tauzero

Used them for pretty much all my CPUs and motherboards. I'm another one who hadn't realised that they did musical instruments, though the range doesn't particularly appeal to me.

Why on earth would you do that and not 4th on B to 6th on A?

In my case, it was "Whole lotta Rosie" - the main riff was a pig to play on a standard tuned 5 string when the band was playing in Eb tuning so I put a capo on 4. They've gone back to standard tuning for it so the capo is back in the bag. It would also be relevant if there were particular harmonics to be played.

So the Baltic states aren't allowed to want to join the EU?

I'd also question whether Putin's generals would allow him to use them either, as they would understand the consequences. They'd be more likely to take him to the top floor of a nice high building for a cup of tea.

I play a 5-string, so that's what I'd use (in BEADG tuning). If there was some reliance on open strings when in Eb, I'd put a capo on the 4th fret.

How many lower echelon female bassists get overlooked in favour of males with the same (or possibly a bit less) ability? I personally can't assess how much bias there is for or against female musicians generally - I've tried some recruiting for rock covers bands, for drummers and guitarists, and as I've never had a female applicant it's difficult to assess what proportion of musicians one should expect in bands if there was no bias. With vocalists it's more complex - though this is the mirror image of the situation, I remember one guitarist who turned us down after making first contact because we were a female fronted rock band and apparently women can't sing rock. I assume that any band that he put together would operate on the same principle.

PSU -> bridge rectifier -> step-down DC-DC converter -> Raspberry Pi -> DAC -> jack sockets/case I did continuity checking between all the pins on the PSU and both 9V and 0V on the power connector, and all were open circuit.

Despite what people may think, I'm not arguing for the sake of it either. I want to find out what the problem is because I don't want a repeat, but there seems to be an insistence (not just by you) on focussing on the power adaptor which apparently works perfectly and has never generated a shock for me, and is also (and I think that this is crucial) electrically isolated from the chassis of the synth, whereas the mixer (an Alto) is connected to the mains with a 3-core lead. I can't remember the exact sequence of events though and I don't know whether the jack lead was live when it wasn't connected to the synth as I was handling the plug largely by the plastic part. This is the synth innards - top left is the power socket. Both sides of the socket are insulated from the case - I made the mistake of using an uninsulated one once where the outer (+V in Boss power supply world) was thus connected to the chassis (0V in effects world), so I've never used that type again. Immediately inboard is a bridge rectifier, and then a DC-DC step-down regulator feeding the red and black wires leading to the PCB (just out of shot). The jack sockets are on the right - their grounds are connected to the chassis. Next time we go, I'll take a mains integrity checker. The studio owner checked the sockets but AFAIK (certainly when I was there) only focussed on the socket that the power adaptor was plugged into, not the mixer. I was holding a bass, but mains electricity doesn't travel over wireless links.

"Prescient" would do instead, wouldn't it? Oops, I've been presceded.

And here.

When was the last time that a dictatorship relied on re-election?

Well, if you had a shop which sold used guitars, and you put one of them into a raffle, and not all the tickets were sold, would you only put the sold tickets into the raffle, or would you put them all in and if an unsold ticket came up, say "take it away, Eric the orchestra leader[1]" and pass it back to your shop, saying Eric the orchestra leader had won it? [1] gratuitous Monty Python reference

Why would the PSU being plugged into a different phase than the mixer have any effect when, as I have reiterated several times, the mains is completely isolated from the DC side of the PSU? I doubt that there is any AC leakage as the DC voltage is 9V, the AC voltage is 5mV. The sockets are on the same cable run anyway - adjacent double sockets separated by a metre or so. I should add that the jack plugs on the jack-jack lead are these Neutrik ones and I had very little contact with the metal part as I pushed it in by pushing on the plastic part - when I pulled the plug back out of the mixer after getting (I think) the second shock from the synth case, I held it by the plastic part. Had it been a fully metal plug, I think I'd have got the shock a lot earlier, before the synth was connected to it.

