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Surely there are better sounding filters.

When I was experimenting, I had the lid off and was able to see where the plugs went in the socket. They were positioned with the tip in the right place. However, I have now tried removing the chrome nut and washer under it, and with the plug pushed fully in, it's even worse. With the plug positioned at its optimum, so the spring contact is central in the groove of the tip, it's still at least as unreliable as with the nut and washer in place. I've bent the contacts and it's a bit of an improvement, still not 100% though but should be OK on a pedalboard. I shall seek out replacements for the sockets.

Don't worry, it was a good full explanation - it does seem a rather clumsy way of restricting lateral movement of bridge saddles.

I've recently bought second-hand an EHX C9 organ sound pedal, which initially tested out OK. However, at rehearsal when I tried using it, my swelling organ was cut off in its prime. A little experimenting then showed it was an unreliable connection to the output jack socket. I've done a bit more diagnosis since then. There are two output jacks, one dry and the other a mix of effect and dry. Both sockets behave similarly. It's not the lead, this has happened with several different leads. I think that the tip can be moved out of contact with the, er, contact. All of the springy contacts are, indeed, springy. I'm using Neutrik and Rean plugs. The sockets show no sign of moving on the PCB. The guilty sockets are at the top. I suspect that the little dips in the contacts for the tip are losing contact if the plug is moved a bit. This is going onto a pedalboard so hopefully there shouldn't be an issue over jack plugs moving, but I would like to solve it. I'm tempted to try bending the springy contact down a bit to make it a more positive contact. Has anyone else encountered a similar issue, and managed to solve it?

12V centre positive by any chance?

Having never had a Stingray, I just had a look at a few pictures and those poles, whatever they are, rather puzzled me, as on the 4-string Rays they're level, but on the 5-string Rays the G pole is closer to the neck than the B pole. Can anyone cast any light on that?

You "win the day" if you post the most liked posts, not just the most posts, so there's both quantity and quality involved. I must have been on form on October 7th, or very drunk.

There's a lot of words which wouldn't fall foul of BBC watershed rules which get filtered. B1tch, ar$e/a$$, d1ck, but not prick or tit. Please just drop it down to the BBC watershed words - fvck, cvnt, shït, all of which any seven year old child will know anyway so the whole "think of the children" idea is ludicrous anyway.

That would have been a 1976 Hayman 40/40 for me, and I know when it was made because I made it. Sadly, I've sold it since then.

Although you do need an appointment for them.

There are reviews on the linked page, and a few of them say it's a bit quiet.

At the last gig we did, my tablets (main and spare) kept disconnecting from the external router. I switched to the internal wireless and all was well. So don't forget that's always a backup option. I was only a couple of metres from the X-Air so range wasn't an issue.

Does it play like butter get the butter warm enough to spread easily?

I've not had any problems with customer attitude. No appointment necessary, though I would be inclined to give them a ring and make sure they'll be open (can't see any reason they wouldn't be though).

Paul Tutmarc invented it in the 1930s. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bass_guitar#History Although he might not have made one in 1946, given how few he made.

https://www.tilswall.co.uk/product/soldering-station/ does the job.

One at least, who gives it 5/5 but comments that he'd like to see a more powerful unit for bass.

For 1957, that gives a Fender Precision, Gibson EB-1, Kay K162, Danelectro Longhorn, Rickenbacker 4000, and Hofner violin bass. Not sure what the least worst option is, there's certainly none that I'd love to own.

I keep telling everyone that headstocks are inventions of Satan. In the interest of remaining in control, I simply go to sleep.

I'll be interested to see how this goes - I've been thinking along similar lines myself.

I've got this one: https://www.tilswall.com/products/soldering-station For my purposes, some PCBs and Vero boards, some cables, some connections to jack sockets and switches, it's excellent.

Carol Kaye.

Have you considered a full scale bass rather than a short scale? You're looking at this from a guitarist's perspective, they're different instruments and using a full scale bass might help reinforce that with your subconscious. From my bassist's perspective, when I want to record some guitar parts, I don't string a 6-string bass with guitar strings, I use a guitar.

Hohner B2V - headless cricket bat so very compact and easy to tuck away somewhere in the transport, doesn't need a stand to hold it, and the B2AV can be switched to passive if you can't find a B2V or decide that an active with a passive option is even better.

"Dance the night away" is probably the easiest song I've ever learnt (two chords all the way through) and it's one of the ones I loathe the most. Not sure if I ever played it on a five string, but on a four string with 26 frets I just kept going up the neck until I got to the end, then came back down again, rinse and repeat. Otherwise I'd probably have died of boredom.