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Revived purely to slag off the Jazz bass. Seems a bit pointless. They're basses.

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I get that occasionally too. I just have to trust my eyes and proprioceptors.

I remember The Bottom Line, but more because Steve Manes also ran a Triumph email list which I was on. I've learnt a lot about the existence of many makes of bass which I never knew existed, all of which are very expensive and several of which I now own. It appears that the level of one's knowledge is in inverse proportion to the contents of one's bank account.

October 2007 - I'd been trying to find some information on a harmoniser and stumbled across BC.

It's never Victor Wooten's hands either.

That's the trouble with topic titles that just consist of a name...

Antoniotsais. I'd like another 5-string Ritter Roya influenced one to defret.

The owners love them so much that they hang on to them for ever.

Has he died then?

That ash body looks like a nice bit of wood. It would be a shame to cover it up with paint.

There's no electrical detail for the 10.5 but it's half an Omni 10, so the two relevant options are Parallel - gives higher sensitivity for a brighter sound Series - reduces tweeter output if option 1 is too bright My guess is that the switch is simply to cut the tweeters out. The tweeters go in parallel with the woofer, + to +, and the speakons go 1+/1- to + and -. You could get all sophisticated and work out a way of switching between no tweeter, series tweeters, and parallel tweeters. But first you'll need to work out where the other ends of all the wires go, and maybe label them all.

Thomann have a couple of 32"/812mm scale 5-string acoustic basses, so they do exist.

I have the plans for the Omni somewhere but can't find them at the moment.

The Phil and Holly of the bass world.

Preferences for neck profile, through neck or bolt-on? Push the boat out and go headless? There's Cort and Hohner as well as your list, and you might even find a Shuker at a bargain price.

Warwick JD Thumb 5-string. I've only ever seen one and it was when my finances were at a rather low ebb so I couldn't buy it.

ITYF (as I've said twice already) that it's not 5 x base plus 2 octaves, but 15 separate strings (see video immediately above) as string selection for a 15 equivalent to a 12 would be similar to the string selection for my 10-string Dean (BEADG plus octaves) but with 5 extra octave strings.

I'm not.

Yes. EDIT: SB310, MIJ.

This is one of those ironing board 15-strings, isn't it, not the next step up from a 12-string (a 5-string with two octave strings per base string). I'd take off the middle string, defret the treble half of the fretboard, and have a seven-string fretted alongside a seven-string fretless (B-F), like a bionic Ashula, then I'd never touch it again.

FB marketplace, Gumtree, Ebay - Squier, Harley Benton, G4M and possibly Cort, Ibanez, and Peavey.

Have you got any way of powering the QMX from a 9V battery? Just wondering if the power supply might be the problem.

OTOH, I bought my first Warwick after splitting up with my first wife. I subsequently had a number of girlfriends and two further wives (mostly consecutively) and so I would conclude that owning a Warwick (or two, or three) made me more attractive to the opposite sex (no experiments were performed to find out if I was more attractive to the same sex).

I had a fretless. Really nice to play, the reason I moved it on was that it was incredibly light and I was coming from a succession of basses that started with a Hayman 40/40, then a couple of Ps, then a Warwick Thumb, and it just felt so insubstantial. I'd like to try a fretless 5 sometime.