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I had a shorty made for me by my local luthier and I seem to recall him saying that the body was scaled down by around 12%, which is roughly the difference in scale length between a full scale and a shorty. However, I don’t know if that is the formula used by Sandberg and Sterling.

So do pretty well all companies and large organisations of any kind (charities, etc). I guess they could try to ban them for private individual use but they are a useful tool to provide added security when using the internet for things like banking. There would be quite an outcry if they did try to ban their use.

I can see this creating a new market for risk assessments. People will set themselves up as experts offering a risk assessment service for sites and forums. Who knows, Ofcom might set up qualifications like there are for financial advisors. What’s certain is that it’s going to cost people more than it does now.

I guess this is going to create a market for forum hosting services that provide a complete turnkey solution, including compliance enforcement. At least I hope so, otherwise it is going to drive everything onto Facebook and similar. I can see AWS, etc, providing this kind of service but how much it would cost and where the buck stops for legal liability, could be real issues for the likes of Basschat. Unintended consequences of well intentioned but rushed legislation? P.S. I don’t suppose this is actually going to stop the hate/perv forums. It will just drive them onto the dark web instead of mainstream media. At least that will stop the unwary straying onto them on main stream media channels but it looks like their will be thousands of perfectly innocent forums that have to close down.

I wonder about that. I had two One10s and then got a Two10. The Two10 is definitely greater than the sum of the two One10s, so I am wondering if the Three10 is greater than the sum of One10 and Two10, 3 x One10? There is also the impedance issue that arises from the combination of those cabs. Fine if your amp can handle a 2.7 ohm load but for a lot of modern class D heads the 4 ohms of the Three10 is a lot friendlier.

I’m one year behind you and I drive myself, plus one of the PA towers and one, or two monitors that I also provide, plus my bass gear, loads of spare extension cables, the stage box/snake, loads of kettle leads, XLR cables, spare mic, emergency DI box, tools, gaffa tape, etc, plus sometimes a mixer desk and Uncle Tom Cobbley and all. Every so often I get a bit miffed about it as I have back issues, arthritis and lymphoma but then one of the guitarists is 72 with prostate cancer and provides the regular mixing desk. The drummer is only a year younger than me and provides the other PA tower, plus lugging his kit. Vocalist is much younger and I think should provide her own monitor but she works in the care sector, so really isn’t paid enough to be able to buy anything worth while. I do wonder how long I can go on doing this but I get such a rush from playing live that I really would miss it. We just got a new line up too, so a lot more fun to be had yet.

One band I play in tunes down a semitone to Eb, which I understand is 415 hz. It is much more friendly for the singers apparently. It is a bit of a pain as I tend to play short and medium scale basses and the third and fourth strings can get a bit flappy. Consequently, I have to keep a bass set up for Eb. I guess 432 Hz might not be such a problem with a conventional setup but does it really help the vocalists as much? Eb was good enough for Hendrix, so who am I to argue?

I don’t think they work that well with bass anyway. A stomp is much better IMO but maybe not the Boos Tu-3 which I find a bit disappointing, despite so many positive reviews. However, I agree with @neepheid, it’s none of the vocalist’s business how you tune your bass.

I seem to have become de facto band manager for one band I am in after the departure of the original BL. He was BL because he formed the band and, as an ex-RAF officer, he was very comfortable with taking charge. He was also younger than the rest of us and good with social media, etc. He handed the website, FB page, etc, over to me when he left because I used to be in the IT industry. Trouble is, for around the last 15 years of my career, I didn’t do anything remotely hands on. He wrote the web-page directly in a combo of html and JavaScript, pretty old school and in theory should be within my capabilities as an ex-programmer but when I say ex, I mean I moved on to other roles in the mid 90s. I still haven’t raised the courage to look at the files that make up the website after 5 months! I know I’ve got to set aside at least a couple of days and several weeks beforehand on a crash technical refresher. In the other band I have also ended up stuck with the FB stuff and a lot of the gig hunting but fortunately everybody takes a share in finding gigs and another band mate acts more in the BL role. It can be very time consuming doing this kind of band admin/management. I’m retired and I find it difficult to set aside the time! The trouble is these days you really do need to be constantly doing the social media, online stuff, otherwise the gigs dry up pretty quickly, as we have discovered. Almost worth letting someone take 20% of earnings in return for staying on top of this stuff and keeping the gigs coming. After all, I play in bands enjoyment as much as for cash and sitting in front of a screen, after 30 years in the IT industry, is not enjoyable IMO!

Pretty cool though, literally! 🤟

Thanks for the tip. My fix at the time was to move it on but I’ve had the same problem with my Guild Starfire 1 and the cure for that has been stick on foam edge protector: the kind that you can get to stop toddlers from braining themselves on tables, etc. I have seen adverts for full length forearm sleeves for classical/flamenco guitarists, which might also be worth a try.

Well he was good enough for Zeppelin to write a song in tribute: “Hats Off to Harper”.

Late entry for my worst is a Digitech Drop pedal. It didn’t do what it said on the tin at all. Very disappointing as I had read reasonable reviews of it elsewhere. Fortunately, Merchant City Music took it back without quibbling and refunded the money promptly. Great after sales service IMO and I will certainly consider buying from them again.

In Norfolk it’s any make of car, tractor, van, lorry, or other self-powered farm machinery regardless of country of origin. There is obviously a special spec list for cars bought here: most drivers save money by not specifying indicators. If they do use indicators, it normally means they are trying to trick you and will actually be turning in the opposite direction to that indicated. They will wait at a junction until there is a car coming and then pull out very slowly and drive at a steady 38 MPH in the middle of the road, regardless of the speed limit, whether it be a 20 limit in front of a school, or a 60 on what passes for an open road (there are no motorways in Norfolk and few dual carriageways).

Are they genuine humbuckers now, or still the single coils pretending to be? Not really a problem: the singles sounded good but a lot of people got upset at them being passed off as humbuckers in the specs. The main problem with these for me was the slab body; the edges really dug into my forearm to the point that I started to get tendinitis. Other people’s mileage may be different and I guess it’s not much different to a Mustang in that respect. If they haven’t changed the rest of the hardware fixings, it’s an easy bass to upgrade. Tuners, bridge, etc are fairly easily replaced without modification and there are umpteen choices depending on your budget. Postscript: I just enlarged the picture and the BBOT bridge is different: a screw on each corner, rather than the previous 5 screw Fender fitting. That might reduce the range of drop in replacements available.