tauzero

I like Ibanez but $8k for an SR made with pretty woods is a bit of a stretch.

Gone now, which at least has removed temptation from me.

Surely not, Warwick make the Corvette.

Lekato also do them - that's the Lekato whose instrument wireless systems many of us are using very happily. Of course, they're not no-name, they're Lekato (I suspect that M-Vave's offerings will be identical). https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005009288556260.html

Screw-on feet, so that's a possible.

I think there's also an issue with vibration at the point where the solder ends and it becomes just copper, as the stiffness of the soldered section means it will fatigue at that point. I know it's a reason for not soldering spade connectors on motorcycles, although the vibrations on a bass cab are probably less vicious than those on a bike.

OTOH, it's also a lot shorter!

No. I'm not that bothered, just got to remember to put the handle on the side. 12 battens cut out and drilled, next is the circular saw. Hopefully I will still be decidigital following this operation.

Hmm, the TC BAM200 has screw-on feet...

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Both bands primarily rehearse new material, although if a song goes wrong at a gig we'll decide whether it was a one-off or if we need to rehearse it. I'll upload the version of the song to work on to Dropbox for one band so we've got a single reference. For the other band, we have song name and artist name and the arrangements will get rejigged if there's a gob-iron solo (soloes tend to be gob-iron followed by guitar, rinse and repeat). There aren't many complex arrangements, it's mainly Dr Feelgood or old time rock'n'roll with the odd outlier. Where there are more complex arrangements, we follow the original.

Option C - bass was bought on Basschat and then gets sold elsewhere. Which is something I think I've done, but not for profit, it was so I'd be pretty certain that whatever it was I wanted to get shot of would be gone in a week.

Unless you've got a headless...

81 within 100km of Tamworth, plus the entire contents of Bass Direct and Bass Bros. Damn, shouldn't have looked.

My fretted mid-70s P got a diMarzio (I'm currently trying to sell the original pickup) and there's a rout under the scratchplate where I put an active EQ and battery, which I subsequently removed. I also hacked the scratchplate around and removed the remnants of the rather battered sunburst finish. I part-exchanged it in 1988 - I occasionally wonder what happened to it. It wasn't unusual for mods to get done to them, like J bass bridge pickups. Nowadays it seems that doing anything like that is regarded as sacrilege - even a decent refin so it doesn't look like it got towed to every gig (why are Fender finishes so fragile?) is regarded as an evil deed.

Maybe you had the good taste not to slap.

TBF, it didn't say whether the chainsaw was running.

Ditto - conversely, when Mrs Zero the first and I went to see Paul Simon on the Graceland tour, Mrs Zero[0] was told to sit down despite her being 4'11.5" and us being at the back of our seating block so she couldn't see a bloody thing.

As others have said, work on the other arm in the meantime. It's not going to be load bearing for a few weeks but if you can get yourself into a position which a) isn't painful and b) involves a bass being in a playable position, you can at least do something. If you can realistically only use one arm then it depends which arm - if it's your fretting arm then practice fretting (I've seen a bassist whose right arm was useless due to a stroke, but he played very well with just his left hand) and if it's your picking hand then practice all picking forms - two fingers, plectrum, three fingers, classical guitar style.

There you go, you're working up to it. Now watch a couple of episodes of "Mrs Brown's Boys", and if you're not comatose with laughter after that, watch Spinal Tap II again and you'll appreciate it all the more.

Hadn't realised it had been so long... Tuesday night there was a triffic bunch (I'm not very good at classification of this genre, bluegrass or C&W) at the Cavern. Three part vocal harmonies, guitar, bass, fiddle, banjo (in decreasing order of importance). Thursday night was the Crown at Shard End, which is a club not a pub so finishes at midnight. I appear to have become the house bassist there - the resident Orange amp is a heap of shite so I'll be taking my own along next time. It's always a relief, when Mrs Zero can't make it, if somebody else is worse at vocals than me, and there were two vying for that crown at the start of the night. Things looked up from then though.

I left one band because the guitarist was shagging the singer, and the guitarist's wife would ring me asking where he was. I didn't want to either drop him in it or lie to her, so I left.

FTFY.

The Bass Bros website filters still don't work (I have reported that to them), while the Bass Direct website has functioning filters (including a fretted/fretless which BB lacks). I can't understand why anybody would find the Bass Direct website hard to use. The only issue with BD is that after the first search, all the items shown will only click through to the item itself if you click on the item title, not the item picture.

I shall have to get an inlay saying "HERE BE DRAGONS" on the 26th fret of my Thumb, and somewhere close to the 30th unfret on my Ibanez SRF705.