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    Meh... Sounds alright, but not exactly blown away by it. Update of firmware and editor worked without issues though. Well except for the fact that the editor won't let me transfer third party IR files, even after I run them through the official NUX converter on 48Khz 24 Bit resolution/quality it claims that they aren't Wave files and stuck saying loading, then if I click the IR graph field where it says "loading" a blue field forms around the "loading" letters, and then if I click that again it turns into a white text box saying "loading", where I can actually delete the letters and write something else (all the while the rest of the editor continues to work as it is supposed to, and I can still load the stock IR files. Any of you got any idea of how to make the editor recognize the IR Wav files?
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    Tigeroak, Neo Soul duo from Denmark. Usually not my style of music at all, but this track is pretty damn amazing:
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    Somehow the delivery failed because of a slightly miswritten address, otherwise I would have had it early this afternoon, but instead it got dropped off at a pickup point, and I just got the message that it was ready for pickup, so within an hour or so I am going to pick it up. Very exited! Just hope it will be free of all the issues I've read some people has experienced with getting the, quite crucial for this pedal's functionality, software to work properly. Still at that price for, judging from what I've read and heard, such an absolutely amazing pedal I guess somewhat lacking quality control is fully acceptable, after all I still got 30 days full refund with no questions asked. Will report back as soon as I've had chance to test it properly. Though really I am just looking for one set and forget tone, so just going to browse through the combinations while twisting knobs, until I find the one that works best for me and the rest of my setup. Really looking forward to this!
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    I finally placed an order on one of these preamp pedals, should arrive by the end of the week. From what you wrote it sounds like I will be using the Nordstrand StarLifter amp model and 4 X 10" Trace Elliot cab model. Took NUX quite a while to include more amp and stock cab models, hopefully more will be added, as promised, though if the StarLifter + Trace cab model does a decent job at emulating a Trace Elliot like rig I should be more than happy with what this pedal comes with currently from stock. And I for one am totally fine with it's "set and forget via PC" nature of this pedal too. One great amp+cab sim that meet my preference is all I need really.
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    Judge for yourself, this is a great demo of the DiMarzio Model P compared to a regular stock vintage voiced Fender P pickup:
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    No, but I do have eyes and ears, can count and read, know my personal preferences, and have first hand experience with other Harley Benton and Fender basses and guitars. I don't know how you come to that conclusion from what I wrote in that reply you quote me for, I even wrote: "...I couldn't live with effectively only having 17 frets available, because of the poor upper fret access of the Fender, plus I would prefer the flatter 12" radius fretboard of the Harley Benton...", implying that I own neither.
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    If Fender favoritism met with objectivity to you equals Fender negativity then I guess you would be right...
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    Jaco only needed a butter knife!
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    My inner gramma nazi twitches... Also I don't entirely agree, though that might be down to technique. I use a very light touch, more so stroking the strings than really striking or pulling them. And I find that while finger plucking does give a somewhat softer and more natural attack for sure in my experience if anything it makes the bass not cut quite as easily through in a mix as that specific snappy emphasis of the attack that you get from using a pick, it might make the bass sit more naturally in a mix though, depending, at very least in the context of less aggressive music. Also there is just something very rewarding in the feeling of having direct contact with the strings, something about the immediate response of it.
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    Yeah, I couldn't live with effectively only having 17 frets available, because of the poor upper fret access of the Fender, plus I would prefer the flatter 12" radius fretboard of the Harley Benton too. Also tuners, pickups and bridge looks good, just because it doesn't look like an original Fender Mustang doesn't mean it looks bad or wrong aesthetically, cause it really doesn't, and it doesn't have to look identical either, just some people who can't handle that it doesn't look like they are used to (and I bet some people would complain if it looked too much like an original Mustang too). As far as I am concerned the Harley Benton is an improvement of the classic Fender Mustang design in almost every possible aspect.
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    I know this goes completely against what I earlier stated in this thread, but as I think I did mention is that I now mainly use my fingers, and because of that, despite mentioning earlier in this thread that I failed to see the point with such, I just ordered 3 pieces of respectively a 3.1mm and 5mm respectively soft and hard Wedgie rubber pick, to experiment with getting a finger plucking sound out of a pick. Like these: This was the only European shop I could find that caries them: https://schneidermusik.de/shop/en/search?sSearch=wedgie+pick
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    And much, much better upper fret access, and in my personal opinion looks better too. Proper contoured body as well. The Harley Benton, hands down! And that even if they had been similar priced. Likely similar, in fact even more likely better quality than the double priced Fender too (have you seen their many times more expensive quality control joke of a gold fool bass?). I am not going to pay for a "name" on the headstock (which is very likely all you actually pay more for in this case), and definitely not "Fender".
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    Only one of those is actually an input, that'll be the "Echo Return" socket. The remaining 3 are all output sockets. And only one way to know for sure: Try it out! You are not going to blow up the amp.
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    Elixir string tension chart nickel-plated bass strings: Elixir string tension chart stainless steel bass strings: String tension calculator, based on D'Addario strings: https://wahiduddin.net/calc/calc_guitar_tension_from_size.htm
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    You forgot to mention the secret "all buttons pressed=both pickups in series" mode. But congratulations. These seem, look and sound like cool, super fun and nice basses.
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    Also, the Effects Return on most amps, and certainly is in your case, is essentially exactly the same as a poweramp input, and hooking a preamp up to a poweramp is basically exactly how regular amps, including yours, work, so you are doing exactly the right thing, as it seems like you prefer your tube preamp pedal, rather than your tube preamp pedal into your amp's tube preamp section. Also like this whether you turn up your preamp pedals master volume or the amp's master volume will do the exact same thing, letting more signal into the poweramp section, hence raising the volume, it doesn't matter which you use, as long as you don't let more power into your poweramp than it can handle, which though won't damage your amp either, just likely not sound good, which though is simply fixed by turning down a bit till it sounds good again.
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    You don't like the tone of your bass but you don't like to change it, one of those got to change, can't have both. One is reality the other is an idea. You have to make a decision which you want to stick to. Fantasy, and live with a less than ideal tone for you, or reality, and accept you'll have to change the tone of your bass for it to... well, change? Is the result more important to you than your odd ideals, or is sticking your odd ideals more important to you than the actual result.
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    Certainly more solemn and prodigious than the names of my basses: My main Ibanez Mikro Bass: "Dud Bottomfeeder" And my Harley Benton GuitarBass (take on the Fender Bass VI concept): "The Noodle"
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    Can't say I am any big fan of Mötley Crüe, or hair metal in general for that matter, but that bass looks pretty freaking awesome!
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    My own take on the blues (not strictly traditional though), a guitar solo played on top of a backing track, which was a challenge on a guitar forum some time ago (that means backing track is not by me, guitar, vocal and production is):
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    Right, I wasn't thinking that properly through. Thanks for correcting me.
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    Rather than only using half of the dual voice coil couldn't it be a case of either using the dual coil in respectively parallel and series mode of the two coils, seems to make the most sense to me?
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    I just use the build in HPF fixed at 40Hz -12dB/Oct in my ART Tube MP Project Series tube preamp/DI, and even though I have my bass tuned to F# standard tuning, 2 half steps above E standard tuning, which means the lowest fundamental would be just about 46Hz, I can hear a significant tightening up of the low end, clearer, more well defined and articulate, and actually also punchier, cleaning out all the fluff from my signal, when that HPF is engaged.
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