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Given you don't break it and keep the box intact Thomann will let you try it out for 30 days (and the 30 days actually counts all the way up till the day you post it), and they'll pay for the shipping back. Full refund of the cost of the pedal, and no questions asked. It would cost you the initial shipping Thomann charges to have it send to you though (or actually I think that pedal costs beyond the minimum amount that gives you free shipping), and you would have the inconvenience of having to pack and post it back.

No More Mr. Nice Guy - They Might Be Giants Damn, that's not the actual tittle of that song... Then: No More Mr. Nice Guy - Alice Cooper

Poop Ship Destroyer - Ween

I'd have this build: A custom made 4 string, 28,6" scale, bass, with a slim modern C profile, bolt on, clear satin finish, 5 piece laminated Jatoba/black Ebony (just 2 relatively narrow layers of Ebony in between 3 wider layers of Jatoba) neck, with graphite rods enforcement and a double action truss rod, a tilted 2+2, gold plated tuning mechanisms, classic B.C Rich inspired, headstock, but overall slightly more narrow, and with the "devil horns" slightly shifted, so that the upper slightly larger "horn" is sitting a bit more forward than the slightly smaller and slightly retracted lower "horn", and a 24 medium jumbo stainless steel frets, 12" radius, figured Ebony, fretboard, with an ESP LTD F-204/F-1004 style inspired Mahogany body with a spalted maple top, in a transparent matte black burst finish, with a blood red solid circle figure with a black OM sign in the middle, placed approximately right above the bridge, and equipped with an EMG Geezer Butler reverse P pickup in the neck position, and in the bridge position a gold plated DiMarzio Relentless Middle reverse P pickup with a gold plated series/parallel switch, with an active stacked LPF/HPF tone filter control for each of the 2 pickups, and an active pickup blend control, equipped with knobs made of solid transparent red plexi glass encapsulated in hollow gold plated cylinders with a thin spiraling gold rib going upwards around them, gold plated steel mono rail bridge pieces, milled from solid brass, with a string spacing of 17,5mm (or perhaps instead even a wammy/tremolo bridge with 17,5mm string spacing), and an accordingly more narrow neck, with a 38mm wide graphite nut. Equipped with Elixir Nanoweb guitar strings of the gauges .074 - .056 - .042 - 030, and tuned to tenor bass, A standard, tuning, as in the upper 4 strings of a 6 string bass tuned to regular B standard tuning.

It does really balance the tone between the thicker lower and thinner upper strings out well (instead of emphasizing the difference as traditional regular P orientation actually does). And split coil pickups are a nice compromise between single coil and full, double parallel coils in series, humbucking.

I get a really full range and snappy finger plucking tone, actually by applying less force, rather stroking the strings, with the outmost tip of mu fingers/nails, in a slightly inwards lightly slapping motion, than really striking or pulling the strings. Using flamenco guitar index and/or middle finger flicking technique is a great way to emphasis the attack as well, and once you got it down you can actually strum faster then even using a pick. Both takes quite a bit of practice though, as you need to be quite precise, only hitting the strings with the outmost tip of you fingers/nails, and in both cases you need to actually relax in order to get up to speed, too much tension in your and it gets impossible to get right. Also lighter gauge roundwound strings will help with getting a brighter more snappy tone.

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No! And even if you swapped to a set with a gauge .095, or even .090, low E string it would still not be an issue. I am speaking out of experience here. The way the nut slots are cut they form an U, almost V, shape, meaning that thinner gauge strings will just sit a bit lower in the slots, but exactly just as well. And say you wanted to change to tenor bass tuning, that is A standard tuning, and use a gauge .080 or similar string in the nut slot otherwise intended for a low E string, fitting a small cut to size strip of a layer or two of adhesive shielding copper tape down in the nut slots would make that perfectly viable as well.

But surely bigger is better, and makes you more of a real man!

