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I remember back in the early 90s I walked the Tour de Mont Blanc with my girlfriend... We carried a tent, and food/clothes for 7 days - being fit we managed the 100+ miles in 4 days but we'd sweated like pigs as it was also warm. When we got back to Chamonix we looked for gifts for folks, a friend of ours was well into Reblochon so we bought her a decent lump. As we were going home on the coach I'd put on my lightweight shoes for the journey back so the only safe place to put the Reblochon was in my mountain boot (the one I'd been wearing for 25+ very sweaty miles per day) in my pack. The nearly 24 hour journey was accomplished in sweltering heat - 30+C - so we naturally worried a bit about the cheese. However, there was nothing we could do... When we got back the cheese had melted into the shape of my boot, but we stuck it in the fridge and gave it to our friend the following day. A week later we saw her and she thanked us effusively for the cheese- "it's the best I've ever had!" she said.

so the Boss OC-5 is "better" than the OC-2 fair call?

The barrel jack is plugged into a socket on the vol control and is easily removable. Undoing the nut is still a pita though.

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Interesting word salad. Do they even know what words like 'triptych' actually mean?

Looks as if you've got enough slack in the leads to the jack socket to be able to pull it out through the body without unsoldering them, which makes life a lot easier when you replace the socket (barrel jacks are a consumable item) as you can solder in the new socket without having to furtle around in the cavity.

Oh, that makes sense. FTFY. There's no way a store that large writes such an epic saga for every product they sell

Yesterday, I had the first of what should now be regular singing lessons. It was only a short one due to temporary issues around a teaching venue. That will be resolved once the teacher has got a new house. I also went to my first rehearsal with a new choir. First impressions are favourable. I have about six months or so to go of not being able to play sax owing to the bone graft and tooth implant. In a random fit of wanting to do something different, I had a go at playing a brass instrument for the first time (I did clear it with the dentist first). I went to a local group that was having a 'have-a-go' session for newcomers. I opted to have a got at a euphonium and got some noises out of it, some might even have born resemblance to a note. The euphonium is the same pitch as both my cello and baritone sax - it starts on the Bb below bass clef and cello and sax both start on the C. An annoying aspect is that in band repertoire, the euphonium is regarded as a transposing instrument in Bb and is written for in treble clef. This is so that a player of another instrument can just play it if needed as the fingerings are then the same. Away from bands, it is treated as being chromatic, non-transposing, and the music is at concert pitch in bass clef. If you want to play both, you need to learn two sets of fingerings. Saxes have the same issue. They have always been fully chromatic as they were invented in the mid-C19th and did not develop from a more primitive instrument. Nevertheless they are treated as transposing to avoid having two sets of fingerings for Eb and Bb instruments.

Found my way here at long last! Been a bad bass "player" for around 40 years now: never put the time in really to get good, as I've been concentrating more on music production since the 1980's.... Still making music today and dabbling in bass ,too..! I've owned many basses over the years: Steinberger, Status, Cort, Hofner, Fender, Hohner and Rickenbacker, to name virtually all of them! 🙂 I can't help designing, modifying (improving!) things and building stuff: I've built a few instruments over the years, including 2 basses. The first was a real hybrid: imagine, if you will, a Ric 4003 body, in natural mahogany. Set into this a through-body solid laminated fibreglass neck with an ebony fingerboard. Oh..its fretless too.......and headless! It has a Lace pickup embedded in the body at the sweet spot....and it also has a Roland GK3B split pickup, for connection to my synths! The 2nd, which I completed last year, is a YF23 jet-fighter-shaped 3 string fretless, based on the neck from a Westone Spectrum LX. This has a custom 3 pole jazz pickup fitted: the body, as it stands, is a sheet of painted MDF...but the plan is to acquire a nice piece of hardwood and replicate the body using that to finish! So....Hi! 🙂

I did read it but after I'd replied with the information, which was taken direct from the Omni build plans and therefore could be considered authoritative.

Thats seems like my dream gig, except I am here in Yeovil and frankly my keys are a bit rusty!

It's a nice enough looking intrument, I'm sure it sounds decent too. Absolutely nothing outstanding or even particularly 'metal' about it though, just seems to be another black P shaped bass. Click on any guitar shop webiste and there will likely be multiple 'stealth' looking instruments with similar specs from various manufacturers.

Hollowman - Entombed

Nope just leaving it as is, headstock will be gloss black

That’s the write up on the Sweetwater page in the US. They really have gone to town on what (for me at least) is an overpriced, “meh” bass at best. Even Jackson’s own webpage text (while its a bit groan-worthy) isn’t half as cringy! https://uk.jacksonguitars.com/products/pro-plus-limited-edition-pure-metal-concert-bass-cb1a?variant=43871163645986

Does it feel a bit like a scalloped board?

I loved the first one, we all did, because we’ve all been in situations that are relatable…… but the trailer alone has put me off this one….. I don’t hold out much hope either. I do know that the actors didn’t do well financially from the first one, so maybe this is the payback?

I was hoping for Lars Ulrich to appear on a version of Big Bottom and for him to insist on all bass guitars being lowered/removed from the mix in order to make space for more hi hat, kick and snare drum. .