tauzero

I started on 4-strings, finishing up with a Warwick JD Thumb, which has a really slim and shallow neck. I bought a couple of 5s but the necks were too chunky. Then I bought one off Ebay from Vietnam, and it had just the neck I was looking for. Subsequently I bought a couple of Sei 5s, one fretless and the other fretted, and those also had the shallow necks that I like. I've kept the 4-string Thumb and another that I had defretted and reprofiled to be the same as the JD Thumb, but they're not being used (don't want to get rid of them though). Everything else is 5, 6, or 10 strings. I like the ability to go across the neck - I only occasionally use notes below bottom E. I don't understand why so many people think that the purpose of the B string is only to go below bottom E. It is so much more than that.

Sub Zero works for A Bank, in customer service. He's just been investigated as £400k mysteriously moved from one account to another that wasn't controlled by the person owning the first account and he was one of the ones the customer called about it (although the call to him was after the money was moved, not before). I doubt that he'll find out the results of the investigation though. We did tell him that if he'd got it, we expected a cut.

Just get a lead with a Neutrik silent plug on it. https://www.neutrik.com/en/neutrik/products/plugs-jacks/plugs/professional-1-4-plugs/silentplug

Perhaps you could give a clue as to what that FB page is? Incidentally, in the vague hope that it might be in your signature, I had a look at that but all it's got is a broken link to an image that doesn't exist any more, so you might want to fix that.

Can't be that rare, there's two of them.

All the old pictures of the bridge have gone - I'm curious as to whether the screws going towards the bridge saddle pivots are grub screws to hold the pivots in place or whether they bear on protrusions on the pivot piece and push them against string tension, which would avoid any problem with slippage that a grub screw would have.

Or, just to stop the sound and fury signifying nothing, get a dual buffer Bartolini AGDB. https://bartolini.net/product/agb/ - product details (AGB is single buffer, AGDB is dual) https://bartolini.net/wp-content/uploads/Docs/Electronics/Buffers/AGDB-918-2-V-B-T.pdf - shows how to connect V-B-T. Note that Bartolini don't say it's for their pickups. 🏁

They'd only be most even if they were placed where the frets are perpendicular to the strings. If they were to be equivalent to JJ pickups, they'd have to be slanted so that the ratio of string lengths nut-pickup and pickup-bridge are the same for each string (like the Ibanez EHB). Having the pickups perpendicular to the strings would make the bass strings bassier and the treble strings treblier, like the way that a standard split P pickup works but with a smoother transition across strings.

Our guitarist gets the 1800 until he buys his own.

I've just remembered that I commented on pickup placement in a fan-fret bass - see

Don't forget that some basses have slanted pickups (Ritter and Warwick, with Warwick even having differently slanted and placed pickups on the 4-string and 5-string Thumbs) so that may be another factor to consider when deciding on your slant. It so happens that I have an Ibanez EHB1265MS to hand, and measuring the bridge pickup (where the difference will be most marked), the width across the strings measured perpendicular to the strings (ie string spacing) is 72mm, giving a string spacing of 18mm, and the width across the strings measured along the centre line of the pickup is 78mm. That would be the equivalent of a string spacing of 19.5mm, so a pickup that could accommodate that would be fine for a 5-string. The Ibanez hasn't got quite such an exaggerated fan as Dingwalls, though, so that's another consideration.

Oh, and for any Duo owners - the manual update wipes all user data, contrary to what it says in the guide.

V1.13.3 has just been released. Old Duo has to be updated manually. https://forum.mod.audio/t/release-1-13-3/10353

Maybe the answer is string paint.

That nut does look a bit wonky, which means (if it is) that the original slot was cut wonky.

@Hellzero pointed me towards one which does do the job - it's a 3/16" tuning peg (American so out of step with the rest of the world), a Grover 8020 does the job. https://www.amazon.co.uk/Grover-8020-Autoharp-Tuning-Hammer/dp/B0002F7IEE (it's actually a black plastic handle). In case you don't already know, the truss rod is the reverse of conventional (clockwise to loosen) and it's got a very strong action so when you might expect to put a half turn on a non-Pedulla truss rod, you'll probably need an eighth of a turn on the Pedulla.

I've done it for a couple of images - it's quite a bit of faff as you have to edit the post as well as loading and resaving the image. It's only an issue when pasting an image directly, as the image is saved as image.png which isn't particularly well compressed.

Miraculously, our vocalist provides his own mic - not sure what it is. I do backing vocals for all but one song - I use a Behringer XM8500. The other guitarist uses whatever I give him until he gets his own mic - that's one of my box of three Behringer XM1800ses.

I have an elderly Huawei tablet which I bought for running the mixer app a while ago, then I didn't use my PA for some time. Starting again, I bought a new tablet but I used the old one - two gigs, three hours with the app in the foreground and no other app, display permanently on except during the interval, no recharge between gigs, still had 35% or so in the battery.

I've just shimmed mine with a .5 degree shim. Without tuning up and adjusting the bridge saddles the angle seems just right - with saddles fully lowered, B and G strings are just off the fretboard and E, A and D are flat on it. After tuning up and adjusting the bridge saddles, it's not bad - slight fret buzz on a couple of strings at the 11th fret. Original strings still on it, they're not very nice so I'll change them in the near future and see if I can tweak the truss rod enough to mitigate the buzz.

Lovely. Just one string too few.

Would that just affect the post I'm editing? I'm thinking of cases where I've used the same attachment in a number of posts - would I have to edit all of them?

Search for "royalty-free sound recordings".

The music would be out of copyright but I think there would be royalties to pay on the performance.

I think the Variax power has +9V on the ring (the floor box is compatible with the older Variaxes which were 9V) and there would need to be some sort of detection of +9V on the ring which would switch to using on-board battery if a jack is plugged in, assuming the same approach as for the Variax, so not a straightforward change. The power requirement for a Variax is comparatively huge though, the average bass will use vastly less than that.