tauzero

Looking at those pickup sledges, I wondered how feasible it would be to have a quick clamp lever on them so they could be moved about in a gig (like the Westone Rail and Gibson Grabber). That might be a bit gimmicky though.

I'm not sure that you've understood my post. I am saying that there will be a small amount of vibration transmission but that that will be negligible compared to the magnetic pickup output from metal strings. While a bass is being played, there is also a great big bag of dirty water acting as an aerial behind it, and that has a more significant effect than vibration.

For a valid comparison doing this, record a bass at full volume with standard strings on it, then replace the standard strings with nylon or silicone strings and repeat. Compare the amplitude of the respective recordings. That should demonstrate the contribution of body vibrations to the overall sound.

Nominally 2x45 plus 10 minutes or so encore. In practice, the 45s are more like 55s.

If it's fretted notes, it's not the nut. I think your approach of a fresh setup including relief is the best one.

A sample of one from hundreds of millions of items isn't exactly representative.

Also at https://github.com/MoeField/Riffstation (found when I was looking for a manual) - Windows and Mac.

It puzzled me for a minute when he said that the two sides of the string are travelling in opposite directions, until I realised that what he meant was that as the string moved from side to side (or up & down), with both sides of it travelling the same way, the leading side of it was causing compression and the trailing side of it was causing rarefaction. So they're travelling in the same direction but with opposite effect.

Tecamp Puma 900.

I think it's computer generated text rather than the picture.

"Twist and Shout" to "La Bamba" and back again a few times. The two guitarists swap lead vocals, the one who normally sings does "Twist and Shout" and the other takes "La Bamba". Final song of the night and we stop when either we or the audience are knackered.

Don't the band have the chords written down? I've used one in the past and I can't remember what it was, and haven't got it bookmarked, annoyingly. However, there is a review of seven free chord finders here.

James Tyler Variax, either the JTV59 (Les Paulish, twin humbuckers if not using emulation) or JTV69 (Stratish, twin single coil plus humbucker). They generally get used for acoustic emulation.

I've always fancied a Spector but never got on with the necks. Wonder if these will be any different. Haunted Moss - was that what the marketing department were on when they came up with the name for the colour?

They should match, it's a not uncommon mod. Note: I'm not speaking from experience, just from reading.

I have looked at other adverts for inspiration when advertising something. I wouldn't just do a copy and paste though, that's sheer impertinence.

I just enjoy winding up the fanbois. After all, there's nothing so tedious as a P bass thread until a bit of life is injected into it.

That fewer people are buying them in the first place, because there's so much better available.

So a bass using different materials, with a different body shape, headless, and different controls is what? A variation?

Have you had a listen to the bassline that was put down by the session player? If you can overcome your understandable deflation, see if you can learn from it. Don't give up, try and treat it as motivation to improve. Unless you're Victor Wooten or Sid Vicious, there will always be someone better or worse than you.

Mrs Zero used to work in customer service for Roman Originals, a ladies' clothing retail emporium, which sold some clothing through Amazon. She hated Amazon because if customers returned clothing seriously the worse for wear, Amazon would refund them regardless. However, it was de rigeur to have a presence on Amazon.

I'm pragmatic as well as vaguely principled, so I don't completely exclude Amazon (and my brother-in-law sends us Amazon vouchers as presents). They're not my first port of call, nor indeed my second or third, though I do use them to look at reviews and to find alternatives to products.

I think (but can't be sure) that this is more like the YRG1000 - it detects electrically where the string has been fretted and which string has been played. I'm not sure if this would mean split frets or whether there's something else in play in the Fretsense system.

Wouldn't a genuine Fender one have date stamps on the bottom?

I wouldn't worry about leaving them connected to a charger. However, the WS-50 and WS-90 both have red LEDs on while charging and they go off when charged (just checked mine), and the WS-70 has a series of four green LEDs which light up one by one until all four are lit (the only Lekato manual I can find online).