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From the information on Artec's homepage however it says that the Q value (bandwidth) is only adjustable between 4 to 7, which would be a relatively narrow bandwidth. I know at least that for general tone shaping I would have found a Q value that could be adjusted between 0.5 to 4 much more useful.

Well, that would be pop and not slap. The way I "pluck" the strings is in a slight inwards slapping motion with the outmost tip of my index and middle finger/nail, more so really stoking, rather than striking the strings, so not really an aggressive actual slap, but does slightly emphasis the attack of the notes and gives some of that same metallic flavor and clarity of actual slap.

No! And the state AI is on now in terms of lyrics writing is on level with that of an average 5 grade public school pupil, which of course does about match the level of the lyrics of current chart hits. Also current pop music is already made from a carefully calculated formula for maximal catchiness and commercial success, so there AI generated music should fit right in too. Not art though. Top 40 is, and for most parts have always been, filled up with utter stinky poo from an artistic point of view. A perversion of the most advanced form of communication we humans are capable of that is music.

An Ibanez Mirko Bass 5 string, the GSRM25, does exist. That one got a 45mm nut width and 16.5mm string spacing. It does however have a scale length of just 28.6". https://www.ibanez.com/usa/products/detail/gsrm25_02.html

A gap the size of the thickness of a credit card would indicate way too much relief, business card is more like it, a significant difference.

Have you tried the dirt cheap but genuinely great Joyo British Sound, which is a clone of the Tech 21 British, and which is an all analog a preamp/drive designed specifically to mimic a wide variety of classic Marshall amp tones? Worth a shot I'd say, at least.

But surely he wasn't so bad that he deserved to be killed?

If I was to get a fake Rickenbacker, which I am not, cause i once actually was stupid enough to buy a vintage 70's one, the most expensive single piece of gear I ever bought, and I ended up absolutely hating it, especially how it felt in my hands, I would get the Harley Benton one, which, although not an exact copy, gets great reviews right as they are from stock.

Sounds great, and great review/demo! Does it sound exactly like Lemmmy's overdriven Marshalls? Hardly, but, judging from the demo, it still sounds like it could do a good job at being used to play Motörhead tunes with it.

Touch Me I'm Sick - Mudhoney

So you use your tuner pedal to make sure your bass is out of tune for your tone not to matter? I suppose in some odd bizarre backward way that would actually be on topic.

Nice! Modern fusion jazz, with some quite math rock like elements. I liked it!

Without being able to answer on his behalf, or really having any personal experience with the pedal I can say as much as because it is digital it can analyze, process and compress several different frequency areas individually and independently, something that, while maybe theoretically possible, is not really viable to do with analog technology. Like on a standard 1 band analog compressor if you get signal spike at one specific frequency the compressor will still basically compress the entire signal (depending a bit on the specific compressors EQ response though), something that is partially true to analog dual band compressors too, though obvious only half of signal is then compressed. In other words you get a much more complex and balanced signal from the digital Boss compressor.

If it was a fake decal you got to wonder why on Earth they would chose to use a "Made in Mexico" one. Also usually fake Fender decals doesn't come with barcode and serial number.

Divebomb Jingle - dEUS

If all I needed was filling out the traditional role as a bass player, and I didn't need to sound like anything but a "clean" (or slightly overdriven) bass, I could not only live with, but also be fully satisfied, with my bass going into my EHX Black Finger (tube driven optical compressor, though used predominantly as a tube preamp stage, with its two tubes operating at proper high 300V plate voltage) with a very subtle compression dialed in, and driven to just the edge of the breakup of its tubes, and then into an old SS Trace Elliot amp with a 1x 15" Trace Elliot cab. I could even live without the Black Finger pedal, but I'd rather not, its been my trusty companion for just about any bass or guitar playing/recording I did for the past 20 years or so, and it just makes anything send through it sound better, in this case that would be taking the already really great sounding Trace amp + cab and make it sound absolutely amazing (mind a fairly subtle difference, but non the less a difference that makes all the difference, at very least to me at least). However as it is I prefer the consistency that my "amp-less" setup provides, and need to be able to make several different sounds/tones, so I have a huge, fairly complicated pedal setup. But honestly it doesn't sound neither any better or any worse, just different, and capable of more different sounds and noises.

I can't speak for any of those two units, but I have the adjustable HPF feature related the the IR cab sim of my NUX Melvin Lee Davis Bass Preamp + DI pedal set to 40Hz (mind I also boost the Bass control of the amp simulation coming before the IR cab sim function, which got a center frequency of 40Hz, but with a low Q/high bandwidth affected around it, as well), and that then going into my ART Tube MP Project Series tube preamp and DI, with its, fixed at 40Hz, HPF engaged, and beside filtering out boomyness and allowing for the poweramp and speaker to work more efficiently, it also really tightens up my low end, making my tone clearer and more punchy.

Well, what is preventing you from learning to do so? I started out playing with pick exclusively and did so for years before I taught myself how to also use my fingers in various ways.

But if it was going any lower the bottom of the string slots in the nut would be beneath the level of the fretboard wouldn't it, at least seems so judging from the pictures you provided, which would mean the strings wouldn't somehow need to sit lower in the nut slots than the fretboard would allow for, and clearly way too low for being playable, even if possible?

Only at it's lowest setting, which isn't necessarily the correct setting, since that's the whole point of it being adjustable. But you are saying this is at it's lowest setting?

Well, that has little to do with the point of him being known to be a strongly opinionated hot head (and no, me also being a strongly opinionated hot head doesn't make Jeff Berlin any less of one), also apparently you haven't watched "Game of Thrones". Beside being an amazing musician doesn't automatically also make you a great teacher, and even less automatically great at communicating online.

In that case the slot in the neck/headstock for the nut is too deep, cause otherwise, as far as I can see on those pictures provided, the bottom of the nut slots would go beneath the level of the fretboard.