NancyJohnson

How do the knobs function? 2 X Volume/Tone and a pickup selector switch?

I've been looking too. Earlier I was trying to work out whether the differences between the RS824 and RS924 where just purely the active circuit. The knobs on both seem to be in the same places but the 924 has an extra switch on the front for the actives. I've seen these with cream pickup covers and black ones...right now, as I'm thinking about finish colours, a mate of mine has suggest a black/metal flake with matching headstock, it this was the case, I'd go with black covers (or large pole-piece Delanos) and chrome knobs. I'd need to procure a replacement decal and also get a truss rod cover made up.

You know where I live. Just text me a few minutes beforehand to get the kettle on.

No, good lord sir, you get me wrong. This is written in a third party narrative: Look, I do understand the feel-good factor, the smug flaunting of that custom shop logo and the sly knowing that your £750 Jazz bass actually costing you five or six times that (and that you'll reassuringly keep telling yourself it's somehow 'better' than another Jazz bass a guy was playing earlier on the same bill), but if you're desperate for an early '70s Jazz, wait and one will almost definitely show up eventually. Cough, Reverb, cough. I do both angry, irritated and misunderstood extremely well, but smug isn't part of my persona. The point I was trying to convey here is that I've been on bills with plenty of bands where there's this gear snobbery going on and where guys look down on you if you're playing a budget instrument. If you want to play the JAX-T4 card, I had one guy ask me whether I made it myself when he produced a Gibson Thunderbird.

Cheap Trick.

A long time ago, in a town not too far from me... My first proper original bass was an Ibanez Roadster RS-924, from memory it cost me about £180.00 from FD&H Music on Charing Cross Road and we parted ways when I either sold it on or part-exchanged it against a Travis Bean 2000 (£375, somewhere in Lewisham). I'd got fond memories of it, here's me, early 80s: You may have seen Chris @umcoo posting about restoring this baby - my heart did a little flutter and I kind of fell in love again. I don't actually know what I want to do with it yet. I'm never going to be able to find an original pre-amp fot it, so I suspect I'll fill the holes and stick a John East in there and some complimentary pickups. The body is a bit rough, so I'll get it refinished; I prefer a black bass, so probably black. Neck looks fine. I have enough on my plate at the moment, so there's not going to be any updates in the short term. I may start over Christmas.

Much like signature basses, I don't get (ie Fender) custom shop kit at all, especially where you're simply getting a derivated version of instruments that exist in their thousands and thousands elsewhere. Look, I do understand the feel-good factor, the smug flaunting of that custom shop logo and the sly knowing that your £750 Jazz bass actually costing you five or six times that (and that you'll reassuringly keep telling yourself it's somehow 'better' than another Jazz bass a guy was playing earlier on the same bill), but if you're desperate for an early '70s Jazz, wait and one will almost definitely show up eventually. Cough, Reverb, cough.

Amazon is first port of call for me. I detest shopping at the best of times; Amazon is generally way cheaper, I get next day delivery included in my Prime membership, I don't have to pay petrol/parking or spend hours walking around a town chancing my luck trying to find stuff that probably isn't available or in stock locally.

Years ago we got a late gig, 40 minute punky set supporting someone. Free rehearsal. Vocalist had the start of a cold, but said it wouldn't affect things. He spent an hour before our slot drinking Guinness and eating several bars of chocolate. Voice gave out after a couple of songs. He just did the old knife across the throat thing to say he couldn't go on, so I stepped up, apologised to the 40-50 people watching and said we'd be continuing as a three piece (singer was already off stage at that point). He lumbered back on, pushed me and said, 'We need to talk.' We played for about another 25 minutes, instrumental versions peppered with incoherent vocals and jamming. Went down surprisingly well. When we finished, he'd already left the venue. We did indeed speak and he never sang for us again.

Looking at the user manual, I'd plug the unit into the Patch area on the front fascia. I haven't got a clue what the processing power is of the Behringer, but you may find that the unit alone can shape your tone adequately enough in isolation, so you'd just be amplifying that. Conversely, plugging it into the amp's main input risks hitting the amplifier's pre-amp with too hot of a signal, which can cause clippage/mush.

Wouldn't it be spectacular if he was actually behind 'Tarzan and Jane's Guide To Grammar'?

The guitarist in my current project was shortlisted for Chris McCormack's position.

I'm kind of with @Richhere. Curiously, it's been more a case of discovering long dead punk/indie (Fighting With Wire/Fortune Drive), purchasing a handful of reissues (Garbage/Wildhearts) and finding comfort from old material.

Lazlo Bane. Forget Scrubs/Superman. Great band.

This ^^^

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24 days. 🤣

As an owner of many Thunderbirds (now/historically), the subject of neck-dive has raised it's head many times but I would usually dispel these claims with a regal waive of the hand; it was never really a problem for me. I am curious though; given the price of this, would you consider any type of addition to the neck strap button that would extend the top horn out to move the centre of gravity? Someone over on (shh) T*lkb*ss came up with this:

It's not sprung (like a Kubicki)? You need to decide that need to drop to a D ahead of playing?

How does that work? #intrigued

I was thinking I'd not bought that much this year, but, well, umm, yeah. Bought a Hamer Cruisebass (below) that I'm in love with and while it's not strictly a purchase, I have an NS NXT 5-string EUB for my birthday in 26 days (and counting). I also bought three hardshell cases, a Fender Pugilist dirtbox, a GED2112-DI, an EMG GZR P/J pickup set and I have an Ibanez project arriving imminently. I think that's everything*. There's no bad purchases in there. (*Edit: I just bought an Ibanez Roadster RS-924 as a project.) Gratuitous Hamer glamour shot:

I'd use them, so yes.

Johnny Thunders/Heartbreakers this morning.

Yeah, but what Bezos does with his money is his concern. He's been shrewd and if he wants to fund a space programme off his salary and share options, then so be it. I've dealt with Amazon at a previous employer; I know we landed product for about a quarter of the price it was retailed for on the High Street. When we went into Amazon, they monitored the handful of retailers who were selling the same product and decreased/increased prices in line with that but only within an agreed percentage rate. They were supplied at within agreed bulk discount rates that applied to all our customers. We didn't sell any more or less product although our distribution channel changed. It meant little or nothing to us as we were still making the same £££ per product, but we sold more. This model would (or should) apply to every manufacturer out there. We're only worrying here about Amazon's impact on the small retailer and you're only focusing in one particular product line. You have to weigh in the absolute inconvenience of having to buy other stuff up against the convenience of one click shopping. I've heard numerous arguments about how Amazon were going to drive everyone out of business and start hiking up prices. I've been using Amazon since December 1999 and I've seen little evidence of this in 22 years. If nothing, this business shows customer is king and you have more availability at your fingertips than you would if they didn't exist. The only retailers complaining are probably geared towards the ones who haven't moved with the times. Forget just buying a set of strings. When my father-in-law was gravely ill a few years back, in desperation we went onto Amazon and sorted out vast array of products for his well-being in about ten minutes and it was delivered within 24 hours. I doubt we could have found this stuff on several trips out, without factoring in petrol, parking, shoe leather, time and availability. For that service alone, Amazon would be my first point of call every time. Right, as you were.

As a society that have access to so many retail outlets, it still surprises me that people maintain this stance and would happily pay 20% extra for something simply because they don't like to use the cheaper retailer. If Strings Direct went out of business today, nothing would change for the end customer, there wouldn't be any dip in demand and the manufacturers would just push more through Amazon (and Andertons and Thomann and and and..).