Sean

I just voted Vintera. I love it when there's a loophole and you can vote for the outcome that's already been decided. Makes me feel like a winner. Enjoy the Vintera. I've always fancied a Bass VI but have no idea what I'd use it for other than noodling at home.

Question: What about joint purchases for bands made out of band funds? Upgrading lights, new monitors, a new backdrop. My contribution is 20% and it's deducted from the band slush fund.

@Mike Brooks was joined by Matt Gleason of Monty's at the South East Bass Bash last month and we had a demo of Monty's bass pickups. The P Retrowind was a stand out and one of the nicest P pickups many of us have heard. They are just gorgeous, UK made and although they're not cheap, as soon as we heard it you knew it was special. https://www.montysguitars.com/collections/bass-pickups/products/retro-wind-p-bass-pickup I know @cetera @NancyJohnson and too many others to mention were there but I came away decided that the next P pickup I was going to buy would be one of those. And that is coming from someone who is a dyed-in-the-wool Toltec pickups fanboy. Toltec would be an excellent alternative. Either ay you're getting a UK handcrafted product with excellent support from a small friendly business run and owned by their GenX founders.

Hypothetically, where would I place this Synth pedal in my signal chain?

Going back a while, over a year ago, I was looking to do some work on mine and googled the price of valves etc. While searching, 3 NoS ones came up being sold by Laney through eBay for £599 collected only. They sold all on the same day, I was stunned. All 3 then resurfaced on eBay from a seller in W-s-M at £749. This was 50% of what the last retail price was IIRC. Now, this was when sellers paid a fee on that listing, (nothing has changed in reality, it's just easier to remember prices from before the change) so if we do the maths, someone was prepared to "invest" £1797 up front, drive the 200 mile round trip from W-s-M to a Halesowen, put them into storage while waiting for them to sell for £2247 minus eBay fees, collection cost, etc. Really!? It's a lot of outlay, effort and messing about to pocket £200-300 if you're lucky. But it shows that there are people out there...

Standard. I was very pleased this week that a similar thread ended up with the OP making a decision and taking action by acquiring something recommended in the thread. I reckon it happens about once a year. 😆

That rendition of The Sideboard Song never fails to impress me. They were amazing. I saw them twice, once years ago with Mick and then in the last 20 years or so at Chelt Town Hall. I remember being absolutely transfixed by Rabbit. They both had a very impressive pedigrees as session musicians and, although I've never seen the evidence, Dave Peacock swore that Chas Hodges was a much better bass player than him.

I can't unsee that now. It's odd.

L-R Fret wire radius tool. Used to put a radius on fret wire before installing the new fret. D’Addario String Cutter Fret saw with gauge. It’s for cutting fret slots and the gauge stops you going too deep and ending up with firewood.

Brilliant! I love it when a plan comes together! I look forward to seeing how you get on with a 5. The only HB I've ever played was the little purple one at the SW Bash raffle this year. Impressive build and I said on the day, that if I was still globe-trotting for a living, I'd have ditched my B2A for one of those.

Good point. I've only ever been sent notation and slash chord charts. And those have been rare.

One day, I will venture North and see a Cheat Trick show. From what I've seen on YT, it's fantastic.

Posh tools.