Baloney Balderdash

I don't think it exactly is any well kept secret among people who actually knows anything about playing music that these types lists are pure bull crap, and that a more accurately descriptive name for them would be "Most popular [X instrumentalists]". I still think these types of lists still got entertainment value though.

Can't speak for the Tonestyler or preamp swap, as I have no personal experience with it, but my personal experience with swapping pickups doesn't match yours. Swapping pickups in my experience potentially can make a quite substantial difference, of course depending on the specific bass and not least the specific pickups in question, and might potentially take a bass from decent to amazing sounding. But of course as we all have different ears/hearing and personal taste/preferences one persons substantial difference might be another persons neglectable difference. However as always have been suggested, I would probably suggest an off board external preamp instead too.

Going to lower gauge strings shouldn't require a new nut cut, might, but most likely not necessary (speaking from experience). Other than that obviously new lower gauge strings fit for the tuning, re-setting intonation, and if there is any tension difference from the current set of strings most likely re-setting the neck relief (truss rod adjustment) as well.

Damn, sorry, I confused you with "itu", cause you replied to my reply to them.

It was you who started debating and arguing whether effects are needed or not, starting this "derail" as you chose to call it.

I would be impressed if you by only using your fingers could make your bass sound like fuzz, a phaser, envelope filter or synth e.t.c. Sometimes the effects are crucial for what is played, being more a case of actually playing the effects, as if they were instruments in their own regards, rather than merely adding a flavor or spicing up your bass tone.

The Berhinger VD400 Vintage Delay, all analog clone of the Boss DM-3, which I actually think sounds better than the otherwise more revered Boss DM-2, is about as cheap as it gets, but sounds no short of amazing. The NUX Tape Core Deluxe offers more options and longer delay, heck even features a loop mode, even without necessarily having to delve into the otherwise relatively simple software editor (if you do so though it is possible to add a beautiful emulated spring reverb too though, just like the original unit it emulates), and is a not short of amazing digital emulation of the legendary Boss RE-201 Space Echo tape delay.

But planning on eventually adding an EHX Attack Decay and the relatively recently released EHX Pico Deep Freeze (smaller version of the regular Freeze, but with more controllable parameters), as well as a TC Electronic Ditto X4 Looper, at some point, and ponder on possibly using my second TC Electronic Sub'N'Up Mini pedal, loaded with an organ Toneprint.

YOU are umami, my friend! On a more serious note though, this distortion pedal, judging from your demo as least, is not my taste. To be perfectly honest to me the distortion sounded like an undefined thin fizzy layer of absolute chaos going on underneath a clean tone. Not what I would call a massive drive tone. But then again I don't think we share the same idea of what makes a great bass tone, so might not entirely be the pedal's fault alone. As is I'll stick to my cheap Mosky Black Rat in Turbo mode, mixed with parallel clean (or very lightly overdriven) signal at about equal measures via my Boss LS-2.

I might add that I used to play the brighter and more melodic "lead" bass in a hardcore and noise rock influenced math rock band, named "Menfolk", which featured 2 bass players in the lineup, the other bass player predominantly serving a somewhat more traditional supportive role, and beside that also consisting of a guitarist/vocalist (it's a mystery, bordering to pure magic, how he could "sing"/scream the lyrics while at the same time executing the rhythmically rather complex guitar parts, despite the vocals rarely exactly following those), and an absolute monster drummer, who was kind of the unofficial band leader (and our recording technician and producer). What I wanted to say with that is just that odd time signatures/meters, and even changing meters within the same song, become kind of second nature to me, and a lot of the stuff I write on bass, well actually a lot of the stuff i compose in general, to this day is in odd meters. However I still have issues with identifying exactly what the different time signatures/meters are, but, as said, playing them is kind of second nature and not at all odd to me, so I naturally incorporate them in my compositions, and have no issues replicating or playing over them either when thrown at me in a jam/band context.

This is a really great video for this:

So it was how he used the pedals and not the fact that he used pedals that did it...

Here you go:

Don't you think the issue was that lead all along and not the fact that he had 8 pedals, and don't you think he knew perfectly well?

Danish vocals/bass/drums all girls trio, which unfortunately broke up :

Miracle - Nelson Can

The first I suppose...

Cody Wright was/is deeply inspired and influenced by Bobby Vega's pick playing. Not sure who this Booby Vega you mention is though, some common bass playing family member of Dolly Parton and Suzanne Vega?

Alternatively: For amp and cab emulation/simulation + DI = NUX Melvin Lee Davis Bass Preamp + DI Boss LS-2 for mixing a Zoom B1on and a Zoom G1on in parallel with each other or one of them with clean signal and bypass on/off switching.

HoTone MP-80 Ampero One - 219£ (digital multi effect with IR loader and up to 9 effects simultaneously) Electro Harmonix Nano Overlord Overdrive - 79£ (extremely versatile OD/Dist, with clean blend)

It's not a novelty bass at all judging from the demos/reviews I have watched and read. What makes you think that?

Stop innovation now! It's an order! Straying from hunter-gatherer culture was a mistake, and it all went horrible wrong from that point on in history! Throw out your basses and go back to banging on logs with blanched bones and whistling in the dark at once!

I fully agree with this! Bobby Vega is THE absolute master of bass pick playing. If any ignorant ever claims using a pick for playing bass is exclusively for amateurs or failed guitarists (Hello? Ever heard of utterly useless hacks such as Carol Kaye, Paul McCartney and Chris Squire?), just link them a couple of videos of Bobby Vega playing bass with a pick, and watch their jaw drop and faces turn red as they come to a realization of just how deep their ignorance run.

I can't seem to find the headless bass there, tried to put both the brand and model name/number in the search bar to no avail. The other models mentioned in this thread does show on a search of the brand, but not that headless one in the OP.