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The Daily Excess once ran a Giles cartoon showing the mop-headed youth playing a guitar that was plugged into the electric ceiling light. I wrote to them to tell them how dangerous that was. That was 50 years ago or so. Anyroadup, the seller doesn't seem to bother amending his boilerplate text - he has the same 240V disclaimer on auctions for things like knobs and hinges.

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/255863751305 In case it gets changed:

Really? The GT-PRO Steinberger guitar is passive, Godin's active guitars are the occasional ones with piezos and the specialist top-end ones, Line 6 cannot help but be active as they're modelling guitars (and basses). I think auto tuning is confined to the Gibson robot tuning system (which was a complete flop) and the Peavey AT200, which didn't retune the strings but instead applied pitch shifts to the individual strings, and lasted about a year. I'm not sure that there would be much point to a B-bender on a bass. Mark Philips has been producing scalloped fret basses for some years now, which shows the desirability of such a thing. In contrast, Warwick and Ibanez (examples off my wall) have been turning out active basses for years and are still selling established models.

Hmmm. I have a Pi 4, HiFiBerry DAC + ADC Pro, 7" HDMI/USB touchscreen, assorted footswitches, might have some rotary encoders knocking about. Must have a play with Elk OS. And it's good to see you back posting too.

But if you were to embrace the future fairly recent past last 40 years, you'd have a much wider range of choice than if you were a guitarist.

I have computer desks upstairs in my teeny tiny office and downstairs, which is where most bass playing gets done. Office chairs with fabric seats in both places, with all the spammer-identified features, and the downstairs one allows the arms to be swivelled backwards out of the way to play bass. Each of them cost about £30 off Ebay. Plus when my employer shut our office as we were all working from home, I kept my office chair from there too - just got to find somewhere to put it. Just found one that has the same swivelling arms as mine: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/295387127148 You can tell by the disc at the bottom of the arm - the button visible at about one o'clock on the perimeter of the disc is the arm release. It does mean that the arms move slightly when in the up position but that doesn't bother me at all.

One thing that seems a bit odd to me, but might be more obvious from a view of the internals, is the placing of the power jack. The general trend is for it to be at the top of the pedal but these are at the bottom.

I've got three - the Line 6 G50, Smooth hound, and a cheapie bug type which is a 2.4GHz one branded Muslady. The Line 6 is pretty rugged, except that dropping the transmitter onto a hard floor broke the battery cover. The Smooth Hound has been good though I do find the reversed polarity of the power supply a bit annoying. The Muslady has been fine - I bought it for rehearsals as I got fed up of treading on leads and I use minimal equipment in rehearsals, and finished up gigging it a few times. Can't tell any difference between them tonally.

Or pick up a HB bass plus a few sets of HB or Warwick Red strings, taking advantage of the free postage for the bass. Total bargain.

I think there are some Android apps that will play MIDI files via the USB connector - just trying to work out what will do that and how at the moment. More news when I've experimented further.

Anyone familiar with the works of Terry Pratchett may remember "The Prid of Ankh-Morpork" and the signwriter's scream after stepping back to admire his work. I can imagine the same thing with "INENSITY". That's some admirable artwork, your daughter has an active imagination. I trust you'll continue to produce pedals for her to decorate.

"Another Brick in the Wall (part 2)" was the Christmas number 1 in 1979, so a perfectly legitimate Christmas song. We just did Slade and Auld Lang Syne (if required).

Marseer is another one for the list.

Get a smaller, lighter head. Overhang problem solved, and your back will thank you in a few years.

I've just gone round the room looking at six or seven of my basses, and in every single case the bridge saddles are adjusted with the greatest string length on the lowest string, whereas you've got the shortest string length on the lowest string. That seems very odd to me.

Is it just the one tuner that's missing? Not that finding a replacement is likely to be easy.

HX Edit 3.51 has been released (no new HX firmware though). Also, an updated driver for HX Stomp has been released to prevent crashes when using it with Cakewalk, which could well be handy for me.

Impressive copy of the guitar on Ebay: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/134347289847

You can get wireless headphones which aren't Bluetooth. I have a pair - Sennheiser HDR 120 II which I think have been replaced by the RS120. However, there is a compressor or automatic gain control (AGC) which adjusts the volume down, presumably to preserve one's hearing, and that does seem a bit strange. They're £100 which is expensive in my frame of reference (but not in @ped's, who is evidently rolling in it), but available second hand for half that.

Another vote for this - use rechargeable batteries, obviously (which you could also do with an Amplug) or power it through USB - a phone charger with a USB lead with mini USB plug will do that. Other alternatives - Zoom B3, B3n, and any number of other larger format multi-effects - the Zoom stompbox multieffects won'[t do it though. Small mixer (Behringer Xenyx series for example). It does sound like you need better headphones. Worth a look here: https://www.studiospares.com/headphones-and-speakers/closed-back-headphones.htm?product_list_order=price_asc I have a pair of obsolete Sennheisers (HD209 IIRC) and a pair of Audio-Technica ATH-M20x. I'm very happy with them both.

If the answer is a tuba, you've got to wonder if you're asking the right question.

You're not getting me to click on that, I haven't been Whamageddoned yet. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whamageddon

If you're playing at gig volume at rehearsals, why not use the Ampeg for gigs too?

Hadn't realised she was 79. Not a bad innings, and quite a legacy.

Could you put a cable tie round the cable, to stop it being pulled should anyone take the controls out and to ensure a bit of slack in the pickup cavity?