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I don't use the upper registers enough to make a 6 a better option than a 5 - as it means I'd have to stretch over an extra unused string, it's a liability. But I do have a 7 just in case I do do some upper-register stuff. Again I see people saying that they don't use a 5 because they don't play below bottom E. Is the truth about the utility of 5-strings really that obscure when several of us on BC mention it periodically? It enables you to play more notes without shifting position so you can play across more than up and down, and it gives you more tonal possibilities, as well as meaning you can go below bottom E if you really want to.

Four reviews and £26 and a fretless 5-string is on its way to Zero Towers.

I take a spare - a Hohner B2AV which takes up very little space and doesn't need a stand to sit on.

I'll be there with Mrs Zero.

Search for power supplies for TC Helicon pedals.

Bought a pair of cabs off me - all went well, good communications. Cheers, Mike

While I'm waiting for a couple of bits to arrive so I can finish the program controller off, I have been idly toying with a micro USB to female OTG adaptor and a copy of MIDI Commander by Bordero on my Android phone (a Nexus 5, other Android phones are available) which allows me to change patch by pressing a button on the screen. Definitely easier than twiddling knobs and you can go direct from one patch to a non-adjoining one. I may adapt an idea from that to a Due-based foot controller. Really needs a power in on the OTG adaptor so the phone doesn't go into standby.

The body on the Wilkes is enormous too, IIRC mine wouldn't fit in a normal case.

It's notlob though, which means it's not the same as a Grind or Cirrus. Closest to a Millennium.

Our current drummer (who we hope will be remaining so) is dreadfully self-critical after gigs. This evening we generally played well, with significant (to us) drumming cock-ups in two songs that we easily recovered from. The rest of the drumming was solid - I was locked in with it all night. There were as many bass and guitar cock-ups. The drummer was going on afterwards about how he wishes he could stop getting nervous, he tenses up and he cocked up every song. I didn't think he did, nor did the others in the band. I feel like we've got to talk him down from the ledge.

Elite Stadium stainless.

As xzodar says, writeable label cable ties. There is another variety I've encountered where the label bit lies flat. Like these: [url="http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/CABLE-TIE-MARKER-I-D-TIE-100MM-200MM-WRITE-ON-TAB-LABEL-TAG-WIRE-WIRING-X-100-/371006509843"]http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/CABLE-TIE-MARKER-I-D-TIE-100MM-200MM-WRITE-ON-TAB-LABEL-TAG-WIRE-WIRING-X-100-/371006509843[/url]

Had mine fitted by Jaydee in Birmingham. You can buy them off That Ebay: [url="http://stores.ebay.co.uk/luminlay"]http://stores.ebay.co.uk/luminlay[/url]

[quote name='KevB' timestamp='1417085549' post='2616871'] I'll admit I only briefly scanned through the article so I might be wrong but my understanding was that the actual tour lost about $12K but then was brought back into the black by associated internet business and other income spin off as a result of the tour, so I guess it is fair to put that business in with the whole deal. However this was for a single 1 month tour where they worked pretty much every day and ended up with a net 'salary' of about $2K each. Could you really do that [i]every[/i] month?[/quote] From what they say, the internet business etc is a constant income stream while the tour was a one-off expense offset against that constant income. I think this is the old business model of promoting yourself by going on tour to sell albums rather than the new one of going on tour to make lots of money while the income from album sales drops. [quote]At the end of the day, Pomplamoose is just fine: our patrons give us [b]$6,326 [/b]per video through our [url="http://www.patreon.com/pomplamoose"]Patreon page[/url]. We sell about [b]$5,000[/b] of music per month through iTunes and Loudr. After all of our expenses (yes, making music videos professionally is expensive), Nataly and I each draw a salary of about [b]$2,500[/b] per month from Pomplamoose. What’s left gets reinvested in the band or saved so that we don’t have to rack up $24,000 of credit card debt to book another tour.[/quote]

[quote name='blue' timestamp='1417044340' post='2616657'] I'm always looking for ideas and not afraid to push the wardrobe envelope. [/quote] I take something to wear when on stage which is different to whatever I've worn to set the gear up. Doing that gives me a reason to make some sort of decision about what I'll wear, rather than chucking on the first T-shirt I come to. Mrs Zero always puts thought into her clothes, and I am now under strict instructions to tell her if her bum (or any other bits) look big in this.

