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I am the bad guy and ask, have ever considered a X-over? There are a few available, like KMA, Iron Ether, and Great Eastern FX. IE Divaricator is probably the least common of these three.

If your Schecter is worth something like £300, and you want to experiment with it, I would say go, just like @tegs07 said. You probably learn a lot, and the body can be changed to a, say, Warmoth later on. You have a good chance to play with electronics, too. Your will-be-bass may become your most valuable baby, or you use your findings to buy something you really like and need. (...and how do I know this?)

Are knobs really necessary, if you are after a simple DI? If your board is capable of producing the sound you want, a Countryman is all you need. If not, how about a ToneX?

1) Find some interesting material you want to learn and play (I do not think scales and Simandl are the highest in that list...). 2 a) Learn the basics right in the first phase. 2 b) If something does not feel right, ask first, act then (muscles, strings, bow, position...). So called stupid questions are important now. 3) Set some reasonable goal once or twice a year. 4 a) Play a lot. 4 b) Play with a band. 5) Enjoy. You want to play jazz (actually: anything), learn two beat, four beat and then walking in this particular order.

Ordered. Let's see how it behaves. I wish it gets here before next Thursday, our rehearsal. If it is a good one, I may let the 1140 go. It is on the big side compared to this pedal. But before that, some testing is in order. Did I have any Stompshields left?

Glockenklang Soul (in use) Mesa 400+ (was lovely, and heavy) SWR MoBass (fun fx) (micro combo: GK 200MB)

I suppose the string width cannot be very much. I've had an Ashula, which I did not like very much. If I need fretless and fretted, I'll take both basses with me.

That's really cheap! I thought this would be several thousands but it is well under one.

The only song that came to my mind was Suzanne Vega's Gypsy, but after thinking some more, wouldn't Deep Purple's Burn be suitable?

You wonder why are some basses dirty. Go out and check all bikes around. You sure get my point.

Is that funk-u-lator ex-@ped, or did you order it from Meridian?

It may be cheaper to buy a sack of sand, and walk around your house with it for one week at least 30 minutes three times a day. You'll get more muscles, or less Ampeg. Or more Ampeg, because then you have the power to carry it to gigs and rehearsals.

GT-1B requires 200 mA. Therefore your PSU can push enough energy to the effect (500 mA). It may be so that the quality of the PSU is not very good - I would try another one with reasonable specs, of course (9 VDC, >300 mA). The output of an SPS can "leak" some ripple from the power line, or is just filtered weakly, and that makes the whole system tick.

Give us more data, i.e. a pic of the PSU plate, or type.

EUB could be an option: sturdy, small... if the neck (setup) is good, it will be a breeze to play. Remember: strings cost quite some, but they last for ages. A suitable set supports your style.

Off topic, but what's wrong with pink cars? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/FAB_1

Try this one: https://www.daddario.com/globalassets/pdfs/accessories/tension_chart_13934.pdf

A place for the mic stand?

Hit me with your... by Ian Dury: what's the bass in the video, an Alembic, maybe?

Interstellar Overdrive is somewhat peculiar: it can be used as an amp (few watts, home rehearsal etc.), but the eq is not working then. Overdrive section can be controlled via ext. volume pedal which is pretty nice feature. - heavy weight +/- rehearsal amp, but no eq + a good sounding unit + connections and ext. vol pedal option

When Greek were playing in just intonation, intervals were based on simple numbers (ratios, like 1:2, 3:2 etc.). The problem was that you could play in only one key at a time, like A# major. You could not play blues, except in one key. Chord progressions would have sounded really weird. This meant that an instrument had to be tuned to one key at a time. (Check lutes, gambas etc. with moving frets.) For those interested: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pythagorean_comma Things started to change during 15th century, because of the tempered scale. All of the tempered scale intervals do not sound exact, but pretty close ("It's... good enough." -Mediocrates). The biggest advantage is that now you could modulate from key to key, and chord progressions became possible. A# and Bb are the same if we use tempered scale, but not necessarily in just intonation. A sidenote: Here we have been talking about western scales (a chromatic, tempered octave, 12 notes). There are many other systems, where the octave is divided to some other amount of notes, like 31, or 32. As we have learned to use 12 notes, other systems sound odd, but not for those who have learned that particular system. There are not many things that are absolute in music. Most of the stuff is based on agreements, starting from that A is 440 Hz. Except that some use Baroque A, around 415 Hz, or symphony bands that tune their instruments to 443 Hz, or...

SWR Interstellar Overdrive. I do have a tce 1140, too.

From that wiki: "C003 47uF 400v Some revisions 39uF"

Something from the printings: H9925 is most likely production year 1999 and week 25. 400 V is obvious. VZ series 39 microfarads? See the list: https://www.nichicon.co.jp/english/products/pdf/e-alm_mini_list_c.pdf

Meanwhile you can listen to the sound of the bus where this song was recorded.