Happy Jack

Wow! I'm impressed. 😂😂😂

Estimating the volume that your rig will produce based on the claimed wattage of different brands and designs of amplifier is unlikely to be the pathway to enlightenment. Quite apart from the fact that my 100W all-valve Matamp is way louder than my 800W GK Class D head, a 200W Class D head does NOT produce one quarter the volume of an 800W Class D head ...

All understood, and I'm NOT trying to persuade you otherwise, but demands that performers have Third Party Insurance are usually driven by a venue / agent / booker having their own insurance which requires them to ensure that YOU have insurance. The driver is that, e.g. should a punter manage to trip over a cable, fall and hit her head, sustaining brain damage, when her family sues the venue the venue's insurance company will try to counter-sue YOUR insurance company. Given your description it seems unlikely that you can avoid all this nonsense, in which case I imagine that arranging your cover through the Musicians Union will make most sense. This whole insurance scam (as I see it, anyway) is one of the reasons why I prefer to stick to pub/club gigs. I have never once been asked for proof of insurance, nor have I ever once been sued.

Under what circumstances do you imagine someone claiming against your insurance?

As a major fan of Lull pickups and P-basses, my interest was killed stone dead by that neck. Why would you fit a left-handed Jazz neck (and with NO blocks) to a right-handed Precision? It just looks awful and make the tuners an ergonomic disaster.

Cable GAS ... God help us all!

@BillyBass can tell you what he learned ... what I learned was that his SansAmp Geddy Lee preamp sounds just sublime through a big power amp into a Barefaced cab. 🙂

Nothing is ever wrong on the Internet, Tony. 😂 I seriously doubt that my fretless playing is anywhere near your standard, so having the intonation an 1/8th tone out simply isn't relevant to me. I never check the intonation on my GUS or Ovation fretless basses, and I don't think it's ever even occurred to me to check the intonation on any of my three double basses either. On the other hand, I'll accept second place to no man when it comes to OCD. If @Andyjr1515 can produce two necks which fit and feel utterly identical (apart from the fretlessness of course), then why on earth would I suggest that he make them different? 🙂

I'd be more inclined to make a Junior Brown style stand ...

I saw NIN at the O2 when I was an invited guest backstage ... I was selling a bunch of vintage Hofners to Justin Meldal-Johnsen (introduction through @tayste_2000) and the planned meet at his West End hotel had fallen through. This was in 2009, an easy thing for me to check because the gig was just after Michael Jackson had died. They brought on special guest Gary Numan for a pretty good rendition of Cars. I wasn't a metal fan before that gig. Since then, I've utterly detested metal.

Just means that I have to slide a bit further ... 🤨

Actually, no. My thinking is to have two sets of strings, each set attached at the tuners and held against the neck with a couple of velcro strips. It's far quicker and easier to slot the ball-ends into the bridge than to re-string from scratch each time. This approach also means that I can have rounds on the fretless neck (maximise the mwah) but still retain flats for the fretted neck. This bass sounds awesome with flats. Or maybe I'll do it the other way around. Dunno. I foresee weeks of happy fettling ...

Doesn't matter how many basses I own ... I always find that I'm hankering after another SB320. 🤔

I do think it's sad when builders make no effort to squeeze the control knobs really, really tightly together. This guy clearly 'gets it', and has successfully rendered the controls utterly useless. Bravo!

It doesn't even exist: Images of Plextrum are illustrative, final Plextrums will be different in appearance as the above image is a CAD render.

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/115112201537?hash=item1acd38cd41:g:LUQAAOSws2Jhn~lz

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/393763887940?hash=item5bae281b44:g:AoMAAOSwW-Nho0kO 10 years ago, I'd have bought this just for the hell of it. Now it would just add to the clutter. In other news, how many times have we seen the name of a bass spelled wrong even though it's right there on the bloody headstock?

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/363645831700?hash=item54aafb0a14:g:mNYAAOSwGL1hrIsj

A bass with an identity crisis ...

Extraordinary stuff, and hugely enjoyable to watch. 🧐

If you were closer to London, I'd suggest coming over and trying them both - I have a Mk.II and a Mk.IV.

Oooof! Too technical for me ... I think of them as very big mud-buckers, though that's pretty harsh! Essentially the set up is a bit of a P/J thing. I use the big mudbucker as my main source, but dial in (God I hate that expression!) some of the bridge pickup for extra bite.

Yup, they do. Set correctly, these are huge-sounding basses.

I do hope you're not a Chelsea fan ...