Baloney Balderdash

Now, it weight about a ton and can "only" handle 300W, but if that is no issue I can't recommend the The Box PA 502 PA speaker enough (comes in an active version too, the The Box PA 502A). It is cheap but it sounds genuinely amazing and got an impressive low end response that beats even most similar speced high end speakers and dedicated bass cabs. Very well balanced and clear tone, with an impressive, but tight and punchy, low end response.

This is absolutely true. To what extend however will depend entirely on how hard you fret, as well as your general playing style. For instance using a lot of vibratos and bends will cause slightly more wear than otherwise. But predominantly it will be a matter of how hard you fret. Normally it will take years though before it will be necessary to have the frets redressed, and only after several redresses a complete re-fret of the neck will be required. Flatwound and nickel-plated roundwound strings will cause considerably less wear than roundwound stainless steel strings, and if you fret lightly using those type of strings a re-fret by far most likely will never be needed in your lifetime. I fret rather lightly and on a bass that I played a lot since I got it from new 12 years ago, probably something like close to 1 hour of playtime a day on an average, only ever using nickel-plated roundwounds, there is pretty much 0 detectable fret wear.

I am in a position where I can either get the pedals that I believe will complete my setup, more specifically an EHX Deep Freeze Pico (mini pedal version of the Freeze, but with more features), an EHX Attack Decay, and a TC Electronic Ditto X4 Looper, or the Squier Paranormal Rascal Bass that I have had a keen eye on as well. However I have also been wanting a Yamaha Revstar RSS20 guitar for a long time, and I have fallen deeply in love with how this looks and sound: And I do kind of a need a guitar too, but if I bought the Squier Paranormal Rascal Bass I could still buy a cheaper guitar. However this Revstar would be THE guitar of my dreams, and would most likely be the only guitar I'll ever need again. What should I do?

Took it off my board eventually, but has just put it back on, last thing before the NUX Melvin Lee Davis Bass Preamp & DI (used with a digital emulation of an Aguilar Tone Hammer amp and an Ampeg SVT-212AV IR cab sim) of my "amp-less" setup, mixed at an approximate 50/50 ratio with "clean" signal, via a Boss LS-2, using the following settings: Low @ about 1:30 o'clock - High @ about 10:30 o'clock - Drive @ noon, and Level set to approximately unity. Adds a subtle low gain but quite grindy overdrive, and some extra grunt, snap and bite to the overall tone, which it also brightens and tightens up a bit. Still my favorite of Joyo's Tech 21 Character clones, Sound series of pedals, even if I admittedly have yet to try the AC Tone and British Sound, but I have listened to/watched a fair share of demos featuring those two pedals, and I do own both the California Sound and American Sound. Likely getting the British Sound at some point though, to try out as dirt pedal.

No noise to speak of, at least not as long as your bass is properly shielded, that you don't crank the Drive control, as with most dirt pedals really, and you otherwise feed it with a clean, properly isolated and filtered, power supply.

A Bunch Of Lonesome Heroes - Leonard Cohen

Brand new Chelsea Wolfe song/video, just released yesterday: And just discovered this, that was released a month ago:

Nick's Dad and The Dad Seeds

Where Are You? - Coil

A master piece! Love that song so much! Here's another great one from Lou Barlow of Dinosaur Jr., in my opinion the best song on their album "Give a Glimpse of What Yer Not" :

Or artist's jobs for that matter.

Extremely poor upper frets access, extremely poor ergonomics, and there is something horrible wrong with the 5th string, not to speak of only having a 4 string bridge, and the tuning mechanisms appears to be broken, looks like the fretboard is warped/crooked, and also the pickup looks like poorly done home made one with misaligning pole pieces.

Novocaine For The Soul - Eels

Looks great, except for the fact that it seems to only be capable of 3/4 and 4/4, which makes it useless to me.

Wouh, these pickups sounds awesome, at least judging from the demons/samples provided on the homepage, and are quite reasonably priced too. Especially love how the bridge Mountain Lightning J sounds in the samples provided, might need to get this one for the bridge J pickup on my reverse EMG Geezer Butler P/J bass. So much snap, punch and power, but at the same time beautiful articulated clarity and definition. Sounds like it might even have me living on the bridge J alone, even if I love the tone of the neck/middle Geezer P (something the demo of the quite similarly speced Gemini Ocean Thunder P pickup confirmed for me, being my absolute favorite of the Gemini P pickups (judging from the demos provided on their homepage at least)).

Have You Seen the Saucers - Jefferson Airplane

Death :

Take Five - Dave Brubeck Quartet (written by Paul Desmond)

On note of flexibility though, quite a difference between the P Bass tone traditionally used in Soul/Motown, and then the one traditionally used in Punk. So yes, a P Bass is definitely capable of a wide variety of tones too, depending on which strings the bass has been equipped with, picking technique, position, and strength applied, whether foam mute is used or not, DI'ed or through cab, which cab, and which amp and amp settings is used, as well as what else is done to the signal after it leaves the bass.

OP doesn't really specify this, but in case they currently are utilizing floating thumb technique I wouldn't advice to sacrifice this, beside loosing the general freedom this technique gives you having to completely relearn how to do things such as proper muting (as far as I can see sacrificing floating thumb technique in favor of a fixed anchor, if this would be the case, would create more issues than it would solve). However if OP does in fact currently utilize a fixed anchor it would be the obvious answer and a sound piece of advice to just move that anchor to the P pickup. And, yeah, as otherwise suggested, just practice, and keep correcting yourself and reposition your hand over the desired picking position over the P pickup whenever you find it drifting towards the position closer to the bridge over the J pickup out of old habit. You might also want to experiment with the general position of your plucking arm, and see if there is possibly a way you can make adjustments that will make the desired picking spot over the P pickup feel easier/more natural to you.

It's true, the tone is in the spirits that lives within the wood. They communicate with your fingers and tells them where to go. Hence where the "tone is in the fingers" sentiment comes from, though really it is the spirits. The fingers are only, so to speak, the origin of tone secondhandedly.