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There's lots of different Cort models - I'd advise trying before you buy, if you can, there's a variety of neck profiles and that makes a lot of difference when you're playing a five. Even more so if your hands are on the small side.

Just thought I'd add to the ongoing saga. Bartolini at least replied to me to say that the MK1s were merely designed by Mr Bartolini to give him a bit of retirement money, and Cort turned down their offer of supporting them. Cort haven't replied. I think, but can't be sure, that one of the parts of the internally split pickup has been wired out of phase. However, unlike Bartolini humbuckers, the separate windings are joined internally, so it can't be reversed. However, @Steff had a vast selection of pickups that he was looking for swaps for, including a pair of MK5CBCs that Bartolini had said would be a good upgrade, and I had a pair of Bart BH2s from the aforementioned EHB1265MS that he was interested in, so we did the swap. Stupidly I forgot to consider that they came out of a fan fret and so were 6-string rather than 5-string size, but he did have a bass with the right sized cavities and liked the sound, so all was good there. As the MK5CBCs are humbuckers and the coil windings are separately available, I'm going to make them switchable between series and parallel. Just waiting for some mini toggle switches which have a long enough thread to fit on the 6mm thick control cavity top. More news next week, I should think.

More practically, what are you using as a DMX controller? I'm thinking you may be able to use a brace of single-board computers (Pi Zero W or ESP32), network them wirelessly, have one echoing the DMX controller across their mini network and the other taking that echo and controlling the lights at its end.

Ah, that's easy. They use XLR connectors so just have several short cables joined end to end.

If you've got one incoming, you could just give it a whirl. It would be interesting to find out. I suspect the main factors will be bandwidth (the control signals may be at a higher frequency than an audio system can handle) and possibly slew rate (how much a square wave gets distorted by the speed at which the voltage can change). Did you consider the Lekato MS-1 for the IEMs?

Freecycle would be worth a look too.

Nicely. The neck's not quite as slim as I expected from the GB4, but still comfortable. The strings are 45-65-85-105-135 flats rather than my favoured 40-125 rounds but the action is set quite low (no worries about fret buzz).

A few years ago, I joined a Marillion tribute band. Pete Trewavas plays a Warwick Thumb (which I had) but also there's a fair few pictures of him with a Cort GB4 (or it could be a GB94, the only visible difference is the colour of the logo IIRC). So I bought one, and found it a great bass. However, I was deposed from the band and because I only play 5-strings, I sold the GB4. However, I did fancy the 5-string version and a few days ago got the urge to have a look and see if anyone was selling one. Indeed there was one for sale from @jimmybass04 which he'd advertised a while ago but there was no sign of it being sold. It was indeed still available, and to save me a 300 mile trip to Glasgow, he had a friend bring it down to Leeds, a far more reasonable 120 miles away. So I went up there yesterday to pick it up. Lovely condition, fitted with Schaller S-Lock straplocks, although I think I'll be taking the flatwounds off in favour of lighter gauge roundwounds. Took it to an open mic night last night and it was fine, not a lightweight but I mainly sit when playing so that's not really an issue. Pickups are Jazz and humbucker which produce a very full and balanced sound. The tuners are Hipshot Ultralight (presumably the licensed ones) - nice attention to detail. The headstock, like a Fender, isn't angled back, and there's a string tree across all five strings to give a good break angle. Fretwork is good and the fretboard edges are nicely rounded.

"Bass player seeks similar".

Has anyone ever seen Sting and Bob Mortimer in the same room?

Bought Jimmy's Cort GB5. To avoid absolutely enormous amounts of travel or consigning it to one of the many couriers to do their worst with, a friend of his acted as intermediary and brought it down to near Leeds, a far better option for me. All went smoothly. Thanks Jimmy.

Down to two now, so someone has the extraordinarily good taste to buy one. Were it not for the fact that it's painted (I don't have painted basses) and is probably impossible to put on a stand, plus it's got one too many strings and it's ten times as much as I might be able to find down the back of the settee, one of the remaining two would be mine.

And the ball end is a weak point which can shear if there's a lot of force on it. If the truss rod access slot is a bit on the short side, find what size allen key you need and cut down the short arm a bit so you can get the allen key in properly.

I found the same thing a while ago - I think I posted about it on here. Finished up using these: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/185779208770 Fitted with the screws going through the holes (as shown there).

Oi! I resent that! I always wrote documentation as if I was going to have to use it, and I have a memory like a thing with holes in it so I assume that everything from the basics up needs to be documented. I think you mean a C programmer.

Audio Technica ATH-M20x or a pair of RHA earbuds which are probably obsolete now, or ZS10s (although I find these a bit awkward to get properly in place, although the sound quality is better than the RHAs).

That puzzled me until I realised that some stupid filter is changing "tw@t" to "twit".

<chorus>How much did you paid for that?

I originally just paired the Nux Mighty Plug, which was all that showed up. Just checked and the Mighty Plug MIDI doesn't show up in the saved devices, it shows up if I switch the Mighty Plug on but can't be paired to, then if I run the app, it disappears. So I think the app picks it up on its own if the audio is paired.

The AUDIO Bluetooth device wasn't shown in the pairing screen, after numerous turning on and off and pressing the Bluetooth button for 10 seconds. Finally did a factory reset of the GO and the AUDIO option has now appeared. What a bloody rigmarole. And the Nux Mighty Plug just has the one Bluetooth device and can happily cope with settings being messed with while music plays, so I'm not convinced that there's any need to do that anyway. Still, I am now there or thereabouts. Thanks to all for your help.

There is no audio bluetooth connection.

I would have if the KATANA:GO AUDIO had shown up. But it didn't, and it doesn't.

Some more detail here: https://3dprintingspace.com/t/cr-6-se-usb-problems/82/2 Probably applies only to the CR-6 SE which I presume is now obsolete.

Seems like a bad move. Immensely frustrating. Nux Mighty Plug - plug in, switch on, play songs on phone and play along to them. Katana Go - plug in, switch on, try to pair Bluetooth via the app, apparently it works, try playing music on phone with the same player app as I use with the Nux, music comes through phone speakers. Adding songs one by one to the session list in the BTS app, try playing them after going through the Bluetooth connection rigmarole on the app and the device, and they play through the phone speakers. Unusable. Not surprised it's been discontinued, should never have been sold in the first place. The Nux Mighty Plug might have inferior sound quality but it's infinitely superior in usability.

That's the one that I have, that has the problem with the 20V or so on the 5V line. It's not a problem with all of them AIUI, I just happen to have one of the dodgy ones.