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I never ever bought a pedal with an USB socket that came with a cable, heck I don't even remember my midi keyboard with weighted keys coming with one. I would be surprised if I bought a pedal and it came with an USB cable. As much as I would be surprised by a new pair of shoes coming with shoe polish and a pair of socks included in the box.

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Not short scale enough! This is more like it:

Make one out of spare clay from Christmas decorations, and then when an appropriate form is achieved quick dry it in your micro oven about half an hour at max wattage....

Lucifer Over London - Current 93

Highway To Hell - AC/DC Damn too late

Well, except, for what it is worth the Spark Booster is all analog, while the Spectradrive "Clean Boost" Toneprint is a digital emulation, and that the regular big version of the Spark Booster offers far more options for shaping your drive tone. The "Clean Boost" Toneprint of the Spectradrive in other words is just a digital emulation of one setting of the Spark Booster.

That would be correct, yes.

The legend go that the designer of the bongo got the idea when he was taking a poo on the toilet. Well, purple and black actually mix really well, not quite as well with that redish/light brown fretboard though, as well as a darker purple shade would have looked much better. If the fretboard had not been so redish brown a plain (non pearl/sparkle) deep dark metallic purple pickguard would have looked awesome.

Danish band "Smag På Dig Selv" (Taste Yourself), with the track "Hvide Mænd Spiller Afrobeat" (White Men Playing Afrobeat), from their album "Middelklassen Avler Kun Skeletter" (The Middle Class Only Breeds Skeletons) :

The Markbass Compressore ! Genuine tube compressor, pretty fat tube sound, and with a lot of control over the compression going on, with a complete set of compression parameters. And I can easily tell the difference, and don't really understand compression often being described as a subtle effect. I mean it can be, and it isn't exactly like a high gain distortion or a phaser with all the controls cracked, but it is definitely notable, and can have a quite substantial effect on your tone. And I do think that relatively subtle changes often can make the whole difference between a decent and a great tone.

I use the Harley Benton StrapMaster rubber washer strap locks: https://www.thomann.de/gb/harley_benton_strapmaster_pack1.htm 1.70£/2 Euro for a pack of 4, and there is a set of grey and black ones too. Simple and dirt cheap, but really effective and easy to use and apply/remove.

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The budget The Box PA 502, 1 x 15" + 1 x 1.7", sounds no short of amazing, and that is regardless of price. Very clear and well balanced tone, with an impressive, but tight and punchy, low end response, better than most other, even quite high end, PA speakers, heck even a lot of dedicated bass cabs. This is a passive PA speaker though, but it does come in an active version as well, the The Box PA 502 A, which is powered by 2 (bi-amping system) real transistor based SS poweramps (not Class-D). Now it does weight about a ton, and it can "only" respectively handle 300W for the 15" low frequency woofer/mids driver and 100W for the 1.7" high mids driver/high frequency tweeter, but with a quite decent sensitivity of 96dB @ 1m/1W, rated to being capable of delivering 300W RMS. https://www.thomann.de/gb/the_box_pa502a_aktives_fullrangesystem.htm If the relatively limited power handling and the quite heavy weight is no issue this is THE PA speaker to get for FRFR bass cab duties, as said simply amazing sounding, regardless of its budget price point. Simply can't recommend this enough.

I would personally get a graphite one.

I do! High G string does appear to be a bit closer to the edge of the fretboard than the low E string, all the way up as far as that picture allows you to see. And while the pickups seems perfectly in line with the neck on that photo the bridge doesn't quite. Not that I personally think it impose a real issue, but I am pretty certain the bridge is in fact slightly misaligned, and that that is the main reason for the strings slightly misaligning with the pickup pole pieces.

I think though that the ELF DI is post the EQ section. Which means that the DI'ed signal will have the baked in preamp tone, as well as whichever EQ settings used, of the amp. That could be a disadvantage or advantage depending on preferences/application/context. But yes, it can very much be used as a DI, and doesn't necessarily need to be plugged into a speaker/cab either.

This!

By far most of the more recent music I have created even utilize programmed drums and percussion, that is there isn't even any drummer or physically played samples involved at any point, just bars plotted in in a midi grid that I play to through headphones. So I guess my answer is no. I do however still enjoy playing with a real drummer with a real acoustic drum kit. Also your problem sounds more a case of your drummer choosing the wrong drum samples (well, wrong for you at least), rather than being an inherent issue with electronic drums as such. It is totally possible with a proper electronic drum kit and playing, or proper programming for that matter, using the right drum samples, to have electronic drums sound pretty much indistinguishable from the real thing, if that is what one really wishes to do. Personally though I most often find it way more interesting to actually make use of the alternative possibilities, options and sounds, electronic drums/drum samples actually offers you/allow for.

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Or maybe this Ibanez AM93ME, with Ebony fretboard and Makassar Ebony body:

I see your disconnected tone pot, and raise with a P pickup wired directly to the output jack socket. You should be aware though that just disconnecting the tone pot without using a different value volume pot or inserting a resistor of matching value to the tone pot to compensate is going to raise the resonance frequency of the pickup some, and thereby make the tone your pickup reproduces slightly brighter than it was with the tone pot.