Happy Jack

You're wasting your time ... the vendor won't even know about the auto-rejection of your pathetic bids. Get with the program, guys. Everyone send him a private message through eBay offering him three million moonbeams in payment, or a pair of zircon-encrusted tweezers, or a baby's arm holding an apple, or something.

OK, but I bet he didn't offer you a new Merc!

Entirely unconvinced that reverb will "improve" the sound of any bass.

I'm sorry, what? WTF? I mean, WT actual F?

Flash Clap Pensioner? Never heard of them.

You'd think that someone trying to sell half a million quid's worth of ludicrous botched-up rubbish exotic basses could afford to have an actual English-speaking person cast an eye over his immortal prose.

For a 4-string bass (or any bass, for that matter) to have five control knobs AND five flick switches is just obscene. And that bridge pickup is surely too narrow ... that's a neck pickup mounted in the wrong position, I reckon.

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Unique-Spanner-And-Wrench-Chair/163519674126?hash=item261288370e:g:XPQAAOSw-rxcHNRl:rk:1:pf:0

Vocalists. Bloody vocalists. That is all.

Quickest solution would just be to do some identity theft and become Rich ... that way everything's already done for you.

He's continuing to buy and sell like a one-man economy, as far as I can see! If his Supply ever finally matches his Demand, entire sectors of the music business will go into recession.

Far Canal. I thought I was anal and obsessive about stuff, but you guys are WAY ahead of me.

... and with Free Delivery https://www.amazon.co.uk/Encore-E4SB-Bass-Guitar-Sunburst/dp/B001XURKR2 when you could buy it pre-ruined for £147 plus £18.50 Delivery? https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/P-bass-with-new-strings-and-full-set-up/192781411830?hash=item2ce2aae5f6:g:AWIAAOSwzf9baXQk

Jonny Gonad? Think I'd have remembered that one, Mick!

What are these 'friends' of which you speak?

News just in: The project will start with a series of four 5-hour films focused on the making of the album Let It Be, including many events that didn't happen (the famous gig at Horn's Deep gets an entire episode to itself) and people who weren't actually there but who have been created creatively for creative reasons (see Legolas playing the solo from Stairway To Heaven as he slides down the staircase at Abbey Road balanced on the flightcase for a Fender Precision). This will be followed up by a series of five 6-hour prequels creatively stuffed with ludicrously over-created creative decisions (Mick Jagger makes a cameo appearance in a day-glo Morris Mini being pulled by six very stoned super-rabbits). The project will culminate with a series of six 7-hour prequels to the prequels in which the role of skiffle in contemporary urban society (and in Liverpool too) will be creatively examined to death. And back. I can't wait.

You may well be right, but Silvie bought me one of the Snapdragon folding basses for Xmas and I have to say that I'm delighted with it. The fact that I normally play expensive boutique basses with more strings and a different scale length doesn't impinge ... this is a very practical travel bass which absolutely delivers, and can only be judged in the right context. Would I play the Snapdragon on stage at the O2? Well, not by choice, no, but if I had to then it wouldn't be a problem for me. Can anyone get me a gig at the O2, just to prove the point, you understand?

The SB301 was the only passive bass in the range, IIRC.

There was a time when Alex Claber still talked to me, and one of the things he told me was that this particular pair of cabs was just that - a pair. Every individual cab is, of course, a compromise which inevitably means that there will be something "missing"; this pair of cabs is designed to be complementary, i.e. each fills in the "missing" part of the other. Now there are some on this Forum (and you know who you are) who will tell you that this is weapons-grade marketing cow poop from someone whose claims they don't trust, and I get that, but Alex didn't tell me this and then I went away and thought, "Wow! These sound really good together." It's the other way around. I went to Alex and said, "Wow! These sound really good together." and he then explained why. Making a totally uneducated guess at the problem encountered by Huge Hands, I would be suspecting the use of a 2x10. Not because of cone filtering, about which I know nothing, but because of comb filtering, about which I have read extensively (and slightly glassy-eyed) here on Basschat. Stacking a 1x12 on top of a 1x15 should not lead to comb filtering, as I understand it. Or don't understand it, as the case may be.

My old friend Dave Pomeroy does a fair bit of this stuff:

[SHALLOW ALERT] One of the reasons I wanted to learn DB in the first place is that it is the absolute essence of cool. I've tried playing both standing and sitting (using the correct stool for the task, too) and not only was standing a far better position for me but sitting wiped out maybe 80% of the coolness. [/SHALLOW ALERT] In all seriousness, I have suffered from pretty unpleasant back problems for well over a decade. If playing when standing was going to give anyone some long-term issues, that would be me then. It will pass. Promise.

And they just get better and better ... https://www.joinmyband.co.uk/classifieds/need-a-acacia-strain-style-singer-t1139119.html

I know it's only a shortscale, but it's a bit harsh of Musicman to describe it as "Limited".