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atsampson

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  1. Bought a bass from Simon. Great communication, packed very well (with original box and receipt!) and shipped out the same day. Thanks very much!
  2. Bought a couple of CDs from Mick - they were with me in a couple of days, carefully packed and in as-new condition. Very happy. Thanks very much!
  3. You might have poly chain mode turned on? See section 4.9.3 in the manual.
  4. As someone who does ethics and data protection review for research projects as part of my day job, the interface design here is stunningly bad. In order to not consent to tracking, you have to individually click on dozens of tiny checkboxes - realistically, nobody is going to do that, so this is not meaningful consent. You need to ask a clear yes/no question, not attempt to force users into agreeing with what you want. (And, realistically, I think it's very unlikely that you can actually meet UK/EU data protection requirements if you are "sharing" data with that many "partners" - there is no way to do meaningful review.)
  5. That configuration reminds me of Mo Foster's Jazz and Precision. It does seem a bit of a shame to refret it if the neck's otherwise in good condition - there are plenty of fretted Precisions out there already...
  6. It's a long shot, but I would be tempted to have a careful look at the electrolytic capacitors at the right-hand end of the preamp board. If the amp is 18 years old, then (a) they're most likely past their intended service lifetime and (b) they were originally fitted just after a time when some manufacturers were using a dodgy electrolyte formula that caused early failure. If, say, you've got a filter capacitor across the HT or LT supply that starts acting as a short circuit once it's warmed up a bit, that might explain the fault you're seeing...
  7. Bought some IEMs from Chris. Very easy transaction - ordered on Friday evening and they arrived, carefully packaged and in as-new condition, first thing Monday morning! Thanks very much.
  8. That's an IEC C14 ("kettle lead") socket with a built-in fuse holder - you can pull the plastic bit below the socket out to replace the fuse. That's what the note on it and the specs printed below are referring to. It says the amp's fuse is 315 mA (0.315 A) so any IEC lead will be fine. As BigRedX says, the fuse in the plug is only there to protect the cable - they usually come with a 13 A fuse which is much more than the amp will draw, and more than the 10 A the IEC connector is rated at.
  9. For Basschat purposes, it's worth noting that DPA do the BC4099 double bass mount which clips onto the strings below the bridge. I use one of these on my DB and it works nicely.
  10. Bought an effects pedal from Richard. Great communications, and the package arrived within a couple of days, very carefully wrapped and in perfect condition. Thanks very much!
  11. The main out is a good option, but that mixer also has "tape out" and "tape in" connectors which are designed for this purpose - the tape out is the same as the main out, so it's not affected by soloing channels, etc., unlike the control room output, and the tape in lets you feed the output of the recorder back into the desk so you can play back the recordings. Another option is to use one of the stereo group outputs - this is useful if you want to exclude some channels from the recording (announcer's mic) or add extra ones that aren't in the PA mix (drum overheads), or if you need a gain control to avoid overloading the recorder's input.
  12. No, that looks like a duff string to me - all four usually match. Here's a well-worn set of mine:
  13. I've got a Skyinbow violin pickup in my Freshwater octave mandola - it has a small piezo sensor set into the bridge, with a tailpin jack that includes a little preamp running off a supercapacitor (you plug a battery into the jack briefly to charge it up and it lasts for a few days). This was a bit of an off-the-wall suggestion from my local guitar tech about ten years ago, but it's a very neat install and I've been really happy with the sound - it's much more like a microphone than a typical piezo pickup, and I've not had problems with feedback when playing live.
  14. You could ask Thomann's custom case department? They can make cases to spec, but they may well already have a design for the Sub Phatty. (They do sell a padded bag for it, but you might want something more substantial...)
  15. Would it be possible to use the offcuts from the pickguard to fill the "wedges"? I don't know if it's the right type of plastic to do an low-visibility join with solvent...
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