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The series resistor is more about protecting the amplifier from instability due to the insanely low impedance of the tweeters beyond the top end of the audio spectrum.

Small but perfectly formed, your average quality is way higher than most.

Shat 69?

Maple necks…just can’t do it Single cutaways…ugly Pedalboards… Alternate tunings…

Never heard of them, but looking at the web site I rather like their designs. Definitely need amplification though.

The highest number I ever got to was a pitiful 5 😄 Warwick Broadneck Streamer Stage One 5 Warwick Broadneck Thumb 5 Fender Player Plus Jazz V modded with onboard Sadowsky pre.

Appearances can be deceptive 👍

Excellent advice. thanks. From which it would appear that the sound post position on neither my bass nor my cello are completely optimal...however, bridge movements are simple on a cello and viable on a bass, but sound post adjustments are something I dare not attempt ( despite owning the " special tool" ). Meanwhile enjoying the new improved sound of my bass.

I knew about the resistor as @neepheid had already commented on it in another forum. That's why I brought a spare one I'll update people when the Goldwoods turn up. Rob

When I wrote the above I decided to say "no-nonsense reliability" to describe boss. But I just read a review for a different boss pedal that I thought had a better description: "They seldom break, and are both ugly and elegant in all the right ways." Hopefully this pedal will keep up the tradition (although I would have preferred a choice of colours, albeit white is generally what they use for utility pedals!).

The providence isn’t worth much anyway. He probably didn’t know he owned half of his collection.

As they say up here in Lancashire....."It takes all sorts...." I think that's at least £12000 overpriced. I watched the videos from the first auction, and the provenance was fairly tenuous by their own admission wasn't it? I don't doubt someone will buy it eventually though!

Listening your own playing is easy with a looper. Really helpful tool while practising.

Agreed, I wouldn’t rule it out at all. A subscription model or one off software purchase of a pedal with near 100% margin and no possibility of you selling on the second hand market thus depriving them of another sale? They’d bite your hand off to offer it on any platform. If someone at boss hasn’t already started thinking they’re a software company that also makes hardware rather than a hardware company that also makes software I’d be surprised. Another great example is Microsoft developing for PlayStation because they’re more interested in selling software than shifting Xboxes. I think the main obstacle to them putting this in place, boss or for other plugin creators, is going to be developing a robust delivery method as that would take a hell of a lot of dev work in terms of payment processing and authentication etc - so suspect it may be some time off still! Also, yes agreed with some other commenters, the muff and sansamp sound great and are very accurate. Tube screamer is a bit meh though…

Tritium dots are functional for 12.5 years. I'd go for (Strontium based) inactive luminous material that can be functional for decades.

This one is a little heavier than standard as it has a big upgraded output transformer, but yes, still manageable....just.

In my (admittedly short) experience with Fender 9050, they didn't feel much different to Ernie Ball Group flats. I've got two sets of Ernie Ball Group III on two basses, and to me, they feel and sound very good. I play with a lot of slides and small corrective movements, for those being fretless basses. It might feel different on a fretted one though. My only fretted bass is a Stingray strung with Cobalt flats. I think it might also be about one's mind-set. Mine was "it will work whatever effort it needs". P.S.: Dunlops are fine, but they also are bloody expensive. They feel a bit smoother though. Each to their own.

🧟‍♂️ Resurrection time. 3 years have passed, but now I’m well and truly back in the fretless fold. I recently took my custom Maruszczyk fretless to a rehearsal (Stingray-alike), just to show it some love and it sounded great. I avoided slides and vibrato where possible as the genre doesn’t call for that style/tone and it just roared, there was a definite Ric vibe to the tone, especially with a bit of grit from my VTDI. I was so impressed (as were my band mates) that I used it for a gig the following Saturday, both sets. The fretted spare (my usual go to bass) stayed in its gigbag all night. Since then it is the bass that I pick up first and I’m loving it all over again. Good to be back.

Mine would stop at the first part “red ones sound better for Motown” wouldn’t work. She can see one has five strings and has some advantages for playability, ones an acoustic bass and one she bought for me and I won’t sell. simples

It looks cramped with 7, perhaps my finger counting isn’t working

Very interesting. Although they are radio luminescent and not radioactive in the eeeeeeeek sense. That has set me thinking. I might be able to use one of those with fibre optics Then I'd just have the one battery dependent device on board but still have side dots or fret lines if it's a fretless neck. Thanks for the link. Here's another one https://www.fruugo.co.uk/tritium-gas-tube-luminous-emergency-light-outdoor-edc/p-234280022-500955548?language=en&ac=tradedoubler&utm_source=organic_shopping&utm_medium=organic

I started to wonder that if you heard high end up to 600 kHz, there was something interesting going on.