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I forgot to mention the other potential failure mode, in case anything similar happens again - plugging the receiver into the bass and the transmitter into the amp tends also to produce silence.

The guitarist/singer in a former band got very sweary in his intersong patter. Not sure whether the drummer was intending to leave anyway, but he did, and the band broke up - story in the acrimonious band break-ups thread. In another former band, the singer (only a teenager) was very poor at stage patter so we wrote scripts for her. She didn't exactly deliver them fluently, but it was something. I saw another band of teenagers who also had a script. At one point, the singer said "Oh. Our guitarist has broken a string" at which point the guitarist put his still perfectly strung guitar on a stand and picked up his other guitar. Yet another former band had a Scottish guitarist/singer who would do intersong patter in an impenetrable mumble, from which the drummer and I had to try and work out what the next song was ("Hurble wurble wurble hoo hay, ha ha ha"), before the guitarist started and we joined in (no drummer count ins). At least the set list was mostly constant although songs occasionally got omitted.

How can you be very nearly a daughter?

They should try putting out a line of headless basses. It's worked for Ibanez and Cort, and Dingwall are jumping on the bandwagon.

Using Tuffcab?

3. Don't run the bearing over a void.

Triplets.

And yet there are people who don't like headless basses.

Only four strings and doesn't look great for playing seated. Headless and natural wood finish though, so that ticks two of my boxes.

What about the centre pickup? Are the controls for that on the upper bout?

Alternative - have a series of bars the width of the strings (plus a bit) running across between bridge and neck, each having two coils. One coil is for the signal, the other is connected to DC to turn the bar into an electromagnet. Power would be applied through a sliding switch - the wiper would connect a single bus bar to a series of segments, each powering a single coil. For added entertainment, there could be more than one slider - there would need to be a bit at the end of the slider's travel where it wouldn't connect power to any coil, so that either one or two pickups could be suggested. I suspect that to get an adequately powerful electromagnet, the voltage to be applied to the coil would be a bit on the high side, but I'm sure that could be catered for and the simple expedient of playing wearing rubber gloves would be a minor inconvenience when this is considered in the context of the next great advance in pickup technology.

If Leo got it right with the G&L, why did he persist with that stupid overweight and oversized 4 inline/4+1 headstock when better-designed basses are 2+2 or 3+2, or headless? It's reminiscent of Edward Turner when he was brought back to Triumph to design a 350cc twin to compete with the Japanese and persisted with the vertically split crankcases, so there was no centre main bearing and the crankshafts kept breaking. Admittedly not quite as disastrous, but definitely a poor idea.

Have you put this file up before? Went to download it and I already had a copy. Anyroadup, as it's got measurements in groats and cubits, I did a swift edit: Pickup Positions For Many Makes Of Bass - metric & imperial.xlsx

You've been watching Project Binky too then.

At least cut the plate down a bit, like on one of the Variax guitars:

That depends. It certainly takes the EQ part of the preamp out of circuit, but I can't see any point in the pickups being wired to the PCB (as they are) if it's not to put them through buffers. The pickups feed in to the bottom connector, then wires come from the bottom connector to the blend pot. They'd go straight to the blend pot if they were unbuffered.

I've got a Smoothhound, a Line 6 G50, a Harley Benton something, Lekato WS-50s and WS-70s and the M-Vave clone of the WS-70. Almost all my basses are active although none of them are ridiculously high output. Never had a problem with any of them distorting through any of the wirelesses.

And drying your shoes out.

Looking at things from the opposite angle, I was just thinking about whether my main band would want a dep in. The two guitarists, one of whom is also the singer, really both need to be there. As the drummer gets 95% of the gigs, he's not going to book one for when he's not there, and as well as providing myself, I provide and run the PA and it's far easier not to book gigs when I'm not available than for them to work out the logistics of collecting and storing the PA, setting it up, and making it work. OTOH, the number 2 band has singer/gob-iron player and guitarist, both of whom are necessary, but the rhythm section is deppable - I came in as a dep and became permanent, and also got depped a couple of weeks ago when there was a gig conflict (annoyingly, the gig for the main band was cancelled).

Shame they don't do two-packs of the 5-string 40s.

May 2022. You still hadn't calmed down by June 2022, then you managed to let it lie until the end of September 2022, then another cooling off period that lasted till the end of February 2024. And it was an 8x10, not a 4x10.

The HX Stomp allows three snapshots and the Stomp XL four - just set a different EQ (and different effect parameters, including switching them on or off) for each. The Stomp XL has four snapshots and if that's not enough, the Helix LT and full-fat both give 8 snapshots. There's also a send/return loop on the Stomps and two on the Helices, so you can plug effects in partway through the effects blocks if you want to.

Presumably they do because one of the links above points to a thread where one poster says that the Tributes are QCed in the USA, hence they'd presumably have to be imported unless there's some sort of special dispensation. The answer would be to export the QC jobs to Indonesia, then export direct from Indonesia, which would avoid US tariffs except for those to be sent to the US anyway.

I was so glad when I got rid of mine. Heavy as a small planet and didn't sound that great.

The DC bias must be coming in earlier on then and there's no DC blocking capacitor afterwards. As the active/passive switch takes the EQ part of the preamp completely out of the circuit, that would leave the buffer as the suspect section (the bottom connector with leads to the pickups and the balance pot).