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The Ampero stomp is here!! Now I have played around with the unit it's self looking on line and trying to figure it out. I would like to get the editor on my laptop, it's a windows 10 laptop and I can't get anything to work 😡😡 "device not connected". I have installed un installed 3 or 4 times over 3hrs and nothing. It has the 2.0 version maybe I shouldn't have but I did a factory reset on it. What should I do?

He could clench, though the card might get a little soggy over time

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Unchained Melody - Righteous Brothers

I cut them to the face edge as I wanted the laminations showing.

Following on from @Dad3353, sometimes you will encounter a bass (or guitar) that you just can not get sorted. Symptoms of a deeper problem where, stating the obvious, the luthier setup is the way forward.

In Trowbridge, there's ... Wilts Guitar Repairs... ... or Salisbury ... Guitar Repairs UK ... Both mention bass set-up, at £40 or so.

ooh blimey, that's a learning curve! 🤣 Ok, well, how hard can it be? ulp.

Great advice from @itu and @Dad3353. One further aspect to consider is whether you loosen the strings before making adjustments. I always adjusted truss rods with the strings in tune, never had a problem with 20? 30? basses. I then encountered my G&L L1505, got stuck in and terminally cracked the fretboard off the neck. Fixed by Jon Shuker (new board, better than new). The advice I was advised to slacken the strings,adjust and bring back into tune. @itu suggests wait an hour which is good advice. Most basses in my experience respond pretty quickly, the hour is a good figure. Some do not, my Warwick Corvette (baseball bat neck) takes several hours to respond. There are many good videos on YouTube on action and truss rod adjustment. Remember also that there are no absolute measurements /settings. Strings, condition of frets, your playing technique all play a part. I have a heavy right hand technique, 2.7mm to 3mm at the 12th fret is the result.

Cheers, I'll be writing down everything i do to it.

@eude more ammunition for a Monza 😎

Thank you so much, noted

Right, the Pedaltrain PT PB-2 looks ideal - exactly the right size, the battery pack will fit underneath too - I'll velcro it on. I've just ordered one and some rubber feet too. It's also cheaper than the G Mini Bone. I'll report back once I try it out!

Obv, I shall be PMing you within the next 30 seconds.

Ha! You're welcome to borrow one (or two...) if you want to try. I have 2x Camden 500 modules in a small chassis that's not seeing too much use at the moment (another four are in the main studio rack, and the EC1 goes wherever I go to solve all the unpredictable of mic pre/DI/reamping/monitoring problems I face from day to day!). A few days ago it was 'reamping' a real Steinway grand piano through a rotary speaker pedal in an opera recording on location... you can't do with that with all those other great bass preamps !

Great! Hard to know what could be lost from the EC1 though - I've certainly found all the headphone mixer options and inputs useful in various in-ear monitoring scenarios. The CAST is probably a bit redundant for performing bassists so could be dropped... but having said that, I've used that on stage with an N22 too!

One Schaller strap lock, or a Neutrik jack. No, wait... my colleague gave me a hint... it has to be a football or the air to one.

Some tips: - paper and pen to write down everything you do: easier to come back - good, accurate tools - good light - plenty of time When you touch action, it is done after changing fresh strings. Adjust the truss rod only a little, like 1/8 or 1/4 of a turn. Write now down what and how you did this. Tune the bass and wait for an hour or two. If the direction was right, but the result was not enough, turn 1/8 more. Leave it there for another hour after tuning the bass. Check bridge and fine tuning by using an electronic tuner. Adjust height, if needed. Tune. Play. If the truss rod nut is stuck, drop some oil to the thread/nut. By using the tool, move the screw back and forth little by little. If the fine oil lubricates that thread, the nut should start to turn. No excessive force needed. If this sounds complicated, do as @Dad3353 said: visit someone that has the experience needed.

Great, now a preamp which did look interesting looks like it would be really interesting with extra bits. Thanks for that.

Adjusting the truss rod, and getting the 'action' right for one's playing style, is quite easy, and should be something that every bassist (and guitarist...) should know how to do. It's easy, once you know, but just as easy to mess the bass up completely, or even, in the worst instance, destroy it, if you don't know. My advice would be to find, in your local area, either a fellow bass player, or a reliable technicien, and ask them to do the job, whilst showing you how it's done. Don't try doing this yourself without tutoring. No special tools are needed, and, as I say, it's easy enough for anyone to do, once they're shown. Maybe give your location; there is probably a fellow BC member not too far from you that could help, or recommend a technicien..? Hope this helps. Douglas