NancyJohnson

Unless there's anyone on the list, then nobody specific. Basic setups are a breeze to do (intonation etc.) but I'd be reluctant to break out the soldering iron or do fret levelling.

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I tend to do most of my small jobs off an ironing board and for the bigger stuff I have something fashioned that attached to a Workmate. The only downside to the latter is that it's a little too low.

Best? Necks from China and an XB Driver. There's not been any bad.

Can you imagine the egos at work here? Gouldman with his pre-10cc writing credits and Stewart with Strawberry Studios, The Mindbenders and his session work. Godley and Creme both seemed quite obstinate and difficult.

I remember seeing Lol Creme on Blue Peter demonstrating the Gizmo thing; it seemed (to me) at the time that the reason behind the breakup was solely to benefit this unit/thing. My early teen mind couldn't grasp why they would walk away from 10cc for that.

There's a very good documentary on You Tube: If you want to dig deeper, 'Worst Band in the World' biography is great, too. We have friends that are huge fans; monied, they'll happily trawl around Europe following them when they're touring.

It was just a husk when I got it...the bridge and machines are original. No original pickups/circuit, though. I just wanted to get it up and running.

I bought a Roadster as a project about five years ago. It all works. It's been up for sale here for a while. Might be easier to part it out. Hit me up.

They're doing the Last Flight with an orchestra. Interestingly, I had a brief exchange with Willgoose a few months back. I was gigging with Eddie Roxy (Department S) at the time. We were doing a show in London and I had PSB on in the car; Eddie asked who we were listening to and he casually said he'd been involved with Willgoose 'when he first started out'. I popped a message over to Willgoose and got a lengthy reply, debt of gratitude etc. It transpired that Eddie knows Willgoose's father (he played Sunday League football with him!) and offered a lot of sage advice when he started gigging and recording.

The EV thread is elsewhere in the off topic section.

There used to be a website called 'phat fingers' (or something) where you could punch in (for instance) 'Squier' and it would search eBay for near misses, like Squire, Squeer etc. Right, I'm off to search for a Febner Jizz Base.

Reckon it's more a case that all the elder statesmen on this site have probably reached a point where they've amassed what they really like and feel there's simply nothing of any merit for sale through Gumtree/Marketplace etc. Personally I've little interest in Sire/Squire/Ibanez/G4M kit, which seems to be the mainstay of these sites; this isn't to say I got lucky a few years back with my Aria Primary bass. I did see a gorgeous Mike Lull T4 on Marketplace one time, but couldn't scrape together the £££ at such short notice.

Public Service Broadcasting at The Barbican, this Saturday.

Ordered the UGreen one. I had no idea the USB socket would/might output audio. Cheers

Yup. By easy, I don't mean Amazon Prime delivery, but if you search you'll find.

Schaller used to make an eight string bridge; these seem to be easy enough to find - this would allow for intonating the two octaves: The Konig Bassworx bridge is quite elegant:

Thomann have a b-stock 7-string bass for £399. https://www.thomann.co.uk/harley_benton_bz_7000_ii_nt_b_stock.htm Over the years I've seen a few 12-string conversions (the first was off an OLP 5-string). I see stuff like this Harley Benton and do wonder whether it would be ripe for a project. The missus immediately vetoed the idea ("It's £400 and it'll cost you that again once you've tinkered with it, so no!"). How hard would this actually be? Plug the headstock holes, new machines. New (intonating) bridge and nut. Yes, people here would be going, 'String tension!', without really having the science to back up whether the neck would survive

There's no manufacturing defect; the geometry on Squier headstocks is always different to the full-fat Fender models. Always been the case.

It just happened quite naturally. We'd be in a room and would just tweak things as our ears went numb as things got louder. There was an inevitability that we'd all be fighting for our frequency.

Need to get some audio from a Samsung phone into a Scarlet interface (it's off a theremin app). Old school, I'd just have taken a feed out of the headphone socket (stereo minijack/ twin mono 1/4" jacks lead), but of course the new phone hasn't got a headphone hack socket. Looking for recommendations for some kind of Bluetooth receiver (or whatnot) that I can plug into the interface. Practical experience appreciated. Help!

Don't be silly now, eh? 😁

I had a lovely Bongo 5HH and likewise, could never dial it in. I enquired here about whether there was any way to just run it passive as it was uncontrollable; you'd start a rehearsal/gig with a nice tone, then you'd slowly notch up and up and up and a hour later it would just sound like mush. At the time, could never really determine whether the bass had passive pickups/active circuit or whether the pickups were active themselves and there was an additional active circuit. I gather from previous enquiries it's the latter, so in hindsight it would have meant pulling all the guts. There still doesn't seem to be any direct drop in replacement pickups for these, either. Looking at the board, there's nothing on there to turn down the output on the board itself.

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