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I'm having to restrain myself and telling myself that I already have a Nux Mighty Plug and I only use it for an hour a week at the most. It does look rather nice.

That's because they're simpletons who don't understand how to circumvent the issue (well, it's Guitarworld so what do you expect). Certain wireless units have stereo jack plugs which are how they're charged (not the vast majority of Line 6 devices). Active basses almost always use a stereo jack socket in order to switch them on - the ring and sleeve are connected to ground and battery negative respectively. I think these rechargeable bugs will work with basses which are wired one way round (eg. ground to sleeve and battery negative to earth) but not the other way round. Ah, just found this on the page for the Boss WL-50: "*1 The typical TRS output jack wiring of guitar active circuit is audio to tip, ground to sleeve, and battery ground to ring. In rare cases where ring and sleeve are wired reversely, the guitar active circuit doesn't work properly with the WL-T." - https://www.boss.info/uk/support/by_product/wl-50/support_documents/eade711c-1f5a-4951-988b-e8e863611c64/ There are two ways to circumvent this, if you have an active bass which is incompatible with the bug. The first method is simply to switch the wires to the jack socket over. This does require very minor surgery on the bass - anyone who can wield a screwdriver and soldering iron without impaling themselves and suffering third degree burns can manage it. The other is to get a short extension lead, mono jack socket to mono jack plug, plug the wireless into one end and the other end into the bass.

And Ginger Baker then brought this to mind:

Back in 1990, the band I was in got ourselves in to pay on Telethon '90. The host was Jimmy Tarbuck, though the only time I got (briefly) to speak with him was at some ungodly hour in the morning, when we were wondering when we'd be on. I sought him out at the same time as a few guys from another band wanted to find the same thing. He looked along the line of us (about half a dozen black guys in proper band uniform and a white bloke in a lumberjack shirt) and said to me "You're not with them, are you?". Well, it was funny at the time. More recently, I was on series 7 of Robot Wars (on Channel 5) with SMIDSY. Didn't talk much to Craig Charles but I did wind up Jayne Middlemiss (and nearly enticed her onto the back of my bike). We also took part in Techno Games as Sprocket - I did Techno Games 2, and I still have my silver medal from coming runners-up in the football. Got to have a chat with Phillipa Forrester, who was just spectating at the time due to pregnancy, and with Noel Sharkey. We also took part in the sumo, during which we opened SMIDSY's jaws, which was against the rules. Derek Foxwell came over to tell us we were disqualified and why, and then they wanted to film us being told about being disqualified. So we stood there, Derek came over to us, and said "You're disqualified. Now f*ck off." This explains why in the broadcast version, Derek is grinning as he tells us we're disqualified and we're trying not to snigger.

Presumably this isn't intended to cover comedic musicians, like Tom Lehrer, Flanders & Swann, Jake Thackray et al. There's all of Gong's "Camembert Electrique" for a start, and I like this very short track by Sam Brown:

"I find your lack of satisfaction disturbing".

I think it's my second favourite power tool, just behind the angle grinder.

Who by, and why? I only have active basses and I use a Line 6 G50 (among others) with no problems. In fact, I don't have problems with any of my wirelesses - Line 6 G50, Smoothhound, Lekato WS-50, Harley Benton Airborne Pro. Of these, the first two use the 2.4GHz band and the second two the 5.8GHz band. If you're just going into an amp or using a single pedal, a rechargeable bug type is more convenient as you don't have to set up a power supply for the receiver. If you're using a pedalboard, a base unit receiver with power supply is more convenient as you don't have to recharge it.

As long as you bin it in my bin, I agree.

I'm a bit of a Variax fanboi, I've got a 300, a 700 acoustic, 705 bass, JTV59, and now the JTV69. It'll get an outing tomorrow night at an open mic (where there's one other JTV59 and four other 700 acoustics).

Didn't make a note of it and I don't really want to open it up again.

All my Schaller-equipped straps (about 15) have the straplocks attached to them. I don't have a problem with them, whereas if I just put the straplock over the strap it wouldn't be long before I lost a straplock.

You can move the rear strap button to a more central position (on my 1265 it's in line with the A string tuner) which corrects that issue. As well as being easier, you can tune from either above or below a note, rather than having to tune upwards as you have to with conventional tuners.

Just replace all four.

I've got four of the flat LED PAR units which were around £12 each from Aliexpress, and we just put them on the floor pointing up. I do have a PAR bar too, but it's extra hassle and stage room so ICBA to take it out. I'm having a look at DMX control of the PAR cans just so they can do a few interesting things.

I was chatting to a guitarist at an open mic night recently and he'd bought a Chibson and was absolutely delighted with it - he'd replaced the pickups and electronics but didn't say how much of an improvement that was.

It was, however, a genuine Entwistle signature bass, so it has to be counted as a genuine Entwistle signature bass. Not the later paddle-headed ones (of which I had a 5-string), which didn't have neck dive but was heavy and had a big neck profile (still one that I found playable but not brilliant). I've never played the earlier Entwistle signature Warwick but as it's from the mid-90s I'd expect it to have a slimmer neck profile, like my '87 Thumb. Maybe one day I'll get to play one and find out.

That's not relevant to what comes out for MIDI on the GPIO pins. Just checked the specs and the I/O is 5V, so the 220R per leg is right. Good work spotting the Serial/Serial1 issue, that affects other Arduinos too.

I don't know what preamp was in my Iyv headless but the pots seemed to be random and poor quality. I just dumped the whole lot out and put in an Artec SE3 which works well (the pickups are OK). The Iyv basses can only be found on ebay.com - there's a 4-string version https://www.ebay.com/itm/404763623508. Shipped with the neck detached to keep shipping costs down. Fotoflame body, tuners have good and bad points.

And the Warwick Buzzard, up to 1995.

Probably more than the number of posthumous Dimebag guitars before his death.

But Gibson didn't need Jack Casady's signature to have Epiphone produce a replica of the Gibson semi.

Players might not need them, but manufacturers need them to increase sales.

Sooner or later, everyone has to change barrel jack sockets. They're a consumable item.

For a signature bass transcending the artist, the Warwick JD Thumb - JD being John Davis. The progenitor of all Thumbs, AIUI.