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I would say that my signature sound is a bit of fret buzz, which you would normally assume to be poor fretting finger placement, but is actually fully intentional, and notes that sound like they are wrong, but are really just an edgy interpretation of the song. Not easy to do unless you rely on not doing quite enough practice....!

Looks great, nice work

Lovely website and photos, Henrik. Keep up the good work! Greg

Hi all, I've been a long-time low-end lurker and finally have something to share. I have a bit of an obsession with photographing bass guitars in places they definitely don't belong (like an abandoned basement for fruit storage) This one here is a close-up of my Fender Japan Mustang Bass CIJ - The lighting in this basement was too good to pass up. I've actually started documenting my basses and these "strange places" over at my website because I couldn't get the idea out of my head. Curious to know if anyone else here does on-location shoots? If you want to see all the basement photos, here's the direct link: https://bassesinstrangeplaces.com/bass-journeys/the-old-orchard-basement-storage/

I saw the loop back option in settings and I fully expected I’d need to enable it to make it record bass and streamed audio together, but with mine, it just worked anyway, streaming and midi control from iPhone, recording with iPad via usb. After thinking the KG couldn’t do this after looking at this thread, I’d ordered a NUX mighty plug pro, thinking I’d send the katana back. Just testing the mighty plug pro now, but it looks like the detune feature doesn’t work as you’d expect so I think I’ll send that back and keep the katana go.

Quite local pub last night for an early evening gig (or 7-10). Setup and found I forgot the iPad so dashed home to get it, seeing as I had already setup everything. Looked like it was going to be a quiet night, there were actually 2 people in the room when we started! Luckily after a song, another group of 6 people came in and then some more afterwards. By song 5 it was actually pretty busy, although it is a fairly small room. The drum kit lights had broken so I put my aliexpress bar light across the front and it worked really well. All in all a good gig and the last we need to do christmas songs for!

That rendition of The Sideboard Song never fails to impress me. They were amazing. I saw them twice, once years ago with Mick and then in the last 20 years or so at Chelt Town Hall. I remember being absolutely transfixed by Rabbit. They both had a very impressive pedigrees as session musicians and, although I've never seen the evidence, Dave Peacock swore that Chas Hodges was a much better bass player than him.

The Cricketers in Westcliff last night. Not a bad night at all considering it’s the Saturday after Christmas, the weekend before payday, and miserable weather. It would have been nice if it had been busier, but we had a decent enough, appreciated crowd (including my mum who’s flown over from Spain to stay with us over Christmas who rarely get’s to see us play). The lovely Hazel was stepping in Jenny’s shoes with co-lead vocal and did a great job as ever. It was also my first one since Halloween due to afore mentioned shenanigans. I was a little apprehensive at first, and indeed a leading up to the gig and whether I should do it or not, as I need to avoid getting ill, considering I start radiotherapy in a week's time. But I've felt a little niggle in my throat like something's brewing for a few days, so doing this gig wasn't going to change anything. If I get a cold, it won't be from the gig. Besides, I'm being mindful of who I mix with and obsessive with hand sanitizer! It was a good job I didn't do last week's gig, as half the band had the lurgy at the time! Set up and soundcheck was painless and we played well - I was quite chuffed with myself considering I haven't played in earnest for a couple of months. The end of the night after our planned set had finished got interesting. People wanted a Xmas one, so muscle memory got me through Slade that I hadn't played for 12 months. Then improvised our with through 'My Girl' and 'Don't look back in anger' that we'd never played before. You'll be plaased to know I turned and faced the corner in shame during the latter whilst playing it. The next gig is at the same venue in a month's time. I'm still aiming to do it if I'm well enough, but after that, it's in the lap of the gods.

Steve I've edited my reply. Can you give me the dimensions ?

It looks like Warman don't make a 5 string soapbar although their website doesn't give any dimensions

As do Zephyrs and Grinds. If you can hold off ordering anything for 24 hours, I've a box of empty pickup shells in the hut; good chance I've zephyr shells. Plenty pickups can be hidden below an empty shell.

Oooo that’s good to know, totally missed that option!

Ahhh I assumed the GX would be the same as the GT which gives quite a few options for assigns.

Mark at Classicandcoolguitars is a UK dealer for Sandberg, may be worth seeing if he can help on this?

They're actually not but this reminds me that it does have a pair of pickups from my old Zephyr. They are standard size but the 4 string International has 5 string pickups

I'm looking to purchase a black or white scratch plate for a Cali II TM4. There are listed on the Sandberg store but shipping to UK seems unavailable. Any ideas before I go down the ebay route? Cheers Ian

Welcome Andy