With proper introductions over the course of a week or two, I've never had cats that were violent with each other, but they dont necessarily become best buddies. Four is still pretty young, and might still enjoy playing with a kitten.
I currently have 3 cats: ages 3, 8, and 13.
I have had...
Nice. I love my Supermoon. I love its tonality.
I have a solution for the volume issue. Just leave it on all the time.......just kidding, but in all seriousness that is how I use it. I use it with a fairly mild setting for full time ambiance.(Decay at 12 o'clock, and Sway at 11, Reverb at 9)
I prefer a flatter, wider frequency response for clean tones, so I usually dont use cab sims for truly clean guitar (and bass too) when in DAW/modeling.
I hate chrome hardware, so I swapped for black Gotoh tuners, and a black Hipshot bridge.
The factory hardware was totally serviceable though.
I found the stock pickups to be a little muddy, and swapped them for Dimarzio Illuminator bridge, and Ionizer neck. Much better.
Nice guitar overall.
If we are going to make pickup suggestions we need to know what you have now, so that we have perspective.
Also, 74 is huge for B or A. I use 62 for B, or 68 for A.
Maybe try to loosen/retighten the neck bolts. Could need a reset.
My old Ibanez radius makes all sorts of creaking noises when you adjust the truss rod.
In the simplest terms, I think if a compressor as an automated volume control. Like riding the channel fader on a mixing console. Exceeding the threshold brings the fader down an amount dictated by the ratio control.
Makeup or output level is like adjusting the master fader.
I have a stereo pedal board that is set up for true stereo distortion.
For conventional distortion, I run an MI Audio Super Crunch Box v2(hot rodded Jcm 800), and an MXR 5150 to two clean half stacks.
For hellish noise a run an HM2 and FZ2 in stereo. Not very articulate, or versatile, but god...