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Thanks @Joe Nation, cavity will take it more a question of the plate I suspect, I've messaged John which is probably the best bet 👍

Huh, just you wait until the knob I have ordered arrives - Joe Dart will have nothing on me...

Nah, I'm not fussed for the tele headstock where it doesn't belong, but thank you for that document - it will come in very handy for me on one of my projects - got an idea of what to do to the front of the headstock, it's pretty regular F shaped so this'll help me lay out my ideas in Inkscape - cheers!

Still made in the UK according to Strings Direct so those posts are thrown out the window...

That's a nice and happy ending to the story, Neepheid. Imagine the new owners actually honoring the bankrupt company's previous orders?! Looks great too. Now all you need is a stupidly large Joe Dart-style rotary control... They're just so 😎👍

I'd be intrigued to know the average salary deductions from say 50k in England (and it's equivalent) in USA. When I say deductions I mean the mandatory deductions only....and then a comparison to USA deductions for med insurance vs the tax/NI element here for healthcare. I imagine the USA still works out ludicrously expensive. I have noticed how insanely priced some 'USA' products are in the UK...(are Sterling instrument checked in a USA facility?)

think a HX stomp or GT1000core might simply it? split when you want and use left/right for the two signals?

See you on eBay.

Welcome to the actual Amazon. The Western Amazon is Ali but at double the price. 😁

Love the rear route, single vol look of simplicity on these, often wonder, but have way too many. Page 6 if ya fancy teleheading... bass heads.pdf

When I was in my late teens I bought a compressor. I'd been told by the received wisdom of the internet that compressors were good and important, so I went up to Denmark street with my supermarket paycheck. I had also been told that Tech 21 were a great company, and given that I knew very little about what a compressor was supposed to do, I opted for the Tech 21 one – a pedal called the Bass Compactor. The problem was that the Bass Compactor is absolute, unmitigated balls. Like, I've played through plenty of T21 stuff since and loved it, but that pedal was awful. It was effectively a one-knob compressor (ratio) with the other controls being output vol and a 2-band EQ. It didn't behave like any other pedal I've heard since, with this strange make-up gain thing that was coupled with a really aggressive noise gate. With the ratio at 1:1 it sucked the life out of everything and it only got worse from there. It put me off compressors, and effects pedals of any kind, for about 15 years.

Flatwound strings on decent basses. Just stick to putting them on Fenders.

Effects other than drive or compression - so chorus, autoswell, reverb delay, looper (another story that one), envelope filter. - I use them once (having gotten the idea from our wonderful pedalboard thread) have no real application for them band wise and so they just sit in a box.

AliExpress returns are (in my recent experience) to a UK address with a prepaid label. Also, for cheap stuff, they may not even want it sent back. Most recent thing I sent back was a USB audio interface that was very noisy, no quibble, got a return label, posted it back and was refunded when I posted it. So @PaulWarning, you might as well do a return if you don't mind dropping it off at a post office.

HA, Bax came through!

Having followed and contributed to the epically brilliant "Irrational Hatred" thread, it got me thinking and wondering what gear people have bought or acquired, simply because they thought they ought to, due to peer pressure, or because of 'herd following' received opinion? Maybe you subsequently found that you simply don't need, or like the item and wonder for the life of you why you ever bought it? I can think of three... Precision Basses - I've tried repeatedly, many times to like them. But they're just not my sound. No producer, MD, or Artist(e) has ever asked me to use one either. Flatwound Strings - Lovely sounding things, but they feel as if they're driving channels into my fingers and somehow feel 'sticky' within those channels. (I know @Rich agrees with me on this!) Also, as soon as you play with other musicians, your sound magically disappears into a big sonic hole. 5/6 string instruments - I have one 5-string only and it was only because it's a very rare instrument and just happened to be a 5. I recall using the B-string in a couple of shows (playing DB/doubled up Cello parts), and one song in our set of hundreds of tunes in the trio. 99.999% of the time, four strings are ample and contain plenty of notes for me to be going on with.

Slightly more of a mid punch - but more than that there was a feel thing. Latency on the OC5 was minimal but it just wasn't as immediate as my octabvre is

The D'addarios are a filament (nylon?) core with a bronze wrap, you can buy classical guitar strings with a ball end but who knows if they'd be suitable, regular steel strings would have a very different sound, tension and feel to the stock D'addarios. You can get a full set of the D'addarios for £35 delivered here: https://www.giggear.co.uk/guitars/strings/bass-strings/daddario-taylor-gs-mini-xt-phosphor-bronze-strings-37-90.htm?opt=20931 Tbh it's not a bad price considering how much regular coated bass strings usually cost and how long they last for.

A little while ago, I got an OLP Tony Levin. There's a little too much relief on the neck so I decided to adjust it. Being an Allen key adjustment kinda guy, I hadn't paid attention to the truss rod adjuster. Thinking it was an allen key adjustment, I moved the scratchplate to try and get access to the adjuster, but after some struggling and a bit of research on the interwebs, it became obvious that it's a spoke wheel adjuster. Is it possible to get a spoke wheel adjuster that will fit onto the current truss rod, or am I looking at a replacement truss rod?

My twin channel Acoustic Image Clarus ( class d ) amp ceased to function last week - happily on a rehearsal not a gig ! Had power amp and power supply module replaced about 3 years ago but local ( Devon ) tech now retired. Can anyone recommend a competent amp repair person / shop for diagnosis and ( hopefully ) repair, please ? Anywhere in Uk is possible since unit only weighs about 6lbs. fretless

I saw the other day Bax were advertising Fazely guitars again on Instagram. Glad they finally came through for you, that's a lovely colour, in fact a nice looking instrument all round.