pete.young

I've been married more than 40 years and never worn or owned a wedding ring. I don't wear any other jewellery and take my watch off to play. Can't bear anything on my fingers.

I'm interested to see how that goes. I have Elixirs on mine.

BBNE2 is a neck-through.

The defret will destroy the value of the instrument, and for a BBNE2 this is probably somewhere between 2 and 3 grand. Nathan East plays a TRB5 fretless, not sure if it's a defret or a factory custom special. Prices of these are starting to creep up and amounts verging on silly money are being asked for them. If it were me I'd be looking for a TRB5, BB-N5A or the fretted version BB-N5 to defret. Or maybe even a BB2005. Luthiers in Suffolk? Well you could ask Andrew Guyton but I'd be surprised if he'd be interested. I'd say Colin Fulton, but he's disappeared from view and I don't have an address. It depends whether you want a full-on luthier or a good guitar tech. Steve at Guitar Lodge in Felixstowe has done some good work for me, though nothing involving fretwork or fret removal. He does a lot of fret work and broken headstocks though. Robbie Gladwell is also highly recommended though I've not used him so cant vouch for him personally. If you're going to attempt it yourself, buy some cheap necks and practice.

That's very enjoyable Steve. Something of the early Pretenders vibe about them.

Andrew Guyton?

The Headway EDB2 also allows you to blend a mic and pickup and provides 48V phantom power. So does the EDB1 but it's now discontinued though they pop up second-hand occasionally. Neither of these units is really designed for switching between two instruments, unlike the EBS.

I'm not an expert but I think you can adjust the input level on the audio input of the Minitaur with a MIDI control message. No idea about the Grandmother. You could try using a DI box, that should give a line level voltage instead of instrument level. If you want to plug into the audio input, the Sonuus Midi converter is not the solution since that will give you a MIDI out signal. If you do want a MIDI signal, there is so much latency with a bass guitar that the Sonuus units are almost unusable. They're a lot better with guitar frequencies. The best solution is to play the basslines on the MIDI keyboard and forget about the bass guitar.

I salute you. I've opted for the first 4 issues. Good luck.

RIP Stuart.

No, but I've been in a couple of situations where the ground lift has been essential for a useable sound, both with double bass. I think the new Laney Nathan East pre would be worth a look, there's an excellent review by @Dood in the Reviews section.

Excellent review as ever @Dood , that looks like a really useful piece of kit with the potential to replace 4 separate pedals on my board. The only thing I'd really like that I can't see is a notch filter. Would it be possible to use the 8-band EQ to create one if I knew roughly what the frequency to be notched was?

String spacing on the GL2500 Tribute is pretty tight - I had one years ago and I think it was 16.5mm.

About the only thing the 'SX' version has in common with the SGC Nanyo Bass Collections is the shape.

Might be worth asking in Build Diaries ?