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Don't worry, next time I'll try and make sure something fails in a spectacular, mysterious and satisfying way!

Yeah, OK, my bad. Don't mind me, I'll just go find a rock to hide under and contemplate my life choices.

Slightly similar situation in that it's our keyboardist who's the most likely of us to be a blocker to getting new songs learned, which we desperately need to do. I suggested Two Tribes not so long ago and everyone else is pumped to give it a go, but he's on one about it being "too produced" or something, forgetting that as a covers band we can arrange it how we like.

I forgot about it until I touched it by accident and the noise went away 🤦‍♂️

Well, it turns out it wasn't any of the possible issues suggested, and turned out to be very easy to fix. Seems like the spring in my pick holder may not have been seated properly, because touching the casing made the buzz go away. I fenagled the picks within it a bit and then tried playing the open A again and problem solved! Thanks everyone who chipped in. Atw least I have knowledge for in the future in case it's not a cheapo gadget causing me grief!

Oh, I see what you mean. I've tried pulling it up and that hasn't worked, so I'm worried now that means it's fooked, although it only seems to be an issue when plucking upwards, not downwards. I think I need someone more experienced than me to look into this!

I'll give the Allen key thing a go shortly. Tightening it will change the neck relief though, won't it? Suspending it I can hear a rattle if I knock the back of the neck but I'm not sure if it's from within or not. I've tried tightening and loosening the string and that makes the rattle go away.

Everything on the tuner looks pretty solid so my money's on the nut as the culprit. When I get some more time after work I'll try the paper thing properly and see if I can't solve it that way. If not I have a local repair place I could take it to to fit a new nut, and obviously nuts themselves are pretty cheap.

How would one establish if the truss rod was the culprit rather than the nut?

Initial efforts didn't stop the buzzing. Suspect a new nut is in my future.

So my V7 has developed an annoying rattle/buzz behind the nut and I'm not sure what the most likely culprit is. It seems to be related to the A string, but I've made sure it's secure on the tuning peg, and the string tree pulls it down at a decent angle over the nut. So could it be the tuner? The tree? The nut? The problem seems to disappear when I press the A string behind the nut but if it is that what could I do about it without having to resort to take it for repairs, which is economically unviable at the moment? As you can hear from the video the buzz also appears when plucking the open D and G strings, but not the E. Any suggestions gratefully received!

Fat Bottomed Girls - Queen

Yeah, Ian is a pretty good host, but I got tired of Scott's schtick some time ago.

Agreed - diminishing returns and all that.

If that's important to you then forget the SMX, you'll always just be wishing you had bought the MetroLine no matter how good the SMX is, and if you can afford to spend the extra £2k then go for it. If you can get past that though then you'll have a great bass and £2k to spend on something else.

I suspect if you have a VTC preamp installed in the SMX you'd be hard pressed to justify spending the additional £2k on the MetroLine.

They have some absolute bangers, Dean Town and Conscious Club being two examples, but yeah a lot of it is technically great but otherwise pretty forgettable.

I bought my Squier VM 70s Jazz direct from them as I had a discount through Fender Play at the time. As I recall it came from a warehouse in the Netherlands via UPS, and the box was a little tatty when it arrived although the bass itself was fine. I miss that bass and hope the Manchester-based student I sold it to is enjoying it.

I do quite like YYNOT, and while I appreciate Tim Starace's playing his tone always seems a bit tinny for me, even through decent headphones. I think I prefer Rocky Kuner as a vocalist as well, but there's not much in it.

Touch Myself - Divinyls

Hangin' Tree - Queens of the Stone Age

Master of Puppets - Metallica