tauzero

Chop the headstock off and put a headless bridge on. Gets shot of both neck dive and annoying questions about which bridge is best.

Wireless to multieffects/pedalboard, then 3m or 5/6m lead to amp. Only use right-angle jacks if it's a pedal board that I'm keeping the internals as slim as possible. Don't use right-angle jacks into amps or basses (I have some with recessed jacks and a one-lead-fits-all policy).

Michael Jackson wrote a song in praise of him: Love, Never Felt So Good. Alicia Keys wrote a cautionary song about an anonymous shed felter who did a rather poor job for her: Never Felt This Way. While Duke Ellington, experimenting with new techniques, documented one in I Never Felt This Way Before.

It's challenging, but I've nearly got it:

Wouldn't you want it as far forward as possible to alleviate neck dive, in which case directly between the two headstockmost bolts would make sense? There is a second issue - with the strap peg on the back of the bass rather than where Orville put it on the upper unhorn, it will tilt forward. I don't know how much, it's something I've encountered on the Hohner B2 which is a rather different body shape.

I would suspect an issue with the wiring of the jack socket, maybe a strand of wire shorting the ring and sleeve. If you have a multimeter and a stereo jack plug, you could check the resistance between ring and sleeve without doing any dismantling.

All your bases are belong to us.

General purpose handyman Dynorod Stewart might be able to do shed felting.

Anything that conceals a little bit of the pointless ugly lump of wood that so many manufacturers have at the end of the neck is a Good Thing. And leaving a clip-on tuner clipped on means it doesn't get lost.

Collar felt is absolutely useless for use on a shed roof. Ms Twelvetrees can supply the list of appropriate felts, along with the requisite forms for felting.

The Zoom is pretty good. If you want a fit-and-forget unit it's great.

I did try a little extra prompting with Mrs Zero. "Beatles bass player? He got mentioned at the open mic night last night about ten times [1]." "Paul McCartney". "Thin Lizzy?" (she's a Thin Lizzy fan) "Phil Lynott". "Motorhead?" (she's not a Motorhead fan) "Lemmy". And I supplied the answers John Paul Jones, John Entwistle, and Geezer Butler for three other bands that she's a fan of, because she couldn't remember them. [1] It's a standing joke to say that any song is written by Paul McCartney

There's an answer to that.

At the moment, until I sort out the HX Stomp based pedalboard that is next on my list, a Zoom MS-60B.

Mrs Zero got Gene Simmons and John Deacon.

I have a few short-scale rubber string basses. I find playing them with the left hand in the same sort of position as you'd play a violin in (fingers pointing along the strings) is easier than the approved across-the-strings left hand position that you'd use for a full scale bass.

Ashdown too, and GK.

No, it's the Tooting Popular Front Showband. Power to the people!

St Winifred's School Choir.

If I should ever manage to reduce the number of basses in the house a bit, I'd be thinking about getting a 5-string Stingray variant to compensate. So, having played @dub_junkie's Stingray 5 and found it to have exactly the sort of neck that I really like, I'm curious as to which of the almost infinite number of Sterlings, Subs, Rays, EBMMs, SBMMs, etc would have the same neck profile. Has anyone played a few of the variants, preferably back to back, and could tell me if all the profiles are the same and if not, which are the same as the StingRay 5?

The input impedance could well be the cause. The tone control is just a variable resistor and capacitor in series bleeding a greater or lesser amount of treble, connected to one end of the volume pot wiper. The lower the input impedance, the less effect the tone control will have. I think (not certain about this and I may not have fully thought it through) that if the volume on the bass is turned down, the tone control would have more effect as the part of the volume control track between wiper and the active end of the track would be effectively added to the input impedance of the amp.

Maybe Phil Lynott - after all, he's got a statue to him an' all. As have McCartney and Lemmy.

Bartolini do 5-string pickups as short or long, and it sounds like the long would just fit (maybe with a little judicious filing). https://bartolini.net/application/j45/

Which is why I have to plug all of my active basses (which is IIRC all but one of my basses) into the passive input. They all have outputs at comparable levels to passive basses.

When Mrs Zero became the singist, I got a PA, which I have upgraded and downweighted subsequently even after she gave up, so I supplied the PA to three other bands. I also store it - as it's 4 8" active speakers, two stands, a Behringer XR18 and BCF2000, and a suitcase of leads, it doesn't take up much space and it fits in a corner of the garage.