Woodinblack

Always good to see another of those!

One of mine looks like that, but then it has always looked like that and I put it in 10 years or so ago. Never moved in that time. Has it moved to go there?

I have an SA36 - same layout. I put a dimarzio par on the bridge and a Seymour Duncan compressed humbucker in the neck, that last one was wrong, it's not the right spacing and it doesn't suit them. note the pickups are weird, if it has the pull switch it's because the two single coils are very different from each other

Lay concrete driveways?

As long as I know my gear is reliable, that is all I need for gigging. I rarely take my expensive basses gigging, but when I do, it makes virtually no difference to the audience whether I have that or my aliexpress special. My confidence comes down to knowing I can do what I need to do, and the bass doesn't take much of that.

DOn't get me started on gofundme campains. We have a friend that is always doing them for getting holidays for herself and the like. She has more money than most of her friends and I don't think any have been successful, but it just winds me up disproportionally.

Honestly it doesn't look a million miles away from the taurus, apart from the slope at the top. I think it looks really cool in the aluminium. If it was mine I would probably fit the synths inside it and have a few footswitches on the top. But then if it was mine it probably wouldn't be done as well!

Anyone want to upgrade from a stomp to an LT? I wonder as I have an LT (as you probably guessed from the first line). For me the LT is too big to gig and the stomp is too small, so I am still happy gigging the HXFX. But for playing the chapman stick, sadly the LT lacks a stereo input which I believe the Stomp (and the HXFX) has, and as live is probably not something that is going to happen with the stick, it is more a home thing.

I can't imagine them closing pubs here. Closing workplaces and schools, maybe, pubs? thats not going to work

I just buy basses (and musical stuff) from the sales of other musical stuff and the money from gigging. Makes it a self sustaining hobby. Having said that, I don't have a 2.5k bass.

I love her theramin stuff. I was almost tempted to get one based on the stuff she did, then I realised that I would sound more like a couple of cats fighting!

Thought that was more an American thing. Having said that, my house is one of those steel frame concrete houses they made after the war

And moderately priced Sire 5ers are prety heavy

Because wood is heavy, and enough wood so that things don't bend is heavier still. Techniques to make things lighter are more expensive

That's not a plate. The budget SRs for some reason when you buy them have a plastic sheet underneath the knobs telling you what they do. You remove it once you have bought it, that one is obviously new it still has that sheet and the plastic on the pickups i assume they don't put it on the others as you are supposed to know what the knobs do when you spend a bit more!

How about a 375, almost the same: https://reverb.com/item/23877519-ibanez-sr375el-awb

No? https://www.pmtonline.co.uk/ibanez-sr305-left-handed-bass-guitar-weathered-black Ahh - I see none of the 305s left handed are current - you have to go up the model range for that

Ah, well I get round that by just looking cool enough to start with

Well, down to whether you want a 4 or a 5 I guess. Is there a reason you can't do that?

I have one of those too, although it is one of those 'sentimental not going anywhere' basses, even though I rarely play it. I might have to get rid of my SR2605 though, as if I get the 1505, its almost the same colour and I really will need to cut down

Still going to shiv you in your sleep one day!

I have the other way round, I have the car set to kilometres per litre. I would prefer miles per litre, but sadly it doesn't do that (spanish I guess, don't care about us). Actually I would prefer the roads to be in kilometers, but that is never going to happen.

Wow, there is a compliment But yes, does look good and hide a multitude of sins

There are a couple of ska songs that are like this, if I concentrate on it they mess up. I guess at some point you always will!

Not a bad idea, but more stuff to set up. Having said that it is rare we mix the drums, normally just outdoor things