Baloney Balderdash

Bird On Your Grave - Marissa Nadler

Low - White Horses

Cocaine Lights - Phosphorescent

Right... So what is your actual point with all this? Also I don't think that is how statistics works. As for OP, maybe try the One Control Silver Peg? For a cheaper solution there is also the Joyo R-30 Tidal Wave Bass Preamp, which is a clone of the Tech 21 Sansamp V2 (I would avoid the original first version and clones of it, as it sucks upper mids big time). If you insist on tubes Sushi Box Effects got an Ampeg like preamp too with real tubes in.

Rockstar - Sebadoh

There are other reasons to be interested in what kind of gear different musicians play than wanting to sound like them, you know... Personally I have no interest in sounding like anyone else than myself... But you are right, anything else is a fruitless chase, unless you want to make a living as an impersonator, and I don't think people impersonating bass players are in that high demand. But I do find what kind of gear people play, even people who play different instruments than myself, interesting, and sometimes even inspiring.

I can make you a bad cable emulator for a 10'er if you are interested? No need for circumstantial expensive boxes or anything. Directly build into the cable and all!

Kiss Me, Son Of God - They Might Be Giants

I now believe this might be the closest bet yet. But what do I know...

Anyone got a Wal Mk 1 bass that they don't use? I'll take it off your back for a tenner, that is you pay me 10£, of course beside you paying the shipping and import fee. And you ought to consider that a very generous offer, it's an old bass, and I can get a shining brand spanking new bass for under 100£. Please send a PM. The offer is final!

Well if your objective with modding your cheap bass is not just visually, but to actually make it a batter instrument, it wouldn't really make sense to cheap out on parts. Why would you even bother if you aren't actually upgrading it to something better? Hardware and electronics, including the pickups, are usually where manufactures save most on the production costs of budget basses, so usually you can improve cheap budget instruments from being decent to great, or sometimes even genuinely amazing, instruments by upgrading those parts. These days what makes cheap budget instruments cheap budget instruments is cheap hardware and electronics and somewhat inconsistent quality, at least compared to higher end basses, rather than overall consistently poor quality.

Show your straps! Here is my most recent addition, to my collection of straps, which now counts whole stunning 3 straps! A 2"/51mm Levys Poly Sunset Strap :

I think I seem to remember something about some people reporting the DI Out to be a little noisy. I wouldn't know though, I use the normal output into a tube preamp/DI, and I don't experience any extra noise whatsoever. But if you have the Treble and/or Drive engaged and set high it would only be natural with some noise.

Jaco only needed a butter knife and some wood putty.

Yes: 24Bit 16 Bit 8 Bit 4 Bit 2 Bit 1 Bit Obviously it could mean something else, but a bit crusher seems obvious. Also Bits are not measured in Rate, that is Sample Rate, but in Depth. Usually you will have a parameter for controlling Sample Rate too though on a bit crusher.

Well, this slap stick saga goes on... Found out the thing about the upper fret tone was a headphones issue, so I swapped back to the new Mikro Bass. In fact it actually got a bit fatter tone up high on the thinnest string. It is indeed as I has hoped for, very much the same tone, but: A somewhat cleaner tone with a bit more sustain, but also slightly fatter and smooth. Not sure if I prefer that somewhat slightly fatter and more polite tone though to the dirtier/edgier and more organic tone of my old Mirko. It is as said slightly smoother sounding, and to me it sounds like slightly less top end and slightly more low mids. A slightly bigger tone for sure, but I also feel somewhat less organic. I'll stick to the new bass for a while though for now, and then we'll see if I eventual end up deciding for my old one instead. Definitely a great sounding bass though, and a keeper.

Put Your Hand Inside The Puppet Head - They Might Be Giants

Mercy Street - Peter Gabriel Here in form of an amazing cover by Fever Ray:

Definitely is!

A sequencer/arpeggiator?

I don't think it is, but I hope it's pitchshifter with realistic sounding pitch shift.

Deranged for Rock & Roll - Chelsea Wolfe

AI is dangerous! Someone could feed an AU with "Mine Kamph", and it would no doubt end up starting WW2 all over again! As if WWW isn't bad enough as is. I am shaking in my pants of the prospect! 😱 Or imagine feeding it with everything Trump has said, and it would run for US president, and win, and the Americans would be stuck listening to hyperbole made up nonsense... again... On a more serious note, the only reason you would have to fear AI generated music is if your target audience don't give a shit about music anyway, and then why are you even doing it? If it's for the money then there are plenty of other jobs to take where your work won't be appreciated either. And no big loss, there is plenty of shit being pumped out into the world as is.

This how it looks currently (changed the pot knobs and chrome tuners for some black ones):