Maude

They're all horrible! Sorry, not a lot of help I realise. I find all 'acoustic' bass strings really noisy, lots of fret clatter and string squeal when moving around. You can fit any type of string to an acoustic, I use Fender tapewounds. You may sacrifice some volume but I find the tone is greatly improved over any 'acoustic' strings.

Soul to Squeeze - RHCP

Whodunit - Tavares

Just Like Heaven - The Cure

What Time Is It? - Spin Doctors

My Ding A Ling (a ling long) - Chuck Berry

Let's Go Round Again - Average White Band

Brass In Pocket - Pretenders

Looking Out My Back Door - CCR

Dead Men Tell No Tales - Motorhead

Bring It Up - James Brown

Mussel Museum - Muse

It was a while ago and I can't honestly remember. It's simple if you're reasonably hands on though. You just need a switch (DPDT on/off from memory) and find a schematic online. I used a mini toggle switch so had to drill a small hole in the control plate but you can get a push/pull tone knob to switch it from parallel to series. If you're not that hands on then contact @KiOgonand he should be able to make you up a new loom including a series switch. You don't even need to be able to solder as he uses solderless terminals. You could have new pots including push/pull to do the switching and all you do is clip your pickup wires to it.

Great find for a tenner! Well worth doing up a bit, they're actually very nice basses, especially the necks. I've got an STB J and P, paid £40 each. The P I gigged solidly for the best part of a year I liked it that much. I did put a Quarter Pound pickup in it but the original was fine really. The J has a pair of the Entwistle PBXNs wired with a series switch. Proper J tones with either pickup and a lovely full fat tone when in series, almost P sounding. In fact I used it for rehearsal last week, it holds it's own against some expensive 'real' basses. Both have had black pickguards and bridge covers added. Arty farty (bad grainy) shot 🙈 Forgot to say that the Jazz was sent to me by courier in a single black bin liner taped shut around the neck with the headstock sticking out. Amazingly No damage, crazy!.

I'm really enjoying this album. I'm only in as far as 'Infectious' but already there's so many influences from the bands I love but without sounding like a clone of any. Great stuff, well done. 😎

Ha, bloody audience on their phones. I once bought a car on eBay between songs at a gig I was playing. 😂 I was keeping an eye on a car for my wife that ended that evening, I forgot to bid before we started and suddenly remembered during the gig. My phone was on my amp which is usually kind of beside me when I play doublebass, I quickly opened ebay at the end of a song and saw the auction ended in a couple of minutes. Shouted at the guitarist to do a double length intro to the next song while I stuck a bid in. Checked ebay in the break to find my wife now owned a new convertible. 😁

Whiskey in the Jar - Thin Lizzy

Cubik - 808 State

Movin' On Up - Primal Scream

Bulls on Parade - RATM

Will You? - Hazel O'Hazelnuts

Nice Legs Shame About Her Face - The Monks

Technically you are not using your car for work, you are commuting to a place of work. If you were using your car for business deliveries, or taxiing people around for money, trading as a mobile mechanic etc, then fair enough, you are using your car for work. But just driving your gear to a gig is surely commuting. While you are working (gigging) you are not using your car. Also, and this is never easily accepted, but insurance companies don't find a get out anywhere near as much as people would like you to believe. In my 35 of being in the insurance repair trade I can't even think of a handful of times when they weaseled out. Usually you simply pay the extra that the relevent cover would've been before we're allowed to repair/release your car.

Sorry I don't. I found it worked really well. I'm not a huge subby bottom end kind of guy but I certainly didn't find it lacking in bass. I never A/Bd it with the bass version but from memory it seemed pretty much the same just with a mid control instead of a drive control. I used it with an Ashdown LoMenzo drive pedal so that didn't matter.

After looking at the pictures again I think I'm going to take it to rehearsal this week. 😎♥️