tauzero

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/317051865718 5-string Shine bass (the title says). That'll be according to AI then.

I'm doing a repair which is also a downgrade, can I have that as a credit? The Eminence Deltalite in my homebuilt cab packed up last night (it only gets used for open mics). A replacement would be £140 or so (and I now have no confidence whatsoever in Eminence Made in USA rubbish), so I'm getting a BishopSound BSP10 for £40.

But at least that is a feasible repair. With a barrel jack, you'd either have to send in a trained ant with a little bit of wire wool or just replace it, preferably with a more expensive one which will almost last proportionately longer.

OK, they're either there to cover routing or to try to make it look like your bass was made on the cheap by pretending they're covering routing. They're still an affront to, well, everything.

They did an unlined fretless P a long time ago - I had one (ash or maple body, rosewood fingerboard) in the early 80s which would probably have been a 70s build. Bloody heavy too.

Have you tried just using the two 500mA outlets with a single current doubler?

Even better, cut the whole messy lot off and make sure there's no balance problems by making it headless.

Only if you need to go to Specsavers. The Warwick headstock is waisted, that's just a rather dull headstock with a squiggle on the end.

Just got back in from this week's episode of the Crown at Shard End. I was using (as I have been for a few weeks) my Tecamp Puma 900 with the home built cab powered by an Eminence Deltalite II, except that after 20 minutes to half an hour it ceased to be powered. I was also being sent through the PA, so my fabulous bass playing was still audible. I wasn't sure what had gone wrong, whether it was the power stage in the amp or the speaker, but when I got it home it became evident that the speaker was the culprit. I know I'm using a 900W amp with a 250W speaker, but it was barely ticking over. So much for "Made in USA" as a mark of quality, I'll stick to Chinese from now on. Anyroadup, a couple of people dropped out so there were slightly more songs per person than normally, and I finished up accompanying three of the acts. Some really impressive singing by the four women who sang (I shall draw a veil, mercifully, across the young girls who are always there and absolutely exemplify that clause often seen in adverts, "enthusiasm more important than ability", though a couple of them do show a little promise). Mrs Zero was unwell so I decided not to inflict my voice on the assembled masses.

There's no point to the wretched things. They're only there to cover over the front routing, and if the control cavity was rear routed instead, they could be done away with. They're just there to show that your expensive bass has been made as cheaply as possible. Harley Benton can manage rear routing of a bolt-on bass for £155, you'd think other makers could do as well for basses costing ten times as much.

Mine are very unsympathetic, they never correct my note choice.

Which definitely works (he says that it doesn't in the comments, let's see what he says to my reply on that).

I think it means that jazz music is nonsense for people who don't like nonsense.

That's a repair, and reasonably close to like for like. I'd give it a pass.