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Nope, if it's a proper auction between private sellers ebay adds extras. Here's my selling information from something I sold last.

What you list it for, say £40, will not be what potential buyers see. They see it as £40 + a few quid.

Standard Fender-esque shaping to my eye (I think Mayonnes do have some interesting headstock shapes on other instruments).

Brands?

maybe I'm being thick here but the buyer doesn't pay anything in my experience, do you mean selling fees?

I'm using the Ikea Ivar shelving system, slightly modified and securely bolted to the wall, If i can make the room look presentable i'll get a photo. I'm currently up to 20-odd instruments, with hard cases for most of them (not all basses though and uke cases are much easier to store) being able to store vertical makes them easy to get to, usually i have a few instruments out on hangers/stands and the rest are safe in their cases ready to go out for gigs etc. i've got shelves to hold boxes for leads etc in there as well. Matt

Well I had a few minutes with it yesterday, off the pedalboard. Small box, usb lead between it and the ToneX and a guitar power plug on the box, you can connect by wired or bluetooth midi, but if you are near a computer or phone, you can just connect to its wifi (within 60 seconds of turning it on) and it gives you a set of webpages where you can change all the settings of the device itself. It lets you adjust the Gate / Compression / Speaker type / Modulation / Echo / EQ of the patch, or the amp values. Seems the amp models are those built into the presets already, and you can change between those presets, but not specifically between the models themselves, so I suspect the way you would use them is set up the models you want in the ToneX app, and then either use the midi interface to change between the presets or to switch on and off modulation, change drive levels etc. Certainly makes the ToneX One a lot more useful - I couldn't use it before as I use more than 2 sounds, but this expands that drastically.

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That's a bit different as the Guild was designed to be that size from the off, rather than simply being shoehorned into an existing long-scale design, as we're seeing with this new Rickenbacker. I've owned several Starfires and they're glorious things, and feel totally right. This Rickenbacker I would define as a "grotesque disaster'.

It would be interesting to see how much merch and licensed items these bands sell generally on line compared with how much they sell when they are on tour. Certainly for smaller bands it has been my experience that the vast majority of merch sales happen at gigs and what little gets sold on-line nearly all of it can be directly linked to recent gigging activity.

I suspect that middle-men are in some way to blame as well... I've got a mate who works for a major artist agency - he has a number of bands he books tours for and stuff. One of them - a well known UK band - gets around £25k/gig. From that, he gets £5k! He's now in the process of retiring to a lovely villa by the sea just north of Biarritz.

So some great suggestions for remembering AJ's brilliance. I liked the Michel Camilo and Hiromi stuff playing with piano and, in the former case, a Latin situation. In contrast, and to show AJ's range and adaptability, here is a high quality video of AJ in a guitar trio setting with the ultra textural and improvisational Wayne Krantz.

Variation on the question im using a EBS Multi Chorus like this Bass > TC Polytund > Altlas Compressor > Rodenberg LDP > Multi Chorus > Amp My issue is engaging the Chorus jumps the level considerably. There’s no Vol or Mix control. Any ideas or do I just need a different chorus

Does it have a hideous headstock or are you just crap at framing photos 😁 Seriously though it does look very nice.

As others have said, it's really down to the individual instrument. As always with Fenders, if you can, try before you buy. One will stand out as the bass for you. As for the price/quality difference between the Road Worn Vintera and the Squier, the latter have been consistent for a long time, but the Mexican Vintera II models have really upped in quality over the last few years. We're living in a world now where an American Professional II (originally the entry level USA bass) costs nearly £2000, so the Vintera II range looks and feels like a comparative bargain. I'd also have a look at the new 'American Professional Classic' range. They look very good for the money & the new 'Coastline' pickups are a retune of the Pure Vintage series, which always sound fantastic.

The protection in the EV speaker made me think of the inverter drive I use on one of my lathes. It models the thermal performance of the motor and reduces power to avoid overheating which actually means you can abuse the motor safely (e.g. running it slow which means reduced airflow and more heating) . Applying such a model to class d amps/speakers should be easy and effective.

That's a very distinctive looking bass. Mayones are often deceptively good and usually punch well above their price point. Congrats!