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I can't dance to anything.

Not quite last night - Tuesday was the Kingfisher in Castle Bromwich, started by running through a few songs with mine host while the attendees trickled in, then the other bassist (Simon) and I partnered with various people, including me on bass for Simon while he guitared. I made a right cockup of a couple of songs with Annette, who I regularly accompany here and at the Shirley Legion. Mrs Zero and I did three songs from films - Ring of Bright Water, The Hanging Tree from the Hunger Games tri/quadrology, and I'm a Believer from Shrek. Wednesday was the Shirley British Legion again, no Blind George for a change, and there were three bassists. To be more accurate, there were two guitarists who know which end of a bass to blow down and one bassist. Did a song with Annette which we had intended to do the previous night but she'd decided not to at the last moment, Bad Dreams by Teddy Swims, plus Back to Black, and got them both right. Seeing as Mrs Zero and I had given Ring of Bright Water and The Hanging Tree a run-out the previous night, it seemed only right to do them again.

PS. The bridge pickup is 2cm closer to the bridge than a Ray5 pickup is to its bridge, so it's not a perfect emulation of a Ray plus a Jazz. There's quite a variety of sounds to be had from it though.

One singer and one guitarist.

I know I said I'd never buy another Fender or Squier. A man can change his mind, can't he? Saw this 5-string Jazz defret with a humbucker pickup in the bridge position and went and had a look at it. Very nice neck (unlike my Standard Precision Special V from almost 20 years ago), great defret job, and a switchable humbucker - series, parallel, and single coil (I assume). Humbucker installation wasn't perfect but the slight waywardness of the rout is imperceptible from any distance. There's a couple of minor dings to the lacquer but nothing much. The owner was suffering from arthritis and had to sell the bass not long after buying it. It came reasonably set up, I lowered the strings a bit more and put straplocks on and so far that's it. The humbucker isn't ideal as it's for a Ray5 or similar with the narrower string spacing but I don't feel any great urgency to replace it. Photos from original listing. Control plate with 3-way toggle switch You can see the serrations from the fret tangs here, but there's no tear-out and the unfretboard is lovely and smooth Pickup rout for the humbucker isn't perfect but it's not bad. I think I could do with replacing the pickup screws as some of the heads are a little chewed up.

I was just about to post the same thing. There's an update to the firmware available at https://www.boss.info/us/support/by_product/katana-go/updates_drivers/12b0d6f6-b2c4-41d3-8f65-b1247ce1eb4b/ which I presume means that the Mk 1 and Mk 2 are software compatible. Just did the update, all went well, and I didn't have to re-do the pairing for the audio side - on the MIDI side, the app happily scanned for and picked up the MIDI channel on the Go. Externally, the only change seems to be that instead of having a big knob for volume, there's a side mounted control which I would have thought would be more fiddly.

Keep a look out for used Seis in the marketplace too - the Bass Gallery has them but they sell them at rather higher prices than you'll see here.

Photo 2 shows the whole instrument including the HB style headstock although you don't get to see the rear of the headstock.

It's a Variax, that's how it works. Models various bass sounds.

It's also where I bought my longest-standing guitar, an Eko Ranger 6, in the early 1980s.

The Sei fretless or the Antoniotsai. Partly because they're the closest to hand.

It started as Express Music when Pete who worked in the music shop off Mell Square took it on. The current owner, Sam, is a rather good player of the Novax Charlie Hunter guitar, and is tuiting someone I accompany in the open mic evenings over the road in the British Legion.

It's been happily sitting in the corner not generating random notes for about an hour and a half so I'll call it cured. The lack of resizing is a bit of a pain but not insuperable. Is there any chance that the keyboard along the bottom will be changed to better look like a piano keyboard at some future date?

And I should add, Eric has answered my ticket, there has been a software and firmware update, and it seems to be behaving - I'm leaving it running for a couple of hours and if there's no random notes in that time, I'll pronounce it cured.

PS. If it's any comfort, everyone on Basschat will be pointing at me and laughing.

Yes, sorry about being intemperate but the lack of resizing was a serious frustration. And as far as that lack of resizing goes, I had problems installing a previous version of the editor because it didn't like being inside another folder within Program Files, and also raised the issue of resizing. In an email dated 2023/07/27, part of Tom Ferguson's response (after providing the solution) was "The window resize and screen resolution issues is a known bug that we've addressed in the Mac version of the Editor, and we will be porting that over to the Windows Editor in an update that is scheduled to come out next month." So should I have expected the resizing to be present in a release 18 months after that response? Also, I'm not sure if there is an issue with the latest firmware. Since updating, I keep getting random keypresses (nothing touching the keys, a note just comes on randomly). Happens every few minutes. Didn't happen before the firmware update. I have submitted a ticket.

There's good descriptions on almost everything on the website - I'm just hoping that the description for the Conklin 7-string is a placeholder. As a sample, "An amplified electronic sound emanates from this Conklin bass guitar, caused by the Bartolini active pickups with volume." https://bassbros.co.uk/product/conklin-groove-tools-gt7-bill-dickens-7-string/ Not that I'm in the market for anything more than 5 strings - I already don't use my 6-strings.

If it can all be taken off with a sponge, soap, and water, how would it hold up with being sweated over at a gig?

Even stranger, he's ended the "6-string bass guitar" listing due to an error in the listing and relisted it with exactly the same wording (or at least it looks like it, I haven't done a word by word comparison). Old: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/405531257322 New: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/405531884808 Tineye didn't come up with any matches on a reverse image search, nor did a quick manual search for "warwick thumb 6" images (that rug is distinctive).

All of mine have Schallers on.

There's also a guitar shop.

Also on as a "6 string bass guitar" with the Warwick name confined to the description. It's the same bass, unless the flaming in the maple is photowotsit. https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/405531257322 Pics are better and it/they are collection only. Seems odd but not necessarily a scam. Almost zero feedback but everyone has to start somewhere.

I've just remembered with the tales of people pulling out with not a lot of notice - I was in a trio which expanded to a 4-piece with a slide guitarist coming in. We were doing two gigs a week apart, and one rehearsal in between. So we did the first gig, then went to rehearse, and the BL mentioned a couple of minor things to the drummer, not by any means in an offensive of hurtful way. The drummer took umbrage at this and simply packed up and disappeared, leaving us a little bemused. As it happened, the slide guitarist could also play drums so he took over for the gig (impressively, he had no drum rehearsal for it but acquitted himself well) and subsequent gigs too, plus some of the recording of the CD that was partway through being done.

Since taking that, have you cut the string ends off or poked them down inside the tuners?

Thanks, that was the solution (scaled to 150%). Completely overlooked that.