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Yes, use the DI Out, as you suggest yourself to connect the amp to your audio interface. This!: Obviously you won't get the coloration of your cab on the recordings this way, but that is what amp simulation/IR loader VST effects are for.

What a great interview. Chris Wood is one of my absolute favorite bass players.

Indeed 60's Fender P pickups are hotter and more mid focused than the 70's ones. But I haven't got any idea either if this goes for the J pickups as well. However I am quite certain that the respective pickups doesn't necessarily sound better in the corresponding basses. It's very much a matter of the specific individual instruments and personal preferences.

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Yeah, don't have the speaker disconnected while the amp is turned on, the output transformer won't like it, and you could potentially risk ruining the amp.

I quite like how they look, and I am a big fan of typical bartione guitar scale length basses too. If I had the money I wouldn't mind the 28" scale fretless one. Quite reasonable priced too. Edit!: Reading up on the experience some people have had with this builder, I think I'd pass, even if I had the money. What an absolute mess.

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No, our never system, including our brain, works by exchanging electric impulses.

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So you bought a bass full of stickers, despite not liking it, just so you could complain about it on the internet? Sounds sensible.

This is amazing!

It would be relatively simple, uninstall the neck and hardware and electronics on/in the body, then screw the neck pocket to a piece of wood and hang it freely somewhere from there, then spray a couple of clear coats all over the body, let it dry and install the neck, hardware and electronics back on the bass. Not that you need it in this case, but might prove useful to know in the future.

*sigh* Very strange backwards perspective. So if labour doesn't have any value, but is just an expense, then why would a company want it? You think they are running a charity or something? The product/service workers are selling is their labour, and they can do that because it has value for the companies. If a companies products increase in value so does the value of the labour of those who actually produced it.

Which I quoted in my initial post, and the whole reason why we are even discussing this.

Yeah, but why is it that it is fair that the workers should pay for this alone?

Well, the thing is as the general prices rises, so does the value of your labour automatically, so you should get a raise. You don't get extra bread either just because the price has risen, same with the value of your labour. Why should labour not follow the general prices as the only product/service. The company you work for too charge more for their products/services, why should that not reflect the wages their workers get for actually providing these for the company? Doesn't seem fair to me.

Stanley Clarke doesn't, he is a very tall man with huge hands, and a very skilled double bass player as well, yet he prefers to play short scale electric bass, and is even one of the absolutely legendary virtorioses at it too. I advise OP to try out both options and decide based on what feels best to them.

These are very, as in very, reasonable priced too. I am awfully tempted to get one as well, to replace my otherwise genuinely great NUX Melvin Lee Davis Bass Preamp & DI pedal, seems for only about double the price you get a lot of extra (and potentially even also better sounding) stuff.

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Well, I don't consider a bad setup a flaw. Just because a bass has a bad setup it can still be an amazing instrument, so I don't think this would really give a realistic review of basses. It's adjustable for a reason and strings can be changed for a reason and this is two things I am going to do anyway, regardless of price tag or quality, to suit my personal preferences. Given an instrument a new set of great strings and a proper setup is as far as I m concerned the best possible pre requirements for a realistic and fair review. Reviewing the actual instrument, rather than the setup or strings.

My main instrument of choice, my beloved, just 28.6" scale length, Ibanez GSRM20 neck + GSRM20B body Mikro Bass, that I named "Dud Bottomfeeder", fitted with an EMG Geezer Butler P pickup, and tuned in A# standard, tenor bass, tuning :