Happy Jack

Or indeed burn it. Whatever ...

You'd think a tax collector would be able to speak English ...

Hmmmmm. Depends. You don't actually say what you want "sound wise". If you're after something that sounds just like a P or a J, only shortscale, then you're unlikely to get that in an off-the-shelf instrument. Shortscales have a character, a sound, and a feel that's all their own. People who want something that sounds like a Precision usually buy a Precision. Fitting very bright rounds will help of course, but they won't stay very bright for long and that could prove an expensive route. Very generic advice would be to start by buying a cheapish Mustang just to make sure that you get on with shortscales and that they actually solve your problem.

Interesting, didn't know about that so I went looking. https://www.factmag.com/2017/06/28/moog-minimoog-model-d-reissue-discontinued/ Not so much a planned Limited Edition as undercut by cheaper alternatives after the first run was finished so they quit while they were ahead. Sensible business practice.

6x10 ... lightweight ... does not compute ... does not compute ... I loved my Barefaced 610, and it was certainly way lighter than any other 610 I've tried to move, but I moved from that to a 410 plus a 210 - i.e. I sort of went modular. Far more flexible than a single unit, in every way possible. Then I discovered that at any gig big enough to need both I had PA support so I sold the 410. Now I get by just fine with a single 210.

"Limited Edition of 2500" after which no more will be made. Only the finest weapons-grade marketing cow poop for Moog, I see. If they sell 2500 of these, what chance they'll respond to requests from dealers with: Oh no, we couldn't POSSibly make any more, after all, we promised ...

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Fender-USA-Custom-doubleneck-Jazz-bass-Stratocaster-late-70s/362537932551?_trkparms=aid%3D777001%26algo%3DDISCO.FEED%26ao%3D1%26asc%3D20160801204525%26meid%3Dd80a3a89c640474ebdeb6e536265f5a5%26pid%3D100651%26rk%3D1%26rkt%3D1%26%26itm%3D362537932551&_trksid=p2481888.c100651.m4497&_trkparms=pageci%3A8c4b8c2f-1f65-11e9-92f0-74dbd180ee85|parentrq%3A7d0451b31680ab673423d6b1ffffe000|iid%3A1

Extending the aerial cables on a wireless headset mic so that the antennae can be front-mounted.

I'm no fan of wireless at all, but I've recently bought a cheapish wireless headset mic (Thomann T-Bone Free Solo) specifically for when I'm singing BVs while playing double bass. It's such a physical instrument that getting pulled out of shape by the need to get your mouth up close to a normal mic is a real pain, quite literally sometimes. I like to use good kit, and the wireless Lavalier mic is nowhere near the quality of the Beta SM57 I use with a mic stand, but it's horses for courses, innit?

The sticker on the cover of the catalogue warns that the prices are probably out of date so you should go to the website before buying anything. I'm not making this up.

My goods weighed 80g. The catalogue weighed 2.2Kg.

And the goods I had actually ordered?

What was all the weight then? Ah, that would be this:

Well boy howdy, that can't be right, I thought. So I opened it. Most of it was bubble wrap.

I ordered something tiny from components supplier CPC. I was expecting a small padded envelope (maybe A5) to be pushed through my letterbox. The postman brought me a box similar to the ones you buy 5 reams of photocopier paper in.

Having read that piece I'm now expecting a new series of Thomann own-brand FX pedals to be launched later in 2019. Having reverse-engineered everyone else's pedals, and then made a note of which settings most guitarists prefer when testing them on-line, they should be well positioned to out-Behringer even Behringer themselves. Cynical? Moi?

That is simply glorious ... one of the finest typos I've seen.

Good for scales though ...

Muppet, you're looking in the wrong places and asking the wrong people. The people you should be talking to are anglers. https://www.anglingdirect.co.uk/fishing-tackle/luggage They outnumber musicians by roughly 100:1 and their gear has to be cheaper and more rugged than ours.

We used to do the Vanilla Fudge version of You Keep Me Hanging On ...

I'll never again apologise for my technique ...

I'm sorry Chris, sometimes I just can't help myself.

Actually, I doubt he bought it in 1965. Maybe 1966 though ...

I do remember the theory being advanced years ago that a really old bass in this sort of unplayed condition was quite likely a sign of a bass that was no fun to play or that sounded dreadful. Given that it's at The Bass Gallery I somehow doubt that this applies here, but I have an underlying curiosity as to how any bass survives 50 years in that condition. Did an aspiring bassist buy it new in 1965, discovered he was no musician, put it in its hard case under the bed and just forgot about it?

If that bass was Mint, wouldn't it be a sort of greenish white?