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[quote name='ambient' timestamp='1377892875' post='2193426'] A friend of mine does PAT testing, with anything electronic i.e. keyboards, some amps etc, he'd actually only test the lead for fear of damaging the circuits. Computers in offices only have the detachable lead tested too, for the same reason. [/quote] So he's reluctant to put (at the most) 9V DC into a mains socket on a keyboard or amp but happy to put 250V AC into it?

[quote name='barkin' timestamp='1377888214' post='2193346'] Yup. And increasingly, it seems, hotels, social clubs, even village halls etc. [/quote] One venue we played at a bit over a year ago (Crewe Hall in Cheshire IIRC) insisted not only on PAT testing but also on PLI of £10m (not the normal £2m). Fortunately the bride and groom stumped up for the PLI. It's one of those things - if you want the gig, sometimes you have to have the PAT testing. Same as when my old social club band used to have to wear ties to play at one particular club, except that ties are cheaper than PAT testing. Well, the sort of ties I buy are anyway.

Just sold Ian a GK 200MB, all went well and smoothly.

Built on Veroboard. Marvellous!

Now it's gone, and when I looked before it was still up as a 4003. So - pulled or sold?

[quote name='Evil Undead' timestamp='1379181486' post='2209613'] I'm horrible with a pick. Awful [/quote] It's no bad thing to improve your plectrum playing. If you have more than one plucking style available, it does mean you can [size=3]take[/size] [size=2]your[/size] [size=1]pick...[/size]

First thing to do is take it off automatic store. That way, you can mess around with your patches and get the original settings back if you want to. My chain goes Line 6 wireless -> MS-60B -> amp. Or Line 6 wireless -> Zoom B3 -> amp under other circumstances (some of my songs require more than one effect to be switched on and off in a song). And as it's got a tuner, you can leave other tuners out of the chain.

[quote name='Grangur' timestamp='1377758921' post='2191317'] The B3 allows you to have 6 effects loaded for quick access at any one time. So it should handle your needs. [/quote] Have you got new firmware I don't know about? AFAIK the B3 is still 3 effects, the G3 is six.

[quote name='rmorris' timestamp='1378160806' post='2196589'] Heatshrink would be good if you can get a heat gun to use. [/quote] +1 for heatshrink, which shrinks perfectly happily in the steam from a boiling kettle.

There is a way of modding the B3 so you can use an external footswitch to do patch up/down - see [url="http://ashbass.com/AshBassGuitar/Zoom/"]http://ashbass.com/AshBassGuitar/Zoom/[/url] . I haven't yet done it but might get round to it sometime. If you want several effects permanently on too, just get a Zoom MS60B too and you've got a 4-effect chain in a single stompbox...

"Tell you what, if we make it so the pickguard looks as if was actually made to fit on it, they can't touch us..."

How easy are the tuners to use? They look a little less accessible than the Steinberger type ones.

I read it that the seller had posted it but the buyer declined to receive it when it arrived. The bass, that is, not the COP.

Good. Something to consider is the case type. The stompbox-type receivers will happily sit on the floor or on an amp/cab. I wouldn't feel happy with the larger oblong box type on the floor, so if you've got effects pedals on the input side then that means running a long lead from the receiver to the effects input. Also, always make sure you have spare batteries sitting where you can grab them easily.

Tecamp Puma 900 and Tech Soundsystem ND410S.

It would be nice to have a bass properly integrated into MIDI - perhaps a long-scale version of the YR1000 is the answer to that, though that then loses the ability to have a native bass sound as well as the MIDI generated notes. I can't see there being any great change to the basic construction of the bass - the basic concept of a long stick protruding from a wider flat bit is going to stay the same. The two basic methods of combining the stick bit and the other bit, ie. either having the stick bit go all the way along the other bit or have it attached at one end with glue or screws, seems pretty immutable, though there has been the odd instance of a metal frame and suspended fretboard. I can think of three current pickup systems - magnetic, piezo, and Lightwave. I'm not sure that any great advances can be made on those fronts - after all, it's all about sensing how a string is moving. Seeing as how we all have different ideas about how a bass should look, perhaps the most significant advance that could be made would be to have a flat screen on the front of the body that would show a picture of the bass body that you love most. I suppose I'd better go and patent that then.

[quote name='Gust0o' timestamp='1378469909' post='2200771'] If your love is Harley, why would you? If your love was Suzuki or Honda, why would you? You like what you like, you don't need to bow and scrape to appease the egos and interests of others, surely? [/quote] I really have no idea how you read that into what I wrote. Oh well.

[quote name='molan' timestamp='1378424783' post='2200287'] Most Harley riders enjoy every minute of their time on their bike and a huge percentage have come from a sports bike background. To them their 'inferior' bike is actually far 'superior' to a high tech sports bike. [/quote] It would appear that neither Harley riders nor sports bike riders can comprehend that there is a whole world of bikes that aren't sports bikes or Harleys. Oh well.

It's all in the wood. Do you want it to burn hotter or for longer?

My Sei Original 5 headless fretless, or I could be tempted to a Flamboyant equivalent.

[quote name='molan' timestamp='1378140105' post='2196194'] I don't think there's many people who be in the either/or camp. Minimum entry price on one is way higher than the other. [/quote] I didn't think Foderas were that much more expensive than Harleys. Not unless you have a fretless, anyway. [quote name='molan' timestamp='1378140105' post='2196194'] Interestingly Harley also try to sometimes position their bikes as investments and also bring out limited edition models every year that are big, big money. [/quote] When I used to frequent the newsgroup rec.motorcycles, the line about Harleys being an investment was often trotted out (as there was no other measure by which they could possibly be qualitatively be evaluated as anything other than inferior). Maybe that's Fender's thinking - a unicorn turd will be more valuable than a thoroughbred stallion...

[quote name='Jah Wibble' timestamp='1377858182' post='2192788'] Unfortunately I had a really bad experience with this guy (or perhaps it was someone else working there? Apologies if it was) Called him up last year to see if he could do a price match on a head. He laughed heartley and loudly down the phone at me and said "Why would I want to do that??!" Left me feeling pretty humiliated for asking a pretty normal question. [/quote] The trouble with telephones is that you're relying entirely on the verbal and audible side of things. I just wondered whether Mark's laugh might not have been intended as derogatory but as the verbal equivalent of a smiley, to try and mitigate any offence you might have felt, but actually had the opposite effect. Of course, you were there and I wasn't, so that might not sound like a plausible alternative to you. I've bought one bass from Mark, a second-hand Sei, which developed a fault a little while after buying it. Basically the elderly Berg (IIRC) preamp had developed a fault in one of its buffer stages so needed replacing. I didn't get any discount on the Delano preamp I bought to replace it - conversely, he did do me a Gramma pad as a little sweetener for the Sei in the first place. Swings and roundabouts.

Nominally "Back in the USSR" although none of us actually had the record so I just made something up. But we mainly played originals anyway...

"I relict it as a hobby". Which actually gives us quite a nice past tense for a verb "to relic", but does make me hope that his other hobbies don't include either animals or sex. At least he didn't do it to anything valuable.

[quote name='discreet' timestamp='1378201374' post='2196847'] I do, and I haven't. I suppose the P is just so ubiquitous. You don't have to think about it. [/quote] Indeed. Fender have made a fortune out of selling P basses to people who don't think about it.