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I'm shifting over to an X-Air XR12 but I've been using a Behringer Xenyx 1002B. I like it as it has sliders for FOH on each channel rather than rotaries, but still keeps a quite small footprint by clever control layout. https://www.gear4music.com/PA-DJ-and-Lighting/Behringer-XENYX-1002B-Mixer/AM5 However, it doesn't have built-in effects.

Probably wants it gone from his hallway.

So where did the mudbucker and third control go? Lost in the refin?

If it's any comfort, autocorrect on an expensive tablet is just as good.

Having gone from a prog rock covers band to a 80s cover band, anything between 2 and 15. Generally, 11-13. Rather fewer for the prog tribute band I'm in.

I've got a pair of Delano J pickups - swap you for the bass?

bandwerkz.com is good. If you're in multiple bands and they all use it, band members' other gigs can be shown which helps avoiding diary clashes.

And then I suppose it will be new string time...

I went with a different cat one. Yes, that is my cat. Or I am his human, whatever.

Bad Company - Can't get enough of your love, Feel like making love. Hackneyed but you may decide to abandon fretted altogether as you can play everything fretless. Marillion - Sugar Mice. Like much of Pete Trewavas's work, it's more like an extended bass solo than a song, as he plays so many variations. Gets you up the neck (and discovering what an impediment the Fender neck joint is). Any Paul Young/Pino Palladino song. Any other song that you fancy. Just because it was originally done on a fretted bass doesn't mean you can't play it on a fretless. I generally use a fretless for gigs with the covers band and the originals band.

Didn't I say headless was the way to go?

Also Switch Sound File Converter, free for home use. You can do batch conversions with that.

Ronnie Pickering. He's Ronnie Pickering, you know.

Don't you know who Ronnie Pickering is?

Almost everything I've got is active, and I don't have anything with Jazz wiring, so I can't experiment. Have you tried experimenting with VVT? Everything turned to max, VV turned to max and T to min, neck V to max and bridge V to min and T at max and then min, etc?

That sounds like some sort of impedance matching issue which the effects mask by buffering it. Is it a passive bass?

Thanks - it's 15mm x 25mm at the widest points, wrapped round a corner at the rear bottom and not really visible from the front. I'll have a think about it.

Have you seen https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Steinberger-String-Adapter-Headless-Hohner-Cort-Bass-or-Guitar-Made-in-USA/323740864560?

Have you actually got the input switched on? If you look at the circular switch, there's a little guitar icon at the bottom - press that and see if it improves it. See page 12 of the user manual (available at https://tascam.com/downloads/tascam/526/e_gb-10_om_vb2.pdf). That's caught me out once or twice.

I've got a Hohner B2AV, natural finish, which has the varnish/lacquer chipped off on one corner. I would rather like to patch it up, so I wondered if anyone knew what lacquer or varnish I should use? It's not terrible, more to satisfy my OCD, so I don't want to make it worse in a quest to improve it.

"Distressed" is understating it. Looks as if it's got as far as self-harm.

I expect an NBD in the next few weeks.

Coming late to the party and reviving this - you could get a better-executed and more attractive one from Aliexpress for £225 (plus £45 duty and VAT if it happens to get done for it): https://www.aliexpress.com/item/In-Stock-Acrylic-4-string-Headless-Electric-Bass-guitarra-Fingerboard-transparent-acrylic-body-with-LED-light/32947033280.html Oooh shiny

It also looks like he was a bit peckish and had a nibble at it. https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Takamine-G330-Signed-By-Nils-Lofgren/183765422387

But he also says he never plays his active basses in active mode, which rather hints that he has a downer on active preamps.