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This is a failure in functionality, not just failing to move with the times. Still, it'll stop working once all browsers insist on HTML5 compliance.

About three weeks after I ordered it, the acrylic light-up 5-string bass is here. Unusually (IME), it came in a foamy bag in a polystyrene box and nowt else - no cardboard box. So, to avoid polystyrene particles everywhere, the box got opened outside. It was almost in tune, so no need to send it back. I fine-tuned it and had a little plink. It needs setting up - the neck is slightly back-bowed and the action a little high but it's quite playable. Checked with a micrometer and the neck is about 22.5mm at the first fret, a bit thicker than I like - probably about 5-string Precision thickness, not a complete baseball bat. And now the bit you all are wondering about: It did interest Pixie the microcat. One of the LEDs at the 24th fret is out but I don't really want the stress of sending it back for that. There's a single PP3 battery to power the lights and the bass itself is passive, VVT (the T doesn't seem terribly effective). Sound is pretty good, the neck pickup has a nice mellow tone to it. I need to find out if I can get Schaller straplocks onto it. So that's another task. I suspect I'll need to use the original screw2s to maintain the thread in the acrylic but fortunately I do have a pair of mark 1 Schallers sitting on my desk. It's a bit on the heavy side but I generally play seated anyway so that's not a bother. Not something to play a whole set with but I fancy doing a few songs with it.

It's here! See NBD.

The what now? <looks> Good Lord, who had the idea of using a Traben bridge as a control plate?

When recording, if you go straight into the desk and record dry with tone controls flat, effects and eq can be added later, either through the software or by reamping. If you record with some effect on or with some part of the audio spectrum cut which you later regret, there's no going back. It's somewhat different when gigging.

That explains it - it's below the bottom of the window on my laptop screen and the godawful website doesn't scroll the outer frame so I can't get to it. What a f*cking awful website.

Which is irrelevant to @Bigwan as he's in NI, which is the EU for VAT purposes. The wonders of Brexit. I think we should change the flag of the UK from the union jack to the flag of the Duchy of Grand Fenwick.

There's no sign of information on the new basses other than the original link in the OP - "Stock basses" under "Online Store" doesn't have any information and there's no other "Stock basses" option. Incidentally, the website is still stuck in the 1990s with its awful frame-based design and "click to enter" landing page, but for some reason everybody on BC is happy with that but not happy with BD's not quite completely perfect modern website. You can't beat standards, especially if you've got double.

I'm trying to work out how that could be. I suppose if one end was 1+/1- and the other end was 2+/2-, then either the speaker or the amp was 1+/1- and the other end had 1+ and 2+ connected together and 1- and 2- connected together, that would do it. You don't fancy taking the lead apart and telling us what you find, do you?

Closer: 2023-08-08 21:38 Arrived at local delivery center 2023-08-08 10:37 Item Returned from Customs

Have you got a sound cover in the bass soundhole? https://rockguitaruniverse.com/guitarists-cover-the-soundhole/ It should at least help suppress the feedback.

I don't think so - look at the A strings on the rear view. The tuners for the octave strings are pointing at each other, so at their closes approach, and there's still a bit of space between them. Fiddly but not impossible.

I had a Quantum - like that one but in a sort of red-brown. I took it on the back of the bike, along with a GK 200MB combo, a bag of leads, and a sleeping bag, down to Kent for a mate's party. Sadly, I have no photos of the loaded bike, but I do have some of the Quantum.

Just seeing how far out we can get before the ice starts cracking...

Oh dear. Penned by the writers of numerous Paper Lace records and identifiable as an inferior "Billy, don't be a hero" clone. They had far more potential than that.

It wasn't me who originally said what you've attributed to me - in fact, I said the opposite.

In nearly 50 years things haven't changed much. I've played a few Midlands WMCs and it's the social secretary and the committee, who due to gradually tightening finances (generally due to the committee's 75 year old attitude to attracting new members and young people in general) will try to insist that the social secretary books singers with backing music. The audiences tend to the older end of the spectrum and the rooms themselves seem sterile and unwelcoming. We played one New Year's Eve gig at a WMC where no children were allowed in. Mrs Zero couldn't come as Sub Zero was a child and there was no chance of a babysitter, and the upstairs room we were playing in was maybe a quarter full. At least we won two of the three raffle prizes.

Conversely, if there weren't a few posts like that, the only things said about BD would be negative. Like if there was a lot of criticism of the website being old-fashioned and not reflecting the actual stock situation, and they updated it, and all that happened was the new website got slagged off...

Continuing on this tangent, prior to my retirement I was working for a pharmaceutical wholesaler with depots in both GB and NI. The consequence of the WA was that NI was no longer to be supplied from GB but from the EU instead. I was having a little look at the regulations, as you do when it's possible that some system changes might come your way, and there are hundreds if not thousands of codes to categorise items, and we had 36,000 different product lines. That would have been fun for someone to do the admin. It was rather simpler prior to then, when staff at one of the GB depots would simply load up the lorry and send it to NI.

@Downunderwonder only quoted the first sentence. The second sentence was "Originals bands play venues with in-house PAs and engineers." That sounds pretty absolutist to me (who used to play in originals bands with our own PA).

Yebbut Norn Iron is still in the EU, at least for trading purposes. I've just had the one Musikding order which was post-Brexit and painless. As it was less than £135, presumably Musikding arranged the VAT. I assume that with goods worth more than £135 from a big seller like Thomann, they'd charge the VAT and pre-pay it to the delivery company.

You could try https://www.crimsonguitars.com/

The Neutrik website does have the discontinued ones marked as discontinued, but for extra confusion there's only one range that's fully discontinued and marked as such, the other two (IIRC) ranges which are partially discontinued still have the 8-pole plugs, so you have to delve into the range to find out that most of it is discontinued.

Could you take the frets out and plane the fretboard off, then put a new fretboard on and fret it? Jon Shuker did the planing the board off and replacing it part of that exercise for me to get the original defretted fretboard off my Thumb now-fretless and put an unlined ebony fingerboard onto it.

Is there an internet forum or even email list that behaves differently to this?