’s not really my thing. I enjoy doing some double stops and harmonics and stuff out there but, you know, I don’t find many situations where people are relying on me to play chords, thank God, so since it sounds pretty bad on my instrument.

[RACHEL LOY PERFORMING WITH 54 SECONDS]