tauzero

At the moment, until I sort out the HX Stomp based pedalboard that is next on my list, a Zoom MS-60B.

Mrs Zero got Gene Simmons and John Deacon.

I have a few short-scale rubber string basses. I find playing them with the left hand in the same sort of position as you'd play a violin in (fingers pointing along the strings) is easier than the approved across-the-strings left hand position that you'd use for a full scale bass.

Ashdown too, and GK.

No, it's the Tooting Popular Front Showband. Power to the people!

St Winifred's School Choir.

If I should ever manage to reduce the number of basses in the house a bit, I'd be thinking about getting a 5-string Stingray variant to compensate. So, having played @dub_junkie's Stingray 5 and found it to have exactly the sort of neck that I really like, I'm curious as to which of the almost infinite number of Sterlings, Subs, Rays, EBMMs, SBMMs, etc would have the same neck profile. Has anyone played a few of the variants, preferably back to back, and could tell me if all the profiles are the same and if not, which are the same as the StingRay 5?

The input impedance could well be the cause. The tone control is just a variable resistor and capacitor in series bleeding a greater or lesser amount of treble, connected to one end of the volume pot wiper. The lower the input impedance, the less effect the tone control will have. I think (not certain about this and I may not have fully thought it through) that if the volume on the bass is turned down, the tone control would have more effect as the part of the volume control track between wiper and the active end of the track would be effectively added to the input impedance of the amp.

Maybe Phil Lynott - after all, he's got a statue to him an' all. As have McCartney and Lemmy.

Bartolini do 5-string pickups as short or long, and it sounds like the long would just fit (maybe with a little judicious filing). https://bartolini.net/application/j45/

Which is why I have to plug all of my active basses (which is IIRC all but one of my basses) into the passive input. They all have outputs at comparable levels to passive basses.

When Mrs Zero became the singist, I got a PA, which I have upgraded and downweighted subsequently even after she gave up, so I supplied the PA to three other bands. I also store it - as it's 4 8" active speakers, two stands, a Behringer XR18 and BCF2000, and a suitcase of leads, it doesn't take up much space and it fits in a corner of the garage.

You were just as tedious the last time you started this off.

Bartolini soapbar upgrade with the aid of a rusty chisel.

I prefer him dressed in the anorak to him in a short skirt, low-cut top and calf boots.

Mornington Crescent.

Laptop. Not quite so bad through the hi-fi.

Pretty wide for a 4-string pickup. With a little more enlargement in both directions you could go for an EMG 45 series, or in one direction and with a couple of slivers of wood each side an EMG 40 series. I've got a pair of MK5CBC in a Cort Space which are fine, well-balanced pickups (TBH the original MK1s seem OK to me too, there was a strange manufacturing fault that I didn't notice when I got the bass).

I noticed when looking at an old thread that somebody on my ignore list with their new username had their old username showing in the thread (in replies to their posts) but when a post by them was ignored, it showed their new username in the "Post by <newusername> has been ignored" message.

You could get this 12-string guitar and then every string would have a spare: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/166985526466 Octaves are for wimps!

I have the perfect solution.

Mrs Zero was 50% of a duo with the guitarist from a former band a few years ago. She hung the words off her mic stand, and insisted it wouldn't affect her eye contact with the audience. She did backing vocals on "Oh pretty woman" and actually looked at the words for the "ooh ooh" bits.

Nine pages in and nobody has commented on the horrible middy tone of her bass in the initial video.

Try using Freetube.

It's a winding up resolution which would mean the company assets being liquidated.