Oh so you’re a relative newbie. Welcome and have fun. Just remember one thing when it comes to gear. Fuck reputation and what people *say* about gear. Listen to your ears. Just because Joe Blow in band X uses Y doesn’t necessarily mean shit. I worked in a recording studio many years ago. Went to school for audio and shit. Still dabble from time to time. Just because a microphone costs $8k doesn’t make it better than a $100 mic in all or necessarily even any particular set of circumstances. Same with all other gear. And combinations of gear matters. Those pickups might be great on a particular bass and then sound like dogshit on another. Same with combinations of mics with preamps, EQs, compressors. Same with guitar and bass amps, guitars and basses, pickups. Even the fucking pick that the guitar player is using matters to at least some extent. Took me literal years to understand/accept that concept. I used to fight it, in fact. I’d be recording someone’s vocal using some top tier Neumann. And every once in a while, you swap it out with something “lower tier” just to see. And I’ll be damned, but sometimes the “lower tier” mic sounded better with that person’s particular voice. But see, the confirmation bias would kick in and I’d think “no, that can’t be”, even though “it be”, haha. Same thing happened with my EMG’s. I thought “but Zakk Wylde uses them so no, it can’t be.” But on *my* guitar, for whatever reason, *it be*. The Seymour’s were just better on my setup. Like, it wasn’t even a contest. I had to get over the “high” of a much anticipated new purchase and listen to my ears. Bottom line: use your ears and fuck literally everything else.