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I think they're brilliant. I just thought I'd say that in the interests of balance, seeing as there are now two topics for Coldplay haters.

Did she? I would take what she said as meaning that she wasn't going to accede to the request to remove the item from sale. The point about the lawyers making the demands was that they were demands, so it's pretty pointless making them unless you insist on them. As it's a translation, though, I may be missing some nuance in the original.

At least this has reminded me that Mrs Zero likes Coldplay, and stirred me to order her a delayed Christmas pressie of "A rush of blood to the head". So that's their CD sales up by one.

Spalted, you mean? 😁

Warwick surface finisher for the Warwicks, occasionally (every 29th of February). Anything else which is bare natural finish gets occasional beeswax (see above), lacquered gets a duster about as often as I dust anything in this house. I don't seem to get muck accumulation on my fretboards - possibly because I mostly play fretless so there's no natural gunge build-up areas, but looking at the acoustic guitar which is probably the instrument I mostly play at home, there's no muck build-up from about 40 years of use. When I've bought instruments with gunge on the frets, I've used meths or IPA [1] to do the initial cleaning then some lemon oil to finish it off. [1] Isopropyl Alcohol, not India Pale Ale (other ales are available)

Bosting. Hope things continue to go well for you.

They must be a great band, they are capable of inspiring such passion among so many. Of course, with so many piling in straight away with such antipathy, anyone who likes them will be afraid to say so. Just like saying you don't like Prince gets you hauled up before the Basschat Thought Police. I personally find them quite harmless.

Does that mean that emerging blinking into the light of day and tottering into the nearest McDonalds is no longer part of the recording studio rite of passage?

I thought it was intended to go up to 11. Stub's solution seems a good one, using a log taper pot. The OBT isn't necessarily badly designed, log pots generally aren't but are accomplished by having two segments of track with linear tapers, one a steeper taper than the other, and the characteristics of the log pot itself might give rise to the poor low level accuracy.

Wrong 410+. It's the AT 410+, like my combo is the AT 800: https://www.grbass.com/portfolio/at-410-plus/ AT = AeroTech.

In: Headless 5-string GR Bass AT800 combo 2x Alto TS308 (PA FOH) Zynthian Behringer CT200 cable tester TC Electronic Aeon sustainer Out: Er... better put a few things up in Marketplace. Oh yes, Barefaced BB2.

And thinking of MIDI, the SubZero MB44 USB to 4 MIDIs is really handy although I think it's gone up somewhat in price since I bought one: https://www.gear4music.com/Recording-and-Computers/SubZero-4x4-MIDI-Interface/2KOA Gear4Music do a fair few good things under their SubZero brand, like Thomann and Harley Benton.

I'm not that bad, I've been doing it for 50 years - thought I'd got all three soldered up but the shield came adrift later. The ones I really dislike are 5-pin DIN plugs for MIDI, so I just buy the leads ready-made.

My soldering on one of the TRS to XLR leads between the Behringer X-Air mixer and one of the Behringer monitors wasn't quite good enough on Saturday. Still, the other monitor and the FOH was sufficient. Antoniotsai basses - great stuff, although they seem to have pretty much disappeared now.

The answer to both is that I don't know - haven't built any distortions and the auto-wah circuit is something of a puzzle, it's more that I've seen incongruities in it.

I would say that sens is sensitivity and affects the threshold that you trigger the auto-wah at, and if it's not sensitive enough when on max it will be one or more of the R4-R5-R6 network that needs changing, and range will control how much it wahs. D2 seems to be to indicate when the auto is autoing. It's confusingly labelled as it has D1 as a 1N4148 and D2 & D3 as red LEDs, but the circuit diagram shows D1 and D2 as LEDs and D3 as a plain ordinary diode. Can't work out what R5 and D1 are doing as I would have expected something to pull the voltage of the non-inverting input of IC1A to midway between +9V and 0V (like R9 & R10 do for IC1B) but if D1 was a 1N4148 then the non-inverting input would be pulled to 0.6V, while if it was a red LED it would be pulled to 2.2V or so.

In fairness, there was an improvement a couple of years ago, when the second-hand basses started to be categorised by number of strings and price range. There's some small things - like the fact that the "Bass guitars | Amplification | Effects | Accessories" menu line is still shown when you go into any of the categories except "Bass guitars", and it also disappears if you drill down to a manufacturer. Having a consistent header and menu structure (banner header, the four sales categories, and a dropdown on each of those categories containing what the sidebar does now) means that the page content could be unchanged but the way of getting to it would be improved. I suspect Mark would have to change website generator though, as he's using the final version of iWeb which came out in 2011.

I got an email from someone purporting to be representing someone whose copyright we had infringed with an image on the website. It didn't specify which image or define the copyright holder and the email address it came from bounced when I asked for further details. I haven't changed anything and haven't had any further contact from them.

Badgers gonna badge, surely. And butchers gonna butch.

A friend of mine, also a motorcyclist, has posted a few photos on Facebook of him and his Itacud.

IIRC, Thumper got chucked off Finnbass because of his Brexit views.

Or to ensure that all his music is available on pirate torrent sites. Hmmm, 27 pages of Clapton on Pirate Bay. I wonder if he'll be trying to eliminate them next.

To expand a bit, as well as the feel, I preferred the tone from roundwounds (I did mention I like the sound of roundwounds but I didn't say I preferred them to flats - I do). So expending time on an exercise that wouldn't bring any benefits (for me) seemed pointless.

Why bother?

A big consideration for me is feel. I mainly play fretless, and I've tried flats, but I find that with the reduced friction that any time I slide, I'm liable to miss my endpoint or get the speed of the slide wrong. Plus I like the sound of rounds.