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Year started playing: 1976 Number of basses: Quite a few, but I don't know how many Music theory: Clueless Technique: Either 10 or 0, or somewhere in-between Groove: Dunno what that is - does having a Status Groove bass count?

U42?

Yes - I have bought & sold items at previous Bass Bashes; I expect we'll set aside a for-sale area/table at the venue. We'll need to work out a floor plan; as @NancyJohnson mentioned it's pretty much an open area with a stage at one end.

I tend to agree: Passive controls do cut only, so the max position is neutral for vol and tone controls. Active tones tend to do boost and cut, so the neutral position is often half-way and has a detent to locate it. Active vols may boost or not, but if you can switch in/out the active circuit then you should be able to find the neutral position. Also, amps often have separate active & passive inputs.

Jools Holland on Later tries to turn every song into a "featuring me doing meaningless widdles". Some might say this is overdone, but I like it!

I occasionally pick up my fretless, do a couple of slides, play the bass solo from Lost Horizons (Mo Foster in the first MSG album), noodle about for a while, and then put it back down to wait for the next occasion. One even rarer occasions, I pick up my Ashbory, but between its miniscue scale, being fretless, and rubber strings, it's almost impossible to play anything even remotely in tune.

I might bring two or three Rickenbackers, none of which sound precisely the same! 🙂

So, the Chinese seller on eBay is using pics of a real Ric. Of course, you wouldn't get one of those in return for your money. I'd report it to eBay, but their "AI" would probably say nothing wrong.

Ah - works now!

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Disturbingly, we seem to be nearing a consensus.

Maybe I’m a Leo…

Incidentally, the pcb does look rather close to the metal case - is there insulation on the underside?

Something sprung up!

...following up from that, I bought a piece of Hi-Fi kit last week. The seller listed collection as an option, but eBay instructed him to post it. Fortunately, we worked it out: he cancelled, I got an immediate refund to PayPal, then he re-listed as collection-only, I did the offer, he accepted, and then I went and collected it.

I wandered in to Steve's Guitar Centre (Cosham, nr. Portsmouth), spotted an EBS Reidmar 250 amp in a corner, had a play, now it's home with me. Nice!

On previous occastions it's been held the day before the Kempton Park guitar show (Sun 26th October this year).

On the 5-string debate, years ago I used to have a set of Dewtron bass pedals which I used to take me down to a C when I ran out of notes on my 4-string. Now I've got some 5-strings but I still gravitate back to my Ric 4-strings. I did try a Ric 5-string (the triangle pickup one)(curious they did the pickups but then changed the neck position markers to dots), but the neck was much wider.

I've settled on 40-60-80-100. FYI, I also had a V2 bridge fitted to one of my Rics; it completely eliminates tail-lift, but the action wouldn't go low enough so I reverted back to the original V1.

I wouldn’t put 45’s onto a Ric.

What gauge strings? HW will typically have used real Ric bridges, unless told otherwise; now that they are discontinued, it'll probably be Allparts. Some like the Hipshot bridges, but I've found an apt location for one of mine (and that's an Allparts on the Hondo, which now has strings and screws in the Treble pickup). ...

Mid-cut on the amp. If you want to sound like Geddy Lee, push the Treble Tone knob in (Modern). If you want to sound like Chris Squire, pull the Treble Tone knob out (Vintage). A touch of distortion is good. If you want to lose the pickup Vol controls interaction, go for Rick-O-Sound and run them competely separate. A low enough action to get a touch of fret buzz helps too.

My fretless (Licensed Mighty Mite neck).

The problem is when someone who doesn't know gets it, maybe someone isn't as honest or they shuffle off this mortal coil and the estate gets sold.

Only 6 strings - pah!