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That's a great examples of why it isn't always great with a too expansive bass.

It doesn't have to be expansive either.

I honestly wouldn't know, I guess I focused more on the first part of the name "Sticky", and just overall though it would be a rather absurd name for a restaurant, even with the rest of the letters being nothing but a meaningless random combination of lower case and capital letters. But just looked it up, and this is what Wikipedia says: "dBm or dBmW is a unit of level used to indicate that a power level is expressed in decibels with reference to one milliwatt." Still absurd, if not particularly funny.

Fixed... And I see we don't share the same sense of humor. I just thought I would find it curious if I actually encountered a restaurant with that name, especially a successful one, but apparently I am the only one who finds that thought amusing.

That's only half the truth... Scientifically speaking.

StickyDBRmf is a curious name for a restaurant...

Wouh, sentient tape! And a true testament to mind over matter...

Señor Coconut - El Baile Aleman (A Latin Tribute to Kraftwerk) :

Much of the same unfortunately apply to Denmark where I live, much unlike our Scandinavian brothers/sisters.

Also the majority voted a certain unfamous guy in Germany to power once. Hardly any valid measurement for quality or stuff being right. Popularity is a quantitative measurement and nothing else, in no way can it ever be a measurement for quality. And much in the line of the general hateful mindset of before mentioned fellow I could say little flattering stuff about the majority of people in general.

I actually really like bass as a solo instrument, just not this particular one. Uke bass is an abomination!

Impressive, but not a big fan of the tone of that bass. Completely void of any form of interesting character. Just absolutely neutral and tasteless, kind of like noodles without any spices or anything else whatsoever.

Scooping out the 800Hz frequency area is what the Tech 21 Bass Driver, or cheap Behringer BDI21 clone, does as well. I stroke my strings lightly too, rather than striking or pulling them, but I do so in sort of an inwards sort of slapping motion. Personally though I very much like my mids, and the articulation and snap that the 800Hz frequency area helps with enhancing. Not going to pay for having my tone, in my opinion, sound like a floppy dead dull wet noodle with no definition, articulation or edge.

You might not believe me, as this is predominantly all relatively budget gear, but: My Ibanez Mikro Bass, equipped with an EMG Geezer Butler P pickup wired directly to the output jack socket /-> ->/ My ampless setup: EHX Black Finger (tube driven optical compressor/tube preamp stage) -> NUX MLD Bass Preamp,using the Aguilar Tone Hammer amp emulation combined with the Ampeg SVT-212AV IR cab sim -> ART Tube MP Project Series (tube preamp and DI) /-> ->/ Effects Return (poweramp input) of my Peavey Solo Special 112 160W combo guitar amp, with its build in 12" speaker unit disconnected and instead hooked up to a FRFR PA speaker /-> ->/ The Box PA 502 (passive FRFR PA speaker with 1 x 15" bass/mids driver + 1 x 1.7" high frequency tweeter) If weight is no issue I simply can't recommend the quite budget The Box PA 502 enough for everyone looking for a passive FRFR cab (there's an active version as well, with a SS, not Class D, poweramp section, the The Box PA 502 A but have no personal experience with that), the only downside really is that it weights about a ton: https://www.thomann.de/gb/the_box_pa502_fullrangesystem.htm Truly amazing sounding, regardless of price, as said very clear and articulate, and with an impressive, but tight and punchy, low end response, and in it's price class simply unbelievably astonishing. Really punchy, clear and articulated.

As people before me has already said a tuner usually won't draw much current, so should last a very long time with just a battery. Just be aware that it will draw power from the battery as soon as a jack plug is plugged into the input jack socket of the tuner, regardless if it is engaged or not, so if choosing to power it with a battery remember to unplug it when not in use.

Wouh, that's bad, man, you would need a new bass, a new amp, a new wife, and quite possibly a new hip bone as well, to fix that!

I played bass in a hardcore and noise rock influenced math rock band where the not only the bass parts but also often the guitar parts would be rather complex rhythmically and go completely against the vocals parts. I'll never figure out how the vocalist who also happened to be the guitarist managed, but I got great respect for him being able to. To me it's kind of like as if having to solve a mathematical equation with one hand while simultaneously writing a poem with the other, no matter how well I know the bass and vocal parts individually. Seems absolutely impossible to me. To me it's a skill up there with people who are able to do tightrope walking while juggling lit torches.

It is indeed a really great strap, feels extremely comfortable, even with heavy basses, and it has a relatively good grip as well, making it great at dealing with neck diving basses. And while you can get cheaper straps, and that it is one of the more expensive ones Harley Benton offers, it's not really expensive, in fact rather cheap for what it is. Harley Benton is a budget brand after all. It is 29£/34 Euro. Only issue I really have with it is that the memory foam doesn't seem to be covered/draped with another layer of leather or even just cloth, which I got a suspicion potentially could cause the foam to deteriorate over time being exposed to sweat and eventually crumble away. I assume though, and it does seem like it, that the memory foam at least has been treated with a thin protective film/layer of some kind.

Pretty much where I got my strap adjusted to as well. To hang at about the same height as if I was playing sitting down without a strap. And this is the strap in question: The Harley Benton 85mm wide black suede strap with 6mm memory foam padding, and the length adjustable from 105 to 150 cm

If only it had allowed for parallel effect processing. That said it seems like a pretty amazing multi effect in an astonishing small, very pedal board friendly package, basically from what I can see about the size of 2 standard Boss pedals or so, relatively high quality, and a quite affordable price. Seems like this might very well be the most advanced mini multi effect on the market, and as said even for a quite reasonable price. I could totally see myself getting one of these to replace all my modulation effects, some additional reverb and delay, plus more. The link in the OP by the way doesn't work for me, this does though: https://www.hotoneaudio.com/products/multi-effects/Ampero Mini And here's a spec comparison with the other Ampero multi effects:

Well, I think that really depends on the music being played. At a Top 40 hits cover band gig, sure, at an avantgarde free jazz gig, probably not so much. Personally I don't make music for the average person. Your average person doesn't really care for music, certainly not music as an art form, they care about being entertained, and the medium really is secondary to them.

If you are playing for the sake of the people who couldn't care less if you do or not why then even bother playing?

Try re-stringing your bass with a gauge .100 - .080 - .060 - .045 set of strings (and of course re-set the neck relief, string action and intonation accordingly).

Could be the strings got too high tension and are too stiff to vibrate properly in standard tuning. Tuning them down would lower the tension and make the strings less stiff allowing for them to vibrate more freely, resulting in a more lively tone with more harmonic content, higher output and longer sustain. Try a set of strings of lower gauge and see if that helps.