Woodinblack

Good trade. I have an OLP which I got as I was originally put of stingrays, but still had a hankering for one, and this one came up and it was bright orange so seemed a no brainer. I use it quite a lot, very basic but good fun to play with a neck I can get on with.

Its already refinished, there is no value to lose even if that mattered to him.

I can see the convenience but as you have an actual battery compartment on those, its hardly that much of an issue, it takes less than a minute and it only has to be done every few months.

Indeed, and due to the tollerance of preamp voltage sources, and how batteries maintain their voltage to near the end, thats still the same gig and you should have changed the battery ages ago!

Of course it would, but not sure why that is relevant to the battery voltage? You aren't trying to establish the voltage the preamp needs, I assumed people are trying to put a lot of effort into measuring a battery

Only on a circuit with no reverse voltage protection or anything.

He did, that was the original point, it wasn't as good.

I would go for a white refin, just because I don't like that colour and if you prefer white, why not?

Yep, they have switched sockets, there is no power on that.

All my basses are gigged, apart from the ones that need work or a couple of 4 string basses I have. However, not all basses go to all venues, there are some venues where I don't trust the loading and I wouldn't take the rarer ones. There are basses I play more at home than others but that is just based on where they are in the house, or how they sound.

Oh god - it has taken me the best part of 7 years to get that song dumped from the set list! Even then it keeps coming back like a zombie in a bad B movie!

Loosely inserted earplugs fall out. In fact part of the problems with IEMs is them falling out, one of mine always does. And once you have something inears, you would probably want the bass there. If you are getting your IEM feed from the mixer, can't you connect a DI from your bass amp to the mixer? you don't need to put it out through the PA, just there so you can feed it to IEM. As to the ZS10s, I love mine, other people not so keen but it is a good place to start as they are not hugely expensive so you can decide whether you like them or not. Although if you are genuinely going to try the loosely inserted things, maybe not the right choice as I am not sure it would be possible with those - they are reasonably heavy so not fitting them properly will make them just fall out - maybe something like iPhone headphones or something are a better way to go as they don't make a seal

Not really, I just read it as you quoting another manufacturer, and it is actually true what the quote says. Just regardless to that, it is a very good synth, and it doesn't feel restricting at all.

I have never known that, they seem to go down when unused for me Its not an economy I understand - I get a box of 10 batteries off ebay and if I ever measure anything less than 9V I throw the battery out (recycle obvs) and put a new one in, maybe environmentally not as good, but I would never put a known dying battery in a bass for a practice or any other reason, I do have a list of when I last changed them though, there are a few batteries that are several years old. I have a hohner with a red LED for power on.. however, it has no power or circuit board!

Apparently according to the description it has 20 frets. Do they come in a separate bag? If you happen to have another neck, its fine for £1.75!

It seems to have the same logo and switch arrangement as Geezer Butlers Live Aid one (but not the same pickups), I presume coil tap and series / parallel, you should be able to see from the wiring.

9V batteries stay higher than 9v most of their life. if I was measuring a battery to see if it was good, and it was a normal PP3, If I measured it and it was below 9v I would throw it away.

I have taken a bass on a train. Never occurred to me to check whether it was allowed!

Odd - also on a macbook pro with safari, when I select next page it scrolls up to the paging bar, so below the header and above all the posts

It does make sense that if they were going to do a tour (as is rumoured every year) they would pick breezy sports as a platform to launch it instead of, say, a global news outlet or their own website!

I have an Argon 8, which is the one with fewer keys (but exactly the same synth). I also have a Carbon 5, which is the smaller carbon. It is a very deep synth which definitely has its own character, most of that comes from its wavetables, it sounds fairly digital. Its fun to play with though I have never played it live. You can't - it is 'just a synth with wavetables' but that doesn't detract from what those wavetables are, and how many there are (and that you have multiple wavetables that you can merge between. I have a synth you can load wavetables on, the Blofeld, and I don't. If you are after a synth with its own character and not trying to emulate anything else, it is a great synth - I don't know what the 61 key keyboard is like, but the smaller one on mine is a really nice keybed.

Depends what platform you are on. If it was recorded with an iOs thing, such as an iPhone, you can just rotate it with the rotate tool in photos. I assume if you are using another platform, similar tools are available. But you probably need to trim the 'pre-rotate' part of the video anyway!

ok, puzzlingly I did a trial with the WS90 and a cable through to a spark 40 with everything turned up and an overdrive on, and I couldn't tell the difference between the wireless and cable. So I thought maybe it was the WS90 Rx connected to the back of the Mod Dwarf, so i tried that, and again, no actual noise until I play with my 'whole lot of love full distortion' patch, and no difference between the cable and the wireless, so I think I must be looking in the wrong place. Which is a concern, I can't think of any more places!

I might temporarily go back to using that while I decide, as the compression is better than the hiss The overdrive doesn't affect the noise of the unit, but as you are amplifying the sound more to overdrive, a larger part of the signal becomes the hiss, to the point where if nothing else is playing, the hiss is pretty loud. Obviously in the scope of a full band playing you don't really notice it, so I don't worry too much but I am doing an event mixed by someone else in a few weeks, and they are certainly going to have an issue with it. It is possible the hiss is inteference with something else I gig with - I have wireless IEMs and there are other wireless things around, but that doesn't help much if we need those things.

So I am looking for yet another wireless system, so checking on what options are around. I had the smoothhound, it fell apart after a lot of gigs and I sent it back to get it fixed. In the mean time I had a Lekato 2.4GHz which worked fine, but I lost (found much later, still use in the house). I got a cuvave wireless which broke. Then I got the Lekato WS70, which was good to use but it became apparent after a while there was a compressing effect on using it, you could hear the end of quiet notes being cut off. So I got a WS90. This doesn't have the compressing but has a high noise floor, so when using a drive, it is unacceptably loud. I could go back to the smoothhound but I don't want to make a space on the pedalboard for a receiver. So I am wondering if the Fender Telepath or Xvive A58 was any good?