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TC BAM200 is quiet. The original Tecamp Puma 900 doesn't have a fan.

I got a minute in before I started feeling too seasick to continue.

There's just four notes in it: D (5th fret A string), C (3rd fret A string), G, and bottom D. Stays on D in the verse, then D C G in the chorus. You could get away without the bottom D - as Dad says, you'd want a 5-string bass (or 4-string tuned BEAD) or tune the bottom string down to D. If you do want to include the bottom Ds, you need to have a good listen to see where they come in.

If there was a cease and desist, it would have been the other way as the Boss came out first (or at least that's what this article says). And it also says that Fender bought up the entire supply of the required chip, hence the redesign.

I've tried a few times but I just can't stand the vocals. Pinky and Perky do prog.

Charvel are full-on FSO makers. Jackson may be rather too linked with droopy headstocks. Start again without legacy baggage.

Presumably the upper echelons of Fender aren't stupid, so they'll know that all they have to do is keep churning out Ps, Js, Ps with J pickups, active Js, and whatever other parts bin specials they can come up with, and they'll sell. If they bring out something else, it won't sell in such large numbers. So what's the point in bringing something out that you know won't sell in large numbers and then discontinuing it because it didn't sell in large numbers? Why not go the other way to the Squier label and produce non-FSO basses under a different name, creating some lower volume innovative instruments called (for example) Mudguards? They'd have all the CNC machines and the finest Mexican craftsmen in both Mexico and California.

And a dragon on your bass

In the first couple of years, then it went to being live.

I think people did buy them (which is why you can get them second-hand) but because they didn't instantly sell in huge numbers like the extremely established Ps and Js then Fender just ditched them.

What do you see if you view the page source (Ctrl-U seems to be the standard keypress for that)?

What other instruments are in the backing track? And why can't they just remove the bass from the backing track (either remix it or, as @SumOne says, use Moises to remove the bass)? I'd say they're rather lacking in empathy.

My experience with the OBP-3 is that it's very sensitive to knob twiddling but with the controls set central you should get a sound pretty much indistinguishable from passive - which sounds like what's happening. Just makes me wonder whether there could have been any damage done to the pickup windings by the original suicide by self-immolation. Diagnosis of that depends on what you're willing to do and what equipment you have. If you have a multimeter and can disconnect the pickups, you could check that the resistance of the two pickups is the same.

Yes, playing "Dance the night away".

I see that both of the Warwicks have ended. You didn't have to pay for two did you? I wonder, with Ebay's new added protection racket, will there be more bypassing of auctions and BINs? Will Ebay get really tough with exchanging address details or phone numbers?

Link?

Reverse polarity power socket?

It's been a little while since I used 74 series ICs, but IIRC if an input pin is not connected to anything then it's taken as logic 1 (presumably there's a pull-up resistor inside). Saves connecting preset and clear.

That's the way I use it. I've been a bit lazy over presets and haven't bothered setting up anything, must do something about that some time. Maybe.

When I played bass for a ceilidh band for which Mrs Zero was the caller, she would occasionally (and sadistically) call on me to assist with demonstrating a dance. I could just about manage Strip the Willow ("Shut up, Willow Jenkins!") but it wasn't pretty. TBH, my moving about while wearing a bass is quite suspect.

That's one for the "things from your childhood that wouldn't work today" thread.

I can't dance to anything.

Not quite last night - Tuesday was the Kingfisher in Castle Bromwich, started by running through a few songs with mine host while the attendees trickled in, then the other bassist (Simon) and I partnered with various people, including me on bass for Simon while he guitared. I made a right cockup of a couple of songs with Annette, who I regularly accompany here and at the Shirley Legion. Mrs Zero and I did three songs from films - Ring of Bright Water, The Hanging Tree from the Hunger Games tri/quadrology, and I'm a Believer from Shrek. Wednesday was the Shirley British Legion again, no Blind George for a change, and there were three bassists. To be more accurate, there were two guitarists who know which end of a bass to blow down and one bassist. Did a song with Annette which we had intended to do the previous night but she'd decided not to at the last moment, Bad Dreams by Teddy Swims, plus Back to Black, and got them both right. Seeing as Mrs Zero and I had given Ring of Bright Water and The Hanging Tree a run-out the previous night, it seemed only right to do them again.

PS. The bridge pickup is 2cm closer to the bridge than a Ray5 pickup is to its bridge, so it's not a perfect emulation of a Ray plus a Jazz. There's quite a variety of sounds to be had from it though.

One singer and one guitarist.