Well, mine is as good as perfectly quiet. The trick is to keep the input level high, it tends to get noisy if you boost the output level too much, which of course is a useless piece of information if you prefer/need a setting where the opposite is required, but works for me. Also as far as I've gathered allegedly there was quite a bit of inconsistency between units, so you might have gotten a bad one. Mine has served me well for about 20 years, and I haven't exactly pampered it, still works it's magic noiselessly and flawlessly. And actually as far as I am concerned where this pedal really shines and gets magical is if not being used as advertised, but rather primarily being used as a tube preamp stage, with minimal compression dialed in and the input gain (Pre Gain) cranked fairly high to keep the input tube on the verge of breakup.

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Personally I prefer Slip Girls.

As a sort of status update on the results of this poll so far, what really surprises me is that it seems that there are more people preferring their bass to have an extended scale length, that is 35" and above, than there are people preferring a 32" medium scale length. The remaining numbers though are pretty much in the ballpark of what I suspected them to be. I am quite sure though that had this poll been put up just 10 years or so ago the percentage of people preferring short scale basses, that is basses with a scale length of just about 30" or so, would have been considerably lower. Short scale basses has really received a massive attention in recent years, becoming a regular trend, with most bass/guitar brands offering at very least one short scale model, and short scale basses are no longer considered lesser second grade "beginner" instruments.

Long Distance Runaround - Yes Here as an amazing cover by the Danish band "A Kid Hereafter" :

And... I present to you, my 5 string Ibanez GSRM25 Mikro Bass, tuned to G standard tuning, as in 3 half steps above the upper 5 strings of a 6 string bass tuned in regular B standard tuning, "Mr. Growley - The Noodlemancer" : Dud Bottomfeeder is a snappy raw and rough dirty Rock'n'Roll/Punk beast, with more attack, but less dynamic subtleties, whereas Mr. Growley - The Noodlemancer is more of a growly, but overall cleaner and clearer, if not exactly polite, lush and very resonant jazzy beast, with more sustain, and a much more delicate/detailed dynamic response. They are both pretty punchy though. I love them both to bits and they complement each other well, each respectively inspiring me to play different stuff. Dud Bottomfeeder having a blunt and straight-forwardly simple and raw personality, while Mr. Growley - The Noodlemancer is more complex and ostentatious. Dud Bottomfeeder by the way is tuned to A# standard tuning, that is 1 half step above the 4 upper strings of a 6 string bass tuned to regular B standard tuning. And they both feature a just 28.6" scale length. Also oddly enough Dud Bottomfeeder features an unusually light Mahogany body, whereas Mr. Growley - The Noodlemancer features an unusually heavy Poplar body.

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Optimized sonically, and even more so ergonomically, to what, and compared to what, exactly? To being basses, and compared to all other basses in existence? Or to drop A/A standard tuning in specific? (though what have that to do with ergonomics?)

No! - They Might Be Giants

While I do agree that this poll expose an issue in terms of people who prefer multi scale basses, it would get bit more complicated than such, as there to my knowledge exist both short scale, medium scale, long scale and extended scale multiscale basses, so I feel like adding that/those that would muddy the result. It would be nice if people who prefer multiscale basses could just vote according to the longest scale measurement of their preferred multi scale instrument, and then specify their preference in a reply.

!Please note that I am interested in prefered scale length for bass guitars, not upright/double basses! So I thought it would be interesting to see which scale length basses people prefer to play (multiple votes are allowed): - Sub short scale: shorter than 30" - Short scale: just about 30" (+/- 0.5") - Medium scale: 32" - Regular long scale: 34" (+/- 0.5") - Extended scale length: 35" - Extended scale length +: longer than 35" Personally I prefer standard short scale 30" for regular 4 string E standard tuning, and 28.6" scale length for tenor bass tuning (that is A standard tuning, like the 4 upper strings on a 6 string bass in regular B standard tuning), which I, like Stanley Clarke, though without daring to claim anywhere near at the same skill level, really enjoy playing.

