tauzero

I have noticed that almost no guitarists use straplocks, despite the guitarists that I've played with mostly having instruments at the Les Paul/Fender Strat/PRS level of expense.

I am not going to buy any more gear unless I really want to.

My first decent bass, a Hayman 40/40 that I put together myself and stupidly pxed for a Precision. And a 4-string fretless bass, a Frontier, which I've never seen another one of.

Are you going to do a build diary thread on it?

Well, it's only got 4 strings anyway. A Buzzard replica - https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/325535873475 Only one slightly blurry picture on Ebay but the text mentions mormusic.com and there it is: https://www.mormusic.com/buzzard-bass-replica-custom-built/ - so it has a Buzzard rather than Warwick headstock. However, the neck joint is completely wrong. For one thing, the original Buzzard was through-neck, and the later paddle headstock Buzzards had a different neck joint too. mormusic one: Original and best with through neck: Paddle headstock neck joint (I had the 5-string version):

But it goes tight enough to stop it rotating and the grub screw stops it unscrewing. If Schaller put two nuts on the old strap part to enable the nuts to be locked, it would have been better. I'm another one who's not a fan of the integrated screw and strap button. I think it's possible to get unintegrated Schaller compatible strap buttons. It's a shame they didn't continue with the old style alongside the new, they might have found what people's preferences are.

I wrote my own. The admin side is a bit clunky but it's just me using it so I haven't bothered to make it look beautiful.

Trying to buy something off Aliexpress (a Bluetooth MIDI adaptor, for the curious), when I clicked "Buy Now" the payment page came up and the "PAY NOW" button appeared briefly, then disappeared. I tried a different browser, tried putting it into my shopping cart, nothing worked. Searching for answers, I found that the issue might be only having PayPal as a payment method. I added a credit card as a payment method and hey presto, I could pay. I know I'm not alone in buying from Aliexpress, so thought I'd post this in case anyone else fell foul of whatever's going on.

Oh, and my duo with Mrs Zero, mainly covers and a few originals - Second Time Round

Band that seems to have ground to a halt following various health issues - Space Monkey (covers, primarily 80s) Originals prog band - A2rk. Named after the initials of the four founder members. Covers band just working up to gigging level - Dirty Roses.

Release 1.13 came out a week ago.

No they don't (sample size of 15+ active basses and 6 wireless systems).

You could just leave the charger cable permanently connected to the pedal and plug it into the charger when it needs a charge.

There's a thread in The Other Place about a similar issue - it seems you can't get old spares from Peavey but there was quite a good idea on an alternative cover. I suspect that part of the problem with finding a replacement is that it's not really a box, it's just a cover with a fixed frame and removable lid, which is fairly unusual. https://www.talkbass.com/threads/replace-peavey-tl-five-battery-compartment.1549341/ Come to think of it, another alternative would be to get small neodynium magnets and recess them into the outer frame in those circles just outboard of the screws, and glue some thin steel (not stainless) washers to the cover.

Planet Waves embroidered straps. The only downside was playing gigs in a very hot sweaty venue on successive nights, when I didn't leave the strap out of the bass case to dry out after the first night. Putting a cold damp clammy strap on wasn't a nice experience.

Needs the head chopping off.

Still Schallers for me. Keep meaning to drop a little 3 in 1 into the locking bit and never getting round to it.

So it has its good points then.

I'm not quite sure how you signify an incredulous tone in text. https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/195616713872 And someone's asking £550 for just a body. That used to get you an entire bass.

Went for £550 and if it plays as well as it looks, that's money well spent.

You're all just encouraging his addiction. @ash, burn them and go cold turkey, you'll thank me for it.

If only that was a 5-string. And headless. And fretless.

Soft synth inna box? https://zynthian.org/

From their website: ITS OWN APP With a constantly expanding library of patches and effects, bassists can continue to expand their sound with the "Handy Guitar Lab for B2 FOUR" app (for iOS), available to purchase on the Apple App Store. So you can mess around with Guitar Lab on your phone if you're one of the 25% with iOS but not if you're one of the 70% with Android, just like the MS-100BT couldn't be used with Android but only with iOS. Nothing to do with audio.

Was it good for metal?