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These Harley Benton strings are amazing, a bit more rough under the fingers, but the overall tone is really excellent: https://www.thomann.co.uk/harley_benton_hqs_bass_45_100_flatwound.htm And here is the thread about them:

Ask Lee Sklar...

From a pure technical point of view you'll learn more from the classical pieces than the "pop" ones especially at this grade (next ones have harder "pop" tunes). Furthermore, the classical pieces will help you more for the next grade from the pianistic technique point of view. Pick up at least one classical, the Mozart's Allegro in F, for instance, is really interesting for your technique and it's in 3/8. The 3 pieces you've chosen are the easiest to play and won't make you a better player, technically speaking, which is very important for the future. For your further musical education, you should choose two harder to play classical pieces (the Bartók's Allegretto isn't that complicated) and one easy to play piece (The Tarantella Twist, which is reminiscent to Beethoven), not the opposite or only easy to play tunes... You'll thank me at next grade(s). 😉

Take the curve to -6bB, which is a reference point when it comes to measurements, and tell me it's a cut and boost...

Oki Doki, so it's as far as I can help. Good quest.

Did you try their Le Bass?

Pretty sure, it will sound meh...

The Protection Racket 7051 and the Fender 1225 are around £80 and excellent. That said, the TGI Extreme you mentioned at £60 is a good option too. Check the ads over here as there are often some excellent models in your price tag.

Straight out of the box: If you have a Rickenbacker, yes. If you have a Jazz Bass, no. If you have a P-Bass, it's in between. If you have some high output pickups, it's not that fantastic... Active basses through it sound a bit meh.

It looks like the bass is running away ... from itself.

It's well built, reliable, easy to use and fix. Soundwise, it's totally different from their solid state products and to me more pleasant to the ears, without that permanent compression, which is the typical sound signature of Trace Elliot amps. These V-Type series items often retail for peanuts, but are worth every penny, should you like tube/valve based preamps.

Does the pickup come with an output transformer as circa 250 Ohms will be a challenge to use with traditional amps?

If you call this a cut and boost, then you've never seen the response of a cut and boost...

Sorry, but the original Music Man 2EQ preamp is boost only and I know what I'm saying owning an original 1978 and having made my own clones of this preamp.

Remember that this preamp is boost only, even if there might be a center detent on the knobs. 😉

Almost correct, but it's the GS that had a flat four, not the CX. My father was a mechanic and fond of Citroen, and we had the project to put one GS engine (1299cc and 65 hp, so the roughly equivalent of 2 x 2CV engines) in my 2CV in the late 80's, but I literally dismantled my 2CV before we could make it happen. That said in the 60's and 70's, it was quite common to put a Panhard engine in a 2CV. 😉

It's already filmed and explained here the same way. 😉

À la East: https://www.guyker.com/products/high-grade-guyker-guitar-volume-tone-stacked-control-knobs-five-colors-available?variant=43535838675122 https://www.guyker.com/products/high-grade-guyker-electric-guitar-bass-knobs-smoky-color?variant=43535888548018

À la Sadowsky: https://www.guyker.com/products/1-piece-aluminum-dual-concentric-control-konb-for-electric-bass-available-in-five-colors?variant=43535836348594 https://www.guyker.com/products/1-piece-aluminum-flat-top-knob-for-electric-bass-16mm-19mm-6-0mm-available-in-five-colors?variant=43535843033266

I've used the Headrush FRFR112 MKII in my bass duet with great success and it was really well sounding coupled to an EBS bass preamp (the EBS-1 V2 old rack model) or to a Headrush Core.

Is it a pain in the bum?

Basse Contre Basse by Alain Caron and Michel Donato is the album that always makes want to listen to bass.