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Dad was the one who did most music listening - it was almost all classical. I was born in 1957, and in my early teens I listened to Radio 1 and some Radio Luxembourg, and by my late teens liked Focus, T Rex (and Tyrannosaurus Rex), Queen, Yes, and Pink Floyd, all of which I still like. The main legacy of dad's collection is Flanders and Swann.

Lots of reverb IRs now available - https://www.guitarworld.com/news/mod-audio-reverb-plugin-convolution-impulse-response

You said "Why is it so hard to save a bit more and buy some quality?". So you're talking about the cost to the customer, not the component or assembly cost.

Are you sure that wasn't pilot error? Why are you associating China only with cheap goods? iPhones aren't exactly cheap and they're made in China.

Yes, I think that's what it is. Neck pocket is loose, tuners feel quite nice. It joins the project pile.

Well, I suppose if you listen carefully... https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/354580643614

On the lined versus unlined debate: my first three fretlesses were unlined, the next couple were defretted but with filler that was quite close to the fretboard colour, and I currently have four - a lined Sei Original, an edge-marked Ibanez SRF705, and an unlined Warwick Corvette (all 5-strings) and a Warwick Thumb 4-string which was one of the defretted ones but which I've since had a new plain fretboard fitted to. I'd prefer unlined but I can disregard the lines (I don't look at the front of the neck when I'm playing) and I had the dots on the Sei moved to the "fret" positions.

Really? I had been playing for a year with one band before they realised I was using a fretless.

Because they sound better than flats.

I would like to try an F Bass because Scott said it had the nicest neck he'd ever played. Just curious as to whether our opinions coincide, and whether it would meet with Brasso's approval.

And cut the headstock off. I can't take anyone seriously who has a bass made with a headstock.

JG said he wanted a standard series signature bass so it would be more affordable. I looked at the Fodera website and all their Standard series are $1000. Well, that does look like the Squier of the boutique bass world, until you read more closely and find that that's just the deposit and they're actually $5500 plus shipping.

The teacher in South Park. I had a look at the list of artists on the F Bass website. Janek Gwizdala isn't on there, but Chelsea Gwizdala is. As it's quite an unusual surname, I wondered if she's his wife, sister, or alter ego. And why aren't F Bass prouder of him? The video does imply that he hasn't left F Bass (yet).

Stick with a 5. There are defretted instruments (some done well, some not) and new instruments. I'd say the same as @Smanth and go with a Harley Benton, there's two - the B-550FL and the HBZ-2005FL, which are both rated about the same on Thomann. The alternative is something defretted (which you'd really need to check out in person to make sure it's a decent job) or a second-hand fretless 5. The Ibanez SRF705 is very nice but £500+ second-hand.

Does that mean that women's [1] heads get wider when they lie down? [1] And men's, when they are sufficiently obese

The Gorilla Glue is really cráp for this purpose - it expands quite a bit so even after smoothing out the wrap, it ends up somewhat lumpy. Not the glue's fault at all, I just used the wrong glue for the application. If I was to do this again (and wild horses wouldn't make me I think it's unlikely), I'd use something that squishes out better. The last few edges I'm doing with Bostik general purpose PVA glue - I'll see how that goes. It looks OK from a distance, I shall either never take it out of the house or put a cordon 5m from it to prevent close inspection. The PVA will take 24 hours to cure so there's about 17 hours to go to find out how successful that is.

It's the Fane Sovereign 6-100 6" driver. The cab is @Phil Starr's design:

If the baud rate is controlling the MIDI port baud rate, it's wrong. Needs to be 31250.

Looks like the website has been archived but not the transcriptions. https://web.archive.org/web/20220720124206/https://bilbosbassbites.co.uk/

Is his website on the Wayback Machine at https://archive.org/? Don't know what the URL was of his site otherwise I'd have checked myself.

He hasn't mentioned Noah Chimpsky yet.

You don't have a factual argument, you have an opinion.

No it isn't. You are completely and utterly wrong. Slim necked headless active basses with at least five strings are the only way to go and anything else is rubbish. I say so so it must be true.

Covering first. Ages ago, I got a sheet of carbon fibre look stick-on stuff which I was going to use for some purpose on a bike - the purpose is long-forgotten but the fabric was just the right size to wrap the cab, so that is now in progress. It's not very sticky so I'm using Gorilla glue to stick it on. I started by making cuts in the fabric to let me fold it into the top back and glued it into place, giving me an anchor point. The next stage - the top: The second of the two sides: Wrapped round and doing the bottom - I decided just to overlap it, it's quite thin and the joint won't show: The tricky bit - wrapping the edges round at the back: I still have two front edges and all four rear edges to do, then I need to trim the rear panel very slightly to fit (sanding it down to size should do) and paint it. Front panel has already been painted black. Incidentally, the slightly misplaced batten was cater for by getting some iron-on edging, narrowing it down a little, and ironing it onto the batten. It's all going to get some 3mm thick rubber foam round the edge anyway which should seal it up nicely. I must say, retirement has been a great help. I've made more progress in six days than I did in the previous six months.

Schaller 3D bridges will cover a wide range of spacing. https://schaller.info/en/bridges/338/3d-5?c=52