Woodinblack

Well, I have two other light basses, the Maruszczyk L24, which is a chambered swamp ash bass with ultralites on it, and a shuker uberhorn 5, also swamp ash. Neither of them as light as the RST though, which I assume is some kind of paulonia. And I have a spector euro that is maple all the way, and I suspect heavier than all the ones above put together

Cool story bro. I assume - I have no idea what 9 years on the head means, or who donna lee is, but anyway, his problems are not my problems, I don't personally know him, I was just saying what I did, and as usual, you are just saying what Jaco did.

I can honestly say i have never concentrated on muting the B string on a gig. I don't think I have ever had to concentrate on muting at all, apart from when I was first learning. that is something for my hands to work on, not my head. my spector 5 RST is the lightest bass I own, it was one of the lightest basses at the last bass bash - can't remember what it was but it is 3.3KG on the web, it is lighter than my Ibanez EHB1505, which is in itself not exactly heavy.

If you add the new price of everything I will be gigging tonight with, it is over £2000 but resale probably not (unless I take the spectors or Maruszczyk) - probably around that. But the we don't play for £50 and the car is considerable more expensive than £500!

isn't 🤯 good enough? I can't speak, we have an equal amount of beatles and abba in our set list!

Interesting take on miming!

Can anyone say if it is still there? Seems to have something to do with ads, which is why most users getting it aren't supporting members (although some are and that doesn't make sense)

I can only get it on chrome on windows - don't get it on my mac or phone (or firefox on mac or pc).

Thanks. Yes, I dug out a machine that had a copy of chrome on it and it appears on there. I have no idea who cookie pro are, or why they are there, I will look into it tonight

Nothing has changed here for a month (there is an update waiting but nothing to do with that) - I had a brief look on the net earlier, saw a few things from a while ago about cookies - maybe a chrome thing? I don't know, I don't use chrome and haven't seen it on either firefox or safari. What does it do if you click it?

but when you were a kid, whatever time you grew up, the anticipation of the next recording of your favourite group was palpable too - just there were more of them.

No, stuff can happen and it took a while before it went wrong. Obviously if it went wrong again I would. Yes, it does work with 2 if you want to share, but I don't really in my current group.

The XVive U3 is just the XVive u4 transmitter with a different form factor receiver. I got a replacement U4 now, turns out my transmitter failed so I have one transmitter and 2 receivers!

Nothing hard there - when you decide to do it, take a picture of the PCB that has the switch on then people on here can answer you. On the other hand, if you have someone to do it for you that always makes life easier!

Depends if you have a meter. There are 3 wires from the existing pickups, whch are ground, hot and centre tap. If you have a meter, it is easy to work out what they are - the resistance between two sets of the wires will be the same, and the other set will be double. Even easier would just be to look at the tracks on the actual switch which will also tell you. Then for any given humbucker, you put the start and end of the coils together and you have your 3 wires (and probably one for shielding.

No, you can just put the same plug on your new pickups, or just wire it to the pins if you want, assuming it is a humbucker with a centre tap

Its one of our christmas ones, but we haven't had a chance to drag it out this year

Looks nice here, somehow thomman felt the need to photograph it under orange light and it doesn't look so good there!

For the me the shabby thing with the fender (in fact most fenders) is they have unfinished headstocks. I am not a fan of the full size pickups on these, but the same as the vinteras (but a lot cheaper!)

Odd they are listed as 1 volume, 1 tone - I suppose that means the pickups are connected all the time.

Why doesn't the headstock match the body, looks a pretty good match here. The standard PJ pickups are the same as the fender ones too.

Nope, it wont. I suppose you could with 2 separate U4s and a headphone amp, but not exactly slick!

That is not a problem normally in our group as the singer is just very good at handling those people and doesn't get at all annoyed about it. I couldn't handle it at all, irritates the hell out of me, but he kind of revels in it and is really good with the crowd. Never understood it myself, but quite grateful that he mostly acts as a shield. I get people trying tto hold a conversation with me while I am playing - I have IEMs in, I can't hear you anyway. One woman once I pointed to my headphones as a 'I can't hear you' - she pulled them out of my ears to tell me she didn't start some fight somewhere and it was some other woman, like I cared about that - didn't go down well. Its either that or the drunk guys whos only idea of dancing is to hold their full pints up in the air while hovering around dangerously near your pedalboard. The last gig I was at, there was a tall guy, quite drunk who was just standing in front of me and pointed at me when I was playing something he presumably liked. Highway to hell is great, like all right now, plenty of options for finally getting a bit of your drink, check the bass is in tune, video a bit of a the band or crowd etc

Not really comparible with the U4 really, but more similar to the LD/Box etc IEMs. The u4s main thing is it doesn't need wiring up, powering etc

I don't get that on my RST, but obviously these things are personal (and mine is a 5, maybe different). It sounds actually fuller than my euro, but not so even across the board, much more manageable as a general bass. When I get round to fixing my jack socket it is one of my main gigging basses.