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I use this as guideline, and check how it feels. https://www.jerzydrozdbasses.com/the-ultimate-guide-to-the-perfect-bass-guitar-setup But tbh, I think I rarely measured the string height, mainly to make sure I respected the neck radius (ie for consistency). But everything gets signed off only after a round of playing, regardless what the measurements are.

a classic I've been listening to recently (the whole album)

Absolutely. The instrument seems in good shape and the price is really good. But, it's not the right time for me to buy anything. I have a bass that needs to go first. No point in me piling up basses if I don't use them. This will also give me more time to investigate the market and think about it

Nice. That's a good shout. I started thinking about this since the fretless around atm aren't exactly what I'd be looking for.

Had several Soundcrafts over the years. My current mixers are a small Folio for the keys and a Sprit FX 16ch with Lexicon fx, penultimate generation. They get the job done. I mean, the small one is really small, that's why I got it. The Spirit is more or less the same size of the classic Mackie VLZ 1604. It sounds good and has the right amount of send/returns/busses/inserts for me. The Lexicon fx on it are good too. Clearly they don't sound like the PCM ones, but have "personality". It has a 3 band eq with parametric mids, that works well. Only thing, the low freq in the eq is bit higher than I'd liked it to be, more in the low-mid range. Overall, I'm really happy with it, especially considering its price, 350£ second hand in really good conditions. I'd really recommend this, and also the Mackie VLZ, especially the US made.

I saw the Sire ones and are interesting. There's also a defretted one for sale here...

Nice, they have accounted for that then The name (return) was a bit misleading for me, but that clarifies things.

that said, this seems to have 1 instrument input and 2 return inputs, 1 instr out and 2 send outs. I'd expect these to have difference impedances. I don't think that connecting an instrument to a return is ideal.

I wouldn't connect the mixer to the amp, the impedances wouldn't probably match well. Not sure what is your setup, but you could use one of those a+b a/b pedals (to sum/switch) to go into the amp. But try to send the 2 signals to FOH before that. For your elec bass any pedal with a balanced out would do. For the synth a DI with an instrument out would do too. The instrument out would be needed to go to the sum/swith pedal that then goes to the amp.

Another important thing to keep in mind is that the 2 instruments may need differnt eq/comp settings. Providing 1 signal for both could cause issues with that.

I'd send 2 different signals to the FOH. If they're able to mix well the elec bass with the other instruments, a synth bass shouldn't be a big deal. If they are not, I think you'd be in trouble either way. Also, let's keep in mind that what one hears on stage (for tons of reasons) might be totally different from what comes out of the main PA. So, I'd recommend not to try to "mix" on stage and let the FOH deal with that. If you really want, you could use the mixer to mix your stage sound and still send 2 separate channels to the FOH. Maybe a bit overkill though.

And black pepper... Sorry, bit late to the party!

Spector Ethos at Bass Direct https://bassdirect.co.uk/bass_guitar_specialists/Spector_Ethos_4_LH_Interstaller.html

and it's a reverse P!!!!!

Just skimmed through and I have to say, Style Council were great, as usual! Also, INXS kicked a** though!

Unless it's old stock, but still that'd mean the parts they used aren't so recent