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For use in setups, maybe live, but not a pedal - Korg GA Custom, another strobe tuner which is rather considerably cheaper than a Peterson.

A capo is an almost indispensable device to help with setup. A set of feeler gauges will also help. Put the capo at the first fret and then push the E string down around the neck pickup, ie. beyond the last fret. Then check the height of the string at the 7th fret. Depending on your feeler gauges, it should be somewhere round 8-14 thou if you're primitive, or .2 to .35mm if you're using proper units. If it's a lot bigger, slacken tighten the truss rod. You can probably guess what to do if it's a lot smaller. Leave it all to settle. Look along the neck and see if you've got a pretty uniform curve.

If you happen to come anywhere near Tamworth any time, you're welcome to the pink ukulele that someone gave me a few years ago.

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/325432077499 Decent photos too. I'm vaguely tempted, although it might result in my premature demise.

Looking at that AliExpress link, I spotted this old friend in the "Recommended for you" column on the right: https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005001826130302.html

What I like is that, unfettered by convention, he's put 75% of the tuners pointing down (for some values of "down") instead of the far more boring up. The long heel gives additional strength while the short unmatched neck pocket keeps flexibility for pickup positioning. And the bridge is so obviously a product of thinking outside the box, or, indeed, the body. And Steve Wishnevsky will be envious of those skills that meant his tools only slipped a couple of times.

I've been singing for 50 years, including being lead vocalist with one band for a while, and no, I can't sing beyond a few slightly dodgy backing vocals. I was, however, gigging standard with a bass in a month or two.

Ibanez do that for at least some of their basses on the published specs. What's on my wee certificate is confidential between me and my GP.

But what can the cat use as a scratching post then?

Warwicks have that, and it's fine as long as you and all the preceding owners are reasonably careful, but the clips can break and getting replacements then isn't always easy. I'd vote for magnets.

@Ashdown Engineering - revive the brilliant graphic preamp from the Superfly/Superduperfly and make it a stand-alone pedal. All bass manufacturers - make more headless basses. As evidence that this is required, see the endless whingeing on the previous five pages about headstocks.

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Ooh, that bracelet is just the right size for my wrist...

I'm by no means an expert in pickups, but I don't think that would give you enough information on its own. If you could compare the resistance with the resistance of a known identical pickup, you could work out whether it's underwound or overwound and by what proportion, but you wouldn't be able to compare with another pickup that used a different wire gauge as that would be a different resistance for the same number of windings. Would Fralin give you the info if you asked them nicely?

I have a WAV-4 (which hasn't been played for ages) and at one time I had an Ergo 5. For some reason, I couldn't get on with 5 strings - don't know whether it was the Ergo bit or the 5 bit that was the problem. I play 5-string so it's not a mental problem. I'm tempted to go to an Omnibass but I'd need to try a 5 out to see if I could get on with it.

Do you have a different bass you can try with the amp [1], or a different amp you can try with the bass? And if you plug the bass in to the amp but leave it for a short while before switching it on, do you get the same thing? [1] If you haven't yet, and you stay on Basschat, you soon will have

Have you tried introducing the effects one at a time, starting with the Little Bear? Also, if you have a daisy chain lead, you could try powering the Little Bear and/or the Double Muff from two outlets instead of one.

Mrs Zero has been a bit like this - in her duo with our old guitarist, she does BVs on some songs. She was looking at the tablet for the BVs for "Oh pretty woman", where the lyrics are "ooh, ooh". I think even I could manage to remember those lyrics (but not sing them in tune, that's a different skill set).

At least it's just outside the CAZ so it is possible to get to it round the Middleway ring road.

It's a right mix of emotions - sad that Chris passed away, especially the way that it happened, but also rather uplifting that @Fluid Druid did so much to help both Chris and his wife V.

Well, I'd like a zero-latency MIDI bass, but not enough to wait that long or pay that much. But if there's a couple of thousand bassists worldwide who don't mind waiting that long or paying that much, and they're a small enough operation to only turn out one or two basses a day, you'll get a long queue. What's the wait for a Jaydee at the moment?

I've bought a few things from Thomann. Some time ago, a deko HB 5-string fretless acoustic bass which was perfect, and more recently a B-stock HB headless guitar and a B-stock MOD Dwarf, both of which were perfect and immaculate (as far as I could see).