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I have one of these, in fact I’ve had it for probably decades. My first outing certainly produced a huge signal increase, but turning the trim pot (as mentioned above) all the way down, sorted that out, without any loss of effect. I place my EBS chorus and octave pedals before my compressor, this sorts the signal jump (it’s still hotter than the bypassed level) out nicely.

Standard Fender-esque shaping to my eye (I think Mayonnes do have some interesting headstock shapes on other instruments).

Looks good, definitely a Fallout competitor.

I had a 1963 P Bass that had had a wee shim fitted. There was no hint of end of the fretboard turning up and heaven knows how long that shim had been in there.

Needle and the Spoon - Lynyrd Skynyrd

Lithium - Nirvana

For weird, read cheapskate.

There’s a fair amount of banter between Danny, Davie 504 and Charles Berthould on YT.

Any of The Jam’s greatest hits are your friend in this regard.

Green Tinted Sixties Mind - Mr Big

It has been an absolutely crap period for losing bassists lately .

Nooo! 😢

Digging in the Dirt - Peter Gabriel

Well, it was a secret 🤐🤦🏻

I actually did a fair bit of this today and most enjoyable it was too. Welcome to GM status, we’ll heat up the crumpets and wax the paddle for the initiation ceremony .

That's not good for a non B stock instrument and dead batteries is another no-no. Anderton's are really good guys, raise it with them and I'm sure they'll sort it soon as.

Black Coffee In Bed - Squeeze

As it should be.

Sorry to hear the above, Andy. Never rains but it pours.

I play live, which is a performing art, according to the definition. Therefore, I must be an artist. I am currently sitting in a comfy chair, with my 2nd glass of wine for the evening, which potentially makes me another kind of artist . Cheers 🍷!

Heaven Knows I’m Miserable Now - The Smiths

If you have the ability to blend your pickups, rather than just toggle switch, just favour the bridge a bit more, that will get you most of the way there. However, some sort of humped EQ curve from 250-750Hz should get the job done too.

Perhaps it’s time to step away from the technical side and concentrate on performance. By this I mean try to stop analysing what you’re doing when playing in your band and feel the groove of the song more and what the other band members are doing. I had an example of this in my own playing, recently. I was playing along to a song I know well with one of my fretless basses and I played it well enough, but it lacked something, I was going through a series of mechanical motions that, whilst they did the job, didn’t seem right. I then played the same song on my EUB. My upright skills, by comparison to my EB skills, are really not great. I don’t have the dexterity or the stamina that I have on EB and have to pare back my performance. Anyway, I played the song the best I could with my upright abilities. What happened was that, although I was delivering a less technical performance, I was really enjoying it, I was actually physically dancing with the EUB and just enjoying the groove. Out of the 2 performances, I know which one I preferred and which one an audience (and band members) would appreciate more.