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A four-string P bass can also be used to hammer in tent pegs. There's versatile.

I don't know if I'm missing something obvious (it has been known), but when I do a search using the mobile interface, there doesn't appear to be a way to further filter by forum, so I can't, for example, look for specific basses only in "Basses for sale". This may please Mrs Zero but I find it inconvenient. Is there an option I've missed, or a route to the advanced search?

But for the price of this bass you should be able to get a very usable bass. £90 is far too much.

Assuming you've also eliminated the amp, could be the contacts inside the jack socket, the solder joints to the socket, or the solder joints at the other end of the wires running to the socket. Or, come to think of it, internal breaks in those wires, if they weren't replaced when the socket was replaced. Consider replacing the socket and the short run of coax cable from the master tone control to the socket. And always loop your lead through your strap.

Have you tried different leads?

Yes, the Reynolds Girls' career certainly demonstrated how unpopular Fleetwood Mac were.

Plenty of non-Bluetooth wireless headphones. The ones I have are analogue, there's also digital ones (eg Sennheiser RS160) but the latency could well be an issue. The sound isn't being companded, it's just being comped and the panded bit is left out. The disadvantage of wired (other than the wires, which I can live with) is that the Tascam GB10 doesn't drive the headphones I've got quite loud enough. I'm not after hearing-damaging teenager levels of volume. May just need to find more sensitive headphones.

Dammit, I shall be in Ireland topping up my suntan. Ah well, there's always another year for cake.

Same here, wireless at almost all gigs so there's no lead tangling round my leg and all the leads I plug into my bass for rehearsals and for the occasional ultra-simple gig (bass straight to amp) have Van Damme cables and silent jacks at the bass end. Although I could do with knocking up a silent jack lead to run to the Smoothhound.

I'd quite like to use wireless headphones at home to practice with, to save me getting tangled up with the lead, and also because my Tascam GB10 doesn't seem to have quite enough oomph to power my wired Sennheiser phones (can't remember which model offhand). I do have a Sennheiser RS120 but that compresses hugely, so if I start playing a little way into a track, the volume drops away quite spectacularly. I can overcome the volume situation with the wired phones by sending the signal through the hi-fi amp I have nearby, but that rather fixes me in place and removes one of the advantages of the GB10 over just playing a track on the PC and running the audio plus the bass through a mixer. So, does anyone know of any wireless phones that don't compress, aren't Bluetooth, and sound reasonable? I was wondering about Sennheisers that use Kleer digital technology, that Sennheiser boast is compression-free, but I don't know if that's entirely true. There are various phones from £35 or so upwards - has here anyone used any of these cheaper ones, and are they any good?

I use this for live work (though it's about to be replaced by an X Air 12): https://radioactive.org.uk/product/behringer-xenyx-1002b-mixer/ Handy if you want more than two inputs, and I also like it for having sliders but still having a very small footprint because of the neat arrangement. Probably overkill if you're just mixing two sources together though.

Since the drummer of the originals band stormed out of rehearsal and the slide guitarist took over the drum stool, there's been no noodling between songs at rehearsal (which used to annoy me as the guitarist and I were quite frequently trying to sort something out). The club band I played in a few years ago had the same set in the same order for ever, but that didn't stop the singer and guitarist having their books (roughly the size of chained bibles) on stage. And even then, the alcoholic singer would rearrange songs at random, suddenly going into a verse or chorus that no-one was expecting, or deciding that seven bars of a 12-bar guitar solo was quite enough. His most criminal act, though, was when he introduced us as "my band". And of course there's the times when I'm feeling grumpy, and everything annoys me.

Looks like they've recruited a sax player

Indeed, you don't want to burn down a disused building without permission.

97% of Wolverhampton corresponds to your needs, and with Carillion closing, that'll be up to 98%.

F**k yeah. Absof**kinglutely.

Thanks to Osiris and PaulWarning for their comments on the Zoom 160 Comp effect - I've got both a B3n and a MS-60B, which get used at assorted different times but with the same bass/amp/cab, and the only compressor that they have in common is the 160 Comp. It's nice to know that it actually does work (I did wonder how well a modelled compressor would work) and that it's effective. I would like to know what I should listen for when trying to sort the settings out for it though. I'm pretty certain I want a soft knee, and I suppose I should set the level so a note plucked at average intensity sounds the same volume when the compressor is switched on or off, but I don't know about threshold or ratio. Ah, just searched for 51m0n's Compression 101 post and found his (lost but archived) blog post on the subject: http://web.archive.org/web/20130215154741/http://blog.basschat.co.uk/setting-up-a-compressor/ which is more useful than the post I was thinking of, https://www.basschat.co.uk/topic/30431-is-a-compressor-of-any-real-value-in-fast-rock-music/?page=3&tab=comments#comment-1148269

Coincidentally, you and I both had couriers booked via Interparcel for that Monday who never turned up. The difference was that I rearranged mine for the Wednesday, it was picked up, and made its way to Finland satisfactorily and intact. I say "it", it was in fact "them", a brace of speakers which the buyer was very happy with. I think you should hold out for them to return the bass to you without an extra charge - that's just adding insult to injury. Twitter and Facebook can be effective weapons, apparently.

If you're after fit-and-forget pedals rather than the switchability of a B3, you could do exactly what Jack has and use an MS-60B and DI/preamp - the MS-60B will give you compressor, SVT, and cab sim quite happily.

Once upon a time, a club band I was in had a heavy-drinking singer who would at some point ask "Are there any birthdays in the room?" (OK, I don't mind that) followed by "Has anybody got any requests?" (never never never ask that unless you know every song ever), and then the clincher "Would anyone like to get up and sing a number?". Unfortunately there would often be someone who would come up and sing a song, which would tend to be some Sinatra or Crosby song which the guitarist might know but I didn't. If I didn't know it, I didn't play it, although I never actually carried out my threat of putting the bass down and walking off stage.

But anyway, last night we played that gig. Slide guitarist hadn't done any rehearsals drumming with us, just went in cold. It was bloody excellent. There's another gig in a week which the slide guitarist will drum for again, then we'll try and recruit another full time drummer. The BL happened to find out from someone who'd played with the ex-drummer before that he was prone to occasionally having these tantrums. Still, it's an opportunity to find a better drummer.

No. We're all pretty open with each other about things. The only thing that happened to upset him was that his holiday trip to Ireland was cancelled due to the snow.# This is a man around the same age as me - six decades or so. He's not some angst-ridden teenager.

No ta. He texted the BL saying that BL was pinking on him. BL didn't bother replying.

Oh no, he was ranting all the time as he packed up. And yes, we did try to talk him down. Didn't work.