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George Whasington? How easy is it to remember what button does what? Quite a spectacular bass. Is that a 32" scale?

Probably ABM, it's what Sei use for their headless basses.

Indeed, all you need to take to a gig is two workbenches and a concrete floor. To really do a proper experiment, you'd need to use the same bridge and headstock and attach them to long thin pieces of wood of similar dimensions and perform a full spectrum analysis of the output. The strings, pickups, and electronics will be the most significant influencers of tone (assuming that the material used for body and neck is adequately rigid). The wood used to connect them will have some effect, it's the amount of that effect that is questionable. My feeling is that it's close to negligible, others (mentioning no names) will differ.

There's probably a way of controlling it via the USB port to enable bank up/down. I've done something similar with an MS-60B and a B3, and I'm sure there's a topic on it somewhere. Found it: http://basschat.co.uk/topic/275453-zoom-b3-ms-60b-b1on-usb-control

Depends on your definition of "northern". There was a free magazine called Solihull & District WHY a while ago, and Solihull is firmly in the Midlands (the bit of England that all northerners and southerners forget exists, but if it didn't, Bristol would be next to Liverpool).

Can you have it the other way round? The Velvet Underground and Nico? Sorry, I've skipped "U". Just found One Man Army and the Undead Quartet.

I think whoever wrote it had been listening to "A spaceman came travelling" quite recently. Not too offensive at all. I did see one song from one of the semifinals (so I'm working on dcurrent information) - Armenia, and whoever wrote that song had been listening to Mary Hopkin recently. Standard Eurothump rhythm.

Oh, I thought the tea was for when you were waiting for the soldering iron to heat up.

That's nice. I have an 87 JD Thumb which has that lovely slim neck - I don't play 4-string any more but I'm not selling it, I'm too attached to it.

That G-string (I suppose it's a D-string given that it's a fifth below) looks a bit close to the edge (© Yes). If the bridge has notches for the strings, it either needs re-notching or moving to the left a tad. Presumably a 50" scale makes it ideal for the bassist with sausage fingers. I wonder if it will disappear, to reappear with 3+1 tuners, an old Les Paul copy humbucker and a Strat pickup, with some scalloping on the fingerboard?

"Right, the top horn tip is *here* <draws 'x'> and the bottom horn tip is *here* <draws another 'x'> and the curve of the lower bout is *here* <draws curve> and the waist is *here* and *here* <draws another two 'x's>. OK, give the apprentice a ruler and let him finish up".

I still have the JD Thumb, which did get an outing about three years ago. Favourite bass that I use would be my Sei Original 5-string fretless.

I'm not sure why I don't like it but it's probably to do with the straight lines going all over the place and one straight line along the bottom of the top horn going askew where it crosses the neck. Status basses have a fair few straight lines but I find them attractive, probably due to the curvey bits giving relief from the straight lines, and the bottom of the top horn flowing back rather than angling down. I'd be interested to see one without that hideous scratchplate on it.

I've played "Dance the night away" on it. Is that close enough?

Just a minor point - everything after that first "?" is superfluous, although it does tell me what you had for breakfast.

The body would be a lot more attractive without all those drawing pins in it.

Well, it wouldn't be a Fender, and it would have five strings, and it would be natural, or maybe one of @skelf's acrylic impregnated tops, preferably with a nice bit of figuring. I have a lovely Antoniotsai with (IIRC) sycamore facing. The dragon is a bonus.

I got Mrs Zero singing at open mics, with me playing guitar. We haven't done any for some time now but we want to start again. I started out as a guitarist around 50 years ago and use still guitar to write songs.

My name is Mike and I have been tort and burst Precision free for 34 years and two months, ever since I discovered Warwick.

If I used only the guidance on Basschat to inform my buying decisions, I would be playing a 4-string Precision with flatwounds through some valve monstrosity (no effects) into an Ampeg fridge. I'm rather glad I'm independently minded. As regards listening comparisons, I recommend looking for reviews of hi-fi speaker cables and experiments in double-blind listening tests. Even more revealing, look for reviews of digital interconnect cables (USB and HDMI), for example https://www.whathifi.com/vertere/pulse-d-fi/review

Just needs a knob plate on it to give the full post-repair BoD look.

I think it's fugly too. FWIW, the OP did instruct us to look at the instrument (see topic heading) so if I've got to look at it, I think I should be able to express an opinion on it too.

Shouldn't it only require two zero crossings, which could be anything between half a cycle and very very nearly a full cycle?

Yes, it would have cost around £300 for a 5-string though because you can't get the dead cheap AliExpress headless kits in 5-string. Could have done five singles though. Warwick and (IIRC) Kramer both took a similar approach to headless, so it sort of works.

As you've got a UK adaptor, presumably you're using an extension that has a Norwegian plug (beautiful plumage) and a UK socket in order to get the power in in the first place. Is it possible that it's that that is dodgy?