Baloney Balderdash

Love this song, one of the best, out of many great ones, off what got to be Will Oldham's greatest album (yes, even greater than the later "I See A Darkness" album under the "Bonnie 'Prince' Billy" name), "Viva Last Blues", under the name "Palace Music", one of my all time favorite albums overall too by any artist :

Milkshake Girl - Giant Sand

Yes, I had a similar experience way back, when I was stupid enough to buy a used vintage 70's Rickenbacker, cause i happened to have that kind of money at that time, and I loved how it looked, turned out I absolutely hated how it felt in my hands, and wasn't too impressed with the tone either, so it quickly ended up in a corner unplayed, as I went back to my much cheaper trusty Aria Pro II Laser Electric Classic bass. Most expensive piece of absolute crap I ever bought!

Here is a guide I made a while back on how to get the most authentic fake guitar/8 string bass effect out of the 1 octave up of the TC Electronic Sub'N'Up pedal, making use of the Toneprint feature:

Also the foam that EMG pack their pickups with cut to appropriate size is absolutely perfect for use as pickup cavity foam.

Fingertips (Aren't You The Guy Who Hit Me In The Eye ) - They Might Be Giants

I just read the description, and for the audition you only have to chose 2 songs from the Grade 8 song book, one of which has to be specifically focused on technique (market with "TF"), but you are free to chose whichever 3rd song you wish, which can be a personal arranged cover or a piece you composed yourself.

I just did a Google search, and this are the first list that pops up: Weather Report - Palladium Paul Simon - You Can Call Me Al David Bowie - Ashes To Ashes Primus - Tommy The Cat Chaka Khan - Move Me No Mountain Stevie Wonder - Master Blaster (Jammin')

Uptown Girl - Billy Joel

Excuse me for my ignorance and not being of much help to OP, but what the hell does "Grade 7 Level Metal" mean, and how do you measure it? Also how many Grades are there? 360? With Grade 360 being the same as Grade 1, coming full circle? What is even a Grade 1 song, 2 chords only picking 1/4 root notes? Sounds silly to me.

Well that turned out a bit more negative than intended. Not out to ruin your fun, or to discredit OP, really. However I still don't think it makes sense, now please let me be of that opinion. Just as it is okay for you to have fun with this poll and for OP having had fun making this video and poll, even if it doesn't really make much sense to me, it is however also perfectly alright for me, even if you think it makes perfectly sense, to think it doesn't really make much sense, so please let me keep that opinion, you are not going to change it anyway. Thank you!

Then I chose Low or Coil, with the "music" represented in the OP being very long down on my list. Not something I plan including on my playlist. But even if it is completely pointless I can reveal that I marginally preferred how the P Bass sounded in this video, however I accidentally voted before reading OP properly and without watching the video linked to first, therefor choosing the Yamaha BB, which probably would actually had been my choice if I had played these basses my preferred way though my preferred gear. However as OP didn't allow people to change their vote on this poll my mistake is forever going to pull this already pointless poll in an even more pointless direction, making it even more inapplicable to actual reality.

No, but as I have pointed out several times, in this context, with the premise presented by OP, it doesn't really make sense at all. What is the point? Best compared to what exactly?

Yeah, well, I don't see the point. As said it makes as much sense to me as having posted a video of people respectively eating chocolate muffins and lamb chops and then asking me what I think tasted best based on that video.

Well, the comparison with the Ray4 is useless since he doesn't pluck it in the same spot as the others, so naturally it is going to sound completely different. All in all way too many variable for this comparison video being of any use whatsoever, not to speak of of the tons of compression by default being added to YouTube videos when uploaded. You might as well have compared chocolate muffins and lamb chops in a video and asked what tasted best.

How is the nut slots? Are they approximately as low as they ought to be, or are they cut too high? If the strings sit too high in the nut slots it will result in a higher overall action when strings are not fretted. Also a truss rod wrench essentially is the exact same as an appropriate sized allen key, just with a fancier shaft/handle. I know of no basses that actual comes with a truss rod wrench from factory, but usually does come with appropriate sized allen keys to adjust respectively the truss rod and the saddles.

True... That ancient digital Lexicon rack reverb is still praised and sought after to this day, and plenty of digital units with many times the original's processing power fails to do as good a job. A digital effect is only as good as the programmer, and even then it will still also depend on how well that programmer actually knows how to effectively make optimal use of whatever specific processor it got, that is how experienced the programmer is with the specific system used. And yes, plenty of genuinely amazing all free VST effect plugins for DAWs around too, my all time favorite delay and distortion for one are both all free VSTs.

And that bird, whatever the hell it is even doing there, suppose it is supposed to be a falcon of some kind, looks like it is seriously ill.

No way! Why would I have Leo's last name printed on the headstock of my bass?

What the hell is that bass supposed to be, looks like nothing I ever saw, and is smaller than a guitar. Definitely not a Fender. Horrible painter.

Shameless self promotion: It Must Be To Do With Orange - Electro Jar

I'll Be Your Johnny On The Spot - Ween

Unless you are doing very traditional generic songs with very generic instrumentation I can only imagine that AI mixing would be useless. I know for certain it would for the music I make. Take the time and learn how to do so yourself. Unless your songs are indeed very traditional and generic it will almost with certainty give a better result, even if you are mostly clueless about mixing, as long as you have ears and use them and are not afraid of experimenting.

If you plan to keep that neck attached to the body I would get a neckplate or some countersunk ferules for the screws, otherwise the neck won't be stable, as the screws otherwise will keep digging deeper into the body wood. But beside that, as well as definitely getting a new bridge, and then perhaps tidying it up cosmetically, I would personally be tempted to assemble the bass using the parts as they are.

The Joyo JF-37 Analog Chorus (not Vintage Chorus, that one is an Ibanez clone) is a Boss CE-2 clone as well.