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Jack-jack from an instrument jack socket on the mixer. Pretty sure it was a lot more than 48V. Subsequent testing of both the mains sockets involved showed no issues. The mixer in the room is a different one now, it got swapped after the shocks.

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Looks like the best approach to me too - maybe put in the enclosure bolts loosely first, then the connector block screws. It should be quite easy to get the connectors positioned as you could always plug an XLR lead in to give you something to grab onto and manoeuvre the connectors into place.

But you don't need multiscales in order to have headless, which balance better, are lighter, more transportable, have string tension as even as headed parallel-fret instruments, and have the same range as a multiscale with the same number of frets and strings. Plus fretless is a lot easier on a parallel-unfret bass. And possibly the most famous proponent of fan-fret, Dingwall, still hasn't produced a headless, so all of those advantages are lost.

Fab! I suspect that these are at rather the opposite end of the Crafter price spectrum to mine.

The MK1 Barts get unfairly maligned. They're just neutral pickups, people seem to want coloured pickups which seems irrational to me.

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The description does say "based on the very expensive Bass Collection models". The headstock is similar but I think it's a bit wider.

But the OP is currently using a Vox Amplug which is doing exactly the same thing, and doesn't want wired headphones - a position that I entirely sympathise with, as I have both a Nux Mighty Plug and a Katana:Go and would rather have wireless headphones as it's the headphone wire which is annoying.

If the gridge isn't connected to the gickup bround, is there any benefit to brounding it?

It took mine a year to notice that I was playing a fretless.

There's now the Positive Grid NEO Spark too, at half the price of the Boss. How good it is on bass is another question.

When I played with a ceilidh band, I used to take an NS WAV-4 EUB (42" scale), a Warwick Thumb fretless (34" scale) and an Ashbory Mk I (18" scale, fretless) and swap between them as I fancied. Didn't have any problems.

That 1818x is in stunningly good condition, especially as it's 35 years old. Can't help but think that replacing the XLR connectors with Speakons would be a good idea, assuming that they fit the same holes.

Couldn't find any reviews of it on bass on Youtube but did watch a comparison video, this versus the Boss. Boss wins out slightly on sound quality and VR gimmick, Spark NEO on comfort, the app, and the fact it uses USB-C not Micro-USB to charge. I would also point out that as the Boss has a TRS dongle (I assume that's for charging), that probably means that certain active basses will have issues with it - the ones that don't follow the convention of battery negative to ring, ground to sleeve.

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And maybe it doesn't and you can hear it.

Stage box would be a tier 2 fail.

That's why no item of my gear weighs over 10kg (except the 2x12 cab, a monstrous 11.5kg).

Indeed - it's a convention on an email list I'm on, if a subject is just a name then the owner of that name has popped off. I expect to see a thread entitled "Tony Hart" any day now.

I wasn't intending to get anything from the MS-99XX+ range as there's no PC or Android editing facility. However, I thought I'd indulge myself. I went for the CDR rather than the B - there's a considerable overlap of effects, the missing ones being drive and amp sims which I don't use. Going to go through the factory presets tomorrow and find what might be of use (there are some interesting names). Not sure how easy the memory +/- buttons would be to use with the foot but my DIY up/down pedal for the MS-60B should work on the CDR+ using a USB-C cable instead of a mini-USB one.

Have you got it set to autosave (page 20 of the manual)? If you have, and you switch the effect off with the footswitch and don't switch it back on again, I think the off state will be saved. Note - I haven't experimented with this so this may be wrong.

Damn you and your factual posts!