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I do realize the choice of pick is very much up to personal preference, but if you are looking for a warmer tone nylon picks tend to be in the warmer end of the spectrum, and using one of the round corners to pick, rather than the tip, would resolve in a somewhat fuller warmer tone as well. Finally there's also something like the Wedgie rubber picks, which while advertised to give you a tone identically to finger plucking doesn't really, but it does produce a warmer, rounder and somewhat softer tone, something that falls somewhat between regular finger plucking and a regular pick. Personally I prefer the 3.1mm Soft Wedgie pick, but they come in 3 grades of flexibility, Soft, Medium and Hard, and two gauges, 3.1mm and 5mm, and while perhaps sounding like awfully thick being made of rubber they don't really feel and respond like it. And this comes from a guy who otherwise prefer using relative thin picks. My favorite, beside the Wedgie Soft 3.1mm rubber pick, is a Dunlop Tortex .60mm, and it used to be the Dunlop USA Nylon .73mm, which despite being thicker, is actually slightly more flexible than the .60mm Tortex one, nylon being a softer more flexible material than Tortex, the latter as far as I gathered really being an altered Delrin formular/variant. The Tortex used for when I want a pronounced archetypical pick tone, with that prominent snappy emphasis of the attack that only a pick can give you, the Wedgie rubber pick when I want a softer warmer tone, cause while finger picking, the way I play (stroking, rather than plucking or striking, the strings relatively lightly with the outmost tip of my fingers/nails, in a slightly inward slapping motion, often combined with double thumbing and flamenco guitar style index and/or middle finger flicking technique), does produce a fuller tone (fuller in the sense of a more complex tone with more harmonic content, making the individual notes spanning over a fuller frequency spectrum), the Wedgie actually sounds softer/rounder and warmer than my fingers.

As I said, if you end up getting the TC Electronic Sub'N'Up I can guide you through how to get the most natural/authentic/realistic 1 octave up sound out of it, which I found myself after much experimentation with the different settings in the Toneprint editor, just send me a PM. Now mind that it will still sound somewhat artificial, at least if clean and nothing else done to it (with further EQ'ing than the Toneprint editor allows for and with the right high gain overdrive/distortion applied to it it gets much closer to the real deal, that is a distorted guitar sound though), but non the less as far as I am aware the closest any 1 octave up capable pedal on the market comes to the real deal (guitar/octave course 8 string bass, and that is as a stand alone unit, thanks to the Toneprint editor, I'd imagine though that if the T-Rex Quint Machine was run in a separate parallel chain and processed further through other pedals it likely would be able to get there too). I would really wish EHX would make a bass version of their Bass9 (that pedal is really astonishing at making your guitar pretty realistically sound like a bass guitar), for bass players that want to sound like a guitar or 8 string bass, but I do realize that the chances for that are probably minimally thin, as I would think the market is probably equally minimal.

I really like the overall design, and it seems like the neck is more narrow than usually found on 5 string basses too, which is a plus to me, however that seems to lead to the problem of the 2 outer strings being concerningly close to the edge of the fretboard, as far as I can tell, closer then I would be comfortable with, also I would probably tune it E to C, like the 5 upper strings of a 6 string bass.

The Beatles, as you thought about yourself, is you answer. Everyone knows them, most people have a hard time hating them, and most of their songs aren't overly complicated either.

I am thinking since people say these Tonerider P pickups sound very similar to the Fender Custom Shop '62 P, how do they compare to the EMG Geezer Butler P pickup, which is basically a clone of the original Fender P pickup from Bobby Vega's 1960 P Bass (apart from modern upgrades such as being shielded internally and having shielded solderless wiring)?

Yes, that's exactly what I am saying!

Context matters, in this context sound. And as someone pointed out it is very much like explaining color to a blind person, just in this case deaf. Painters actually know what they are talking about, it isn't just the fancy bull crap it might sound to an ignorant.

I am generally not liming myself to certain genres or styles of music, but listen to all great music that speaks to my being/soul, neither do I adhere and limit myself to genre clichés when composing. Do I have preferences? Of course I do, but that is a choice, rather than a limitation. I do find it rather pointless to play music that I don't like/can't feel myself though. Which is why I have only played in original bands too, rather than cover bands (except for the music school band that I played guitar in as a teenager, still played all original bands on the sideline though). But again that is a choice, rather than a limitation. Perhaps also worth pointing out is that I developed into considering myself more of a composer kind of musician, rather than predominantly an instrumentalist. Don't get me wrong, I love playing bass, and am good at it too, and I am a decent guitarist and singer as well, but what I truly excel at is writing/composing/producing music. So long answer short: No!

