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Gibson seem to be on a bit of a path to redemption in that department. They're doing well with Mesa/Boogie, they've resurrected Tobias, and, by all accounts, the new instruments are excellent, and they have apparently addressed a lot of their QC issues recently. Having said that, I still can't see it happening.

That’s definitely good enough, and helpful, as a decent tech will do the wiring diagram themselves and discuss options/possibilities etc. 👍

Yeah, most of the time I use the Nøjs side as a clean boost or overdrive to due bluesey stuff, or saturate other pedals. I rarely set the GAIN knob over 12 o'clock if I only use this pedal alone, the fuzz is arguably very cool, but doesn't really match the stuff I want to play. I haven't tried comparing the tones, but when I tested it out of the box it was on Guitar setting and then I remembered about the switch and set it to Bass. The only thing I *think* I noticed was that the low E was tracked *slightly* worse with Guitar, but I may be wrong. I wanted to test this again, but I keep forgetting.

Even if I could get past the hideous headstock, the string spacing is a non starter for me.

In the unlikely event that someone is interested, I make a headphone amp designed to go onboard a bass. It even has a stereo Aux In to play along stuff: https://www.jtex.ca/products/headamp I also make an onboard compressor (!) that can directly drive headphones to a decent practice level (unofficially): https://www.jtex.ca/products/okc I'm in Canada, but currently offer free international shipping as a middle finger to the USA tariffs (I don't ship there anymore).

Here’s something we haven’t considered, Gibson take over G&L and then they have a competing brand to Fender. Given Gibson’e history with annexing other brands, maybe not a good thing.

Is the bass a 'standard' 30" shortscale or is it sub short-scale? I'm sure we can come-up with suggestions (though it gets a little more tricky with sub short-scale). It might be worth taking a look at Newtone - they have dedicated short-scale sets available but can custom wind pretty much anything: https://newtonestrings.com/product-category/strings/bass-guitar-strings/?v=7885444af42e

It's that notch!

I'm really curious to see if I can get away with buying a venture and putting it on a pf cabinet with custom mounting. Anyone tried that yet?

Just wait until you see my Sire at the SWBB 😍

When Fender bought Jackson/Charvel one of the first things they did was discontinue the Surfcaster line because they considered it direct competition for their own Jaguars andJazzmasters Fender's other brands all cover different markets. Charvel for modern rock players, Jackson for the heavy stuff, Gretsch covers a lot of the same ground as Gibson , none of them are in direct competition with Fender. I think the problem G&L may have is that, L Series aside, a lot of G&L models are based directly on Fender models and have been marketed as upgrades on those original designs for a long time. I can't see Fender selling Fender clones (albeit upgraded ones) under a different brand.

At one point, I had four. I sold three of them thinking I was wanting to go in a bit of a different direction, but I miss them! Here's three of them. I still have the red 5-string.

Some years back I formed a band that had a very mediocre singer and eventually I decided to leave as I knew it was never going to improve Some years later they are still gigging as a band or acoustic duo and folk seem to love them but she has a terrible voice. Punters don’t seem to care !

Epiphone EB3 long scale Stained fretboard . i have adapted the front strap button to cure the neck dive .il post a picture later looks much better without the scratchplate.

Some years ago I had a gig in a social club in North London. Attendance was practically zero in the hall. There were a few others in an adjacent room watching TV. A large venue opposite was very busy. They had something called Live Aid going on.

I've played to a completely empty pub, because even the bar staff fecked off!

I sold my Rob Allen Mouse as the @Jabba_the_gut fretless he built me is (imho) better.

Quick mock up waiting for the paint to dry on the other side. Ooh, this gunna look niiiicce!!!!