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Gesundheit.

From memory, the former. I think you press the button to power on, and hold for pairing etc.

Just seen this on FB

A Japanese bass with a Spanish name which bears an uncanny resemblance to an American bass with a German name ... what on earth could it be? Personally, I blame @pete.young

They could have unwittingly taken a tracing of one half of a notched vintage tuner and mirrored it in CAD to create a template for a full plate with minimal geometric ambiguity. It now has two notches. Or they are using vintage stamping gear and whatever happened to the die on one side has now happened again on the other side!

Rare to see a Parker bass come up... And strangely, Sandberg Basics don't either.

We played at an open mic type evening yesterday. It’s a weekly session at St John’s pub in Hull, and run by an old friend of ours who is a sound engineer, and a lovely bloke. Anyway, each week they have an act on first ( who get paid) followed by various folk doing their thing, be it covers / originals / spoken word etc. Our friend has been asking us ( acoustic duo) to do the opening set for a while, so we relented and gave it a go. There was a great PA to use ( QSC etc) so a fairly easy job to set up in the tiny room. We did an hour of various stuff, working from a set list rather than our more usual requests format. I actually found it a bit daunting being in such a small room, crammed with people including a lot of musos. We settled into it after the first couple of tunes, opening with an instrumental version of ‘ I heard it through the grapevine’ and then working through some blues, country and rock stuff. It went very quickly, and we got an encore too so people seemed to like what we did. It made an interesting change from our usual gigs so glad we did it - we’ve been asked back so happy days. Fender Kingman bass / Rumble 100 / Clark’s boots

Not necessarily. While there are stories of bands who would do multiple live takes to 2" multitrack tape and then physically cut and splice them to produce a track made out of the best sections of each take ready for overdubs and mixing, the normal practice was to do a drop-in to replace the offending section of a track. Whilst not as scary, it still required the tape-op to hit the punch-in and out at the correct points and for the musician to be confident that what they were going to play would be an improvement on what was already there as there is no "undo" with analogue tape. Things became a bit easier from the tape-op's PoV with the advent of time code which allowed the punch in and out points to be automated.

Ive been searching for info on these but can't figure out if the button is an on/off switch, or just for pairing. Are these the type that you can leave plugged in and just turn on when needed, or like the Boss ones that turn on when pugged in?

Status Groove Basses. Best neck profile for my hands. Massive regrets selling mine. Never see them come up. All that aside….great to see Dave Grohl playing drums again. 😂

They’re called pedals because you operate them with your foot. All of the setups you have replied to are footswitch operated by the guitarist/bassist in order to achieve different tones. Colloquially, they are all pedals on boards, hence pedalboards. Move on. Si

Curious that the RI tuners are notched both sides..... 🤔

Australian synth-pop retro vibes featuring Kimbra. Her vocals are as captivating as in 'Somebody That I Used To Know.' A transcription of Benjamin Plant's synth bass is now available online. 'I Look To You' by Miami Horror

U ok hun?

Bought an endpin from Lawrie. Not the first thing I've had from him, and probably not the last, given how smooth it is to deal with him. Cheers!

And here notched on both sides, same supplier again:

This is not a reissue, but an original model from Andy Baxter's website. And here is another's oddity, notched on the treble side, but not on the bass side, again an original from the same supplier:

I'd design it in such a way that you could take it apart easily to make one 3-string and three 4-string basses out of it.