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Hasn't been spotted yet is the only reason I can think of.

If your plums are purple, it's probably time to get yourself to A&E...

Bit crowded, innit?

Heh, we call that "the box of death/doom"

Bollox - there'll be something living rent-free in your head... just buy it, you're gonna die some day. Morbid, perhaps, but that's the exact logic I used when I bought my Greco bass. Carpe diem and all that shizz.

Ultimately, I haven't indulged because they haven't made one yet which floats my boat, aesthetically. I'm talking about the entire bass working as a whole for me, it's not the fact that it's multiscale in and of itself that's putting me off. One day it might click. The D-Roc comes close TBF - if I was forced to choose a multiscale bass available today, it'd be that.

Made it to 31st Jan this time though! You're doing great!

I think it was supremely silly of me to sell a Gibson G-3 and a Guild B-402A. G-3s are silly money now, and B400 series basses are super rare, like only hundreds ever made type rare. Sold just out of a desire to try other stuff too. Silly. D'oh!

I like Decibel's takes on the G-3, he's not afraid to mess with the programme in subtle ways, like this 5 string, or a 21 fret neck, but they still somehow look "right". I must confess that I am toying with the idea of a custom made "G-3" for my 50th year of existence next year...

How long have you been here?

Correct. Just been through this rigmarole with a bass with chrome covers on the pickups - they would buzz every time I touch the covers. Had to ground the covers. No idea why one side of your pickup is OK, so belt and braces, do both sides. I would use shielding copper foil (or slug tape) to put a strip across the bottom of the pole pieces, then make sure that's grounded. That should make the buzz, buzz off

Might as well chance my arm while I'm here - anyone got a spare bed I could borrow for the night before?

Changed my mind... PSYCHE! Yes, I will be there, would be bloody rude of me not to seeing as it appears to have been organised around my calendar and availablity The gear (or the answer to the question "how much bass gear can you fit into a 2011 Mitsubishi Colt?")... G&L CLF L-1000 Yamaha BB1200 Sire D5 Sire Z7 Greco LGB-700 Reverend Triad Epiphone Les Paul (not so) Standard Epiphone Thunderbird '64 Squier Jaguar H (with Ibanez CAP double humbucker from ATK200/800 etc) Gear4Music rat bass (with Lace Aluma-P) AND, if it ever materialises... The results of my £150, all new, "giggable" bass challenge - the "ratlet" as I have christened it. Debating whether to take the Markbass combo, or the TC Electronic BH250 and the Markbass NY 121 cab, for some toneprint shenanigans if nothing else... ach, why not both?

That does actually happen! Actually, I thought of a better line - "the only requests I want to hear are "ONE MORE CHOON!""

Yup, crack on. Path of least resistance and all that. You don't need to worry about phase etc - the two parts of a P bass pickup are wired in series (as in sequentially) and it's a single pickup bass so there's no other pickup to fight with. So just install the pickup the way it wants to be installed, take the two wires and wire it to the volume pot as before (black > earth/ground, white > hot).

Requests? Aye, if we've got it, you can have it, we're not an effing jukebox!

An example of every long scale, 4 string, 3 pickup bass ever made.

Weird one last night with Nine Lives at the Balaclava in Fraserburgh. When we went in, the place was reasonably busy. Started off OK, but then it went through waves of being busy then dead, then busy again, like groups of people were coming in for a couple of drinks then bogging off, but repeatedly. Very strange! Also a drunk guy who was shouting very loud "encouragement" at us, including one time when he yelled out "YEAH, BABY!" which sounded like he was possessed by Austin Powers which nearly had me corpsing. At the end we were playing to one table of folks who came in super late, like 2 songs before the end. They were enthusiastic, so we played a couple of extra songs for them, and even had one of them up with us for a sing song (because you can have fun like that when it's quiet). On the plus side, we added three new songs to the setlist and they all went pretty well, both in the playing and in the audience reaction, so that's good. As for gear, it was the double, triple threat of the Reverend Triad followed by the Greco LGB-700 into the usual Markbass toan cubes. Sorry, shoe fetishists, no footwear pic, but it was a pair of slip on Vans in a red/white gingham pattern.

Well, this bloke clearly doesn't know what he's doing. His bass is the wrong way round and everything!

Exactly - who cares if a bassist uses a capo? If that group of theoretical people is greater than zero, then ask how many of those people's opinions matter? Are we at zero yet? If not, then ask yourself why these opinions matter to you.

You're asking this in this thread?

Just play it however you want.

Absolutely! You'll be prepared if the promised sonic nirvana doesn't materialise, but you don't have to use it...

Obviously it's 3 pickup Greco LP shaped basses, innit?