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I don't know if it counts, but one of my ex-girlfriends used to carry around with a couple of those.

I am extremely satisfied with my Sennheiser HD 380 Pro studio headphones. Very faithfully neutral and clear reproduction of the audio source, which is what you would want from a set of studio headphones. Unfortunately they are not in production anymore, but suppose the Sennheiser HD300 Pro would be the closest current production equivalent. Those are not crazy expensive, 152£ at Thomann, but about the same I paid for the HD 380 Pro ones, from new, over 20 years ago. That said my ultra cheap (23£ at Thomann) Behringer BH470 studio headphones are surprisingly decent, even if they definitely far from have the same neutral flat frequency response and clarity, and there is a bit of a boost of the lower frequency spectrum. But on a very tight budget I would absolutely recommend them for practicing bass, if that was all that could be afforded (but would strongly advice against using them for music production/mixing).

I know this is not answering your question, but which headphones do you use? You would want them to be FRFR, that is higher end "studio" headphones (you should expect spending at least 120£ or so for a decent pair), not "Hi-Fi" ones.

All the more reason to get a Hotone Ampero II Stomp instead which is about 150£ cheaper, but, at least spec/processing power wise, superior: https://www.thomann.de/gb/hotone_ampero_ii_stomp.htm Or this for just about the same price: https://www.thomann.de/gb/hotone_ampero_ii_stage.htm

The Boss BD-2 Blues Driver works great for bass, and have a surprisingly wide range, from just on the edge of breakup, to a really grindy sort of high gain overdrive, and everything in between.

Of course, but to a considerably higher and much more essential degree so did playing in original bands with skilled musicians. Edit!: I think I misunderstand the question. Not music school, but public school. In that case the answer is a big fat absolutely definitive NO!

Buy a good bass mic and insist on using the miced signal, so that it actually sounds like you. If they can do that for guitars, they can do it for bass too. And a lot of professional bass players/soundmen actually does do this. As someone pointed out the sound guy is supposed to work for you, not against you or to his own whims. Yes, it is much easier for him to do the exact same routine on every single bass he encounters, but that isn't actually doing his job properly. Different bass players and bands do tend to have their own sound that defines them, they are not supposed to all sound the same, and a soundman who doesn't recognize this is a lazy hack who shouldn't have been given the responsibility over the PA system and mixer.

Call an exorcist!

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You can't get 500W from 18V and 2 9 volt batteries. Even if that poweramp could run at 18V the batteries would be drained in a matter of minutes because of the power consumption required for it to work. You would need a special plug in the bass for plugging in a power cord to feed the poweramp. Also 200W seems more realistic as far as the size of such a thing would be.

I agree, but your tonewood choices are all WRONG!

I do realize that you're being ironic, but did you hear it to an end? Not disagreeing, just saying/pointing out...

Also I think I did quite alright just using my experience and ears composing, programming, playing/singing, recording and mixing this piece:

That doesn't however mean that you can't hear stuff in your head and play accordingly, simply based on experience. Also your ears are more than the meat pieces on the side of your head, they are connected to your brain, your ears as such doesn't hear anything, they just pick up vibrations and transform them to electrical impulses for your brain can interpret. This is however not what you usually mean when saying "using your ears", it actually means using your sense of hearing. I don't know why anyone with any degree of common sense would take this so literally, it's absurd.

I found a source online that claims that the Cool Cat Metal is based on the preamp of the Fender Champ amp (not to be confused with the current production cheap solid state Champion amp), with some modification and a clipping diode in the gain stage, and that the Cool Cat Metal II allegedly is based on a heavily modified Boss MT-2 Metal Zone, among other the whole tone stack removed, and replaced for a High/Low Mid switch toggle, that can also be switched completely off. Should prove interesting.

Absurd! Now I can't find it, but there is this YouTube clip where a highly acclaimed music professor explains and demonstrates how you need to hear in your head what you play while you play it in order to play it properly.

Isn't that exactly why you should focus on training your ears rather than theory? What is music if not sound? If you can't hear what you play, your can't play it properly. What is that joke about the blind and the deaf guy: "Can you hear what I see?"

Some inspiration:

I've just bought 2 distortion pedals, the Danelectro Cool Cat Metal, as well as the Cool Cat Metal II, super cheap. Haven't got them with me yet though. Anyone got any info on these, like what they are based on, or clones of? This is not the plastic FAB Metal, these are the Cool Cat pedals in metal eclosures. (these pictures are not the actual units, just to give you an idea of what they look like and which control parameters they feature)

Can't remember who makes them but midi sensitive/triggering frets/fretboard. Build in metronome/drum machine, and looper. A digital watch with build in alarm and stop watch functionality. A build in Nintendo Gameboy, so you can play video games on your bass when not playing bass.

It's not a fully parametric EQ unless you can also dial in frequency and Q/Bandwidth for each band, for tonal versatility you would be better off with a filter preamp, like the one I suggested.

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