tauzero

I put the question to Mrs Zero a little while ago because she works at a plant hire company that hires generators, which are quoted in kVA not kW. Although she couldn't tell me why they weren't the same, she could tell me that they weren't, and there was a formula for getting kW from kVA. I've just been spurred on to find out why, and I have an answer, at least for transformers. https://www.electricaltechnology.org/2012/02/why-transformer-rating-in-kva-not-in-kw.html What it boils down to is that a transformer converts an input voltage and current into an output voltage and current depending on the ratio of primary and secondary windings - that's the VA bit as the product of the input V and A will always equal the product of the output V and A. However, the power output from the transformer will be dependent on the power factor of the load.

That looks like a good candidate. Funnily enough, I played one at Bass Direct a couple of days ago (the 5-string, not a 6) and wasn't taken with the neck profile. That's saved me some money and kept me in the 2024 abstinence challenge.

And it could be worth getting in touch with Guitarguitar and seeing if they could get one in, they do other Sqooo models.

https://reverb.com/uk/item/74428855-sqoe-sebs990-headless-bass-2023 £360 inc p&P, not sure what the implications for VAT and duty are.

I think your English teacher deserves an honourable mention too.

I should have updated this. I tightened the friction adjuster and that improved things a lot.

Just watching a TOTP from 1992 and Julia Fordham was on it. Her bassist was playing what I'm pretty sure was a headless 6-string (well, I'm sure about the headless bit). Didn't seem to be any particularly good shots of it though. Any ideas on identification?

I found it really funny when one sent a message to me which said something like "I would like to buy your {Oki Microline printer}. I will send you a cheque for £2000 for the {Oki Microline printer} and you can send me the printer and the money after taking out the price of the {Oko Microline printer}". Please, if you're using a template, take the sodding brackets out that surround {item name here}.

I'm in a couple which are in indefinite hiatus, and possibly in another one which I departed from the offshoot of.

"David only needed 8 strings"

That headstock is missing a "PCsGC".

There's a simple non-paying bidder process. I've used it on a couple of occasions when selling a car which the "buyers" never turned up for.

Fender. Well, someone had to say it.

Reminds me of one of the Doctor books by Richard Gordon, when he asks for references and one says "Dr Gordon has worked for me for six months, during which time he has discharged his duties entirely to his own satisfaction".

Isn't it blasphemy to presume to have knowledge of what God finds an abomination?

I can't make out the one starting with a V under D.R.U.G.S. (column 1), the one above Fugitive in column 2, (it seems to start with an L so presumably that's Lorna Shore), the one under Judas Priest and the one under architects in column 4, and I'm not sure if there's a short word before Nino in column 3.

Aliexpress this time, but I feel it deserves an airing. https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005005455484199.html "Classic bass guitar, tasteless bass". Well, it is a Precision copy.

E - sand all the rest of the finish off and go natural.

Tagging would be great if everybody did it, or even if 50% of people did it. It's more like 5%. Auto-generation of tags would be brilliant but, I suspect, unlikely.

At the risk of provoking another series of allegations about elitism and snobbery, I'd be in favour of a split between 4-strings and 5+ strings. Alternatively, some means of categorising and filtering like Bass Direct/BassBros/Bass Gallery have on their websites - number of strings, fretted/fretless, brand, etc.

Maybe the CNC machines to make them are gold plated.

Hooks on the bottoms of pedals, loops on the board. I think that's the general way.

They produce rather nice guitars for the money. I have an electroacoustic classical, a 5-string fretless electroacoustic bass, and a (now discontinued, I think) Dullahan: which did need a neck shim to sort the action out but was otherwise great.

There's also the output impedance of the power amp to take into account. While it will be a fraction of an ohm, it still forms a potential divider with the speaker, and as the impedance of the speaker is halved by putting two in parallel, so the proportion of the voltage across the speakers relative to the output voltage is reduced correspondingly.

Evidently someone either splashed out or did a successful negotiation.