I am sitting here today with a monster bass player, artist, sideman, content creator, podcaster, and all-around superhero of the base, Josh Paul.

You might know Josh from his impressive artist roster with names like suicidal tendencies, infectious grooves, Daughtry, Everlast, Kelly Osborne, and many others, or maybe from him hosting

the killer Dunlop podcast bass freaks, or perhaps from his Instagram page where he just seems to be

an absolute idea factory pumping out incredible many songs consisting of monster beats and

absolutely ferocious bass lines and

technique that make me simultaneously inspired and ready to just hang it all up and pursue

accounting. I'm proud to call him a friend and an inspiration, Mr. Josh Paul. Thank you for having

me and thank you for all the kind and unnecessary compliments. Thank you so much, though. I appreciate you. I knew, you know, I did your podcast a while back. Thank you for doing that, by the way. Oh, man, you were nice enough to ask me. And I remember trying to flip the script and talk to you and ask you some questions and pay

you some compliments. And you were like, no, no, no, no, no. I'll have none of that. And man,

it's just so, it's so fun to flip the script and be able to ask you some things and just, man,

just really praise you for the beast that you are. I mean, it's true. The first thing I want to

ask you has to do with your

production and your creative process because it is scary. And the people I talked to,

like I was just talking to Jonathan Marin, who was like, that dude, how does he do it? Like,

how, what is the process? How is he so ferocious? And so I guess what I would love to ask you is,

can you talk about that creative process? When you're thinking about putting a post up on Instagram,

what are you doing in terms of programming beats? And also what is maybe your go-to instrument or gear for the stuff that you write that

you put up in that vertical content format. Okay. Well, it's not going to sound very exciting or

being a mastermind or genius in any way. Honestly, it's mostly just, for me, I really started going after just having some fun and doing videos around when the pandemic started.

I was doing it somewhat before, but that actually gave me time to do it.

And I just started messing around with baselines and I thought I'd

throw it down, you know, from the beginning, baby steps, baby steps. But what it did do and what I

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