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Took the Poseidon V out last night and remembered that I still haven't changed the strings from 45s to 40s. A night of technical hitches - my Variax acoustic wouldn't power up (battery holder, not the Line 6 original which I've mislaid, played up), someone else managed to turn the volume right down on his guitar while putting on a capo, some shenanigans around a guitar and pedalboard, and at the end of the evening, in our final jam (the customary Freebird outro) after I'd gone walkabout to the back of the room and was heading back, my sound cut out. Not wireless, not pedal, amp. The power lead had pulled out slightly. With that pushed back home, we finished the song. Featured band was a punk and post-punk band doing assorted covers, Green Day, Weezer, Beastie Boys to name a few.

The product description on that very page includes "Integrated Bluetooth allows effortless audio streaming and remote mix tweaks via the Alto Mix Control App." (third paragraph).

Some of the staff have come via Musical Exchanges and PMT. I was in there very recently - bought a second-hand GK MB150 combo which had the speaker cone disintegrate on first proper use, and they were very good about seeing if it could be repaired (the 12" driver is now unobtainable and substitutes don't work so well) and refunding me when it couldn't.

Another point is that every single image of a Blitz bass shows them with PJ pickups, not twin soapbars. And the Blitz doesn't have a scratchplate. However, the Hamer Explorer has twin soapbars and a white scratchplate with what I assume is a pickup selector switch.

Absolutely stunning.

Have you got the Schaller straplocks on your strap? If not, this won't work very well as a strap pin. Assuming you have, if the straplocks on the strap have a circular knurled knob holding them on, they're the new variety. If they have a hexagonal nut holding them on, they're the old variety. They are not fully compatible. The new variety of straplock will fil onto the old strap pin, but the old straplock won't fit onto the new strap pin. I'm pretty sure that https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/136795583018 are what you need except that they're chrome, not nickel.

I use Procell batteries which are Duracells, and take my life in my hands[1] by getting them off Ebay, and they last (literally) years. But my basses get far less use than @kiat's, on a busy open mic week with a gig and learning a song or two as well I'd probably be looking at six or eight hours, and that would be on whichever of three (or so) basses I picked up. And maybe that also explains a lot about the quality of my playing. [1] Hyperbole, OK?

It's very much a step by step process, and once you understand the purpose of each step, you don't need much other than guidelines and guide measurements. And apologies if that sounds patronising. Are you starting from an instrument with possible issues with fret heights, or is this a bass which just needs truss rod, bridge height, and intonation set up?

The trouble with doing anything electronic about the LEDs is that you're doing something electronic about the LEDs. If they're mounted flush to a board, you may have to wreak a certain amount of havoc to introduce a series resistance. And if the limiting resistor is SMD, that's even more of a nightmare. This is one case where addressing the symptom rather than the cause is the best (or at least simplest) course o0f action.

If it's just windings rubbing against each other rather than a full transition between open and short circuit, it won't show up. I had a couple of curly cables in the 70s. Put me off them for life (and cables put me off cables for life too, wireless all the way now).

I have a very similar pedalboard with a 15-pin D plug, and looking at the interior, it simply connects the switches to most of the pins via diodes. Unfortunately two of the pedals are broken, and although the very helpful makers sent me two spare pedals free of charge, I have to find a way of removing the spindle that they're mounted on. Anyroadup, if you're not scared of soldering, electronics, and programming, you could make a MIDI pedalboard from that (just using it for the switches), a multiplexor or array of diodes to reduce the 13 notes to a 4-bit binary number, and an Arduino.

Find a music shop with a decent selection of basses and try a few out. Don't just try the Precisions.

Either Tonelib or Zoom to get their arses into gear and produce Windows and Android editors for the more recent Zoom models - the MS-Plus range, the B2-4, and I think the B6 too.

That depends what day of the week it is. Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays are multiples of five, Tuesdays and Thursdays are multiples of four, and the weekend is prime numbers.

Oh yes, I'd forgotten Data's cat Spot.

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A bit of a necro thread... I was a BF user, had a BB2 and later a One10. I found the One10 started distorting at quite low levels, so stopped using it. I later fancied changing to a combo and bought a GR Bass AT800 Cube (1x12 combo) and sold the BB2, and later went back to separates and went for a GR Bass AT212 to go with my Tecamp Puma 900 (despite having built a BC 112 Mk3, which I also sold).

Might they also be the wrong taper, lin instead of log (or vice versa)?

The ongoing chart: https://www.hellorayo.co.uk/planet-rock/news/rock-news/the-500-greatest-rock-songs-of-all-time Up (or down) to number 368 as I type.

Ibanez or Cort to make a neck-through headless, 34" scale, variants with 4, 5, and 6 strings, parallel frets, switchable active, HH, Ibanez SR series neck profile, fretless also available. Natural wood and solid colours. Roland to open-source project LYDIA: https://articles.roland.com/introducing-project-lydia/ PiPedal inna box. Raspberry Pi, the guts of a decent USB audio interface, a display (possibly touch-screen), some buttons, and some knobs.

If you happen to like science fiction and fantasy, there's a few cats in SF. Heinlein comes to mind, and after checking, there's Pixel, Pirate, Petronius the Arbiter (aka Pete), Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Miss Polka Dot Ma’am (aka Miss Pokie), Dr.-Livingston-I-Presume, El Diablo, Mama Cat, and Mister Underfoot (some of these are excluded due to gender issues). There's Mr Jones in Alien. And there's also Greebo in various Terry Pratchett books. If he's scrabbling at furniture, how about Scrabble? And for the sake of your curtains and furniture, get a scratching post. Ours have a couple of these https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/354335902612?var=623735626888 and there's very little scratching at furniture and gig bags.

Priorities, for heaven's sake.

F10 headless looks ugly as a singlecut, couldn't they have done a doublecut as well (and preferably 34" scale)? And the M6 is only available as multiscale. Not for me.

I don't think it would be loud enough. I have one, it's a great little thing for playing at home, but not really loud enough to make much impression. What will you be competing against? Melodeon, fiddle, guitar?