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The best one is Josh Fossgreen on YouTube. Toward the end of the video he plays the whole thing through slowly, that cracked it for me. He links to a transcription on his website too.

There are an impressive number of layers of badness there. I'll start with the offensive autotune effect on the "vocals".

Fantastic!

I haven’t actually done it, but Gotoh GB2s have a similar ratio to hipshot hb7s, the same diameter shaft and it looks like the footprint covers the existing holes. Still needs new holes drilling, but should end up neat. Anyone tried them on a Mexican fender to be sure they fit?

Excellent effort. There is a thread on Talkbass about another DIY pedal version of the Traynor Mono Block 2 (https://www.talkbass.com/threads/traynor-monoblock-ii-preamp-pedal.1235729/), but whoever did that used rotary pots. Respect for taking on the mechanical challenges of using sliders, I'd hesitate as I very much doubt my ability to make slots in a box that didn't look like they were carved out with a spoon.

No pre-shape/contour? Is that to avoid the obvious Trace comparisons?

Buying gear is quick and easy and independent of ability. Actually playing and improving is a different thing entirely.

The flat heel section is also longer on these necks than a standard fender neck, although I don't think that matters.

The problem I have seen with all the cheap chinese guitar necks I have bought (and looking at most ones where detailed dimensions are shown) is that the heel depth is non-standard and too great for "standard" fender body neck pockets. The neck sits very high to the point that the bridge saddles can't go high enough (or are at extremes of adjustment) to make it work with a standard body.

How they look aside, they sound like a bad pub band where no-one was really good enough to sing, but gave it a go regardless.

Interested to see the compact 10. I’d never build an expensive box because of the resale problem, but sub £100 is fine.

What mods did you do to the 210?

It’s funny, I have fancied getting a stingray since the early 80s but they have always been too expensive and I could never bring myself to spend that much. They are still too expensive 40 years later!

I don’t like owning stuff I’m not using and I’m not very sentimental about gear, so the surplus will be shifted on when I get round to it. I tend to play one bass almost all the time too so I wonder why I keep any more. For amps I have a lightweight 2x10 and a small class D amp and I would always use that for convenience and portability. I also have an old trace combo that needs to go as I don’t have room for it when I lose my warehouse storage on retirement (soon).

Get the amp looked at by an electronics tech pronto. Speaker cone displacement like that sounds like a DC fault on the amp output.

It isn't in the basket I've got sitting there at the moment. It appears that £134.99 ex delivery is currently the max order that you can be sure of the total cost.

That is pretty reasonable for an artist signature model.

Lol. I had an almost identical response the last time I sold something on gumtree. The person/bot stopped responding when I said cash on collection only. Funny that.

That looks a bit "over-knobbed" if that's a thing...

Working on "This charming man" by the Smiths. Fantastic bassline even though I don't care for Morrisey's vocals much. Original was played with a plectrum, but I prefer playing with fingers and I can get close enough to the sound to fake it. It's great playing along in Transcribe as the pitch can be corrected to standard and section markers can be added so I don't forget when that extended first verse goes into the chorus. It's always one more repeat than I think.

Haha, yes I am going to learn that too. I picked a copy of the original cd up cheap so I could get the track into Transcribe.

A £K is bonkers, they are decent basses, but not that super special. I just set mine up recently and the machine heads are driving me spare, the adjustable collars that take the lash out of the gears keep coming loose (they tend to turn with the key) and the special tool for tightening them is unobtanium. I need to strip them down and clean+grease, but I was in too much of a hurry.