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Very cunningly concealed, they're completely invisible.

Gibsons are readily converted to headless though.

My preference is for neck-through basses, which is a bit limiting as it rules out FSOs and MMSOs (although I do have one of the former and two of the latter). That leaves me with hoping another Antoniotsai 5-string comes up, going for a Mazeti if one comes up, or looking at the Harley Benton BZ-5000 from Thomann or the Chicago 5-string through-neck from Gear4Music, neither of which I've played. Or maybe playing roulette and going for something from AliExpress. Or a second-hand Ibanez BTB (not the bolt-on ones).

For reference on the sound, Pete Trewavas has used the 4 string version with Marillion as well as his Warwick Thumb - for example

Not my cup of Earl Grey, especially as it's a P without enough strings, but it looks to have been very well done.

Every manufacturer must produce a fan-fret headless bass with at least five strings (a four string option is permitted), with the exception of Fender, who have been given a 50 year grace period to adjust and to find some other huge pointless piece of wood that they can put their logo on.

Just noticed that my old Cort GB5 Custom is now for sale, and relatively close to you.

With your preference for somewhat fatter necks, you could have a look for a second-hand Cort GB5 Custom (or the GB95 Custom, same bass, made in different countries). J/MM pickups rather than straight J, great build quality. I sold mine only because my preference is for the slimmer neck. They're not baseball bat sized, but just a bit fatter than I like.

There may well be no (noticeable) bugs but there's potentially more effects.

Lovely piece of work.

Or on video?

The jack end of the cable is easy enough, I've always hated soldering DIN plugs. Especially when you forget to put the body onto the cable before doing the soldering.

I wasn't talking about those posts, I was talking about the various posts (for example) in the NAMM thread about Sadowskys and how ridiculously overpriced the various custom shop and Metroline ones are by people who probably aren't interested in buying them in the first place. Like me.

The front end design of the Superfly (and Superduperfly) was great with the graphic MIDI-controlled EQ section, which could also work as a parametric EQ with a software editor. The power amp section not so good, with twin power amps that couldn't be bridged and some examples with twittery noise - not loud but annoying.

Ant - £329. After considering the Elf, Warwick Gnome, and TC BAM-200, I went with the BAM-200. If one of the others had had a speakon combo output, I'd have gone with that in preference.

They've missed a trick. Speaker output is still jack only, like all the micro amp heads, rather than a speakon/jack combo socket.

Does that mean that we're forbidden from commenting on basses if we have no intention of buying them?

On the hardware front, Barefaced has now been overtaken by LFSys as BC's favourite speaker maker following collaboration between @stevie, @Phil Starr, and @Chienmortbb on a DIY 112 which evolved into the LYSys series of cabs. Ninety zillion multieffects pedals varying between a single pedal size (even mini-pedal size) and aircraft carrier deck size have been released. Everybody loves at least one of them, and everybody has found something to moan about with at least one of them. Basses are still being made with scratchplates, unfortunately. Some things never change. The big tonewood debate still erupts occasionally. It's not entirely certain whether the fence that some are sitting on is made of tonewood.

People who complain about the colour of scratchplates without acknowledging that the real problem is the existence of scratchplates.

I have sacrificed myself for the sake of finding out about the M-Vave Blackbox. I don't think I can get away with claiming it as a Tier 2 as it can be used for both bass and guitar, and I'll be using it for bass (and possibly guitar too).

Seeing as the M-Vave Blackbox can currently be had for £35 off Aliexpress, it would be rude not to. https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005007539930625.html Note: there are three options - the Blackbox is £35.39, the other two which are called ANN Blackbox are £60. I don't know if there's any internal difference. Due to arrive by Feb 1st.

Why don't they give the weights in proper instead of groats and furlongs, or at least as well of them? I don't want to have to divide things by 2.2 to get a proper answer. Perhaps they don't want to sell outside primitive countries.

As the successor to the Tecamp Puma 900, the Eich T900 would get my vote.

All of my 5s are 34" scale length and they seem fine.

They went flying off the shelves when they first came out and not everyone will get on with 5 strings and/or headlesses. Or they may find the neck profile not entirely to their liking, or the sound.