The muffs will get the very general vibe of the Swollen Pickle but nothing really nails that tone IMO, especially in terms of how it reacts to palm muting or boosting a dirty amp. It's on my to-do list to set up the Stomp and Pickle side by side and give it another shot though.
I guess I can only speak for myself but none of those things have even remotely been an issue for me on any bass I've owned. Basses, in general, don't really have the same types of tuning issues that you sometimes get on guitar... for many reasons. The pitch warble (which a lot of people...
The Super Shredder series is the ubiquitous "hidden gem" in Schecter's lineup for metal. Particularly the exotic models with full wenge necks. I'd put them on par with anything from Jackson or LTD for thrash or death metal type stuff. I'd love to see a 7 string version of the shredder exotic.
You lose the tension between the 9th and 10th if you play it that way. Totally fine if you want a more relaxed voicing but, generally, playing the 9th and 10th on adjacent strings is the entire point of the voicing in OP. The minor version has even more tension since you end up with a minor...
The major second interval is the entire point of that voicing. It doesn't sound bad at all IMO.
As others have said it's really all about technique more than anything. Can you post a pic of how you're holding the guitar?
There's a small chance you just burnt up the protection diode, which would be fixable. Regardless, it's impossible to say without seeing inside.
There isn't anything on the market unequivocally better than the final generation of the DigiTech pitch shifting algorithm. The same algo, or...
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