Sounds like a great idea to me. I exclusively use the bridge J pickup on my 5 string Ibanez GSRM25 Mikro Bass, which is even shorter than the standard 30" for short scale basses, at just 28.6" (and no, I don't have it strung up and tuned with a low B string, in fact the lowest string is a gauge .080 string, tuned to G, 3 half steps above regular 4 string low E, the latter though in my opinion working perfectly great on a regular 30" scale short scale bass), and it gives me a really resonant growly tone, with a huge sustain, that is really sensitive and responsive to picking dynamics, as is typical for single coil pickups, not only in terms of volume, but also in terms of changing character and tone depending on how and how hard I pick. For the latter reason I recommend you getting a true single coil pickup. What about hum then, you properly ask. Well, I don't know how Ibanez did it, this even being a budget instrument, but this bass is practically quiet, might be due to the fact that they have started using shielded wiring, that is wiring where the ground runs as a braided shield all along the independently insulated hot wire. So if you just shield your bass properly and replace the wiring for shielded wire, while you are at installing a new pickup anyway, you should be good. If it works this great for a sub short scale cheap budget bass with cheap budget pickups, then I can only imagine how great it would work with a better pickup on a 30" scale instrument. Plus, since you got a middle pickup already, adding a bridge pickup and a blend pot it ought to give you access to a broad pallet of tones (or you might even consider wiring the new bridge pickup to an independent output jack socket, so you can blend the two pickups actively off board, with for instance something like a Boss LS-2 pedal, or even using 2 independent amps for each of the 2 pickups respectively, which would give you even wider tonal options). DO IT !!!

Quite recently rediscovered my 5 string Ibanez GSRM25 Mikro Bass, with a just 28.6" scale length, made in Indonesia at the Cort factory January 2019, which I have strung with Elixir Nanoweb guitar strings as well, of the gauges .080 - .062 - .046 - .036 - .026, and tuned to G standard tuning, that is 3 half steps above the upper 5 strings of a 6 string bass in regular B standard tuning. Never really played it much, cause I didn't like the tone that the 2 stock J pickups gave me, trying to wire them both in series, directly to the output jack socket, to remedy it, which did help some, but still it didn't sound quite right. That is until I discovered that the neck pickup was faulty, having a really weak magnetic field towards the the lower thicker string side, which messed with the tone. So I disconnected the neck pickup, and instead wired the bridge pickup directly to the output jack socket, and now the bass actually sounds pretty awesome, really resonant and clear, with exceptional sustain. In fact it has become my new preferred instrument of choice. And it's a quite growly beast, whereas my 4 string Mikro Bass (tuned in A# standard tuning, and equipped with a reverse orientation EMG Geezer P neck/middle pickup), which has otherwise up until now been my preferred instrument of choice, is more of a snappy beast. The fact that the pickup is a single coil pickup also makes it really sensible and responsive to playing dynamics, not only in terms of volume, but also as far as goes character and tone, but it is surprisingly quiet for being a single coil, and a budget model even, not sure how Ibanez managed this, but apparently they did start using shielded wiring, that is wiring where the ground runs as a braided shield all along the independently insulated hot wire, which might explain it. Though I do still ponder on maybe swapping that stock bridge J pickup for a Gemini Pickups Mountain Lightning J bridge pickup at some point : https://www.geminipickups.co.uk/bass/jazz-bass/mountain-lightning It also had perfectly leveled frets right from factory (current action on low E string is just below 2mm at 22nd fret with minimal neck relief, without any fret buzz whatsoever, and could easily go even lower without any issues if I wished). Here it is, Poplar body, Maple neck, with a Jatoba fretboard, 16.5mm string spacing at bridge, named "Mr. Growley - The Noodlemancer" : Ponder on replacing the ugly bridge with black mono rail bridge pieces, milled from solid brass.

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Does it support floating thumb technique?

And yet you joined this forum (1st post) and resurrected a years old thread just to say this, which, despite your claim of "if you can not say anything good about someone it was better to say nothing at all", clearly only purpose is to put this shop in a bad light.