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Last night, had a rehearsal with the originals band then straight off to the Shirley British Legion as a friend of mine that I used to be in a duo with some time in the 90s had said he'd be there - he's been very unwell, and lost his wife a few months ago, so I wanted to see him. He was there with another friend, the widow of the organiser of another open mic which I became the house bassist for and which introduced Mrs Zero to singing in public. The evening was finished off by Kevin getting me up to accompany him once again, which turned the clock back very effectively.

Towbar and trailer.

Loosen off the screws you have got in and jiggle it all around a bit.

Birthdays are a way of celebrating the fact that one has survived another 365 (or 366) days. Given the increasing uncertainty of continuing existence, perhaps we should increase the frequency of celebrations, maybe initially to quarterly.

I bought a Squier.

But they will hit when he is king.

Jack-jack from an instrument jack socket on the mixer. Pretty sure it was a lot more than 48V. Subsequent testing of both the mains sockets involved showed no issues. The mixer in the room is a different one now, it got swapped after the shocks.

Snot Patrol

The Woo

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Looks like the best approach to me too - maybe put in the enclosure bolts loosely first, then the connector block screws. It should be quite easy to get the connectors positioned as you could always plug an XLR lead in to give you something to grab onto and manoeuvre the connectors into place.

But you don't need multiscales in order to have headless, which balance better, are lighter, more transportable, have string tension as even as headed parallel-fret instruments, and have the same range as a multiscale with the same number of frets and strings. Plus fretless is a lot easier on a parallel-unfret bass. And possibly the most famous proponent of fan-fret, Dingwall, still hasn't produced a headless, so all of those advantages are lost.

Fab! I suspect that these are at rather the opposite end of the Crafter price spectrum to mine.

The MK1 Barts get unfairly maligned. They're just neutral pickups, people seem to want coloured pickups which seems irrational to me.

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The description does say "based on the very expensive Bass Collection models". The headstock is similar but I think it's a bit wider.

But the OP is currently using a Vox Amplug which is doing exactly the same thing, and doesn't want wired headphones - a position that I entirely sympathise with, as I have both a Nux Mighty Plug and a Katana:Go and would rather have wireless headphones as it's the headphone wire which is annoying.

If the gridge isn't connected to the gickup bround, is there any benefit to brounding it?

It took mine a year to notice that I was playing a fretless.

There's now the Positive Grid NEO Spark too, at half the price of the Boss. How good it is on bass is another question.

When I played with a ceilidh band, I used to take an NS WAV-4 EUB (42" scale), a Warwick Thumb fretless (34" scale) and an Ashbory Mk I (18" scale, fretless) and swap between them as I fancied. Didn't have any problems.

That 1818x is in stunningly good condition, especially as it's 35 years old. Can't help but think that replacing the XLR connectors with Speakons would be a good idea, assuming that they fit the same holes.

Couldn't find any reviews of it on bass on Youtube but did watch a comparison video, this versus the Boss. Boss wins out slightly on sound quality and VR gimmick, Spark NEO on comfort, the app, and the fact it uses USB-C not Micro-USB to charge. I would also point out that as the Boss has a TRS dongle (I assume that's for charging), that probably means that certain active basses will have issues with it - the ones that don't follow the convention of battery negative to ring, ground to sleeve.

https://reverb.com/item/66788652-dingwall-abii-5-3-fretless-2023-walnut