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The sad thing is that it doesn’t have to be. Collectively there is a lot of potential for change. I honestly believe that understanding the cause of a problem is the first step towards solving it. My experience with trying to deliver technical and workflow solutions to increase productivity in the workplace and futile attempts to explain or at least introduce economic concepts that can be investigated further have led me to worry a bit though. I think that our comfortable past has given false confidence that the future will be the same. It will all come good. Maybe it will but I am not taking it for granted.

Brilliant, thank you Paul. I was getting the 1979 LE mixed up with a JJ config. It’s the 2JA-R that I’m fancying.

A conventional pocket shim won't work on this bass - it has an extended 'heel' which extends back to, and constitutes part of the anchor point of the bridge, or a previous poster described it, a bolt-on through-neck. If it's the neck angle rather than curvature that's leading to an uncorrectable high action, unfortunately this will need the neck itself to be addressed, by accurately removing wood from the entire length of the back of the 'heel' - at the correct angle to bring the strings closer to the fretboard. That's not a job I'd feel confident tackling!

That's a frightening thought and almost certainly true. We are now living in a post capitalist world and the new world is a scary place.

Ditto and ditto. Still got my 406QM and it's not uncomfortable at all.

Thank you once again for your much appreciated help and guidance. I'm very pleased you've now received your SRMS806 it's a very fine looking instrument 😍👍

There's a fair few people who know these lurking around , I own a Ovation Magnum III which is the Passive " More conventional bodied " version of the Magnum lineup. What do you want to ask , Most important things for "value" will be checking on the condition of the active electronics and EQ , The condition of the bridge / saddles /muting setup as these are very very custom and functionally irreplicable unless you buy a parts bass. They are /were super advanced basses , for the era with a load of useful features ... things like independent volume controls for each pole in the pickup to allow you to balance the volume ... EG you can have louder or quieter strings ... and fix unbalanced volume without angling the whole damn pickup 😄

This little piece of design fiction might be of interest. The author's "janky time machine" lands in the future office of a human who, it appears, needs to prove the work he bills for is done by a human. https://www.designfictiondaily.com/p/prove-youre-not-a-robot-and-pay-for

Really enjoying that! I like the meaty tone with a little bit of nasal accent in it too. I avoided the seasickness inducing camera work by reading the comments and allowing the video to play as I scrolled down page 1.

Hello. I am a lefty base player, our lead singer has an Ovation Magnum II (right handed) in sunburst, but we know next to nothing about these basses - I think he is looking to sell it. UK based, are there any Ovation fans out there? This looks like a crazy bit of kit, with an equalizer on the body, great shape (very of the era), and very cool looking. Thanks, Rob

True. And many artists don't even have access to these project files - They just entered a studio, played their instruments, and then got a final mix at the end of it. And the project files for any song that's older than 10-20 years old will probably be very hard to locate at this point. They might have the stems, but probably not the project itself. But it's not like any streaming service will have the manpower to manually inspect the projects files of every song they're hosting on their platform, so that wasn't really a serious suggestion anyway.