tauzero

Extreme spalting?

I'd start by getting the tuner off the bass - however, I think if you rotate the bit that the string goes into clockwise (to loosen the string) it may push the worm gear out more. If so, you could try turning that bit anticlockwise and see if it pushes the shaft that the key goes onto out far enough to be able to thread the screw up.

Looking at the manual, if you are in the MEMORY screen, you can select a patch from (presumably) the current bank of 3 using footswitches 1-3, and if you are in the EFFECT screen you can turn effects on and off with buttons 1-3.

An ant writes: I don't think there is any sonic advantage to either method - none of my basses have pickguards and the pickups all work fine, OTOH Precisions are well thought of for some reason and hanging the pickup off the pickguard doesn't seem to harm their sound. Have you considered a sliding pickup, a la Gibson Grabber or Westone Rail? Perhaps run a length of 2020 Al extrusion up each side with T-nuts for the pickup to secure to and star knob bolts to allow easy moving and securing in position.

They've watched too many theory videos.

I don't get that bass riff wrong, mainly because I've never played it and have absolutely no idea what it is.

That may be why you'll see some relics described as "mint", which is quite confusing.

Sorry to hear of these diagnoses. As well as BC, there are some bass specialist shops that could be worth sounding out - Bass Direct, Bass Bros, The Bass Gallery. The first two are quite close to each other, in Warwick and Leamington Spa respectively.

It depends on the instrument as well. My 1987 Warwick is almost perfect whereas a Fender of the same age would look as if someone had dug a garden up with it.

I would imagine it'll have a transformer doing a step up for the main power (which will be rectified) and a step down for the heater power (which IIRC isn't).

The polite alternative to "two girls one cup".

I thoroughly enjoy David Bennett's videos - not just about chord progressions but also about time signatures.

Bob Catley used to go into the pub I was a regular at - his daughter, who I believe plays sax, worked as a barmaid there.

Don't knock it, I based an entire career on it.

Er, yes. That was the point.

There will be an IP address on a screen which will be something like 218.576.326.113.

NAHAY?

Wow. Someone with leet haxor skillz. It's nice to see the script kiddies at play.

If it has "Number of strings" and a drop-down with the numbers 4-7 and "Other", and a "Fretted?" with yes and no radio buttons, and "Headed?" with yes and no buttons, it should be fairly simple to fill in. HTML allows all those. Would you want to buy a bass from someone who couldn't manage to fill that in properly?

As it says "Output 12V ~", that's AC. It would be something like "Output 12V ......" if it was DC, and as @neepheid says, would show the polarity of the connector.

I'm not missing the point. Reverb do need to take better precautions against fraud as they're not doing it terribly well at the moment, but any notion of IP address banning is ridiculous, and your statement about not being difficult to ascertain whether an IP address corresponds with VPN, internet cafe, etc is woefully far of the mark. Your other suggestion of checking for email addresses is better. The entire transaction needs to be done within the aegis of Reverb (which needs to be watertight) with T&Cs making clear that if it isn't, you're on your own.

As well as the MS-50G+, there's the MS-70CDR+ coming sooner which has effects but no amp sims, so it depends what you want.

What I'm thinking of is when selling a bass, there's a form that gives options for number of strings, fretted/fretless, headed/headless, and a tag in a standard format is generated for each where there's an option selected.

Don't you understand the issue? If you ban an IP address then anyone using that address is blocked. Non-fixed IP addresses are allocated as and when, so a totally innocent person could be IP banned. Same for VPNs, and company IP addresses - ban the VPN or the company IP address and that's a lot of innocent people banned. So it's a stupid idea.

IP banning a non-fixed IP address or a VPN would be wildly inappropriate.