tauzero

I'm depping on bass for The Bonnevilles (rock'n'roll and proper R&B) on Wednesday 9th July at Darley Moor race track bike night, just south of Ashbourne.

The three of them together after the fretless had its fingerboard replaced:

Thumb 5 NT, 1988: Defretted Thumb with neck reprofiled to JD profile (since this photo it's had an ebony unlined board fitted): JD Thumb made in 1987 - the bass I've had the longest since I bought it at the start of 1988.

Rewire the 4 ohm 2x15 so it's two 8 ohm 1x15s sharing a box, get a second Elf, and split the signal between them.

Not just the soldering, it looks like there are stray wisps of copper too. I'd desolder each joint, cut off the end of the wire and re-strip the insulation with not too much wire exposed, make sure all the cores are together and resolder it.

I have actually put Dyno labels with "Tx" and "Rx" onto them. However, this requires that the user actually looks at them prior to plugging them back in rather than thinking they remember which is which after unplugging them. And colour coding them would mean having to remember which colour means what, and that's not going to happen.

Reading the manual, you can have TRS stereo from the output socket alone or left channel from the output socket and right channel from the CTR socket, both presumably TRS for balanced output.

You didn't also happen to ask if you could fit a dead elf into the boot of an MX-5 did you? Asking for a friend.

You haven't mentioned the worst sin of all - the feral apostrophe in "has picked up some 'authentic' play wear in it's time!".

The DVD and live CD should net him a bit.

Somewhere very close to me. But I already have a bad back and an allergy to Trace-Elliot.

I've got about 30 basses, including Seis, Warwicks, and Ibanezezezes, and in that lot is one modified Squier and no Fenders. And I'm perfectly happy with that mix.

FTFY

How come the Doors get two hours then?

FTFY

I'm impressed, the Ruf Guitars website is absolutely dreadful. The Status one was very 1990s with its click to enter design, but Ruf is so much worse.

And after cutting through it, it wasn't. Problem solved.

In further news, got a response on the 1st to say it was on its way (when I ordered it, it was supposed to be shipped by 23rd June). It's got as far as Frankfurt.

While it's not in the manual, I would like to say that you should always ensure that the one marked "Transmitter" is plugged into the bass and the one marked "Receiver" into the amp/effects chain. Failure to ensure this will result in disappointment. Or so someone told me, anyway.

I'm sure something with that same R on the headstock came up just a few days ago on BC and it wasn't a maker that started with R at all.

It seems a little strange that the connector is TRS but it only makes use of a single footswitch, either tap or hold to scroll up or down. A double footswitch with one up and one down would be handier.

I do actually have a Jamstik Studio guitar which has a USB-powered rechargeable battery, but that also has a MIDI converter in it which takes a fair bit of power. I've also got some Variaxes (Variaces?) which also have large current drains and use two different types of battery. The older ones use a 9V supply (generally in the form of 6xAA batteries), while the JTV ones have a slide-in battery like a smaller version of the battery pack powering cordless power tools. The latter is more convenient, and would be more convenient still if you just plugged a USB lead into the battery pack. One day, all basses will have an on-board computer. Except Fenders, obviously.

Generally, everything set flat, with the tone controls on the amp set mostly neutral but bass down a bit, but if it turns out I'm a bit too bassy (the most likely situation) I'll back off the bass on the instrument a bit too.

You'd spend more time plugging and unplugging the USB lead than replacing a battery once a year.

I sometimes ask about things, sometimes not. As the most recent one was a swap for a bass that's been sitting in a wardrobe for about 15 years, I could make a good case for it. However, I operate on the general principle that it is easier to ask for forgiveness than permission.