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Has anybody managed a freeze type effect on either an MS-60B or an MS-70CDR? I suspect the TrgHldDly may be the key to it, which isn't in the standard MS-60B's repertoire.

The "rare light oak" version of the Super Headless has just popped up on Gumtree for even more. https://www.gumtree.com/p/guitar-instrument/westone-super-headless-x900lo-4-string-bass-guitar-super-rare-wow-/1474765841 It's also got an LED and an extra switch compared with the birdseye maple and translucent red versions, so perhaps it is super rare after all.

Aguilar OBP-3? Delano Sonar 3?

Natural finish with some sort of lacquer finish, like the B2s? ISTR someone mixing brown paint and superglue to match the colour and filling the damaged bit with that. Ah, this may help:

I once worked for Medical Portfolio Ltd, a subsidiary of ICL based in Tipton. In deference to the ICL system of naming their buildings with the first three letters of the location and a sequence number, we called the building TIP01. Anyhoo, ICL brought us in-house, in one of the Birmingham buildings. After a while, the pathology system that I was the sole support for was quietly dropped from the product line, and I was quietly dropped from the staff. ICL paid a couple of guys at Hallamshire hospital IT department to maintain the system - their programming experience was from writing Spectrum BASIC. The consequences were not good. https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2001/sep/14/martinwainwright https://www.ranker.com/list/actual-y2k-failures/tracey-graham Note: these are ascribed to Y2K errors, which they weren't. The dickheads who did the support didn't use the inbuilt routines to change date to day number and day number to date, but did something stupid instead.

Super Headless. I think Quantums (quanta?) are going for around £250, and there's been one Rail sold in Ebay's history for somewhere fairly adjacent to £650.

I've been a 5-string player since 2007, but I do have a couple of 4-strings which I'm hanging on to. I did use them for a little while in a Marillion tribute band (which I never gigged with) but after they dispensed with my services, they went back on the wall. However, about six months ago I started going to an open mic night and playing bass for a few people, and I've been cycling through all my basses, so the Thumb 4-strings have been getting another outing. I enjoy playing them but feel no urge to go back to them.

I'll repeat my suggestion of a Roland XV or JV module, or for that matter a Korg one, or similar. Or a hardware soft synth - https://zynthian.org/ or https://geekfunklabs.com/products/squishbox/ for example.

The Zoom B3 is really really fussy about having an isolated power supply. I used a Vitoos ISO-8 with mine - sadly no longer available. However, the B3 isn't a massive current draw, unlike something like an HX Stomp. Some power supply blocks use wall warts, some are mains powered. There are pros and cons to each - the mains powered ones mean you're running a mains lead to the pedalboard, the wall wart ones mean you can use a DC extension lead cable-tied along its length to the jack-jack lead running from the amp to the pedalboard, but wall warts do need care taken with the leads - never wrap a lead around a wall wart, always coil it separately and velcro tie it so it doesn't get stressed where it joins the wall wart body.

Banzai Music have the exact switch: https://www.banzaimusic.com/alpha-2p4t-rotary-switch.html

Could I reserve one too?

Was it powered on when catastrophe befell? If not, it should be fine once it's completely dried out.

Ah yes. I remember wondering about the slightly RIM Marseerish tail end of it (the fish tail) but knew it wasn't a RIM.

Wot she said.

Two AAs, like its predecessor. A couple of rechargables will keep an MS-60B going for four or five hours, I would expect the Plus version to do similar.

I put the question to Mrs Zero a little while ago because she works at a plant hire company that hires generators, which are quoted in kVA not kW. Although she couldn't tell me why they weren't the same, she could tell me that they weren't, and there was a formula for getting kW from kVA. I've just been spurred on to find out why, and I have an answer, at least for transformers. https://www.electricaltechnology.org/2012/02/why-transformer-rating-in-kva-not-in-kw.html What it boils down to is that a transformer converts an input voltage and current into an output voltage and current depending on the ratio of primary and secondary windings - that's the VA bit as the product of the input V and A will always equal the product of the output V and A. However, the power output from the transformer will be dependent on the power factor of the load.

That looks like a good candidate. Funnily enough, I played one at Bass Direct a couple of days ago (the 5-string, not a 6) and wasn't taken with the neck profile. That's saved me some money and kept me in the 2024 abstinence challenge.

And it could be worth getting in touch with Guitarguitar and seeing if they could get one in, they do other Sqooo models.

https://reverb.com/uk/item/74428855-sqoe-sebs990-headless-bass-2023 £360 inc p&P, not sure what the implications for VAT and duty are.

I think your English teacher deserves an honourable mention too.

I should have updated this. I tightened the friction adjuster and that improved things a lot.

Just watching a TOTP from 1992 and Julia Fordham was on it. Her bassist was playing what I'm pretty sure was a headless 6-string (well, I'm sure about the headless bit). Didn't seem to be any particularly good shots of it though. Any ideas on identification?

I found it really funny when one sent a message to me which said something like "I would like to buy your {Oki Microline printer}. I will send you a cheque for £2000 for the {Oki Microline printer} and you can send me the printer and the money after taking out the price of the {Oko Microline printer}". Please, if you're using a template, take the sodding brackets out that surround {item name here}.

I'm in a couple which are in indefinite hiatus, and possibly in another one which I departed from the offshoot of.

"David only needed 8 strings"