Squier should take a look at the Sire Z7 and offer a J plus switchable MM (parallel/series/single coil). And if they insist on keeping the hideous great headstock, at least put lightweight tuners on it and preferably cut it down to half its length and go 2+2 or 3+2 instead of 4+0 or 4+1.

What, there's a light theme?

All basses should be headless with the truss rod adjustment at the string clamp end of the neck. The Cort Space should have thrust ball bearing races on the tuners. The Ibanez EHB range should have harder top facings and a natural wood finish fretless 5 string, and more choice of parallel fret instruments. The Hils headless range should include parallel fret 5 strings.

There isn't any route for live to the synth via the power adaptor. Conversely, there's no route to earth from the synth via the power adaptor. The livened up earth had to be from the mixer via the jack lead (as it only happened when I touched the metal-cased jack plugs or plugged in the jack lead and touched the case). Inside the synth case there is a bridge rectifier to allow power supplies of either polarity to be used followed by a 5V regulator to supply the Raspberry Pi. I don't think that there's anything I can do to sort this, it's the studio wiring or the mixer.

I don't think our guitarist bought silly numbers of tickets and he'd won twice (a Les Paul and a Fender Meteora). If you look at the number of tickets available and the price of the tickets, you could buy the item for about the price of buying half the tickets.

The jack sockets are metal chassis type, set directly in the metal case. The output is only earthed via whatever the soft synth is connected to - in this case, the mixer. There is no other connection from the soft synth to earth as it uses a guitar effects 9V power supply which doesn't have an earth connection. 9V DC power adaptor (Boss type) --- 2 core lead & barrel jack --- soft synth --- jack-jack cable --- mixer The only way that the synth can be live is if the mixer instrument input ground is live. At home, using the same power adaptor, through the barrel jack which is isolated from the casing, the synth doesn't go live.

Yes. And there was no issue with it plugged in and powered up but the jack-jack not plugged in, plus this is a 9V adaptor supplying 9V to a 5V regulator which would have blown up had it got mains voltage, plus it's completely harmless at home using the same adaptor.

Rehearsed with the covers band last night. I have a soft synth module (a Squishbox) in a metal enclosure that I use with a McMillen 12-Step for one song. Plugged the soft synth in with the 9V adaptor I use for it, then went to connect it to the mixer with a jack-jack cable and got a shock. Can't remember exactly what I did next but with the soft synth connected to the mixer, I touched the case and got a real zap. The studio owner had a look at the wiring but couldn't find anything wrong, and there was no tingle from touching microphones. We carried on without the soft synth as it's only for embellishment. Anyroadup, my playing got sloppier and sloppier. A song that I'd been playing fine earlier in the evening was suddenly a complete cock-up. Then I went to the toilet which is along a fairly cool corridor and it felt freezing, and by the time I'd got back to the room I was shaking badly. Shock. We cut the rehearsal a little short and I managed to drive home, and went to bed soon afterwards. Had a bad night, nauseous and barely sleeping, almost unable to stand up to get out of bed, but feeling somewhat better today. Mrs Zero wanted me to go to A&E but 12 hours in A&E versus 12 hours in my own bed was no competition. The studio owner messaged our drummer to ask after me and to say he'd checked the wiring and it was OK. He suggested I check the power adaptor - that's not the problem, I've checked the connections between the pins and also plugged it in and powered up the soft synth, which would have exploded if it had been fed mains power. I suspect the mixer.

Will she be doing the supplies at the next Scotland bass bash?

I was thinking about bidding on that but decided I'd got enough Seis. Looking at it, the top horn strap button is between frets 10 and 11, on the 6-string headed Sei Flamboyant (34" scale) on my left it's between 12 and 13 so there are slightly different proportions. I think the GH auction for the Alembic said that it was a 35" so there's no excuse for them not mentioning the double bass scale of the Sei. Come to think of it, you could try NS WAV-5 strings for it although they are ludicrously expensive.

ISTM that all Fenders are dodgy, or at least should be viewed with extreme suspicion.