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Ditto. Tell them you have commitments with your new band.

At the moment, the simultaneous best and worst is a Shuker Uberhorn 5 fretless - beautiful bass with an unplayably high action, bought at long range in a Gardiner Houlgate auction. The problem with the action is due to a mullered truss rod, so it is currently with Jon for a complete rebuild and conversion to 34" scale from 35".

I'm sure that the original NTB 4 BXP, with the scooped lower horn, was 34" scale. I remember looking at the specs at the time and noticing the difference in scale length (something that stuck in my head). There's also a Talkbass thread (that I can't link to) with a couple of people who own scoop-fronted Grind BXP 4s which are 34".

I think that 4-string NT Peaveys are generally 34" while 5 and 6-strings are 35", although the predecessor to the Cirrus, the Zephyr (or C5) had a 34" 5-string neck.

As I'm a cheapskate, I've bought a couple of Lekato straps. https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/403939133970 and https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/403812500121

What is wrong with it as it is, and what exactly do you want to achieve? Looks like the current tone control switches between two capacitors to give two different ranges of treble cut.

It's what he would have wanted.

I use Elites Stadium, but that's just me.

I was in an originals band (now in hiatus) where the drummer was also a sound engineer, and he went with the sE V7. I decided to indulge myself a few months ago and went for an sE V7 myself. Very happy with it.

I got caught out by two things when I switched to an XR18 from an XR12 - I couldn't power the travel router from the USB port and the AUX outputs for monitors are XLR rather than TRS jack.

No, it's the wrong end, so as to speak. The XR12/XR16 are USB hosts, so they can supply USB power, while the XR18 is a USB device - a receiver of power rather than a giver of it.

Also ordered a fret kisser. Just have to see whether I can rise above my normal level of incompetence at using luthier tools.

Space - that's a nice idea. Wish I had some.

Whoever organises the list needs to put him on first, then put him plus parents on last.

No.

At the Kingfisher in Shard End, Birmingham last night. We were in the front room, unlike previous occasions when we were in the back room. Took my Plenty cab and TC BAM200. A fellow bassist also came along - plugged him into my amp with my lead (home-made, Rean plugs, straight to right-angle) and after one song the lead fell out - oddly, the tip had come off the right-angle plug. Switched leads and all was well. At the end of the evening I found the tip on the floor. On examination, the central shaft that goes between the tip and the plug contact is splined and a press fit into the tip. New plug needed - at least I've got plenty of spares. And his Godin A5 sounded good through my little rig.

Nobody has ever told me I should play a P. Am I doing something wrong?

One passive bass, one which I bought passive but I subsequently activated, 30ish active. The Megatar is also passive. World Battery Change Day promises to be quite expensive. Added to that, all my guitars are active except one - the electrics are Variaxes and a Jamstik, the acoustics are electroacoustics except for one.

Fair Deal Music is only a mile or two from there too. And if he does M6/M42/M40, he can pop in to Bass Direct and Bass Bros.

Is anyone experimenting with a PiPedal by any chance? Just wondering whether to spend a bit of time putting together something else I won't use.

Don't forget that I said "about". Having had a recalculation, and bought a bass or two since then, "over" would be a better word. I'd better do an inventory, I'm not sure myself. In terms of basses, fewer[1] than @cetera and more than @neepheid. [1] Note correct English

I'm surprised at that as the overall length from fixed point (back of the body) to fixed point (tuner) is longer than on a through bridge (bridge to tuner), so the marginal increase in length required to press the string down to the fret would be lower as a percentage of the overall length on the through body than the through bridge, so I would expect the tension on through body to be slightly less than through bridge.

I like Ibanez but $8k for an SR made with pretty woods is a bit of a stretch.

Gone now, which at least has removed temptation from me.

Surely not, Warwick make the Corvette.