Woodinblack

Absolutely is what usually happens. Looking at all my basses, half of them are like that!

You can copy and paste it from the title. I find it easy to write, as I type the letters m z k and it auto-expands to Maruszczyk, because I have one and had to type it a lot!

Yeh, but they don't do necks in decent sizes, unlike maruszczyk

Not sure why it makes a difference if it is active or not, if you want to change your EQ on your pedalboard, there seems to be a lot of options to do it. Luckily I have all the toneshaping I want on my amp, because I certainly don't have room on my pedalboard!

and remember the configurator is a much newer thing, when I bought mine it didn't exist, you just contacted him with a list of things you wanted.

They manufacture their own necks and bodies.

Well, that is kind of backwards. a wav file is the data you want to send to the A/D converter put in a file. An MP3 file is that same data that has been compressed and encoded to use less space. If something wants to play that track, it has to open the MP3 file, decode and expand it to an approximation of what was in the original wave so that it can play it. I can't imagine there is a media player than couldn't directly play a wav file, or the equivalent - there are several formats that are uncompressed or loslessly compressed files, AIFF etc. Pretty well the same, the wav format was just microsofts version of an AIFF.

interesting - I am guessing volume for each string on both pickups.

Your creativity is your creativity. Formal training gives you other options and opens your eyes to other ways of doing things but doesn't replace creativity. So no, if you are inventive, a formal education will help. If you aren't, it won't.

Also would be happy to but then you would have to travel to Yeovil to pick it up, and most people try and avoid that

ok, I will update. They haven't made a computer in the last 3 decades, or a smartphone ever as long as it had the space that cant covert a wav file to an mp3!

Most, but not all. If you look on the website there are a number of basses you can just buy as is. They are not custom, as you don't have any say in them. BUt anything from the configurator or built manually is.

If you couldn't have picked it up off the shelf and it was put together specifically as ordered, it is custom. And that is assuming that he didn't pick anything really custom, like mine has a neck that is completely custom and not off a pre-made part, I don't know about this one.

Ahh, well I assume that will rule out actual fenders. my mzk is a 5 string light fender style, but not budget Also not that budget

mine hasn't turned up yet, I accidently ordered it from america. It is due this week

I don't know about sires, they always looked heavy. the CV P bass I had though weighed very little. A lot lighter than any of my fender Jazzes were (admitadly that is only 3). So much so it was a little bit headstock heavy. so it is surprising they are heavy. Obviously if you are comparing it to something built for weight, it probably won't match. My swamp ash shuker is certainly lighter, and my chambered mzk is also probably less. Maybe the other models are heavier.

Same here. Actually the group that had it didn't carry on, but there are some tracks that go into your practice routine, and that is one of them as it is fun one to play.

I think my favourite fender basses were the MIM Geddy Lee and my Squier CV P. I have an Aerodyne J at the moment, but I don't think I would notice if it wasn't there one day for a few months.

My wife will almost certainly throw them out when she sees them as she has a passionate hatred of orange, but I am in anyway. I could use them on my green bass, wouldn't that be nice?

The only real problem with this bass is customer service. It is a beautiful bass with a couple of very minor issues, this whole thing could have been fixed with a couple of friendly emails.

An MP3 is a way of saving space, that is all. It is a way of throwing away some data based on psycho-acoustic models of what we hear and what we don't hear, so for instance, we don't hear detail in a frequency that has lower power than a frequency that has higher power, eg - if we have a really loud section at 1khz, and there is a detailed sound at 4khz, we don't hear it, so it can throw it away. That is all cool and good because most people don't hear it. However, if you are looping, you can have a load of tracks that are added together with some of the data missing because in the individual track you couldn't hear it. But maybe there are other tracks with data at that frequency that was removed that would have added and increased the power of that level beyond the original large value, but as we have already got rid of that detail it can't happen so it won't add properly, like in an orchestra where you have a quiet instrument, you hear it because they add lots of them. Mp3 only works well for a single playing track, not a composite. OK, so it isn't terrible, it will work, it will just never be as good and as its sole point is to save space, unless you have a shortage of space it will always be better if you don't use compression. Are these people without computers? Or people with computers from the 80s or something? They haven't made a computer in the last 3 decades that cant covert a wav file to an mp3!

Thats the thing, if you don't have an issue, if nothing goes wrong, then there is no reason that you would have problems. It is only in the dealing with issues do you see what a company is like.

I ordered it, it is coming probably at the end of the week, start of next week. Also picked up a page turner at the same time. I am not bothered about it being wav format, anything that can write an mp3 can write a wav and frankly the last thing you want a looper recording in is MP3, although if it is playing it back not an issue.

Yep, not something I have had a need for. i know there isn't a bank up/down message as bank in this context means nothing outside of the HX display. Although you don't mean banks of patches do you, you just mean patches, like where you have the footpedals all in stomp mode, then switch an external key to go to the next set of footpedals? If so, yes, you can send a program change to the next value from a midi footpedal. I don't think you can do it from a dumb switch though

TBH, the problem here is hermes not returning my parcel, so they almost certainly will replace the bass, and most purchases will be fine (the original sending of the bass was fine and it wasn't their fault it was broken), its just their total lack of feedback when something goes wrong. Also I think the folkstone branch is one guy answering a phone and forwarding it to holland.