Did a dep gig for The Bonnevilles at bike night at Darley Moor. All went well and I suspect they'll be rebooked at the agreed higher amount (and the regular bassist will benefit!).
Forgot to take a long lead and my MS-60B fell off the amp so finished up going Sei Flamboyant fretted 5 -> Lekato WS-90 wireless -> Tecamp Puma 900 -> GR Bass AT212. My leather waistcoat with all the bike badges on has shrunk. Feets were encased in Caravelle memory foam trainers, as always.
I'm depping on bass for The Bonnevilles (rock'n'roll and proper R&B) on Wednesday 9th July at Darley Moor race track bike night, just south of Ashbourne.
Thumb 5 NT, 1988:
Defretted Thumb with neck reprofiled to JD profile (since this photo it's had an ebony unlined board fitted):
JD Thumb made in 1987 - the bass I've had the longest since I bought it at the start of 1988.
Not just the soldering, it looks like there are stray wisps of copper too. I'd desolder each joint, cut off the end of the wire and re-strip the insulation with not too much wire exposed, make sure all the cores are together and resolder it.
I have actually put Dyno labels with "Tx" and "Rx" onto them. However, this requires that the user actually looks at them prior to plugging them back in rather than thinking they remember which is which after unplugging them. And colour coding them would mean having to remember which colour means what, and that's not going to happen.
Reading the manual, you can have TRS stereo from the output socket alone or left channel from the output socket and right channel from the CTR socket, both presumably TRS for balanced output.
I've got about 30 basses, including Seis, Warwicks, and Ibanezezezes, and in that lot is one modified Squier and no Fenders. And I'm perfectly happy with that mix.
In further news, got a response on the 1st to say it was on its way (when I ordered it, it was supposed to be shipped by 23rd June). It's got as far as Frankfurt.
While it's not in the manual, I would like to say that you should always ensure that the one marked "Transmitter" is plugged into the bass and the one marked "Receiver" into the amp/effects chain. Failure to ensure this will result in disappointment. Or so someone told me, anyway.
It seems a little strange that the connector is TRS but it only makes use of a single footswitch, either tap or hold to scroll up or down. A double footswitch with one up and one down would be handier.