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I'm surprised it's not USB C.

That is a big ask. The term is a safety blanket to those, mostly Americans, who deceive themselves into thinking the jump in quality of mid 70's Japanese products was the result of IP theft and shady practises. Truth is Japanese factories had been building 'crap' because Western importers put profit first and ordered crap, the game changed once the Japanese decided they'd had enough and started building on their own terms. Similar mindset is with us today regarding Chinese and Indonesian instruments, as if somehow cultures with a history of string instruments going back 1000s of years are incapable of building simple stuff like electric guitars.

Thank you, these guys are fab. Love it

One of my favorite jazz basses of all time.

When we first started learning Hanging on the telephone it was at a time when we had no drummer, so was using a drum only backing track. We, more or rather the bass player, kept getting the gap wrong between the first and second verses. He insisted he had been practicing it all week and no way was he wrong. Started to have a go at the backing track being wrong. Even after i pointed out the drum track was actually the drum stem off the record, and it was Clem playing it he wouldn’t have it, although he did start to back track a bit. 🙄

Love To Love You Baby - Donna Summer

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I'm gettiing there... SLOWLY!

I remember us getting stuck in Maria once. Came out of a chorus, did a verse, then the bridge, then instead of going into the chorus again, Mrs Zero went back to the verse, then the bridge, then a verse again. Realising that we were in a death loop, I started singing the chorus after the bridge came round again and so we managed to finish it, otherwise we'd still be there. It is a bit of an odd arrangement though, the bridge can either precede or follow the verse.

I bought a pedal and he sent it out quickly and it arrived the next morning. Thanks Mark!

Did the old desk have wireless control, and if so, did they have a look round the congregation to see if someone had hacked into it?

It sounds like if you find a musical partner you will rule over these things quite easily.

If you can assemble a reasonable core unit, cover a few musical styles that appeal to a diverse audience with some obvious crowd pleasers and maybe a few listenable 'not so well known tracks', you might hit a potential goldmine for a venue. Sounds like the location is crying out for something decent. Best of luck!

As a happy Basschat 110T user (and with a sheet of 12mm ply left over) I’ve been reading this thread with great interest. @Phil Starr I know you mentioned early on that this works well without a tweeter because the Fane has a decent high (for bass) frequency response and has better dispersion than a bigger driver might - but still I’m wondering whether a HF unit/horn (like the Celestion in the 1x10”) would help make it not just an even better bass cab but also something that could be used elsewhere for keys,foldback etc. if needed , a bit like a Crazy 8 maybe. I realise that for all sorts of reasons it’s not just a case of bolting on the tweeter/horn/crossover from the 1x10” design so would need someone who (unlike me) knows what are doing to make it work right. What do you think , is this worth doing or should I just go any buy a PA speaker ?

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I use Status Hotwires strings on both of my Status Graphite headless basses, and all but the G-string are tapered. I can't offer a good comparison because the graphite neck on both is very snappy and gives a wonderfully quick attack, but it definitely feels like the strings contribute to this. They sound tight and clear, with none of the muddiness I get from the B-strings on some of the other 5-strings I have owned and with a well-defined "space" between notes when I've had trouble distinguishing the notes on the first 3 frets of the B-string with some other, more rigid strings when I played in a full band mix. When I still had my Yamaha TRB5II I used Elixirs with a taperwound low B and had a similar experience: quicker response, fast attack. I think @Kev is onto something with the cleaner break angle explanation.