That's because all it takes to sing opera professionally is to sing in tune and really loud, you don't need to actually have a great voice that is pleasant to listen to. In fact because singing loud is weighted so highly, combined with it being a very stylistic way of singing, making it hard to sound authentic and not forced, often the voice sounds really horrible and is really straining to listen to. There are opera singers who are actually also pleasant to listen to, but they are a minority.

The sound of the angels blowing the trumpets that heralds the apocalypse?

Daze of Our Life - Electro Jar (electronic duo I was part of, and this track features a surprise calypso bass solo)

Sapphire Bullets of Pure Love - They Might Be Giants

It's pretty much an avantgarde jazz all star band, featuring nothing but genuine absolute legends from the free/avantgarde jazz scene. And with their unique aggressive take on free jazz they had quite a following among hardcore punk fans as well. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Last_Exit_(free_jazz_band) Also this is among my absolute favorite YouTube concerts that I frequently revisit. Absolutely ferociously sublime, you can tell that they don't hold back on anything and that all 4 members dedicate and surrender themself 100% to the music and their performance.

For a killer preamp I would suggest something featuring a high voltage current transformer, then opening up said preamp while plugged in and then start groping the innards electronics until you hit jackpot. If it's not yourself you are planning to kill though anything heavy enough with a good aim to the head of your victim should do.

An acquired taste no doubt. I do like some aspects of it actually, but the body design is a tad overly bulgy for my taste, and the neck too wide, and in my personal opinion the color of the wood used for the neck/fretboard, I assume Maple, doesn't match the body, if I had had a say in the design I would have used Wenge as fretboard wood, even roasted maple would have looked better. That's of course a question of personal preferences, and I actually get why somebody might like it, as said an acquired taste, just not for me personally.

Well, the stock pickups on the Jackson Minion are definitely, at least in my opinion, better sounding, but in every other aspect I prefer the Ibanez Mikro, better upper frets access, reverse P pickup, smaller frets, and overall look of the Mikro as well (especially the matte black Weathered Black finish, with black hardware, version). But overall quality wise I think the Jackson Minion and Ibanez Mikro are very similar (the Mikro is made at the Cort factory in Indonesia, except the real early ones which was made somewhere in China, and for everyone who is familiar with Cort basses they know that means high quality all across the entire price spectrum, down to their cheapest budget models). The more recent production Mikro's, unlike the earlier ones, comes with contoured/rounded off neck joint, real metal pot knob, and shielded wiring. The Jackson does though feature a graphite enforced neck, but the neck on my Mirko is the most stable neck I ever had on any bass or guitar, it practically never needs adjustment, unless I change for significantly lower or higher tension strings. And my EMG Geezer Butler P equipped Mikro Bass sounds no short of amazing. In any case congratulations to OP.

They sound absolutely identical and work exactly the same way, use the exact same octave engine/algorithm and all, only difference is that the regular bigger version physically got a switch and an extra control knob, and is, well, bigger, obviously, but since the physical knobs available can be assigned to control any parameter you'd wish and as many you wish, at whatever range and rate, via the Toneprint editor, it isn't all that important, and totally irrelevant if all you need is one single permanent 1 octave up Toneprint and setting.

I am pretty sure it is. From his videos, playing, and just general appearance, he always stroke me as a huge old school fusion jazz fan.

In that case, yes, the Quint Machine, as far as I am concerned, would be your best option. @makab Edit!!!: But if you have the courage to customize your own Toneprint, via the Toneprint editor, on the TC Electronic Sub'N'Up I don't think there is any other octave pedal on the market that can get as close to a neutral/authentic sounding octave up on it's own. I could even instruct you in how to do so, if you decide for this. On the other hand the T-Rex Quint Machine does sound good, additionally give you the option of a 5th up, and its 1 octave down works better as well.

Out of those the T-Rex Quint Machine, but personally I am really satisfied with the TC Electronic Sub'N'Up Mini, the latter does kind of require of you to not be afraid of making your own custom Toneprint in the Toneprint editor (if you do though I don't think there is any other octave pedal on the market that can get as close to a neutral/authentic sounding octave up on it's own). That is for an as neutral and authentic sounding octave up sound as possible though (even if pitching up your signal a whole octave is always going to sound somewhat artificial), but if you don't mind it sounding somewhat more organ like, then the EHX Micro POG.

And the bass with a tuba!

Looks blue to me.