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tauzero

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  1. How about a stick-on solution? Get a long thin piece of black adhesive tape (go-faster stripes for cars would be a likely source) and cover the entire edge of the fretboard, then put stick-on luminous dots where you want them. No damage to the bass, cheap, and you can do it yourself.
  2. Ooh, that bracelet is just the right size for my wrist...
  3. I'm by no means an expert in pickups, but I don't think that would give you enough information on its own. If you could compare the resistance with the resistance of a known identical pickup, you could work out whether it's underwound or overwound and by what proportion, but you wouldn't be able to compare with another pickup that used a different wire gauge as that would be a different resistance for the same number of windings. Would Fralin give you the info if you asked them nicely?
  4. I have a WAV-4 (which hasn't been played for ages) and at one time I had an Ergo 5. For some reason, I couldn't get on with 5 strings - don't know whether it was the Ergo bit or the 5 bit that was the problem. I play 5-string so it's not a mental problem. I'm tempted to go to an Omnibass but I'd need to try a 5 out to see if I could get on with it.
  5. Do you have a different bass you can try with the amp [1], or a different amp you can try with the bass? And if you plug the bass in to the amp but leave it for a short while before switching it on, do you get the same thing? [1] If you haven't yet, and you stay on Basschat, you soon will have
  6. Have you tried introducing the effects one at a time, starting with the Little Bear? Also, if you have a daisy chain lead, you could try powering the Little Bear and/or the Double Muff from two outlets instead of one.
  7. Mrs Zero has been a bit like this - in her duo with our old guitarist, she does BVs on some songs. She was looking at the tablet for the BVs for "Oh pretty woman", where the lyrics are "ooh, ooh". I think even I could manage to remember those lyrics (but not sing them in tune, that's a different skill set).
  8. At least it's just outside the CAZ so it is possible to get to it round the Middleway ring road.
  9. tauzero

    In Memoriam

    It's a right mix of emotions - sad that Chris passed away, especially the way that it happened, but also rather uplifting that @Fluid Druid did so much to help both Chris and his wife V.
  10. Well, I'd like a zero-latency MIDI bass, but not enough to wait that long or pay that much. But if there's a couple of thousand bassists worldwide who don't mind waiting that long or paying that much, and they're a small enough operation to only turn out one or two basses a day, you'll get a long queue. What's the wait for a Jaydee at the moment?
  11. I've bought a few things from Thomann. Some time ago, a deko HB 5-string fretless acoustic bass which was perfect, and more recently a B-stock HB headless guitar and a B-stock MOD Dwarf, both of which were perfect and immaculate (as far as I could see).
  12. You should be seeing something from maybe 8k ohms to 16k ohms from each pickup. That order of magnitude, anyway. Can you extract the pickups and check the wires at the other end?
  13. Oversized jack plugs and why they should be thrown away Jack plugs with springy bits on them and why they should be thrown away Best strain relief method and best way of folding in the metal tang type ones Right angle jacks to use and to avoid For patch cables going onto a pedalboard, does installation cable offer any advantages over instrument cable?
  14. No, he's only got up to the 6th fret. And it's got four strings. And he's not tapping.
  15. Have you tried the Boctaver in v3.50? I haven't but it has been mentioned.
  16. I just found that video. Three pairs of pedals - I couldn't tell the difference between the Tube Screamer and the clone, although the guitarist could. Could definitely tell the difference between the RAT and the Mosky Black RAT, and thought (like the guitarist) that the Mosky sounded better. And I couldn't tell the difference between the Klon and the Mosky clone, and the guitarist couldn't either.
  17. I had one (might have been the unprofessional version). Pros: tall enough for a Warwick Buzzard. Cons: poor quality for something so expensive, it broke.
  18. https://www.giggear.co.uk/guitars/guitar-accessories/guitar-stands-wall-hangers/stagg-tripod-guitar-stand.htm Also works if you see the light and go headless.
  19. To embed video, click on the "Share" button under the video, then click on the blue "Copy" button, then just paste into the reply. Like this:
  20. I am not, by any means, a Fender enthusiast. However, this seems to me like an instrument rather than a collection of parts and it would be a shame to split it up. I hope it finishes up with someone who will just clean it up, get rid of the gaffa tape (and do anything that needs to be done in order to do so) and play it like it is. The body is nice, an early one before Fender started just routing out a channel to the pickup and relying on the pickguard to cover it all up.
  21. tauzero

    DIY Effects

    ECC83 is a dual triode and the EL84 is a power pentode. The pins would be completely different, the only common pins would be the heater. Oops, hadn't turned the page and read @Woodinblack's reply.
  22. Updated mine a bit earlier. First attempt was completely unsuccessful, second attempt didn't seem to do anything (did a factory reset at this point and it was still on 3.15), third attempt produced audible clicking of relays in the Stomp and it rebooted. Did a reset, restored global settings and presets only from the first backup. Experimenting will follow.
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