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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.

I know I said I'd never buy another Fender or Squier. A man can change his mind, can't he? Saw this 5-string Jazz defret with a humbucker pickup in the bridge position and went and had a look at it. Very nice neck (unlike my Standard Precision Special V from almost 20 years ago), great defret job, and a switchable humbucker - series, parallel, and single coil (I assume). Humbucker installation wasn't perfect but the slight waywardness of the rout is imperceptible from any distance. There's a couple of minor dings to the lacquer but nothing much. The owner was suffering from arthritis and had to sell the bass not long after buying it. It came reasonably set up, I lowered the strings a bit more and put straplocks on and so far that's it. The humbucker isn't ideal as it's for a Ray5 or similar with the narrower string spacing but I don't feel any great urgency to replace it. Photos from original listing. Control plate with 3-way toggle switch You can see the serrations from the fret tangs here, but there's no tear-out and the unfretboard is lovely and smooth Pickup rout for the humbucker isn't perfect but it's not bad. I think I could do with replacing the pickup screws as some of the heads are a little chewed up.

I was just about to post the same thing. There's an update to the firmware available at https://www.boss.info/us/support/by_product/katana-go/updates_drivers/12b0d6f6-b2c4-41d3-8f65-b1247ce1eb4b/ which I presume means that the Mk 1 and Mk 2 are software compatible. Just did the update, all went well, and I didn't have to re-do the pairing for the audio side - on the MIDI side, the app happily scanned for and picked up the MIDI channel on the Go. Externally, the only change seems to be that instead of having a big knob for volume, there's a side mounted control which I would have thought would be more fiddly.

Keep a look out for used Seis in the marketplace too - the Bass Gallery has them but they sell them at rather higher prices than you'll see here.

Photo 2 shows the whole instrument including the HB style headstock although you don't get to see the rear of the headstock.

It's a Variax, that's how it works. Models various bass sounds.

It's also where I bought my longest-standing guitar, an Eko Ranger 6, in the early 1980s.

The Sei fretless or the Antoniotsai. Partly because they're the closest to hand.

It started as Express Music when Pete who worked in the music shop off Mell Square took it on. The current owner, Sam, is a rather good player of the Novax Charlie Hunter guitar, and is tuiting someone I accompany in the open mic evenings over the road in the British Legion.