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Just for another option for all you medium scalers - Gretsch CVT Electromatic. Looks cool for around £500

Why don't you use radiused long cauls and a sharpie, you get ultra fast and accurate results all over the frets length (that some may call width) in a very few passes? Depending the starting mess for the levelling, I can also begin with some 300 to 400 grit self-adhesive sandpaper, but most of the time I commence with 600 grit going to 1200 grit then recrowning the frets and going up to 2000 grit before the polishing process.

Pizza Excess. I'm gonna steal that one. 🤣

The fact that Sailing was massive is the problem. So was Clive Dunn's Grandad. So was Mouldy Old Dough. There was so much awful music in the 70s and 80s that we've forgotten. Having said that, Meri Wilson's Telephone Man is a walking-bass masterpiece and Crazy Horses is one of the best rock tunes I can think of so there are always gems in throwaway pop if you keep an open mind!

A bit rushed with this unfortunately , but Yellowstone is Just as much grizzly as Disney , a beautiful stroll here ... a grizzly there, a beautiful stroll here ... old faithful steam boiling hot water geyser there , from lovely green valleys to scalded wastelands not much technical , Ibby six string with FX , fleabass , EZ drummer and very little talent , through reaper and smeared with a bit of OZone 8

I was never very musical as a kid - my sister played flute and violin to a moderately good standard, I had a couple of cousins who played cello, French horn and other things pretty well (one is now semi-pro in a folk trio). I dabbled with trombone in primary school and drums in high school but never did more than a couple of terms of lessons. Then when I started 6th form in the summer of '99, I went from a small rural school to a big-ish college in town and discovered other people. New friends, wider circles, socialising, pubs! In our gang there was one guy who was a total metal head and wanna-be Steve Vai, another guitarist who was actually good (and very humble with it, he's now a pro tutor) and a drummer with Marfan's syndrome who we called Fingers. They needed a bassist and the only one we knew was into The Smiths and stuff like that, so he wa I asked him for some tips. I was never really into metal and all I ever did was chug roots, but it was cool. We were called Chasin' The Dragon (I was too young and innocent to know what that meant at the time), I don't think we ever actually played a whole song all the way through! We spent a lot more time drinking than playing. I drifted off into different circles after a few years but kept playing for my own amusement, before gradually losing interest. Uni, jobs, wife, kids, mortgages came next and I finally picked up another bass again a couple of years ago.

Sailing was massive, Barbados and Jive Talking are classics and the Smokie song is great IMHO. But the question is basslines and even the totally wet Bay City Rollers song has a reasonably interesting walking line.

My 1st proper gig was Adam & The Ants at Dominion Theatre in late 1981 on the Prince Charming Tou and I thought that the bassist Gary Tibbs was uber-cool. Then we had a family holiday to see my Uncle, Aunt & Cousin in early 1982 and discovered KISS, and more importantly Gene Simmons. I loved their music and Gene's persona was amazing.... and I loved his huge, growly bass tone. As soon as we returned to the UK I started guitar lessons and then moved over to bass.. Yep, I still have the same enthusiasm for the bass. It grounds me, I love the way it is the foundation of popular music and is the glue that holds everything together. Playing bass has also opened up the World to me. Playing in bands has taken me from Monaco to Scandinavia to Romania to Japan... and stages from the local 'Dog & Duck' to Tokyo Ariake Colisseum and Dynamo Bucharest football stadium. I'm incredibly grateful and humbled for those opportunities. From discovering Gene Simmons used Spector in KISS' heyday, and then finding out that amazing white that Sting was playing on the Synchronicity tour was also a Spector it became my dream bass, though I didn't actually get my 1st one until around 1994 (a mint 'used' Brooklyn-era NS2 from the Bass Centre! Took me a year to pay off!). I've been a huge fan ever since.... as you've probably noticed My taste through the 80's until the early/mid 90's was always heavy rock/classic rock. When grunge came along I wasn't particularly enamoured so my tastes widened into classic Motown/Philly, Funk, Prog, Pomp, AOR/Melodic Rock, Jazz-Rock and well written 'pop' music (ELO, 10CC, Supertramp, Steely Dan etc). My 1st bass was a Kay Tulip. Action and sound was horrible but it started the journey and I soon got an Aria Cardinal CSB380 as a 1st proper bass. My latest bass purchase is a wonderful Japan-market-only Spector Euro CST 4 in desert island/blueburst (see thread in 'Bass Guitars).

I earned these almost the same day, 4 years ago, and then nothing, ... still don't know how the system really works and what's this for as there is also the ranking saying I'm in the top 1% of all members, but where is my envelope? 🤔🤪

5mm?!! Is that a typo?

100 litres is a bit on the large side, but the Celestion Pulse tens will work OK in that volume. They also have non-rising mids. Asking Ashdown, as @Lozz196 suggests, isn't a bad idea, as they sell replacement drivers at reasonable prices.

Considering the prices are close to the likes of Pizza Excess the food is a big step up. Marc's also opened Palladino's Jazz Bar nearby. I haven't been yet, he's targeting the jazzy end of blues.

always helps when the bass is up there in the mix and that is well up there, too much tbh

where you play the strings is important, over the pickup is my prefered option, seen players play near the bridge with a pick, sucks the bottom end right out. If you want more bass, don't boost it, cut the the mids and treble

Mine (yes I only have one) isn't too, as the others are sixers, but what's your point except pretending, again, that only you know and own the best...

We have something similar, ours have low power red and green lasers that project tiny, intense moving dots in a matrix. They run off power supplies but i've adapted ours to run off a USB power pack to cut down on leads. They were about £10 ea.

Great, Thanks for your help. Link corrected , testing fine, Result . BTW ,you'll get to an age one day when you forget...... that you forget ! Then it doesn't bother you anymore ! Don't ask me how I know this ! Best Wishes, And thanks again for going out of your way to help. Mike

Not really. My early basses and guitars (before 1990) were simply what I could afford. After that I had sufficient disposable income to buy the instruments I really wanted. I saw photos of a prototype Gus Guitar in a musical instrument magazine in the mid-80s and decided that if I ever had them money I'd buy one. I was lucky enough to be in the financial position to buy several in the early 2000s. The bass I use most at the moment is an Eastwood Hooky 6-string, because that is what I need for the band I currently play in. Once I've saved enough money I'll be getting Gus to make me a Gus version of it.

I can definitely understand your evolution. The high spec Jazz gives you a lot more versatility. I think my tastes have stayed the same, but more and more, I'm finding examples of instrument brands I'd written off that I now really like, such as Music Man. I still love Status basses, but only use them for live trio jobs where that sheer punch and cutting through the mix is essential. But what really changes is the nature of the playing I'm hired to do. I'm all Jazz bass these days, basically because I play for a professional 50s & 60s multi-act tribute show. The Jazz is the instrument that fits and adapts to more music than anything else.