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Jack & Diane - John Mellancamp

Bought an old mandolin off Robert this morning. Lovely chap, and a nice straightforward transaction.

Making plans for Nigel - XTC

That sounds promising. Also some reviewers comment on the good sound, but do not define what process they were doing when they thought that. I think I may pull the trigger on one and run my own subjective tests. David

Yes, he's a Mobius grandparent.

Dog toffee.

New Years' Eve a total hoot, although unavoidably direly under-rehearsed. No-one minded! We'll do a bit better for the 10th despite not much extra rehearsal time even for that. Back on topic: the modified Little Yellow (KioGon P-bass loom meant for a Squier Sonic P, Musiclily rails humbucker) played the entire NYE gig except for the 20-minute post-midnight finale. That went to the Squier CV70s P. One painful lesson learnt: after all this time, don't do extended gigs using rounds when you've barely touched a bass for nearly seven years. It hurts. Back to flats for the 10th Jan, using the FrankenFender P that's been my main bass for lo, these many years.

Sometimes the strings can drag the bridge forward. It’s worth checking the angle, especially if it was fine before. What lower tension strings are you using?

If you have bass and treble controls on your amp, there are 99% chances that it's a Baxandall type, so you already have that mid scooped EQ implemented, because boosting the bass and treble controls will "reduce" the mids naturally. As said before any tone control on an hi-fi amp is kind of heresy and an hi-fi antinomy, so you certainly will not find any modern hi-fi amp with these controls implemented. Should you want that mid scooped EQ, any external EQ device in the tape loop or between pre and post in/out will work.

Hi, yes one at a time and all carefully done with tuning and tension etc.

Would've been funnier if you had criticised the bassist before you realised it was you @jazzyvee. 😂 Dave

I put one of these 4-ply guards on my LPB 40th Precision - fitted perfectly, despite what it says in the listing about not fitting Squiers. When I bought mine it was about €15 - not sure why it’s shot up to more than €60 when I looked just now, but other variants still seem to be cheaper. Link is for Amazon IE rather than UK, though it was delivered from the UK.

So im thinking i quite fancy a Z7 5 string (over the HB Jazz 5) but.....Just WTF is the string spacing on these basses ? Not a word or note in the spec on Sire's site or Thomman or Andertons etc etc for any spacing spec on any of there basses...Duh, Spacing will make or break a bass for me so anyone in the treasure trove of BC knowledge have Concreate Spacing measurements ? various sites on the interwebs say anything from 16mm on the Z3 5 string and 17.5mm on the Z7...i thought these were the same bass but in H & HS ???? Anyone?

It'll work out in the end. I eventually got my order after nearly 11 months and one company bankruptcy!

I had ordered one too (not entirely sure why, but thought it would be good as a drop D thing for a new group), but it was shown as out of stock, to be sent on the 2nd January, but now it has been delayed by 3 weeks. I am not actually that bothered, quite happy to wait if it does turn up!