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DPD managed to lose a Warwick that was heading for me. Got as far as their depot over the other side of Birmingham to me, then it was supposed to be loaded on a van, then it wasn't delivered, then it was supposed to be loaded on a van but wasn't. This continued for a few days until I contacted them, they managed to track it down somewhere in the warehouse, and I went in and picked it up myself because they were obviously too incompetent to manage to get it 30 miles along the M5/M6/M42 after it had got there from (IIRC) Italy.

It's arrived (impressive, I ordered it on the 23rd so it's taken 4 days 8 hours to get here). Haven't started playing with the noises yet. And it says "ANNBLACK BOX" on the case. The case is a little different to the Lekato ME-01 - the top doesn't have a downward slope. Other than that, the control layout is the same, and the Android and Windows control software is the same.

Could really do with a background other than black for the photos to show it to its best advantage.

I'm happy with my Lekato WS-90 and the M-Vave clone of it. Thinking of picking up another WS-50 as my old one has micro USB charging which became a little temperamental, and they've gone to USB-C.

Incidentally, I found this video: which says in the description "M-VAVE ANN BLACK BOX is same as the original BLACK BOX, they just emphasized the ANN Training capability of their device."

Now in the country...

The open mics I go to have a couple of different systems. Two of them are pre-book, with sometimes a bit of space available for ad hoc arrivals and occasionally a bit of pre-planning on collaborations. The other is book in on arrival and opt for a time slot. Although the pre-book ones have a running order decided by the organisers and you find out about it when one of them says "you're on next", you can ask where you are in the order. The book in on arrival one has the booking sheet with time slots displayed on one of the speaker stands. When people want me to bass for them, they generally ask me beforehand and tell me which songs (and key/capo) so I can at least scribble notes, although it's not infrequent that I've never heard a song before playing it, which is always fun. Another alternative is looking over their shoulder if they've got charts (not ideal with capos) or (worst option) watching their fingers, which again is sub-optimal when they're using capos.

Should do, assuming that the input sensitivity is sufficient (mic level rather than line level).

What sort of build time?

Someone on here gave a good tip on that - use a capo to hold the string in place.

Maybe https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/236470537199 (or https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/287042201258 for the compete tuner). Not actually brushed stainless but the finish matches quite well. This is what they look like on one of my basses.

It was a bit of a dilemma - resurrect an unrelated thread or start another one. And seeing as my build diaries thread on the BC 8" cab has been utterly and totally hijacked, I thought I'd get my own back.

The styling definitely doesn't appeal to me - stick a Rick scratchplate onto a Precision, add a cover that may or may not be covering a bridgier pickup than the P pickup, and stick a droopy Jackson headstock on.

Sax is one of those instruments that if you find a band that really wants it, they properly need it, but very few bands do. Bass is one of those things that lots of bands need, so be assured that just because that band has filled the slot doesn't mean that a) the band in the next rehearsal room along doesn't want one and b) that slot will stay filled.

I just did a search to see if anyone had identified it and hit this thread. Just been watching and got this far: Sunburst 5 string bass Maple fretboard & neck Chrome hardware Stingray-looking headstock, 4+1 with a downwards point No scratchplate (hurrah!) P (neck) and reverse P (bridge) pickups Controls are three in a horizontal straight line, with three in an arc below them - my guess is V/B/T (treble cut) on the top, bass/mid/treble on the bottom I would guess at Sadowsky as that's their headstock shape and they do custom FSOs, generally avoiding the cheap look of scratchplates, although their controls tend to be in a J-sloping straight line.

They do line up quite neatly so they don't look out of place.

Regardless of the grooviness of it, it is jolly pretty. Now all you need are brushed stainless steel knobs and tuners to match...

Except that that isn't what we've been on about. Have a look at the bridge below and see if you can spot the grooves on the base plate.

Where did you manage to find that? I've been hunting for a comparison between the two. DuckDuckGo's search assist gets confused and compares apples and lunar landing modules:

IIRC you then see a fight breaking out between old and new band through the control room window in the background.

Go into "My Attachments". Open the particular image.png that you want to rename (I use Irfanview) and save it as a named file (preferably a .jpg), resized if desired. Then look at the right-hand side of the "My Attachments" page, open the post that the image is in by clicking on it, and edit it - replace image.png with the named file, then remove that particular image.png. A bit laborious but you get it done in the end.

Lovely looking basses, shame they're 4s not 5s (not surprising as they're late 70s when 5-string basses were yet to become established).

It would be handy if you did have that superpower though. We could deploy you every time Fender threatened to bring out another pointless variation on their limited themes, or anybody said they'd be bringing out another bloody relic.

String spacing again a bit narrow, but I'd forgotten Hohner - there's the B V (with body and head), Jack V (headless with body) and the B2AV (cricket bat headless) - the B2AV has a passive variant, the B2V, which IME doesn't sound as good.

I suspect that too.