Woodinblack

Not really the nut is built in to the plastic, so it raises the whole lot, so probably not much to do.

Oh I see it goes over the nut too. Only problem I see is that there is just one bass size, and no indications of what bass it is for? Oh read the FAQ, it is just for a jazz bass

Clever idea, although it would have to be very thin over the frets to actually work on a well set up bass. Certainly would give it a try if I came across one. Not sure why there would be an intonation problem though, unless you had terrible action.

Nah - 100 miles in the uk is like 500 miles in the states!

He really didn't - he died at 21, and he didn't really make a living out of playing the bass, he really earned it out of looking the part, so more being a fashion model than anything else.

Doesn't really matter - if you put a pot over the input voltage with the centre of that pot going the C1/R2 junction (and the pot wound closer to the 0 to start), changing the position of the pot (ie, increasing the voltage) should change the output on TP1, which is connected to the drain of the fet - if it doesn't, the fet is no longer a fet. Actual values of the voltage don't really matter unless you are working out if the gain is what you expect, but currently you are just trying to see if it works.

I think sometimes your own personal impression of your behaviour can be very different from what other people see!

Should be easy enough to check. If you don't have an oscilliscope, then just check the voltage at TP1 while putting a voltage on R2.

I think it is sensible to generalise. I mean, I doubt anyone is going to disagree that the UK would be just that bit better if Kent was sawn off and allowed to sink or drift in the sea.

thats more about Portsmouth than Newcastle - I never regretted moving either

They still come with EHBs as add ons, and many basses have them, I guess people got bored talking about them and those who want them have them!

According to the reviews, they do not have enough fenderov sound on them. Which is obviously not good.

Can change it for you, send me a message saying what you want

If you are unable to post anything that isn't unlawful, illegal, threatening, abusive, or designed to offend them yes, probably best you post nothing! I don't think you are offending anyone, although maybe you showing people that you are having a bit of a slow day

I must admit in all my years of working both as hobby electronics and later as an electronic engineer (which I guess counts for about 20+), I have been liucky enough to never has found a resistor with the wrong values on it. Some are harder to see than others, but never wrong. Capacitors on the other hand...

None of the stuff I loved do I actually now hate, there are some I wouldn't go out of my way to listen to, but nothing that if it came on I would rush to turn off. There are things I didn't like, such as steely dan and jamiroqui that I really didn't like but now do (I still am not a fan of JK himself, but the music is ok!). I did hate the jam and groups a bit like that as they were music that were played non stop by the people at school I didn't like, but ended up playing a lot of their stuff.

I refinished a cab in tufcab, and if you accidently bash against it with something, the something hurts afterwards, so not sure I would like it on a bass!

They seem reasonably genuine, although I would have thought if you knew the strings it would be easy to work out and get a refund if they weren't.

New year then, we did a new year gig in a working mens club, where there is normally quite a crowd (and there was a crowd too). We did 9:15-10:30 10:45-11:45 and 12:05 to 12:30, so quite long overall. Couldn't get the sound good, which is odd as I normally can at this venue. it didn't seem very loud but was feeding back if I went up. No idea why, although I also had a problem with the Saxophone, its level was way down. Overall apart from that it wasn't bad, the audience was good, and even though we brought in loads of tracks we hadn't done in a while to mix things up, there weren't any major issues. This was the last gig with the last guitarist. He wanted to leave (again) and gave us a deadline of this year, so despite asking he was going, so we auditioned and got a new guy, then just after we got him has now changed his mind and wants to go back. Its made things a bit awkward and I was having issues with it, but after this gig, setting up, breaking down with the 3 of us while he stood and chatted, I remember that I was quite happy with it! Paid very well, seemed to go well but for some reason, it wasn't my favourite gig, although no idea why.

Worst gig, hard to say - Undoubtedly the worst gig was Guns and Roses, they were awful in every way but I wasn't a fan so I didn't expect much. Gary Moore I suppose - it was his 'still got the blues' but the album hadn't really come out much and everyone was wanting his rock stuff, but he came out, did a short blues set which was really quick and that was it. Recently, Gary Numan - not technically his fault, his playing was great, but it was at the Bristol O2, and it was so oversubscribed someone collapsed upstairs and it took medics 5 minutes to get to them through the crowd, honestly if there had been a fire or something, noone would have stood a chance. I have been at sold out gigs there before* and had half the capacity. Left before the end just because it was too unpleasant and my wife wasn't happy there. * Saw wolf Alice there 6 months earlier and there was a lot more space, but as my wife said, maybe the same number of their audience just take up less space!

I wouldn't, that was one of the main selling points, it was a prettier version of my SR1605 (which also has gold). Turned out in the end it wasn't sufficiently different from my 1605 to hang on to, and with the nice finish came a fear of damaging it (the 1605 is soft wood that has many scars that don't show).

I had a SR2605, it was very high gloss poly:

There are a lot of soft finishes, but if you need them, there are hard (ie, non wood) finishes too, such as heavy varnish.

I am the same with my band. Me and the drummer use IEMs, the singer and guitarist don't. I have the PA and do the sound (and it is all my stuff). they have mentioned monitors several times but I have said, if they want monitors I have an output for them, but its nothing that I need to buy, so of course, there aren't any monitors.

They will be the same apart from maybe rounding. one fret up has to be the same proportional distance from the previous one, regardless of the original scale, ie, the 15th fret will always be the 12th fret from the point of view of the 3rd fret, as it will always be half the length of the remaining scale. Distance from bridge = total scale / (2 ^ (fret / 12))) As far as I can see that is the easy but. But how do you put a shorter truss rod in a bass modifying the original holes, and to do so isn't that more work than just building a new neck in the first place?