Woodinblack

well, don't pit your own money on that bet. a class B amp has to lose a lot of heat, class A more so. A class D doesn't have to lose anywhere near as much heat and doesn't need a transformer to get the voltage level down. the smaller you are, the less heat you can lose, so unless you are at a very small output, an A/B is not going to be that small.

I also bet it was never advertised as a guitar pickup, or that actually many people knew

Sounds good, will give it a listen then. It was Genesis trick of the tail which put me off remasters, in that it completely broke Ripples which is one of my favourite tracks. However, some of the Steven Wilson remasters have been good.

Haven't listened to that yet, but if it is a remaster i might put it off, I don't have a great history of finding remasters better than the original (and some, a complete travesty). I like camera eye and witch hunt, there isn't a bad track on moving pictures.

Its an interesting bass for sure, and gets round the issue of having the tremelo on the Bass VI that always seemed more problems than it was worth

No paralax distortion does that. But if for instance, you were to take a 20 fret jazz bass neck and put it on a 21 fret strat guitar body, you would end up with a 30.8" scale instrument, where the 12th fret should be located at (obviously) 15.4". However, as the neck was designed for a 34" instrument, its 12th fret is 17" away from the nut. 15.4" would be almost half way between the 10th (14.9") and 11th fret (15.99") on a that 34" instrument neck. That is what I am seeing here.

I had to change the pickup selector switch. While it did work, it made a very bad squeeking noise! I didn't have a problem with the bridge. TBH you have to put some effort in to make a bridge that doesn't work, but you are right the machineheads were definately down to a budget.

Yes, by measuring the picture on the screen, the octave is about the 10th fret!

Well, if they are probuckers, I assume they are designed to buck pros. so they are probably safe in that description! But yes, maybe humbuckers are all lies.

Now me too! Yay leon!

The mono signal is in both ears. The XVive is what I use now. I have used one alongside several other devices, I use wireless just not the line 6 stuff. Should be ok though. The one thing that it doesn't work well with is 2.4ghz wifi, such as the X18 network - forget them both working together, the X18 will not work. But my X18 runs on a 5GHz network so it is all good.

yes, I have had both a gretsch 220 and 2 different jazz basses (all of which were sold on here) although one was an aerodyne so had a p pickup. I gigged both types (the aerodyne only once, the gretsch 3 times, the geddy Lee quite a lot), the geddy Lee jazz was slightly noisier than the gretsch on one pickup, neither were an issue.

where you say 'put up with noisy single coils', they are not noisy single coils, they are single coils, no more or less noisy than other single coils, no worse than a jazz bass, which many people seem to 'put up with'. I personally have never heard of somone buying a bass specifically because the blurb said they were humbuckers, most people just go because they like the sound. The car analogy is a hyperbole. It has a misdescribed item. If you bought a V8 car and it was a 4 cylinder car I would assume you would notice it as soon as you took it out of the car park. I would imagine that 95% of people with these basses never noticed anything. Wow, the poor loves had to struggle through with single coils, how did they cope?!! It is a really cheap bass that has a misdescription. lets not go crazy. Yes, it shouldn't have happened but it does. Do fender or musicman advertise that some of their basses have dead spots? Why do spector say their tonepumps are just boost controls? Do people sue car companies when they don't get the consumption figures they specify? Who on earth reads the advertising of a manufacturer and believes it over their own experience?

Sounds like something is loose in there.

I thought send in the clowns by Glynis Johns was in 1975? Otherwise, no clue - Slade / Wizzard / Gary Glitter?

I ended up without getting the dimension because I could only find the brown gloss one, rather than the matte green one. Always prefer the matte. I like that - I liked the previous pulse too, with the red finish, one day if one wanders past cheap I might get it, although I have the euro now, so probably not needed!

It is most certainly feels a shorter reach to the nut than a non short scale, not that I ever analysed it. It feels very light and toylike in your hands, but it is a really good sound (humbuckers or not - in fact why I didn't think it had humbuckers until this thread). I would have kept it but it got to the same 'I don't play 4 strings' thing that I always end up with. For how long it goes out, look at the earlier royal blood videos which show the sort of scale compared to a person, he used to play those all the time before he became a fender sponsored guy.

They are great basses. I had one, gigged it (once I replaced the switch which was terrible), and they sound really strong.

Tommy Vance. Some here from the 80s, I am sure I have seen the others somewhere https://www.mixcloud.com/TheFridayRockShow/

Ah, ok, I didn't realise you meant the iPad, it doesn't even have that menu on the desktop I will have a look, I don't think I have ever marked the site as read on the ipad, or signed out!

I must admit that I have only marked the site read once, but how on earth can you hit a sign out button while you are doing it? There isn't a sign out button anywhere near it, it just next to the unread content - unless I am looking in a different place to you!

I have an old 300 watt ashdown, which sits in a box and I never use. I think it must be taken from a combo as it doesn't have a wooden edge on it, I should sell it or something really but I am useless at getting round to it!

I would go for a normal bridge then. The hipshot ric wont fit as it is a replacement for a normal Rick bridge, but the Chinese Rick copies are much further forward, so it would have to be fitted with a big gap behind it. I think just a bbot bridge would look good on a 4004 copy

Yeh, same here, I would never purposely recommend having one of those chinese look alike bridges on it.

Music my friends listened to, stuff from odd radio stations, and TVs Friday Rock Show