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All output jack sockets on basses to be labelled "output".

They desperately need replacing but for some reason some people prefer them to rounds.

So, did any of you notice that there were images of Keef, Mick, and Ronnie on the billboards? I must say they looked young. I wonder if they'll use CGI to the big screens when they tour next.

Yes.

I haven't looked at the circuitry yet - are the neck LEDs in parallel with the body ones? Putting a 1k (educated guess) trimmer in series with them would let you adjust the brightness level.

I've got a shim coming - set of three from Ebay for £7 (https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/166313960606). The 0.5 degree one should be right (carefully calculated with what I remember of trigonometry from 50 years ago). Fret ends are fine. All seems pretty good apart from the neck angle. There's a replacement neck with all of the LEDs working coming at some point too.

I notice that "nato" now has a couple of extra letters. Is this to avoid offending Russian oligarchs who might fancy buying the odd thousand guitars from Thomann?

I'm sure I remember that it used to be possible to edit an attachment in place - so if you had a large picture (generally an image.png generated by pasting a picture), you could take that attachment, reduce its size (eg by converting to a jpg) and then replacing the attachment with the new file. This mean that any existing posts with references to that attachment would still show the picture, but it would take less storage space. I suspect that this changed with the big update to forum software some years ago. The current functionality is limited to deleting attachments. Might there be any way of implementing an attachment edit?

No, they came to mind because I've got them for a fretless 6 as they were the right gauge (40 rather than 45 in my case) and nickels.

Warwick Red Label?

For decades I thought that the lyrics to "Another Brick in the Wall" included "no dark star chasms in our classrooms", not "dark sarcasm".

Sorry, switch should be https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/255261863410 - that other one is 4 pole 3 way.

Having once owned an original Burns Bison, I agree that you can't have a Bison without a Wild Dog tone.

You need a 3 pole 4 way switch. Schematics: Example switch: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/265436631199

https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005003033892489.html

DIY Effects was even depinned for a while - a few of us made a sufficient case for it to be repinned.

Hydrated or ethanolated?

If they were made out of wood, they'd sound different.

I should really address the main point in this post. There seem to be three main schools of thought in BC (it's something of a spectrum). There's the "wood is all" group who think that the type of wood determines the sound of a bass, and that the sound of a bass can be predicted from the wood type. There's the "wood is nothing" group who don't think that wood has any effect at all. And there's the "there's a bit" group, to which I belong, that thinks that there is some slight effect from the wood, but that the effect can't be predicted from wood type.

Somebody on TB was asking about making one from clay, which as you know is dried mud. Don't think he actually did though because of various practical reasons.

I've found the slightly taller stand that worked for me (for a while) - https://www.gak.co.uk/en/ultimate-support-gs-1000-guitar-stand/54625 - the Ultimate Support GS-1000, named after a Suzuki. The reviews on Amazon are mostly positive with a few people having the same experience as me.

Strangely, I thought that too, but I thought it for both the part where the sounds were swapped with their instruments and when they were with the correct instrument. I haven't been back to recheck though.

Don't forget the growth years that the cut of timber spans, as the density of each growth ring will vary year by year depending on weather.

Tamworth hasn't done too badly. http://www.tamworthbands.com/bands/index.htm Most famous are Magnum, Wolfsbane, and Julian Cope.

So, would you claim that you can identify the wood that a bass is made from by sound alone? The wood will affect the sound to some minor degree because it will damp some frequencies more than others, but there are so many factors in that (not just the wood itself but the body shape, the routings, etc) that it's unlikely that any one piece of wood will affect the sound in exactly the same way as any other piece of wood from the same type of tree - in fact, even from the same tree. The effect that the wood has will be dwarfed by the effect of the strings, the pickups, the preamp or tone stack, plectrum or fingers, whether fingernails have been clipped for the fingers players, thickness of plectrum for the plectrum players, even the cable.