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The cheap n cheerful Dr Green bass reverb might get you started to see if reverb is suitable....it isn’t as bad as its price denotes! https://www.gear4music.com/Guitar-and-Bass/Dr-Green-Bass-Verb-Reverb-Pedal/PFI

Great stuff....just needed steam off the machines and you'd be away!!

Well back in his DB book writing days, Rufus Reid was showing us how he did it! By the width of those seats, I'd say he got 1st class tickets.

Probably magnolia Mick!

Yes it does look like that and it was. The days of one bass ownership only, struggling on apprentice wages to pay HP on a an amp head and mates building speaker cabs for me. Those were the days my friends, we thought they'd never end.

My second bass, this EB3 was meant to make me sound like Jack Bruce, hard to find in the day but it finally appeared in a weekly instruments for sale column...From the days of black n white from a Box Brownie camera....

Try WD Music UK.....https://www.wdmusic.co.uk/electronics-c17/pots-c69

Look at Allparts U.K.

ps.....don’t buy the cheapest make....

Great dealing with Mike 'Chimike', taking a blank ash block off me and yes....lots of bass and machines talk, marvelous!

It’s a fretted neck ? If so there may just be a slight chance, especially if it’s been refretted, that the frets may have been ‘forced’ into too narrow a fret slot for the tang width, the hidden part of the fret that seats into the fboard. Many luthiers superglue frets In now so as I say, there may be a slight chance the frets are forcing neck issues. I think there is only one way to check all this I’m afraid and that’s a pro refret job. Other than this by what you are saying, the neck wood itself may not be right. I think early Warwick truss rods were double flat rods that only adjusted one way before the later dual action ones were readily available.

Roscoe Beck with drummer Tom Brechtline In Robbin Ford’s Blue Line, they always seem to be able to find a different groove and riff for any song Ford wrote.

Keep looking in the UK and Europe then...what is the neck and finish, maybe someone here has a connection to forward you to.

Yes I’ve been hit with handling charges before. It was from a courier fee to take the item to customs shed and collect it. Downright out of order as far as I’m concerned. I think your 20% vat is correct but those hidden handling fees will possibly need to be included into that. Alternately and as told to me by a U.K. customs official some years ago..... If you have a friend on ‘mainland’ Europe, get it sent there and then get them to re-post to you as this (apparently) skirts the U.K. import tax stuff from the USA into the U.K.

To a degree yes 'Stub'. The little finger is often 'supported' by the 3rd finger with the hand helping by 'leaning' slightly over the forth finger when playing certain positions as it is the weakest finger. In the half, 1st, 2nd positions in the book we see use of the 1st/2nd/4th fingers playing on the E string the notes ... F / Fsharp / G.....then likewise on the A string for the... Bb / B / C and so forth, eventually working up the fret board. I am relating this from my own experience in that being a 99% fretless player, these double bass fingerings have helped enormously with my positional playing on fretless. My tutor at the time (Roy Babbington, now back with Soft Machine and a terrific DB player) also got me into singing the notes and scales, a bit scary at the time but I do feel that has helped cement the fboard knowledge in further. (try singing scales while bowing a double bass, when you ain't that hot with either!). I'm afraid explaining this in writing isn't great from me.

Maybe the Simandl double bass books will help will show you the 'position' playing for correct finger placement on the neck regarding double bass work but these exercises carry over to electric bass.

Allparts UK maybe....Possibly WD Music UK too.......put a decent one in like CTS (or maybe Alpha). Ebay have a host of pots for sale but not always the best makes.

Where and how is the internal soundpost situated. Usually it sits from the back to the belly/ front of the bass, situated around and underneath where the bridge sits. If it isn’t in place there is a strong possibility of the belly being put under huge stress and possible collapse?

These look interesting. Bass direct have a host of stuff in their pre-amp page.....http://www.bassdirect.co.uk/bass_guitar_specialists/Tone_styler_BAss.html

I think quite a few of us have been demoted......apparent software update going on....but I do NOT like pop up ads appearing over post stuff I’m trying to read.

I preferred 2 of 2x10 markbass cabs over the single 4x10 markbass. I now use a Ninja 2x12 Markbass 800 watt handling and if needed I have a single 12" Ninja cab for extension.