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Please open up this comment a bit more. Would love to hear details.

Maybe the band has decided to play the song half a step lower, and the previous bassist has had issues with transposing. He has just lowered the tuning, and still could have used the common positions on the fretboard. To me this looks like a lazy way to transpose.

One big issue I learned from my then colleagues: Pineapple is just one system that is updated every now and then. Robot is a family of operating systems, because manufacturers can and do tweak it for their own HW and UI. This has led to several funny (or less funny) issues over the years. Sunny has a lot different OS than Singsung than Two- than many others. Banana is much more expensive (one manufacturer) and its pure number breaking performance is quite lame compared to Aliens, but as the system is just one, it has won many users, and coders (which means applications including HW). With Papaya you most probably would have a working system. With the other, I wouldn't ever be so sure. And after any update anything can happen. (I use both, because I have to use Fruit 12 Pro at work, and it is the worst phone I have ever had. One dealer started to laugh when he saw it, and asked have I managed to make any calls with it? Truth is: not many without WLAN. The same with email.)

I've heard there may be exceptions, but Burners are mostly bolt-on.

Well, if I may not have the funds to either of these guys, but how about their hands that would certainly be an upgrade here? OK, some finger, maybe?

@Jabba_the_gut: which alloy are you using? My all time favourite is Alumec-89.

That was the second most important. I would love to see a book written by @Bassassin about basses.

Who knows the bassist behind this song: I found his name, Tony Campo, but is not the metal player you find from the net.

Dear @Bilbo, I am more than confident, that your work is better than good.

You can buy magnets in many shapes. I mentioned this in my comment, maybe I was just unclear: "The choice has to be made from material, size, shape, field intensity..." These are not automatically excluding each other out. Bars, rods and plates are very common. If you need a bigger amount, custom shapes are an option.

Guess where my two songs came from... That book is practically a must buy for every bassist.

Martin Gaye - What's going on Tammi Terrell and Marvin Gaye - Ain't no mountain high enough Johnny Pate - Brother on the run I have played these quite a lot, but making them fluent and stylish require even more playing. @ChrisDev gave us an A. Holdsworth (Jimmy Johnson) score, that I want to learn. Can be found from the section Theory and Technique.

I have done hundreds of gigs with a Glockenklang Soul combo (2x10") without any issues. I also use the head with an alusonic 2x12" cab. If you have a right tool, I don't see a reason why you couldn't use it. Last time I had an issue with this combo was when I stuck a hole to a speaker by accident. I contacted G and I bought a new set of speakers from them. Problem solved. Yes, a Mesa 400+ would be a nice amp, but it weighs a metric ton, and is valve/tube = delicate. Why bother?

There's one more, but it is sold in the US only... oh dear, it is Audere. bartolini has functional preamps, but not all have mixers.

Noll Mixpot works very well. I have had it in my previous Modulus 5 SPi custom with bartolinis, and a current Status copy. You can buy a preamp from him as well. There's some US preamp with a mixer, but the name is somewhere here in the threads which I have forgotten. EMG is also one.

Oh dear, that IS on the complicated side. Thank you again for your impeccable work!

As I wrote earlier, if the size of the magnets, and magnetic field intensities are similar, it does not matter, which material you use. Are you actually referring to the field intensity when you talk about tonal quantities? Different field intensity sure affects tone. I have not found information that supports the latter, but I would love to hear more about that.

Sorry to be a killjoy. Often these company ready options are tried and true. Of course you can do modifications. Ser/Par/Single is a very common trial with J basses and humbucker pickups. After trying this several times with several basses and pickups, I dare to say that this modification gives you another option which is audible to you, only.

Magnetic material is a slightly meaningless thing. People talk about them a lot, but the material is probably used as an euphemism to magnetic field intensity. Field intensity (older: 10 000 Gauss = modern: 1 Tesla) of the Earth is around half Gauss = 50 micro T. Pickups are far more powerful. Magnet types, and their theoretical max fields: - ceramic, base is iron (Fe), strontium (Sr) is the additive, 0.2 - 0.4 T - samarium-cobalt, Sm-Co, 0.8 - 1.1 T - AlNiCo, aluminium-nickel-cobalt, 0.8 - 1.2 T - neodymium, Nd-Fe-B, 1.1 - 1.5 T Now each material can be, and usually is, weaker than its theoretical maximum. 1 T is awfully lot, and you may find such field in an MRI system, when your body is examined. When a magnetic component is manufactured, the result can be whatever. This should tell you all, that a neodymium can be weaker than a ceramic material. For example the manufacturing process, the material mixture, the size of the particles... everything affects the end result. When a pickup maker buys a set of magnets, the catalogue is big. The choice has to be made from material, size, shape, field intensity... 1) AlNiCo is not a single component or material with fixed properties. 2) The coil has also its properties, which depend on wire length, wire diameter, conductivity, physical coil size etc. 3) Combine these, and the result is a pickup of some kind. 4) Strings and instrument adjustments are the next step to the final sound.

I'd add a HPF (high pass filter) to reduce handling noise. That saves some energy.

USB-A pushes out low power starting from 5 VDC/100 mA = 500 mW only. USB-C is for bigger power levels. The charger output describes the speed of the charge. 22.5 W is quite a lot. I might consider it as a relatively fast unit, although I've seen 80 W phone chargers.

These schuldn't be turned on with boots, eh? Are these good for schugazing?

You are just modest, my dear bass playing fellow.