tauzero

That's a nice bass, and actually deserves the word "rare" in the description too! Does the active circuit have a trim pot to adjust the level by any chance?

So they don't have to look as if someone took a sander to them then? 😁 Have the strings (or at least the A string) been slackened off?

No, but on my 50th birthday, when we played the Dudley Beer Festival, one of them (and my girlfriend at the time, now Mrs Zero) did grab me and badge me and silly string me and bewig me.

Mike Batt is a member of Mensa. He could have worked it out.

I used to play in a ceilidh band with two Morris dancers, so it appears I am now in your bad books.

My opinion is that they're really annoying, and there's much better ways to accomplish the same thing.

Another alternative is a hardware synth module with the MIDI controller keyboard, like a Roland JV series. Or even a Zynthian - https://zynthian.org/

It's possible to buy or make DC blockers if phantom power might be a problem. https://www.instructables.com/Phantom-Power-Blocker-protect-Your-Dynamic-Microph/

In that advert, it's a bit of a quest to find words that are spelt correctly.

A guitar, amp, and bluetooth transmitter/effects unit: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/175184992982 New prices - £130 for the guitar, £30 for the bluetooth thing, CR-10T amp can't be found new but £20 second-hand. A snip at £600 for the lot.

Nanyo Bass Collection. IIRC there's one in the marketplace at the moment.

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?