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I had a 1963 P Bass that had had a wee shim fitted. There was no hint of end of the fretboard turning up and heaven knows how long that shim had been in there.

But what is new and exciting about your music, what suspense and reward does it give? Even as a bass player 'actual bass content' doesn't interest me. I have a bass, I can create my own content easily. Humans need that dopamine hit - the hit you only get when you've been looking for something and finally find something that is better than you expected. It's tied into foraging and hunting for survival - it's never going away and can't be beat. All the Social Media giants have understood this for a long time. Basschat is no different, you post, you read, you're looking for something interesting, some new angle. Once you've read all the 4ohms or flatwound, P vs Jazz posts you'd drift away and Basschat then loses ad revenue and membership fees. This thread is about new phenomena and something interesting to analyse and debate. I'm not even sure I haven't posted the above already in this very thread. So unless you have new and exciting content, and it's not giving that promise of suspense in the first 3 seconds, people will scroll on by.

IMO this is how you should do a short scale. Design the neck so that the nut comes in at the second fret of the 34” model. This allows the same fret distance for the short neck as on the 34” from that point. Ideally lengthen the fret board a little bit to get extra frets on. Determine the Bridge position from the nut. In the attached image the pickups are closer together, but they are pretty much in the same relative position under the strings to the 34”, so the sound is very equivalent.

Photos are also back...

Turning Japanese - The Vapors

If you want to spend that amount of money on a Tobias-designed non-custom bass I'm not sure why you wouldn't get an export MTD. Aside from nostalgia I guess.

No, they did away with the wheel - it used to operate the truss rod on the American Elite series. 🤷‍♂️

You wonder where its going to end, the snobbery around MIM instruments is fading especially considering how good the the Vintera instruments are, I've had a few MIA jazz bases in the past and I can honestly say my player P bass was as well put together, hard to see where the extra money is going for the USA entry level basses.

An option, certainly, for either limited storage, or 10€/month. Hmm... Not sure that I'll bite.

Just saying ...

A lot of criticism for this Ricky for being the same size as a full scale bass but on reflection, my Guild Starfire 1 is also as long as my big boy Precision and quite a bit wider. However, it is one of the lightest basses I own, so the bulk is less of a problem. In some ways having to use full-scale strings is actually a plus: greater choice and no short scale premium. Unfortunately, the Ricky doesn’t seem to have that as a redeeming feature.

I've changed to Flikr. I can't say the user interface is particularly intuitive on the app, I had to look up how to upload things, but then, Imgur isn't good either.

Have you considered insert leads which can split the signal at the stage mixer. Not possible with a lot of digital mixers but most large analogue stage mixers have an insert in every channel. How many channels do you need to split? Will it actually be 16 or is that just future proofing for something you'll use again? There are plenty of DI boxes that can split a signal and if you have multifx for instruments they may give you a stereo out. Depending upon impedences and signal levels you might even be able to split with Y leads. It's probably only worth chasing these options if you have some of this stuff anyway, I know I have all sorts of of s**t tucked away so I know I have three DI boxes that can split a signal plus a couplke of fx boxes for instrument splitting and you may have more than you think for use in an emergency. Have you talked to the PA people? They may be able to provide you with pre-fade signals from each channel or even (probably unlikely though) give you access to the monitor mixes if they are using X-series mixers. Since everybody just saves mixes nowadays it is less of a hazard for them than it used to be. I can imagine any sound engineer shuddering at the thought though Can you use Ultranet to connect two X series mixers? It can send 16 channels to a laptop but can it send it to another mixer? Behringer do the Behringer ULTRALINK MS8000 here which is £66 for 8 channels Amazon are listing a splitter box with wo snake tails for £250 but the Behringer looks a cheaper and tidier option to me.

Yes, it does.

Reinventing the wheel, again?

Perhaps an acquired taste?

Hark! Is that the echo of the sounds of salesmen?

I've always like DR Sun Beams on a fretless bass, but I did miss a bit of edge. I really like the Lo Riders too, but found them a little too much. Newtone Nickel Hex Cores seem to sit nicely in between those two DR sets to me. La Bella RX Nickels work nicely on fretless too.