Baloney Balderdash

I have no issues with swapping between my 34" 4 string bass, my 4 string 28.6" scale bass and my 5 string 28.6" scale bass with a 16.5mm string spacing. Neither do I have problems with immediately adapting to the scale length of my 30" scale Bass VI or for that matter my 24.75" scale guitar, though it does take a while adapting to the really narrow string spacing of those two instruments every time I pick them up to play. Also I don't think neck dive is a general short scale bass specific issue.

My Jerry Jones Neptune Longhorn Bass (kind of a high end boutique clone of the Danelectro Longhorn Bass). The guy who made these retired, and even if I had the kind of money to buy one used they extremely rarely ever pops up on the used market. And then my 28 5/8" scale 4 string bass that I had made out of Warmoth baritone parts, with a Seymour Duncan Rickenbacker Neck pickup in the neck position, and a Seymour Duncan Hot Rails guitar pickup in the bridge position. Don't have any pictures of the Jerry Jones, but this is what the sub-short scale Warmoth bass looked like (went a little overboard when designing the headstock admittedly): Both sounded and played absolutely amazing. Regret so much being stupid enough to sell both. Kind of regret about the Dan Amrstrong Plexi Bass too, which I had 2 of those slide in replacement pickups for, even if to be honest I didn't really like neither how it played or how it sounded.

I am almost certain that it is that guy and his amp settings that makes the pedal sound like shit. He is a guitarist, not a bass player, and every single bass demo I have ever watched him do sound like shit (and somehow magically the same exact lifeless dull shit tone), no matter what he plays and what he plays through.

The previous owner was a bit too happy about seeing the pickups, and just couldn't restrain himself, back when he first opened the box, and they were all new and shiny. Retrospectively I am sure he regret not at least using protection.

No for that feature it would have been another 250 quid! That said for me, I agree, before seeing the results, just listening, my clear favorites were the Radial JDI and the Noble, probably with a small favor to the Noble. The Colourbox was the only one which I really didn't like, absolutely horrible tone.

And here is my counter argument:

Nonsense, quite on the contrary there are too few VU meters! I would want 5 VU meters, 1 pre input gain, 1 post input gain and 1 post output gain, and then 2 additional ones, 1 for respectively the drive and the clean mix each! Now that would be a pedal to behold!

To sum up this thread:

Just discovered this track "Grenadine", from Danish band "Tys Tys" (translated "Shush Shush"), and I get a very Syd Barret's solo work -esque vibe from it, brilliant!

As you can see on the specs listed in above image, on the contrary, string spacing is 17.5mm at the bridge, compared to the usual standard 19mm.

Back on my 5 string Ibanez GSRM25 Mikro Bass, which is just 28.6" scale as well, with a Poplar body and a Maple neck with a Jatoba fretboard, with 16.5mm string spacing. There is something wrong with the stock neck J pickup, so I got the J bridge pickup wired directly to the output jack socket as the only functioning pickup. This gives a somewhat growly, but also somewhat smoother, more polite, less raw, tone than my 4 string Mikro Bass mentioned in my OP. The bass is also far more resonant, and got sustain for days. And the fact that it is a single coil pickup also makes it more dynamically responsive, that is not only the volume, but also the tone changes slightly depending on how and how hard the strings are picked. For a cheap stock pickup it sounds surprisingly great, and for a single coil it is surprisingly quiet, not a lot hum going on at all, which I assume is thanks to Ibanez having started to use shielded wiring, that is the ground running as a braided shield all along the individually isolated hot wire. I do however still plan on swapping out this pickup at some point. The bass is strung with Elixir Nanoweb nickel plated roundwound hex steel core guitar strings of the gauges .080 - .062 - .046 - .036 - .026, and tuned to G standard tuning, that is 3 half steps above the upper 5 strings of a 6 string bass in regular B standard tuning. We'll see how long this lasts, it seems like I always at some point returns to my 4 string Mikro Bass, mentioned in the OP, no matter what temporary infatuation I have, be it other basses or guitars, just something about it that feels so at home. In any case here it is, my 5 string Ibanez GSRM25 Mikro Bass, which I named "Mr. Growley - The Noodlemancer" : I will probably at some point replace that big ugly BBOT bridge with individual mono rail bridge pieces milled from solid brass.

You might find your answer here:

"What's up, pussy cat?"?

Strange, parallel mode should give less output, and series more output, low end and mids.

You're thinking cause the pickups then would look comically huge, or?

Also as I said, the body appears to be contoured, not a slab body as a standard Telecaster Bass.

I would teach my cat how to play bass properly, and then start a bass duo with it, named "Baloney Pussy Cat".

Now, I don't have any actual in person experience with a physical unit of this cab, but my favorite IR cab sim is created from this cab model.

Mister Richard Smoker - Ween

Plus as OP suggested winds and thickness of the wound wire. But yes, magnet strength have a huge influence on how much output a pickup has as well. And parallel vs. series connection too, if humbuckers.

Looks like the Fender Wide Range humbucker bass pickup, not a Mudbucker. Same as in the current production Squier Paranormal Rascal : Also that bass appears to not just be a slab body like the original Telecaster Bass, but actually feature contours.

Yes, the drum parts are piece of cake... And who couldn't pull off those vocals... Have you had a listen to the "Latheralus" album?

And pretty much everything with Captain Beefehart & The Magic Band.

And pretty much every Mr. Bungle song, really.