tauzero

Page 120 of the manual.

Go headless. Hohner B2, very compact, or if you'd rather have a bit of body, Hohner Jack. Keeps you at 34" scale length, no stupid headstock to hit things with (unless you really want to) or wreck the balance.

They're absolutely horrible to play.

I don't think @snorkie635's 8-string is the more conventional setup - AFAICS most 8-strings have the octave string uppermost, as does my Dean 10-string. Also, as 4-string sets start at around £15-20, £40 for twice the number of strings seems OK. I can't remember exactly what I did, I think it was a five-string set (or possibly a 6-string set) and a number of single strings.

A quick mention that there's a v3.52 HX Edit out. There's no firmware changes though.

I don't feel even the faintest stirring of desire for that.

Changing it to V/V with no blend would need the schematic and somebody who was reasonably expert in electronics to work out how to do it. None of the stacked pots in the link @Passinwind provided would fit the requirements - it needs one undetented log pot for volume (we don't know the value) and one 50k linear centre detented. It looks like there's three which has a mix of log and lin (P1052, P1053, P1056) but the actual values don't match up with what you need.

You could put one together yourself. A second-order passive filter would give you -6dB/octave. https://www.electronics-tutorials.ws/filter/filter_3.html

This is why you need this:

To expand a bit on that - if you look at the left-hand board, it has two rows of holes for the pot to be soldered two, but the pot used is a single pot (compare with the two pots on the other board which are both double pots). If you look at the left hand board between the pots, you can see and the bottom line says that if you have a piezo, you change the single variable resistor to a dual one. That also tells us the value of the blend pot. Whether such a pot exists is another matter. I think it's unlikely.

If you look at the photo, the balance is a single gang rather than dual gang pot, although the PCB caters for a dual gang pot. That appears to be for a piezo bridge, looking at the markings on the board. It does mean having a stacked log pot and linear pot combination of the appropriate resistances, preferably with the linear pot having a centre detente.

I have found a cheap stereo wireless IEM (Lekato MS-1, £30 off AliExpress) so I'm going to give that a whirl.

£500 is about 100 times what I want to pay.

I think you've missed the point of what I want. Battery-powered transmitter is indeed what I meant. Bass -> no wires -> Tascam GB-10 -> no wires -> headphones. The second "no wires" may be preceded by -> battery-powered transmitter. I don't like having headphone wires dangling round me. I could probably cope with battery transmitter -> battery receiver -> headphones as I could coil up the headphones lead and get it out of the way somewhere.

We're classic rock covers, I'd like to avoid the most hackneyed but we do have Dakota and All Right Now in the set. @Smanth, I've done some songs as bass plus vocals (Mrs Zero doing the vocals) - Stand by me, Fields of gold, and Fever by Peggy Lee. We're also looking at Wicked Game by Chris Isaacs.

I'd like to be able to practice with a Tascam GB-10 wirelessly. I have no problem with a wireless for the bass (Lekato 5.8GHz bug), but I would also like as near as possible wireless headphones. I don't want anything mains powered, as I'd like it to be fully portable and self-contained, and Bluetooth is out due to latency, so is there such a thing as wireless headphones that have a battery-powered transmitter?

"I'm a believer" by the Monkees has a cracking bass line by Carol Kaye. Or at least I thought it was, but someone says otherwise in the comments under this transcription.

It's also worth trying out 34" 5 stringers as there's nothing stopping them having good B strings. Barring one MS and one 36", all my 5+ stringers are 34" scale.

Is that all? I did a 400 mile round trip once to get a bass combo. Even worse, it was a Trace Elliot 4x10.

Even though Townshend was never even tried for any offence? Rather a case of double standards, isn't it?

I don't see a problem with practicing once a week if there's a purpose to it. Once up and gigging, if you're gigging reasonably frequently and varying the set then you should only need to rehearse to bring new material in, or maybe if a significant number of repeating mistakes start creeping in. Of course you might want to rehearse a bit more for the social side of it.

I've just been reading a little piece on Vincent Berton, who made this and another couple of dozen guitars and basses. Rather a tragic story, he took his onw life in the 1990s after producing the couple of dozen highly imaginative instruments. https://jedistar.com/vincent-berton/

Make sure your flies are properly done up then.

My ardour got severely dampened when I saw the price. Wonder if anyone on AliExpress will make a copy.