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If there's enough screw left to get mole grips on, once the neck and body are separated, getting some heat onto the screws (soldering iron rather than blowtorch) could also help.

Just trying to work out how Meris would be doing this. I assume that there's a common ground, one of tip/ring in, and the other out. Would optoisolation work both ways, or would the receiving device be assumed to be handling its own optoisolation? The black box would contain an optoisolator which would be powered from the IN DIN socket (connected to the OUT DIN socket of the Quad Cortex). That would take the input signal and isolate it, then pass it on to the Meris which presumably doesn't have optoisolation. There might be another optoisolator to go the other way. I may be wrong, of course, but it does seem like not a lot to pay £100 for - one stereo jack socket, two DIN sockets, and an optoisolator or two.

Nux themselves say it's better than Mighty Amp.

Me too! Using a magnifier app on the phone and then realising I was zoomed in a little too far, I managed to read the L and R.

Yes. Used a standard bass Hiscox case with a headed bass one year, and the following two years I used the same case with a headless bass and tucked a Zoom MS60B into the bit where the headstock would have gone. Easyjet to and from Munich. I don't claim to be a seasoned international traveller but all went OK. Going back to OP (two years ago) and the preference for rectangular cases - the closer the fit to the bass, the less flex you'll get on the faces of the case. The centre of a big rectangular case will deflect inwards more than the centre of a closer-fitting case, and so poses more of a crush hazard to the bass.

Double scotch and £235 for me (AliExpress).

To quote from that link that I cited:

You do know that the symbol is made up of a composite of the semaphore signals for "N" and "D", don't you? And CND stands for Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament. https://cnduk.org/the-symbol/

I love my Sei Original headless fretless 5. It does have a minor stability issue with the neck, so it can need truss rod tweakery two or three times a year - I carry a capo and a set of allen keys in the bass bag, and adjusting the truss rod takes about 15 seconds.

I can't read music. I use tab to tell me what notes to play but not where to play them, and subsequently correct any errors by playing along.

If Jan Akkerman got back with Focus, I'd like to see them doing Hamburger Concerto (a 25 minute excerpt can be found on Youtube). Alice Cooper - Love it to death Marillion - Brave The Who - Who's Next

Single pedals can have an advantage over multifx if they have exactly the sound you want and you always want to use them at the same settings. Where multifx score is the ability to swap between different effects of the same type, to change patches or snapshots between the same set of pedals with different settings, and being able to change your "pedalboard" very easily (either adding and removing effects or changing effect order). I have an MS60B permanently with me to put a basic sound on if I'm not using a pedalboard.

At the time it burnt down, my old mate Bricko owned it (aka Colin Wall). No, not an insurance job. Before that, the Edward it was named after was Eddie Fewtrell, one of the Fewtrell brothers, who sent the Krays packing when they tried to move up to Birmingham.

I lived there for 20 years before moving to Tamworth - born in London but brought up on the mean streets of Solihull.

The Hall Green Grass of Home

All the Small Heath things

Solihull Man (although Solihull isn't in Birmingham and you'd get lynched for saying it is)

Are there any local open mic nights? Or even karaoke nights? If so, they might be worth checking out.

You might influence them in their musical direction.

In the Hall of the Mountain Kings Heath A Farewell to Kings Heath

You forgot the Watneys Party Sevens.

PS. And you obviously need another 5-string, just in case.

It's quite easy to slip into concentrating on playing what the tab says, and not manging to get it to match the music .I finish up like that sometimes, and I've found that what is needed is to listen to the bassline as a melody and hear the tune, and become familiar with it. When you know what you're trying to get to as a musical piece rather than a series of numbers on a page, it's easier to get there. I probably haven't expressed this very well, I know what I'm trying to say but I don't know whether I've conveyed it well.

John Cage, 4' 33", repeated as many times as necessary.

What's inappropriate about that?