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One passive bass, one which I bought passive but I subsequently activated, 30ish active. The Megatar is also passive. World Battery Change Day promises to be quite expensive. Added to that, all my guitars are active except one - the electrics are Variaxes and a Jamstik, the acoustics are electroacoustics except for one.

Fair Deal Music is only a mile or two from there too. And if he does M6/M42/M40, he can pop in to Bass Direct and Bass Bros.

Is anyone experimenting with a PiPedal by any chance? Just wondering whether to spend a bit of time putting together something else I won't use.

Don't forget that I said "about". Having had a recalculation, and bought a bass or two since then, "over" would be a better word. I'd better do an inventory, I'm not sure myself. In terms of basses, fewer[1] than @cetera and more than @neepheid. [1] Note correct English

I'm surprised at that as the overall length from fixed point (back of the body) to fixed point (tuner) is longer than on a through bridge (bridge to tuner), so the marginal increase in length required to press the string down to the fret would be lower as a percentage of the overall length on the through body than the through bridge, so I would expect the tension on through body to be slightly less than through bridge.

I like Ibanez but $8k for an SR made with pretty woods is a bit of a stretch.

Gone now, which at least has removed temptation from me.

Surely not, Warwick make the Corvette.

Lekato also do them - that's the Lekato whose instrument wireless systems many of us are using very happily. Of course, they're not no-name, they're Lekato (I suspect that M-Vave's offerings will be identical). https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005009288556260.html

Screw-on feet, so that's a possible.

I think there's also an issue with vibration at the point where the solder ends and it becomes just copper, as the stiffness of the soldered section means it will fatigue at that point. I know it's a reason for not soldering spade connectors on motorcycles, although the vibrations on a bass cab are probably less vicious than those on a bike.

OTOH, it's also a lot shorter!

No. I'm not that bothered, just got to remember to put the handle on the side. 12 battens cut out and drilled, next is the circular saw. Hopefully I will still be decidigital following this operation.

Hmm, the TC BAM200 has screw-on feet...

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Both bands primarily rehearse new material, although if a song goes wrong at a gig we'll decide whether it was a one-off or if we need to rehearse it. I'll upload the version of the song to work on to Dropbox for one band so we've got a single reference. For the other band, we have song name and artist name and the arrangements will get rejigged if there's a gob-iron solo (soloes tend to be gob-iron followed by guitar, rinse and repeat). There aren't many complex arrangements, it's mainly Dr Feelgood or old time rock'n'roll with the odd outlier. Where there are more complex arrangements, we follow the original.

Option C - bass was bought on Basschat and then gets sold elsewhere. Which is something I think I've done, but not for profit, it was so I'd be pretty certain that whatever it was I wanted to get shot of would be gone in a week.

Unless you've got a headless...

81 within 100km of Tamworth, plus the entire contents of Bass Direct and Bass Bros. Damn, shouldn't have looked.

My fretted mid-70s P got a diMarzio (I'm currently trying to sell the original pickup) and there's a rout under the scratchplate where I put an active EQ and battery, which I subsequently removed. I also hacked the scratchplate around and removed the remnants of the rather battered sunburst finish. I part-exchanged it in 1988 - I occasionally wonder what happened to it. It wasn't unusual for mods to get done to them, like J bass bridge pickups. Nowadays it seems that doing anything like that is regarded as sacrilege - even a decent refin so it doesn't look like it got towed to every gig (why are Fender finishes so fragile?) is regarded as an evil deed.

Maybe you had the good taste not to slap.

TBF, it didn't say whether the chainsaw was running.

Ditto - conversely, when Mrs Zero the first and I went to see Paul Simon on the Graceland tour, Mrs Zero[0] was told to sit down despite her being 4'11.5" and us being at the back of our seating block so she couldn't see a bloody thing.

As others have said, work on the other arm in the meantime. It's not going to be load bearing for a few weeks but if you can get yourself into a position which a) isn't painful and b) involves a bass being in a playable position, you can at least do something. If you can realistically only use one arm then it depends which arm - if it's your fretting arm then practice fretting (I've seen a bassist whose right arm was useless due to a stroke, but he played very well with just his left hand) and if it's your picking hand then practice all picking forms - two fingers, plectrum, three fingers, classical guitar style.

There you go, you're working up to it. Now watch a couple of episodes of "Mrs Brown's Boys", and if you're not comatose with laughter after that, watch Spinal Tap II again and you'll appreciate it all the more.