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If I did it would be something a bit more innovative and interesting than a Fender Precision.

OK recommend me something with Pino on that you think I will like.

I suppose that if people were prepared to pay me enough money to live on for playing in their band(s) I'd be prepared to play any old shït too. Pino's a weird one for me in that I really like his fretless bass playing, but think that in a the context of the whole music he plays on that's the only musical bit of merit. He's the only only redeeming thing about the Paul Young records (apart from the truly awful version of Love Will Tear Us Apart which even he can't salvage). Go West was just fake 80s pop for people who don't really like music. Unfortunately in The Who he's not a patch on Entwhistle to the point that the band had to have a second guitarist to fill out the sound.

No he was too busy playing sax on "Baker Street".

They why does he play for the most part really boring music?

It seems to me that those who are having difficulty seeing what an expensive bass can bring are people for whom a bass guitar is either a Fender P or J or their close derivatives. And TBH I can completely see their point. There's not a lot extra that can be brought to designs that have changed little in the last 60 years and whose USP was that they could be made cheaply using 1940s engineering operated by relatively unskilled labour. When you consider that CNC machines in the far east can churn these instruments out by the hundreds of thousands at a rate and price point that Leo Fender could never have imagined, it's impossible to see exactly how a US made P or J is so many times better than the equivalent Squier. It also depends what exactly you want. If I wanted an instrument that would simply produce low notes in a pop/rock band then the second hand Burns Sonic I bought for £60 as my first bass back in 1981 would still be perfectly acceptable.

Why would you do that? Plus if you're writing your own bass lines then surely you work them out by ear?

Is she going to be expected to play lots of riffs which need to follow the guitars only an octave down and incorporate lots of open string notes in order to be playable? If not start by getting the 5-string version of her preferred 4-string set and ignore the G string. Tune BEAD and take it from there. IME if you don't need to follow the guitar parts exactly then use a different tuning to the guitars tends to lead to more interesting and inventive bass lines.

Try the Keyboards and Synthesis section of the Sound On Sound forums.

TBH without the Paul McCartney link Hofner would probably have stopped making violin basses a long time ago.

With those of light strings they may well fit in the nut as they're only slightly heavier than a standard E-G set. What the OP will more likely need to do is slacken off the truss rod as a light-gauge B string will have considerably less tension than a G.

You can't have Bluetooth with no noticeable latency as it's simply not in the specification. AFAICS the bluetooth connection is simply for playing music from your phone or iPad where the fact that it has been delayed by up to 200ms won't matter, and for controlling the effects on the headphones. The connection between the instrument and the headphone will be done by some other method that is sufficiently low latency but it won't be Bluetooth.

When you say "non-precision" do you mean the body shape or the presence of a single P-style split humbucker pickup?

Not Rickenbacker themselves, but there have been instances in the past where US tech companies have been very jumpy around the subject of IP and copyright infringement, and their default position had been to shut the service down first and ask questions second, this was especially noticeable in years immediately after the DMCA came into being. It's a while since there have been any high-profile instances so I'll have to do some digging to find when it last happened. The problem is that most websites rely on multiple 3rd party services to keep going and all it needs is for one of them to get cold feet following an IP infringement allegation and the whole site disappears.

Owned by bass players of a certain age. The cheaper music shops (and junk shops) were full of them in the 70s. If you bought your first bass back then and didn't have much money to spend, it was either one of those or something equally nasty from Woolworths.

Regarding what Rickenbacker can do to Basschat, I doubt anything has changed since last time this question was raised. While they may not have the time and energy to pursue this through the UK courts, there is plenty that Rickenbacker can easily do which would make things difficult for the day-to-day running of Basschat. I suspect that like most relatively small websites Basschat relies on a number of services that are provided by US-based companies. Which company did Basschat use to register the domain name? Where are the servers physically located and who owns that infra-structure? Even if neither of those have anything to do with the US there is still the software used to run the forum (Invision) and Cloudflare who the site relies on to protect it from on-line attacks are both most definitely US based. It would be very unfortunate if Basschat were to disappear because Rickenbacker put pressure on the those US companies and services the website relies on, on the grounds that Basschat was facilitating IP infringement. To challenge that would most likely require US court time which isn't going to be easy or cheap for a UK website.

Out of Interest what makes this "Hardcore" as opposed to one of the many sub-genres of metal?

Even if you take your rig in and get the engineer to mic one or more of the speakers up, they'll also take a DI from the head and another direct from the bass. When it comes to getting the bass sound, a good engineer will use what they could hear in the live room as a reference; but you have no way of knowing how the final bass sound in the mix was created and could just as easily be the direct DI from the bass with plug-ins on it.

Unfortunately IMO that clip very much re-enforces my point about SAHB being less good without Alex Harvey.

Surely if the shop is a proper DHL drop-off and collection point they should be accepting every parcel? And if they can't do that that they should be replaced with one that will. I had a similar situation a few years back with UPS. I had a delivery from them that I wasn't aware of, and because of this, I happened to be out when the delivery was attempted. My parcel was taken to the local drop-off shop and a card put through the door stating as much. On going to collect the parcel this drop-off shop turned out to be a good 15 minute walk from my address. When I arrived I was told I couldn't have it because there was no-one there who knew how to work the system. I could see behind the counter a vast number of parcels and packages strewn all over the floor. On my return home I was straight on the phone to UPS customer services telling them in polite but very forceful terms exactly what I thought of their "service". I got a very apologetic lady who said that she would look into the problem and call me back. That was the last I expected to hear from them. So I was pleasantly surprised that about 30 minutes later I did in fact get a call from UPS where they were even more apologetic and said that I would be able to collect my parcel in 2 hours time when the owner of the shop and apparently the only person capable of working the parcel delivery and collection system would be back. UPS stressed that this was very much against their policy which stated that the service should be available at all times during shop opening hours, and that they would be taking action. I was even more pleasantly surprised to discover next time I went past the shop that they were no longer UPS agents. So if the delivery is messed up again tomorrow kick up a fuss the DHL.

Incidentally GHS do an even heavier set of Bass VI strings (than the Newtones) designed to go on the Eastwood Hooky bass. I have to say that they suit this bass very well and I will be ordering a set as a failsafe just in case when I restring with Newtones I don't like it as much. Every Bass VI style instrument I have tried (apart form the Eastwood Hooky) comes with very similar gauge strings to those fitted to the Squier. I have no idea why since most users find the E and A far to floppy in feel and sound.

I've no specific recommendations for headphones, but you really need to steer clear from Bluetooth as the latency is far too great for real-time audio streaming.

It's only a problem if you fit heavier gauge round wound strings. With flats, or the lighter strings that the Fender and Squier models come fitted with the E and A strings intonate properly without modifying the bridge.

Excellent! Although it looks as though the intonation string might still be touching the A string. Chords? I haven't been able to get any decent clarity for chords of more than two notes out of any of my Bass VIs unless I'm very much in the upper register.

IME lighter gauge string require less rearward travel to get the correct intonation.