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    I'd personally prefer the Ibanez SRMD200 Mezzo neck. The Ibanez Mezzo though is a bit more expensive than the Squier Jag, and the Squier neck might fit the neck pocket on most available bass bodies better (not sure about the latter though).
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    This is true! Also would you believe it, whether you are wearing socks or not makes a huge tonal difference too! Proof: I first played my just 28.6" scale Ibanez Mikro Bass, tuned to F# standard tuning, as in 2 half staps above regular E standard tuning, through my "amp-less" setup with headphones and socks on, then my regular 34" scale Aria Pro II Laser Electric Classic, tuned in regular E standard tuning, through my 1 x 15" Trace Elliot combo, but without socks on, and believe it or not but the tonal difference was like night and day! There you have it: tone socks!
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    The Jazz look cooler, but I am pretty certain doesn't sound nearly as great.
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    It will also with certainty kill roundwound strings much much faster!
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    I honestly don't get this attitude. Why even play if the people you play for couldn't care less and just wants to be entertained? You might as well perform a clown sketch then. Why I make music for people who actually care about music. To me music is sacred and the most advanced form of communication we humans are capable of, and the stuff that makes up Top 40 is a perversion, a sacrilege abomination.
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    I honestly have no idea. They did all sound ever so slightly different from each other, but can't tell which is which, I am pretty certain though that #1 is not a P pickup but a regular humbucker of some sort, and I don't think #2 is a P pickup either, but which of #3, #4 and #5 is a P pickup I have no idea, as far as I am concerned they could all be, though obviously different P pickup models. A wild guess would be that #4 is the P pickup.
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    The Thomann house brand budget passive PA speaker that I use as a FRFR cab for my "amp-less" setup, the The Box PA 502, featuring a 15" bass/mids woofer/driver speaker unit and a 1.7" high frequency tweeter horn. Very well balanced, really articulate and clear sounding, with an impressive, but tight and punchy, low end response (better low end response than a lot of dedicated bass cabs, and most, including most high end, PA speakers, on the market). No short of amazing sounding, regardless of price, perfect for use as a FRFR cab for bass. And for the, taking the actual quality into consideration, absolutely ridiculous price of just 211 £/245 Euro. Only downside really is that it weight about a ton, 25.5 kg (~56 lbs). https://www.thomann.de/gb/the_box_pa502_fullrangesystem.htm
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    Scarf joint is at the head side end of the neck, and a way to make a sturdier tilt back headstock, set neck relates to the neck pocket end of the neck. This is how a scarf join looks, as said a way to make a stronger tilted headstock :
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    Didn't notice that before, but taking a closer look at the pictures again I think you are probably right, the supposed "finish crack" does follow where the scarf joint of the neck would be glued on suspiciously closely. I mean it is of course technically still a finish crack, just quite a bit more than just that, and would definitely not be the main issue here, but rather more of a symptom, if the scarf joint parting is really the actual culprit to it (which honestly seems very likely).
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    Well, while the neck is bending upwards on the first picture the actual bow is bending downwards, making is a downward bow. I might be wrong, but I think this description of this illustration is semantically wrong. As far as I know bend and bow would not mean the exact same thing in this context. Regardless if with good reason or not I obviously misunderstood what you meant. Just to let you know I am honestly not nit picking or trying to be contrary here, I honestly misunderstood what you wrote. And yes, going by the top drawing of that illustration tightening the truss rod would definitely be the right measure to take, regardless of how you word it.
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    Loosen the truss rod sufficiently to let the string tension straighten the upward bow, as is what you are supposed to do. Truss rod will bow upwards when tightened, fixing a downward bow, but making an upward bow even worse. I think perhaps the confusion is down to you confusing upward bow with upward bending neck, which is not the same, when the neck bows upwards the neck will bend downwards on each side of the upward bow?
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    Could you please elaborate? Huh as in that was not what you meant with up-bowing neck, or huh you think I am wrong (which I with 100% certainty am not)?
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    My Aria Pro II Laser Electric Classic, my first bass ever, which partially can just be spotted in the corner of the manipulated photo of my Harley Benton GuitarBass of the OP, with colored metallic star stickers and a stripe of faded once neon green tape that I ironically applied long ago when I was young and stupid. Though I do actually think it does have a certain charm to it. But ideally I really ought to strip the finish off and paint the bass matte black instead, never been a fan of white finishes for basses and guitars and have no idea why I chose to buy it back then regardless (used around the mid 90's, the bass it self from the 1986 production, which makes it one of the last models made on the legendary Matsumoku factory in Japan, before Aria moved the production to Korea), it is a pretty amazing bass though, both plays and sound really great. Here it is:
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    It's getting increasingly popular with an "amp-less" setup, so that is an option too. Here you can find some inspiration for that: An "amp-less" setup gives several advantages over a traditional bass amp/bass cab setup, for one allowing for more precise tailoring of your tone, it will also give you a much more consistent tone whether you practice at home with headphones, at band rehearsal with FRFR cab/PA speaker, or at live gigs through the given venue's PA system, and finally when able to use bands/venues PA system it will be a whole lot easier to transport around.
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    If the neck had an upward bow tightening the truss rod would have been the diametrical wrong way to go too, which would only had worsened the problem.
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    In my experience the regular Tortex have a tendency to go curvy as well after a while, never experienced that with any Nylon picks that I've used. However it's not really an issue for me, they are still perfectly useable, if only from one of the two sides, and they do give a significantly different tone than Nylon picks, so unless you are not going for any specific tone it's not as simple as just using a pick of any other material instead. In my experience material, gauge and flexibility/stiffness of a given pick are all factors that have a relatively significant impact on the tone of your bass.
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    And yet once again, again, I've changed my mind. While the combination of different finger picking techniques is still vast superior (diversity of tones you can get just from applying different techniques at different picking/plucking spots, the speed of utilizing the index and/or middle finger flicking flamenco style technique, as well as the ease of muting single strings that you don't want to ring) in pretty much every other aspect than the ability to palm mute and the array of graduate muted tones this allows for, I currently now actually tone wise prefer what I get from using the orange Dunlop Tortex .60mm pick :
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    Clearly he mean 100ft vertically, how he became so highly elevated above all us other mere mortals. We cannot with our simple Earthly equipped minds do us any hopes whatsoever of even just remotely begin to fathom what his divine sensory perception of reality is like, transcending reality it self as it does. Levitation is just but a trivial display of a mere faction of the true magnitude of other-worldly powers this genuine God of Tone possesses. Genesis 1:31 of the Tone Bible : "joel406, The God of Tone, levitated 100 to 150 feet upwards to properly judge and take joy in the superlatively sublime splendour of his EQ settings, and He saw everything that He had made, and behold, it was very good and He validated it completely"
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    You can get HoTone Ampero II Stomp for the same price, actually even ever so slightly under, what a Line6 POD GO costs, and it is way more powerful, for one it allows for parallel effect processing, which the POD GO doesn't, and the modeling is higher quality too (though I guess that will always be debatable, the CPU at least is more powerful than even the Line 6 Helix multi effects).
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    No thanks. I am not a particular fan of mud and fizz, and prefer at least some degree of articulation and definition. Thanks for your suggestion though. I'd consider it if I should ever find myself in the strange situation of wanting my bass to sound like a wet fart. Also those outer sliders on that graphic EQ pedal are actually shelfing filters, so they'll already form a gradual curve no matter how you set them.
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    This thread might help you get some ideas: Personally I can warmly recommend the NUX Melvin Lee Davis Bass Preamp + DI (NBP-5) :
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    Poop Ship Destroyer by Ween
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