tauzero

Do any of the string trees, er, "need replacing"?

Once upon a time, a "Loudness" button was a common sight on hi-fi amps. The idea of it was that it would reduce mids when at low volumes (or boost lows & highs, same difference really).

Do you ever post anything other than slagging off Bartolinis? Great pickups.

I managed to blow the speaker in my combo at one gig, I think due to some weird room resonance which I didn't try to sort out immediately (lesson learnt). I put the bass through the PA - Alto TS408s, which coped admirably well.

Bandwerkz. Integrates with Google Calendar too.

I haven't heard a 1265 with the original Bartolinis in the flesh - mine had them replaced with Aguilar DCBs and sounds great. I've heard the original 1265 pickups and the Nordstrand pickups in reviews, and the BH2s sounded slightly indistinct but the Nordstrands were very shouty - I thought they were rather too aggressive. And I hate trying to describe sound verbally.

I think there's 15 different models in the range now, and the 1265 has disappeared. The fact that there are so many models and they're increasing the range is a good sign. I'd like to see a fretless 5 in a natural finish.

Because the current owner has played it a bit more in the last 15 years, perhaps. Knowing as little as I do about vintage Fenders and finding the whole thing about refinishing a bass knocking enormous amounts off its value ludicrous, I would suggest that the checking showing up in the finish is the reason that it was "restored" rather than "refinished", so the majority of that checked finish could be kept and just the enormous graze on it be cleaned up a bit - scrub the wound out, slap a bit of emulsion on it, that'll sort it.

Well, you know it must be on a fretless instrument as you've got to play at fret 3.2 and fret 2.4. Some sort of microtonal experiment then.

I assume that he means the case has sat under the bed for 50 years, not the bass itself.

Sugar is a free optional extra. Milk comes as standard, no milk is £200 extra. Well, if Fodera can do it for not putting frets in...

The difference with speaker and headphone feeds to line-level or mic-level feeds is that induced interference is relatively much, much smaller relative to the signal, and the input impedance to a speaker or headphones is considerably lower. Line level is around 2V p-p, mic level is 200-300mV p-p, while 5W being sent to an 8 ohm speaker is around 24V p-p.

I've got the UMC204HD which is fine - I did think it had gone horribly wrong at one point when it went very noisy and crackly. The USB connections were rather inaccessible, when I finally unplugged it and plugged it in again it was fine.

Drying it is easy enough if you have a warm house. And there's always potential for blackmail if someone appears to have strange fetishes, like showering with a gig bag. Although if there's not a webcam in the bathroom, that should be safe.

Well, the jazz control plate is so they can get it dead cheap from AliExpress. They've made a hash of routing the cavity though, maybe the scratchplate is also an AliExpress cheapie. I did wonder why they'd put a scratchplate on at all, but of course with swappable modular preamps you need something like that.

Or put it in the bath, or take a shower with it. I'm sure nobody would ever consider that a subject for blackmail.

Why not order one now? https://www.sims.guitars/enfield-guitars/lionheart

And this is why a valve Trace amp into an open circuit speaker will be infinitely loud. So loud that it will drive your ears into instant shutdown so you won't actually hear anything.

Oh good, an illiterate troll.

Very light - more on it at some point in the near future when I've gigged it for the first time. I wasn't able to get Mrs Zero to tell me that if I didn't buy it she'd kill me, so coercion was off the table.

And here we are, squeezed into the last remaining space in the garage...

Put the pedal power strip on its back so the outlets are pointing up and put it across the top, and use a smaller power pack - I got this because of the immense current drain, you've only got normal pedals.

I'd have nicked spyder's but he's taken them down. I'll get some tomorrow.

Bought a GRBass AT212 cab from Marc. He kindly drove up to Bridgwater Services to meet up for the traditional BC transfer of gear in a car park. All very painless. Thanks Marc.

I've been considering going back to separate amp and cab for a little while - I already have the amp, a Tecamp Puma 900, and fancied one of GRBass's AT carbon fibre speakers, having already got the AT800 combo. So when @spyder put his AT212 up for sale, I didn't hesitate for too long before taking it off his hands (taking advantage of his offer to meet up at Bridgwater Services). I haven't yet powered it up, but specs are 700W, 4 ohm, and GRBass say it's 11.7kg which I can quite believe. Three way adjustable tweeter. It is 1.7kg over my 10kg limit for all items, but I can live with that.