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My actual needs dictate two basses, a fretted and fretless 5. But I have to keep my two 4-string Thumbs (fretted and fretless) for sentimental reasons, and the Antoniotsais because they're so unusual, and a couple of six-string basses (fretted and fretless) as my luxury items, and a 10-string for the odd occasions when I might need that sound, and a couple of showy ones for stage use. Oh, and acoustic fretted and fretless, and solid body and hollow body uke basses, and an EUB. And of course despite the fact that headstocks are the work of Stan*, there is a wider range of headed basses than headless ones, so where I can I have headless equivalents as well. * Stan Fender, the idiot son of Leo, who decided that a heavy lump of wood on the end of the neck would be ideal to put the word "Fender" on and designed it so badly that it needed a bodge to give the strings a decent break angle.

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A motorcycle crash in 2001 left me with broken ribs and a punctured lung. The lung and the ribs healed, but there was a fair amount of soft tissue damage as well, and standing for the full 45 minutes of a set left me feeling as if I'd had a hit dagger stuck in my back. I found that playing seated helped enormously. I think it's got better now but I can't be sure as lower back issues mean I've had to keep on playing seated. More recently, in February I suddenly experienced considerably reduced movement in my left shoulder - diagnosed as bursitis and I was told I'd be referred to orthopaedics but for some reason I wasn't. I could get down to the fourth or fifth fret, just about, aided by playing a headless and not a Warwick Thumb, and as I'm a five-string player and the band were still at the rehearsal stage at the time it didn't have too deleterious an effect. I have finally been referred and have had an X-ray and ultrasound - I've got a lot more movement in the shoulder but it's still not 100%, but it's recovered enough that I don't get any discomfort from playing.

The great thing about the Dymo 160 is that it uses a 9V centre negative power supply with a 5.5/2.1mm connector, ie an effects pedal power supply.

Or just a box with a flying lead to TRS so as to reduce the number of contacts the signal goes through.

Motorcycles. Bat out of Hell, Leader of the pack, Motorbikin', Bad motor scooter, Midnight rider, Wanted dead or alive, Ride the wind, Born free, Ballad of the Easy Rider, 1952 Vincent Black Lightning, to name but a few.

Looking at it, there doesn't seem to be room, plus the TRS socket might be PCB mounted. If you wanted to rebox it, you should be able to do it.

My younger brother started playing classical guitar and I kept borrowing it, and eventually got an electric guitar of my own. I played in a big band at school (IIRC we just did the one gig). At uni, there were other musicians in the hall of residence I was in and we joined together. There was no bassist and I was the worst guitarist, so I decided to be the bassist. Playing basslines on the guitar wasn't really going to cut it - however, I was in London and the Fender Soundhouse had just had a fire, and Hayman had gone bust, and there was a load of Hayman parts being sold off cheap, so I assembled a Hayman 40/40. The band did a couple of gigs in the hall of residence; we got paid £100 for the main one at a time when beer was 20p a pint. What would 500 pints cost now? Then I dropped out and it was a while before I started playing again, after I moved to Tamworth.

Open mic night. I learnt (as my friend, a singer/guitarist announced it) that an old friend who had run the first open mic I dragged Mrs Zero to had died. He'd told me the song and the chords beforehand but I didn't know the reason until he said it on stage - cue a short interval of me saying "what?" and him saying "yes, John Benbow passed away on Sunday". Anyroadup, John had hosted this open mic night that had started Mrs Zero on her singing career (if that's the right term) and I had finished up as the bassist for the house band. So we played "You ain't going nowhere" as a tribute to him, as that was one of the songs that he played regularly.

It's got matching knobs now.

The decimal point for the long scale 5 is (at least) one place over from where I'd need it. Plus there would be VAT too. Ouch.

The Jack (and B2/B2A for that matter) is a good bass - the 4-string version has a good neck, the 5-string version neck is a little on the chunky side. I had a 5-string Steinberger Spirit XZ-25 ages ago, I think that was a good bass, an XZ-2 would be worth looking at.

I've had a B2, a B2V, and now have a B2AV. The active circuit in the B2AV had some fault (can't remember what now, it's a long time ago) and I swapped it out, but the original has an active/passive switch which would answer your issue with batteries while giving the extra flexibility of an active bass.

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It's the main reason that people who have bought a 5-string and not found the main reason for having a 5-string have for selling it.

I don't use the notes below bottom E so I'm letting this 5-string go.

Yes, I've gone 5GHz for as much as possible. If the power to the AC750 is inadequate, it just endlessly goes through the bootup sequence without getting to a stable state. I'm going to give it another test at home, it may have been a one-off at that particular pub.

More heft.

It's one of those TP-Link AC750s that I was using that started losing connection. You also have to be sure to use a good USB lead to power it.

Have you tried the amp with headphones to eliminate that as a possible cause?

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To aid your grokking of sensitivity, it's a measure of how much sound you get out for a given amount of power in. The figure quoted is in decibels for 1 watt input, measured 1 metre from the speaker. So if they have the same sensitivity, you should get the same level of sound from each for the same input level. Further to this, doubling the input power to the speaker will increase the volume by 3dB. Quadrupling the power raises the SPL by 6dB. Doubling the perceived volume needs about an extra 10dB, which requires 10 times the amplifier power. Then you have to start considering your hearing.

Digital effects just sound digital.

The Smiths, Simply Red. Mind you, I couldn't stand them in the first place.