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The few times I've found it necessary to shim a neck, I've used an appropriate sized piece of wood veneer (0.6mm). I went through a phase of applying wood veneer to headstocks. CBA now, like

I came into this half expecting a full on rant about some recalcitrant piece of tech which is supposed to make life easier and does everything but. Nice to see that the thread subject is not sarcasm

Sad sauce - missed out on a sibling for my BB1200. You snooze, you lose!

I wonder where the red one went...

You have to actually go look at the status fully to access it - click on the comment count in the summary on the main page to get there.

As a former owner of this amp's predecessor (Tecamp Puma 900) I can confirm that the Taste knob is wonderful witchcraft.

Lovely. These basses were the reason I modded my Epi Les Paul to black n gold - I'd have bought one of these if I didn't already have a G&L Tribute LB-100 taking care of the Precision side of things. So instead I made my own black and gold bass.

That's not going to stop them forgetting though, is it?

You're a good looking, cantankarous old so-and-so. You give me hope for the future.

I own up to a dozen basses at a time - it's not the friend of my wallet!

There doesn't seem to be a thread for this particular combo, so let's see 'em. Either black bodies with gold hardware etc, or gold bodies with black hardware etc. Wait, that's not my bass! Except I couldn't leave it alone, now it has full gold pickup covers and a brass nut. Short of replacing the frets with gold ones, and using gold coloured strings, I think I'm done. Over to you...

I leave myself passive/aggressive notes on the setlist - MATT TUNE TO D, MATT TUNE TO E FFS! etc

It was actually Friday night, but close enough. Played with Nine Lives at the Butchers Arms in Inverurie. An odd night - crowd waxed and waned, busy moments, quiet moments. Thankfully it was busy towards the business end of the show (why do people turn up with 5 songs to go at 12.30 and then get all "awww" when you announce it's the last song at like five to one? Why is it a surprise to you that we'd be finishing at 1am when we started at 10pm?) Anyhoo, this gig was significant for my first pub wireless gig and yes, after using it for sensible, constructive reasons (getting out front for the sound check) I got up to no good. When I wasn't wandering across to the guitarist for a bit of a duel during solos, I was off into the crowd. Learned the hazards of this - this guy insisted on putting his arm around my shoulder and in doing so, he knocked my A tuner (how's that for aim? Not the G, not the E, the friggin' A) and the song started sounding fruity. Well luckily he'd somehow managed to knock it about a semitone out so once I figured it out, I had to move everything up a fret on the A string. Thankfully it was "Highway to Hell", so not a taxing song to recalculate on the fly. Anyhoo, it was a lot of fun and things are coming together nicely with the new singer. Gear - G&L Tribute LB-100 then Yamaha BB1200 into Markbass Mini CMD121P IV and New York 121

I use my spare Pi 3 as a wireless repeater, our Roku streaming stick hates our router for some obscure reason even though it's in the same room so had to find a workaround. Got a Pi 4 lying around, wonder what task I can put it to. I will probably just redo my RetroPie installation and really curate that collection of SNES roms

You haven't upset me in the slightest. Don't try harder either, I'd much rather everyone got along. And GuitarGuitar are far from the best, they're off my Christmas card list for stopping stocking G&L for a kickoff. They're only the "best" place I can go that's within a 5-6 hour round trip. Everyone's got their perspectives on things.

Do you understand why I initially wrote "Do you work for Bass Direct?" and why 5 folk responded with Haha? It's because you came across like a shill. You've barely posted here, and here you are, lauding a particular vendor and slagging off competitors in the same breath. The paucity of details is the problem - you presented the "fact" that you get a "shite" deal from PMT or GuitarGuitar as a bald fact that happens universally. Your post was poorly written and ambiguous, it is only now with the addition of a modicum of detail that it becomes clear to me that you are specifically referring to PXing gear. That, I have zero experience with (I always sell privately) and will happily bow to your superior knowledge on the subject. Thank you for educating me about what "free speech" is, I had no idea!

Tone deaf nonsense being spouted by a leech who produces nothing and takes almost everything.

I don't think that gives you a valid basis to denigrate other vendors though, does it?

Whoops, short notice, but Nine Lives are playing at the Butcher's Arms in Inverurie tonight. On the off-chance that someone A) is anywhere near Inverurie, B) sees this, C) is at a loose end and D) actually wants to see me muller some classic rock!

Do you work for Bass Direct?

Sad face EQ FTW.