[quote name='Mithrandir' timestamp='1409932882' post='2544774'] Is this still doing the rounds?, would like to go on the list please TTFN [/quote] Yes, PM me your address and I'll get it off to you.

[quote name='JTUK' timestamp='1416735233' post='2612934'] There are plenty of threads about Barefaced build issues, that I'm certainly not the only one to mention it.. If you are happy with your cabs then fine ...but if you want to know what people and the industry thinks but will not write here, ask around, That doesn't make it defintive for sure, but maybe the BC'ers that have sold their cabs on might be the ones to ask... and see if they went back to the same maker and why....!!! [/quote] My cabs are a Tech Soundsystems 4x10 (which I'm happy with) and a brace of GK Neo IIs (which I don't seem to be able to get the sound I'd like from). I'd like a pair of lightweight 1x12s but don't know what as yet. A budget of approximately £0 is helping with that decision, in that I can't go out and buy anything at the moment. I mention this so you realise that I have no dog in this fight.

[quote name='JTUK' timestamp='1413795599' post='2581839'] I've never seen or heard a good one... You can put the 'seen' part down to the build and design, and that is not something that you can blame the player for. The sound..?? well, the guy who uses one doesn't have a sound I'd go for whatever I have heard him use, so that is more a variable. [/quote] I've only heard one, and that was EQed so far differently to what I'd do that I couldn't give an opinion of the sound. As for seen, though, you have just been slavering over this and yet this is so ugly you wouldn't give it house room. And although the S112 doesn't use shelf ports, other cabs in tks's range do - a design feature that you have railed at in BF cabs but which is apparently perfectly acceptable from other manufacturers.

How close are you to publishing the design now?

I had one of those - I defretted the 4-string neck. Then I sold it as I actually wanted two 5-string necks, not 5/4.

I've now got an Arduino sending patch change messages to an MS-60B (would also work for a B3). There's basic debouncing which looks as if it's working as I want. I would have liked to display the patch number but I need to consider how to do that with the limited number of pins or possibly use an Arduino Due. As the Due includes a USB host, while a Uno or similar needs a USB host shield, the Due may be the way to go anyway. I now need to box it up. That may be a little problematical due to the way all the connectors are orientated and the fact that the DC power socket is centre-positive, rather than the normal centre-negative.

What a shame it's been utterly shagged. "Heavy relic" = "looks like sh*t".

[quote name='andytoad' timestamp='1413573197' post='2579826'] Apart from 4, 5 or 6 string, what models are there and how do they differ? Are there differences in neck profile? [/quote] German neck-through models have been made as the standard model and the JD variant (I've seen 4-string and 5-string JDs but can't recall seeing a 6-string). JDs stopped being made in about 1988. There have been three variants of nut (Just-A-Nut 1, 2, and 3), and two variants of bridge (one-piece and two-piece). Early basses had sculpted rears to the headstock and no volutes, later basses had volutes and plain rears to the headstock. Electrics have been EMG and MEC. They were originally bubinga and wenge - I think that ovangkol is now used in the neck-throughs but not sure for what. It appears I'm the only other person in this thread who thinks that neck profiles are significant. I've always thought of them as the most important feature of a bass. There are huge differences. I bought my 1987 JD Thumb because it had a fantastically slim and shallow neck and it was wonderful to play. I bought a 2000 Thumb around 2002 or 2003 and the neck was a great thick lump - I was having the bass defretted anyway so I got the luthier doing it to reprofile the neck to the same dimensions as the JD Thumb. I believe they've slimmed them back down somewhat now. If buying one, you'd need to either play it or find out exactly when it was made and which model, and try to find an exact counterpart to play on. That's unless you're not bothered about neck profiles, of course.