Stub Mandrel

Possibly because it looks naff? Not questioning the quality, but unless you are looking for a Mesa it hardly leaps out as anything special, especially those grille screws.

My Arbiter triangle-type stand is about 30 years old and still going strong!

So my nice new stand which hasn't got a 'rubbery feel' coating should be OK?

Phew, I just bought one...

Perish the thought 🙂

I wonder if the edge treatment on the Jag SS (plus the satin finish) is behind why it 'feels' so much better than most budget basses and it's popularity?

My Squier VM Jaguar SS has got properly rolled edges, very nicely done and much more marked than any of my other basses/guitars but not as extreme as the Sire. Feels great. Here you go, more of a rounded bevel than the sire:

My sig says it all... 🙂

Playing style has a big effect on fret buzz. If you pluck hard near the bridge the string will vibrate with a lot of harmonics, so more vibration near the ends, and be more likely to buzz than if you are gently plopping the strings near the end of the neck. Some buzz won't come out when amplified, some will, more noticeable with pups near the bridge.

Get it anodised. 🙂

Cut dog plays stratocaster...

Ho! Ho! Retro Mojo!

I think some manufacturers are basically lazy and make fretless basses simply by leaving the frets off. Also, 'defretted' basses will be this way.

Agreed I took that as read otherwise there would have been twice as may options/variations!

My brother had a Squier Katana six-string. They inherited a headstock design and logo style from the performer(see sig)

Power Trio... Perhaps not the ideal moment to head for Florida? 😞

My first guitar amp was a repurposed Dansette auto-changer with a new speaker built into the box.

Car issues mean I have extra time to think about this 😞

Exactamundo.

Thanks for the tips... I'm a bit reluctant to follow through now as it looks like a rabbit hole I could disappear down that probably isn't actually going to improve my playing or sound....

🙂 Extra mosfets won't make it louder, just less likely to let out magic smoke...

LOL! I was thinking of buying a cheapy for £10-£15 off eBay! It's just for curiosity to make my subjective comparisons less vague. I'm very familiar with issues of measurement as well as the differences between accuracy and precision.. and also how easy it is for people to waste their time making measurements with spurious precision.

Has anyone got experience of cheap and cheerful sound level meters? How accurate are they? More importantly, not worrying too much about absolute accuracy, how consistent are they across frequencies and time - are they good enough to make comparative plots of a few amps/speakers matched with a signal generator and RMS voltmeter on the output*? *I know that differences in speaker impedance may well be enough to make even such comparisons less than accurate, I suppose I could measure RMS current as well, at least for external cabs.

Women's Hour - and the story of the kid who only ate chips. As a teenager I hardly ate vegetables. I could list what I ate regularly: Egg and chips (no egg white) Salmon and chips Chicken roll and chips Bananas/swiss roll/Mr kipling apple pies and Custard Home made mince and potato pasties On a sunday... braising steak or lamb chop with potatoes and gravy Steak and kidney pudding (very rarely!) Bread and butter pudding (Plus sweets and chocolate, jelly etc. on special ocassions...) I expanded my horizons very gradually at Uni. After I left I went through the classic unemployment/split up depression and spent a while living largely off omelettes, home made chapatis and beer. This made my fingernails fall off, followed by my tonails a few weeks later. I vowed never to skimp on food again and started eating anything in sight. Now I eat everything other than dead animals, cooked cabbage (I'll eat it raw or stir fried) and sprouts...