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Bollox - you just made that up!

76.3% of statistics are made up on the spot...

I get that - I rarely play at home unless I'm learning stuff. Best of luck going forward.

When I modded a Bronco, I put a cheapo generic lipstick Strat pickup in it - a bridge one so it was a bit beefier in the DC resistance department. Probably scored it off eBay. Sounded good to me. Definitely heard of people using Hot (and Cool) Rails in Broncos. I don't think you can go wrong with either. Can't remember if I changed the pots, sorry, it was many years ago. The stock bridge is intonatable with patience, but not the best. Trouble is there is no direct swap that I know of. The bridge off the Squier Vista Series Musicmaster is close, but it is string through the body - I used this bridge to upgrade my Bronco but I had to drill my own holes in the back of the bridge for the strings to thread through top loaded.

I think it's a Trump parody...

Not even the original artists play their lines live note-for-note perfect vis-a-vis the recordings, so what's is there to worry about? We're musicians, not a bloody jukebox!

Heh, my first thoughts when reading the title of the thread were "... by the police?" Sorry, I'm a terrible man. Congrats on the interview

Every day's a school day

We Shot J.R.

If it's the adaptor in the picture above then what are you cutting off? It looks like a single moulded unit to me - PSU and plug in one.

LOL, what makes you think I'm at home, and why is that a put down anyway? Forum mod when you were 17. Impressive. Do you have anything else - a relevant degree, other professional qualifications, 20+ years industry experience?

If it says AC/AC, I'd go with that. There is no centre negative, it's AC, that's why there's an absence of the symbol. Please don't plug this into anything that expects DC.

I work in IT and I'm telling you it's not that easy. But go ahead and trivialise it some more just because you've got a bee in your bonnet. In fact, if it's so bloody easy, then you do it. Go ahead and solve scamming by blocking IPs. I'll wait, I'm on my lunchbreak. Have it done by 2pm yeah? Cheers.

No, it's a practicality from an IT angle. Not only is that just a game of whack-a-mole, because many Internet connections are on dynamic IPs, how do you know you got them anyway, or end up banning some completely innocent person?

Yas, Moffat crew - reassembling...

Can't say my local music shops do much for me these days. I try to throw them a bone when I need some strings or other wee doodad but I live in a small city and the selection just isn't there. Thankfully my preferred strings are D'addario XL nickel rounds and they're pretty much universally available. The local branch of Kenny's tries to be everything to everyone in a relatively small space and economics dictates that bass gets squeezed into a little corner dwarfed by the selection of skinny stringers, electric and acoustic. I wouldn't be surprised if that's a phenomonon repeated in every small city. The other place is more of a second hand instrument type place, with a similar ratio of guitars:bass, but I have used them on occasion for repairs (when I made a ballsup of rewiring my LP and I couldn't face starting again) and again the odd set of strings or a gigbag. It's just the way it is, and the way it has been for some time. They follow the money, and I wouldn't be surprised to learn we're outnumbered by guitarists ten to one.

It would be a little unfair if this conversation here came to taint Thomann with the same brush, when they're patently not at the game that you're highlighting. I'd have started a new thread, personally.

That seems a bit dodge. Mind you, why are you resurrecting a dead thread about Thomann to have a moan about DV247? At least Thomann never claim their stuff is coming from anywhere other than Germany and take care of the duty for you (as in pre-calculate it and show you the inclusive price).

2 months to go!

Speed knobs ftw

You jammy b'stard

We typically do 3 hours with one break, reckon I could handle 4 hours with 3 breaks, especially with such an early finish (instead of finishing at anything between midnight and 1am). If I was worries about fatigue, I'd take my Jack Casady, it's probably the lightest bass I own.

Magnet material/strength? Closeness to the strings - closer == louder/hotter? Type/material of strings can have an effect?

Bummed out about this - I remember giving OHM a playful dig in the ribs a couple of years ago regarding the rate of his hoovering up of G&Ls. Sad news, he'll be greatly missed around here.

Eh, variety is the spice of life, especially when like me you don't really give a toss about all the nuance and flexibility, consider that all basses sound "bassy" (apart from Jazz basses *spit*) and just buy basses that look and feel nice...