Woodinblack

Not sure that is true of the switchcraft jack I got for the RST, it had big enough tags and holes in for the wire to go through.

Hell of a drive otherwise!

GLWS - I would have bought it if it was a 5 stroke

They seem, for whatever reason, a bit of a week spot. Some go on for ever, some fail really quickly. I have had to replace the one in a Spector RST (intermittent contact), which is a 2k bass that came out a year or two ago, but at the same token, my other spector is from 1990s and its barrel jack is going fine. Use a quality make, it makes no sense to use a budget barrel, Really don't get what it is about the construction that makes them so poor as the cheapest of flat jack sockets will go on for ever.

Very well done, but.. ooh, a bass solo, I guess that means the bar is open!

Mine just floats around. Often does the floating anchor thing, but sometimes just wanders across all on its own!

I had a musicman sub that was also < 17mm

I still have a TMB35. Haven't done much with it apart from fixing the electronics (which came prebuggered) which for a sub £200 bass was good. I did get some foil to shield the internals, but tbh it is only the jazz pickup that is noisy and it doesn't really bring much to the party. It is great fun to play, the string spacing is a bit wide for my preference, and the neck chunkier than I am used to, although getting used to it with the spectors. I have played it live quite a few times, it sounds good - or at least the P pickup does. I wouldn't call it particularly heavy, but it is head heavy, and could do with losing its ugly headstock (I think someone on here modded it to be headless). But it is a great bass to have around, there aren't that many short production 5 strings (I am picking up a ibanez AGB205 next week that I picked up in an auction) around, especially not at that price, which also puts it in the 'not worth selling' category which is ideal!

The ehb series (as people have mentioned) defaults to 18mm, but you can change it to make it wide, but the BTB is ibanezes wide string range, anything from the BTB range will work for you (although note that they are also 35" scale)

Something that is capable of running for 8 hours as a headphone amp isn't goiung to last that long running flat out at 50W

I had one of those. Wanted a discount. Offered him a full refund if he sent it back, turned out he didn't want to.

Literally if you have a harmonic directly over the pickup you will not have any of that harmonic in the final output, the string at that point will be effectively static. At the point of a harmonic, there is a zero input from that harmonic.

Got mine today, seems pretty solid and appears to work ok. Don't get clicking on the compressor, or scratching on the volume.

But why? is that to make your open strings quieter and counteract the fact they are normally louder? Obviously being under a harmonic will deny you any contribution of that harmonic in the output (assuming a single coil pickup), so maybe give you a deeper sound, and ok, I could get that, but that would completely change sound as soon as you fretted any note, so what is the point? Its easy to work out where the harmonics would be, but my question is why does it make it desirable that purely on open strings you remove that harmonic, but not any of the other frets?

The what harmonic though? obviously there are a whole set of harmonics, but they are only fixed for open strings, when you fret the notes the harmonics move with the frets

I have too many basses at 10 (or so), but honestly not sure which basses I would get rid of as I use them all. Actually, no I have a 4 string ibanez I don't use often, but that was one of my earliest decent basses, so I would be loathed to get rid of it. Looking around at the others, there isn't a bass I wouldn't or don't gig, so not sure. If I wasn't gigging, then maybe there were a couple I rarely play at home.

Well, I do but not to keep it a distance away from the desk, just because I have a X18 (not an XR18), and the output aux sockets are TRS plugs, so I have a number of short orange TRS plug to XLR sockets so that me and the drummer can plug into the socket (save looking round the back. My lead is a bit shorter so we know which is which, but the U4 sits on top of the mixer anyway. As you can see on the bottom right of this:

Deadpool came out - the money people got distracted and forgot where they put all the £s

Nope, its only £70 saved if you were planning to get one anyway, otherwise it is £150 lost He's cost us all thousands now I would imagine. But then so have I. Maybe we need a GAS Enabler cost thread to keep a tally. Or maybe, we don't!

They have always varied wildly - they were really cheap at thomman a few years ago, in the hundreds (both models) and varied a lot day by day

I don't want one, as I am happy with my amp and I also have a spare TC450. And a BAM200. So I dont need one. So mine is due next week, because I am a deeply weak and flawed individual and am holding stewblack entirely responsible. The 180 day money back thing seemed a no brainer.

Looks much nicer than the default unfinished ones!

The fender urge had those two pickups (and the other Jazz one.

I gigged for a while with a P and with a J, although I no longer possess either. But picking between just those, I would say that I found the J a better all round gigging bass for a variety of music unless I was exclusively playing late 70s / early 80s punk / pop stuff, where I found the P worked better.

I don't see it as inconcievable that that happened, just that an old thrown out set of floorboards would have a value for that reason, beyond the value of any other 60 year old floorboards. In this case the paving stones from near lenon or McCartneys house much be worth an absolute fortune!