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Looks like they sit over the holes in the bell plate of the Jazz, and two of the knobs poke through. imagine having a double ‘glory hole’ on your bass. Most distasteful to my way of thinking.

Also ‘bleurgh!’.

I *think* I can sort of see the rationale behind it - the bridge cover then becomes earthed to the wiring ground. can’t see any benefit to it though.

The OC10 is amazing, and really tiny too!!

I use mine in the ‘alphabet’ mode - assign a letter of the alphabet to each of the sounds you use, then use the middle button to cycle through them. Dead easy, and as has already been mentioned, takes up very little space on my (already full) board.

First off, don’t update the firmware. There is a hack whereby any bass or guitar effect can be moved to/from an ms60b/ms50g, but this was removed in later firmware updates. If you only plan to use it for one instrument (guitar or bass) then update away. I really like my ms60b for most things; the modulation and synth sounds are really good, the drives are less impressive.

That’s surely the most expensive way to buy a bass?

Been delving through Blur’s back catalogue lately, and not only loving AJ’s bass lines, but Graham Coxon’s unique approach to guitar ‘harmony’ 😄. He’s light years ahead of anything Noel did with oasis. His solo on Country House in particular puts me in mind if Ler’s playing in Primus, who I also admire.

Damn straight!

I put ‘my’ bass together out of eBay bits - 2 piece ash J body, maple J neck with fretless rosewood board. extra rout for a MM pickup and some extra (but still passive) electronics, and voilà. The phrase “from my cold, dead hands” springs to mind.

Because they were designed by Hugo Boss. True fact,

'Tallica were on the cusp of replacing Lars when Cliff Burton died. They thought it would be too much to recruit a new bassist and drummer at the same time, so he got a reprieve. Cliff's death was a double tragedy.

this. Some's bastards, some's aint.

'Carry'?!?! My plectrums come with wheels these days. 😢

The Memory (doesn't) Remains - Metallica. 😄

Mmmmm, vintage ribbon mics. 😍

Some British people are dim, statistically that’s a given, as are some Americans. My point was that implying that all Americans were dumb is prejudiced

Wow. 2022 is off to a flying start - two racially abusive threads already. Come on people, we're better than this.

look at the current draw of the Fender Downtown pedal too - it's not just about the voltage. If the Downtown tries to pull too much current from the phantom power then it can damage the mixer. The manual doesn't mention phantom power anywhere - it just labels the XLR as an output, and the specs in the back just mention 9vdc 400mA barrel adaptor, so I reckon you're good.

Buying kit doesn’t count if it’s for work surely? Where’s the fun in that?

Why does it have to be 3m? Why not run a mains extension (much more durable) and plug into that?

Is it… (looks around conspiratorially and adopts a more ‘sotto voce’ delivery) one of *his*…?