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Leo got his Post-It notes right first time.

Prince - Purple Rain, When doves cry, Time

If Chris Squire turns up, don't let him eat your brains.

The current band manage OK. I think I've lent one guitarist a capo at a rehearsal and that's it. However, I did find a shortcoming in my own preparation at the last gig - plugged in spare bass to get it tuned up and the sound was absolutely horrendous, as if something had gone horribly wrong with the amp. Main bass was OK and as usual didn't have anything go horribly wrong with it so played the gig with that. It was the battery, and I wasn't carrying a spare - something I have now rectified in my little bag of bits. PS: This bass is terribly profligate on batteries. It's the second time it's run a battery flat (first time also at a gig), so now I'm on the third battery since 2007, which is shocking.

Looks like you've pulled, Snorks.

No, I disagree. The correct word is "envy".

First things first. Take the yellow and blue wires out of the "IN" and "OUT" connectors and connect them together, and see if you get a signal - I think you did that right at the beginning, worth checking that things are all still well. Also, have you connected the various tone pots up? Also, check that you've got 9V across the +V and GND on the tone module when the jack plug is inserted.

You may want to move away from the 2.4GHz band to 5.8GHz. I'm a cheapskate so the three 5.8GHz wirelesses I have are Lekato WS-50, Harley Benton Airborne Pro, and Lekato WS-90. Both Lekatos are bug type, the Harley Benton has a pedal-type receiver and bug transmitter which can be recharged in a cradle on the receiver between sets so is better suited to a pedalboard. The WS-90 is a bit bigger than the WS-50 but does have channel selection. I haven't had any problems with any of them.

If you don't mind a length of string sticking out, you don't even need string clippers if you're doing it at a gig. Personally, I've also never broken a string and I have a spare bass with me.

Quite a niche market, I would think. Still, this is a handsome thing: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/296599352696

"Yet he does not leave the guilty unpunished; he punishes the children and their children for the sin of the parents to the third and fourth generation." The famous dad in question. Edit: Just to make clear I don't believe that the child should be punished for the sins of the father (nor, for that matter, should the father be punished for the sins of the child, eg Joe Biden, nor should someone be punished for the sins of his sibling, eg Jeremy Corbyn).

There's some info here: https://www.joness.com/gr300/GR-33B.htm It would be an idea to check out the workings of the hex pickup and bass internals with a known good synth unit (GR20, GR55, GR-Bass, GR99) so you can determine if the issues are confined to the GR-33B.

What he's doing harms no-one, so there's no reason for him not to do it. It provides entertainment for many, and the chance to whinge about him for many others (which I assume makes them happy in their own way). Long may he continue.

I'm going to stick with inductive coupling as the answer then. ICBW of course.

You could use a switch as an active/passive but it would simply bypass the entire tone control system so you'd just have the two volumes. I'd recommend getting it working as it is first. Then if you should want to put in an active/passive, you will want a double pole double throw switch - that is, a switch which is actually two separate switches, each of which switches between two terminals. Then the audio in from the volume controls and audio out from the jack socket are connected to the two poles, one of the sides is connected to the audio in and audio out of the tone module, and the other sides are connected together. It's a true bypass for the tone module, just in case your battery management ever gets a bit slack.

The music on the jukebox in the Tardis?

Yes. The stereo socket simply makes the circuit switch on and off. When you put a mono plug into the stereo socket, it connects the ring and the sleeve together. So if you connect the battery negative to one (generally the ring) and the GND of the amp (along with all the other grounds) to the other (generally the sleeve), the battery negative will be connected when the plug is inserted and disconnected when it is removed. Hence always taking the plug out of an active bass when not playing it, so the battery isn't run down.

For an 85 year old wrestler, he's definitely doing well. I don't think anyone would take him on to play Mustang Sally at the Dog and Duck. He'd be well suited to a prog band or whichever of the metal types involves 500 miles an hour riffing in unison with the guitar (death metal?).

Whereabout is the transformer? Just wondering if there could be some signal induction from the pickup to the transformer.

I think it does show a stereo socket - two contacts (the downward V and the inverted V) and, to their right, the sleeve. The Darkglass diagram is the mirror image of this so they correctly show the blue going to the tip.

"Input jack" should of course be "output jack". Battery negative goes to output jack ring. Ground and pickup wires go to the output jack sleeve so when the jack plug is inserted, the battery negative is connected to "GND" on the board and the ground side of the pickups. Audio out goes to jack tip. If you want to test it without the jack complicating things, just connect the battery negative, ground from the concentric pot, and jack sleeve to GND and OUT to the jack socket tip.

Has this suddenly come about, or might it always have been happening and you've just not used the OD with it? Any environmental changes? Are you using it in a different room? Is the OD a true bypass and before any other effects? Just a thought, if it's true bypass and very high input impedance, it might be picking up a very small signal because the volume control isn't an on-off switch.

Although the octave appears to be at the 31st fret (so I assume there's 60+ frets, CBA to count) rather than @Andyjr1515's 23rd fret.

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