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I'm surprised that nobody has mentioned William Shatner yet, for every single one of his covers. Telly Savalas did a pretty shocking version of "If" too.

I keep seeing these references and I find it a bit puzzling as I can't remember Jean-Michel Jarre ever playing bass.

I'm just seeing if I can get the vein in @Woodinblack's temple throbbing. And it seems a little arbitrary selecting me to patronise, as the whole of this thread has been opinions. And emojis are for losers.

Nonsense. It conveys the raw emotion far better than the original did.

It has a couple of scratches so it's a light relic.

BT power supply part number S018CAM1200150 - 12V 1.5A centre positive, 5.5/2.5mm.

Your subsequent question was "Why do You think Fender cs would not make Your perfect bass ?" and I answered it. Perhaps it would help if you remembered what you'd said.

They don't make headless neck-through basses, and I think it's unlikely that they'd do one just for me.

That, and Joe Cocker's "Little Help", are very much subjective. Personally, I love both of them. The Alexander Burke version of "Hallelujah" is objectively awful though.

Just what I was going to say.

"Hey Mr Plant, my band's just done this cover of Stairway and we were wondering what to call ourselves, here, I'll play it to you <song plays> There, what do you think we should call the band? Hey lads, he said Far Corp. Far Corporation it is then."

I'm not sure how useful this answer is, but the strength of neodymium magnets varies with their size. I see what you're saying, but the magnet material will presumably make a difference as will how they are magnetised. If the issue is relative loudness of strings, I'd suggest experimentation.

I'm looking to do the same thing and I've concluded that it's simplest to cut the DC patch cables that came with the power supply to length and put new plugs on. Cut and shut is another option but wouldn't be as neat.

Could be fiddly if the socket is PCB mounted and tore a track. Plus that's quite a bit more than the going rate appears to be.

What do you mean, untidy?

StageFlex do a 3x1.0 too: https://www.stage-electrics.co.uk/View/21675/stageflex-37027-metre-x-bs6500-h07rn-f-rubber-cable-3core-1mm-black (and in white also).

Given the nature and location of many rehearsal studios, it may partly be a way of holding on to land until someone wants it for residential development and then selling it at a vast profit. For instance, https://goo.gl/maps/xwzpyK6dDXH5DGab9 - on the left is Robanna's studios (also does PA hire and recording, which are further revenue streams), on the right are new apartments which used to be industrial premises the same as Robanna's.

I sit corrected. That seems confusing, given that amps are clockwise for louder whether you're left or right handed.

I think you can patent a circuit if it is a novel application.

I went to see it at the cinema when it came out. Much self-indulgent guitar widdlery.

Surely left-handed basses are clockwise for louder and anti-clockwise for quieter, just like right-handed, so this stuff about left-handed and right-handed wiring is just a load of bollocks?

I can't see the logic in thinking it would be leftie wiring. Clockwise is clockwise whichever way up the pot is, and as volume pots are log pots, having them wired the other way round would mean they should be antilog pots. Just c0cked-up wiring.

The Fender ones are Schaller compatible (originally made by Schaller, in fact). Thomann do Schaller compatibles for about a fiver (plus a tenner shipping, so get anything else you may want at the same time) - https://www.thomann.de/gb/harley_benton_security_locks_bk.htm So just get a set of those, install them on the new bass, and you've got strap buttons that work with the current strap and if you should splash out on a new strap, you can fit the new straplocks to that and use it with either bass.

They face the same problem as Harley Davidson did with motorcycles. HD have finally jettisoned the old design, but their twin lines of Sportster and Glide were it for decades, and although the V-Rod was made for nearly 20 years it got dropped as traditional HD customers didn't buy them. Fender have made the occasional bass other than P and J with the Mustang being the only one that's been fairly successful (although the Bass VI has been successful enough to be revived every so often for a couple of years).

That's right, the seller gets 75-85% of the hammer price, the buyer pays 115-125% of the hammer price (plus VAT on the bit over 100%) and the auction house gets the 30-50%.