Baloney Balderdash

In all fairness, yes. However that doesn't change the fact that it is still crap. Also have a laugh at this AI (I very much hope at least) generated nonsense: https://www.fuelrocks.com/category/instruments/bass-guitar/

And it is all going to be generic clichés. At best.

No, I usually buy all black basses, though I do have one in sunburst finish, one of my least favorite finishes, but the only finish that particular model comes in, and my first ever bass, which I still own, is white, cause back then I couldn't care less about color or visual design. I would love a dark green, a blood red, and a deep metallic purple, bass though. I guess this with the visual mods I've done to it comes closest to rainbow colored (at least green and red, and some purple in the background as well): Edit!!!: Oh, wait forgot that I actually long ago decorated that white bass I mentioned with star stickers in red, blue and green metallic colors, a green tape stripe, and a red tone knob (and that it actually still looks like this): And then there is this one I made (with some help from an AI program that allows for mixing characteristics from one image with a second image, and then PhotoShop):

Looks pretty spectacular. What's the neck and fretboard wood? Wenge and Macassar Ebony?

And the EBS Valve Drive DI is powered with just 9V DC! Absolutely nothing to do with what kind of plate voltage the tubes in these units operate at, a lot of pedals, including this, ramps the voltage up or down internally depending on what the different components need to operate properly, as long as there is enough ampere to do so. Also preamp tubes works fine with so called starved plate voltage, they just work a little differently, not worse, when fed with less plate voltage than what they were originally designed to run optimally at (optimally here means distorting and coloring as little as possible, since that was pretty much unwanted artifacts in the original tube powered units these tubes were used in).

Girlfriend - Eric's Trip

Seems like I remembered wrong, since I've only used it with drive on permanently, to spice up my basic clean tone, as part of it. At least at the setting I use it, that is with a relatively low gain drive and mixed with clean signal at a 50/50 ratio, there isn't really any notable volume jump between drive being engaged and not. Actually if set right you have a variety of tones available, just using the 2 foot switches, without any notable volume jumps: - IR cab sim alone (or just straight dry DI signal) - IR cab sim (or just straight dry DI signal) with drive - amp emulation/EQ + IR cab sim (or eventual without IR cab sim) - amp emulation/EQ + drive + IR cab sim (or eventual without IR cab sim) All, with the right settings and IR cab sim, actually useable tones. You can even set it so your amp is fed with a signal without IR cab sim, but the XLR DI signal that the PA mixer is fed with the IR cab sim signal.

Who's Shirley?

You got some drug intake catching up to do if you are aspire to be like Keith Richard. And you play the wrong instrument... Also as someone else pointed out the way the Elixir strings are coated they prevent gunk from piling up in the gaps between the wounds, which is usually what kills strings, the D'Addario XTs won't.

One of my all time absolute favorite songs, so awesomely dark and heartwrenchingly beautiful (not the official video, but I actually really like that too):

Where Are You? - Coil

Remember to apologize to the repair man too.

And several time he feels the need to laugh out loud of his own sentences as well, even if what he is stating isn't funny at all. LOL

Well, you do get the fake logo plate for FREE with the buy! LOL And this is an EXTREMELY rare modded version with a bridge J pickup and STEREO output!

The Owl Service - Pram

Yes there is! And no, they are not! They are all unique designs, and they are as different as any other amps compared to each other. The miniscule size just kind of limits how creative you can be in terms of unique layouts, or for adding additional features beyond the bare necessity.

Yes, why even play at all? Who cares? We are all going to die anyway.

The Banishment - Jex Thoth

Yeah, narrow bandwidth (high Q) is great if used for cutting problem frequencies, but not very useful for general tone shaping purposes, where higher bandwidth (lower Q) will be much more useful. It seems like the Artec parametric EQ was designed with the former in mind.

Try one of the round corners of a Dunlop Nylon .73mm pick.

From the information on Artec's homepage however it says that the Q value (bandwidth) is only adjustable between 4 to 7, which would be a relatively narrow bandwidth. I know at least that for general tone shaping I would have found a Q value that could be adjusted between 0.5 to 4 much more useful.

Well, that would be pop and not slap. The way I "pluck" the strings is in a slight inwards slapping motion with the outmost tip of my index and middle finger/nail, more so really stoking, rather than striking the strings, so not really an aggressive actual slap, but does slightly emphasis the attack of the notes and gives some of that same metallic flavor and clarity of actual slap.