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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.

In The Heart Of The Wood & What I Found There - Current 93

Also D Tuners for each string (which can be set to just do half steps as well). Black Ice passive overdrive/distortion module. Lusithand double filter preamp: https://lusithanddevices.com/product/double-nfp/ And having a tremolo system installed as well, Kahler does one for bass (and comes in a 5 string version as well): https://www.thomann.de/gb/kahler_2410r_w4_bass_tremolo_blk.htm

Yeah, those settings looks absolutely bonkers, The HPF and LPF too, very much doubt those are the settings he actually use.

That looks amazing, and the price looks just as amazing. 111£/129 Euro at Thomann. Also, for what it is worth, it is all analog. Might need to get one of these. Had it also had an adjustable LPF and HPF it would have been perfect.

Leenardo Czars, Pinocchio Palmino and Jammy Jamson. All they ever did was noisy farts. And they smell too!

Not my full collection, but just shot this with my mobile phone: From left to right: 4 string 34" scale Aria Pro II Laser Electric Classic (Ash body, 3 piece Maple neck, Rosewood fretboard) 5 string 28.6" scale Ibanez GSRM25 Mikro Bass (Poplar body, Maple neck, Jatoba fretboard) 4 string 28.6" scale Ibanez GSRM20B body + GSRM20 neck Mikro Bass (Mahogany body, Maple neck, Rosewood fretboard) Aria Pro II tuned in regular 4 string bass E standard tuning 5 string Mikro Bass tuned in G standard tuning, as in 3 half steps above the upper 5 strings of a 6 string bass in regular B standard tuning 4 string Mikro Bass tuned in A# standard tuning, as in 1 half steps above the upper 4 strings of a 6 string bass in regular B standard tuning Beside that I also own: Harley Benton GuitarBass (Bass VI) - Egmund (exeptionally crappy, basically unplayable, short scale vintage late 60's bass) - Epiphone SG Special (electric guitar) - Santana (short scale classical nylon string acoustic guitar)

Adam Clayton

Green Mind - Dinosaur Jr.

It's No Good Trying - Syd Barrett

I never played covers, always having played in original bands/projects, at the moment working on solo projects, so the basslines I primarily play are self composed, hence me listing them not making much sense for you. I do occasionally play parts, melodies or riffs/bass lines from other people's songs though, but I find it must more fun to write/compose my own original lines. Beside that I practice a lot of improvisation, simply to get better at improvising and coming up with consistent stuff on the spot, so again no predetermined basslines as such involved. One of my favorites though is one of my composition that basically consists of an identical folky intro and outro riff in C Dorian, and then a long folky improvisation in between in C Dorian, though building around certain riffs/licks that I have developed as I have played it quite a few times by now, so that the improvisation is just not mindless noodling in C Dorian but kind of got this sort of fluent form, that while being different every time I play it still have certain blocks of melodic lines and riffs that it, while those also varying slightly from time to time, kind of builds around. I call that composition "Dorian OdysC" (originally it was titled "A Dorian Odyssey" and was played in A Dorian, but with the tuning that I have found works best for me, C Dorian happens to work best for this composition).

This is my "amp-less" setup: Though my main point with this is consistency of tone regardless of whether I rehearse at home through headphones, at band jam/rehearsal through a PA speaker, or live through a PA system. But as you can see I use a combination of no less than 4 preamps to obtain the exact tone I desire.

Triangle Walks - Fever Ray

I might be daft, and not trying to be snarky, but I fail to make any sense of this whatsoever, seems to me that the sentence kind of contradicts itself. What does this mean?

Vintage voiced pickups could mean either 50's, 60's or 70's pickups though, which all got a different general basic character to each other, plus then variations within those.

Sound of Silence - Simon and Garfunkel