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Those are pretty impressive rescue cats.

They rest on the two strap buttons and you lean them against something solid - a wall, amp, drummer, etc. This is the Seis propped up against the stands that they normally live on.

I've got locking strap buttons on my Seis and they stand up perfectly happily, albeit at a slight slant when the strap is fitted.

Rats, I was in Hay about three weeks ago and didn't realise there was a guitar shop there now. <checks google maps> Bollocks, Mrs Zero wanted to walk through the castle from the car park to Shepherds (ice cream) and Kilverts (pub), and then through the castle back. If we'd walked from or to the alley from the car park, we'd have passed right by it. Oh well.

The instrument I've had the longest is (I think) my Eko Ranger 6, bought new in the early 80s. I'm not entirely sure as I also bought a Roland D10 about that time that I also still have, but this gets used regularly for practice for open mics with Mrs Zero and for songwriting. String ends flying wild and free to make some here get all twitchy. The bass I've owned the longest is a Warwick JD Thumb, bought new in early 1988. I'd gone into Musical Exchanges in Birmingham to try out an octave pedal and they handed me another Warwick, a Streamer IIRC, to try it out. It was rather badly set up so I put it back on the wall and took down this one, and from the first moment I played it I wanted it. Absolute dream of a neck - at the time I had a Fender P and a Hohner B2 and it surpassed both of them by miles, so despite the £950 price tag (which Dave the Bass kindly reduced to £900) I took out a loan for £500 and PXed the Fender and the Hohner to get it. It appeared live on TV when we played in the late early hours on Telethon '90. It still gets occasional outings, and was going to feature in the Marillion tribute that I got dropped from, although since about 2007 I've been 5-string.

One kiloword coming up: Not complicated really.

At last! Status, Sei, and Hohner have bodies which are cut away for the tuner access, with strap buttons either side, enabling you to stand the bass up without bothering about a stand. That might be worth considering.

No longer there, so either sold or Gumtree have been warned.

Performance - no, you just need something with negligible resistance. Durability - probably not, it's the connectors that need to be decent quality. A length of twin core mains cable would do you and would be as durable as something for which you pay rather more.

A 2000 fatneck Warwick Thumb NT from Germany in around 2006. £550 (with hard case), and another £220 to have it defretted and the neck slimmed to JD Thumb proportions.

@KiOgon does assorted Jazz prewired looms.

Solder sucker to desolder the component and clear the hole. Alternatively, put a jeweller's flat-bladed screwdriver under one end of the resistor to apply a little gentle tension and then melt the joint, and repeat for the other end, but if you then have a blocked hole, melt the solder and put minimum pressure on the lead when pushing the right component in to avoid lifting the track off the PCB. Heating up resistors soldering them shouldn't hurt them. I generally populate boards by putting a few components in at a time, soldering them and then snipping the leads. Resistors first, then diodes, then capacitors, followed by IC sockets and then transistors - the lowest profile components go in first so you're not hampered putting them in by taller ones.

Well, quite. Everybody knows that you're only allowed to play root and 5th, with the occasional 3rd and octave if you're really talented and doing walking bass, and bass is only there to fill in the bottom bits and should never be used as a solo instrument.

Probably, when it's working as a DI box and not a power amp it's not passing anywhere near as much current so it won't get warm.

Plain oiled body and veneered pickguard. Go with wood.

Yes, you can either scroll through patches with the footswitch or switch an effect on and off, but not both. See page 11 of the manual which illustrates it, though @MartinB has given a very good description of how to do it.

Not quite...

The others have decided we should have a second Oasis song in the set. My own view is that one Oasis song in the set is at least one too many, but that's democracy for you. The song is Live Forever, which may get treated to a non-original bassline, and it means I've got to play through it at least once to the record, which in turn means listening to that ghastly Mancunian whine, like fingernails on a blackboard.

If the cable was dodgy, the website editor wouldn't work either.

You'd get depressed if you couldn't buy another bass?

Have a look at what's out there, on Joinmyband, Bandmix, Gumtree, Facebook, etc. Avoid the obvious arseholes and see if you can link up with a band wanting to do a similar amount of gigging as you do.

I've just reproduced this by running Tonelib-Zoom with the MS-60B connected, then starting the firmware updater while Tonelib-Zoom is still running. It's because Tonelib-Zoom has reserved the MIDI connections to the MS-60B. Try again without Tonelib-Zoom running.

Does the PC give a chime when you connect the pedal?

Just did a quick experiment with mine and a known good USB lead. Plugged straight into the PC, I get the USB connecting chime, and Tonelib-Zoom sees it. Plugged into a hub, I don't get a chime, and Tonelib-Zoom doesn't see it. Although the hub seems to be misbehaving generally now, so maybe that part of the experiment was doomed to failure. Anyhow, if the PC chimes when the MS-60B is connected to it, it's got a data connection.

Zoom's Guitar Lab software doesn't work on the MS-60B anyway (I tried it yesterday just to be sure) - only Tonelib-Zoom does.