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Happy to sing 'em for you!

Made fretless by completely removing the fingerboard.

Oi! It's only me who's allowed to do that! As for saving the planet, I'll be taking my Sandberg which, being German isn't made of ordinary rainforest-killing bass wood, but of Ersatzholtz which is actually sculpted from recrystallised oil company executives.

I think that pic is conclusive (though sometimes you can have more than one fault) You should be able to operate the swich manually (be gentle) with a pencil tip and get it to operate. The spring is to turn the stamp of a 16 stone bassist into a gentle push. You could try putting something soft on the bottom of the shortened spring to shim out the gap as a temporary fix while you wait for the replacement spring. A little rubber foot might work, or a piece of felt. Hang off with the Servisol until you've tested the switch. It doesn't so much clean the switch as move the dirt around so there are a limited number of times it will work in a semi-sealed microswitch

Mine lasts a lot more than an hour. Not sure how long but a few hours at least. I wonder if you have a dodgy battery? Rob

Gigantic - Pixies

Oh Swell - Fleetwood Mac

Yeah, I remember a discussion about the Lynott bass a few years ago. That is sad news.

Oh wow that’s a massive difference to my experience. Extremely weird.

I teach above Hippo/R&D, both great independent shops run by owners who care about what they are doing.

Got to say, I also love a Ripper. Mine must have been gigged into the high hundreds by now.

To answer your question re the bridge pickup: there is a fair punch from it. If you're not getting that from yours, have you tried raising the pickup height a little? I mostly play through an Aguilar 751 or a Tone Hammer or a Tone Hammer DI, and I find that a little boost on the bass and mid helps greatly. Good luck.

If I was looking for a hardware synth now, one of the Hydrasynth models would be top of my list.

Expansions - Lonnie Liston Smith

So here starts my first attempt of putting something together. I already have most if it, and just received my NW Honeyburst body yesterday. I think it mates well colour wise with the Fender 70's Pau Ferro neck. It'll be getting a cream pickguard and a broken in set of Fender flats, but I'm undecided on pickups yet. I'll need to do research to see what will mate well with my solderless orange cap controls. It'll be a project to complete when the darker nights approach. I'm so looking forward to drilling the holes for the pickguard etc !

My band SHREDS. is playing the Slugfest In The Park festival in Wales on Friday. Our very own 'Thrashmaster -- Burnt to Shreds.' hot sauce will debut there, so if you're attending please drop by our merch stall to say 'hello' and grab a bottle!

The Big Bang Theory - Barenaked Ladies

I have the exact same bass also in Frost Red and had it converted to passive a few years ago when the pre amp failed. I much prefer it in a passive format, sounds more like a Fender. I went with vol per pickup and tone per pickup to use all 4 knobs.

Might as well make Bass playing as comfortable as possible: Those Zoom pedal displays are small, something like the Boss GX 10 is much more readable. And as already mentioned - get a lightweight Bass (and amp/cab). 'what does it weigh' is a cliché question when someone puts an advert up selling a Bass without saying the weight, I think most people that do gigs/play standing up eventually find it quite an important consideration. Manufacturers seem to have realised this and there is quite a good choice of lightweights now. There's a slight 'back in the day we didn't question the weight of a bass'....yeah, but people also smoked in pubs, didn't wear seatbelts, had asbestos and lead around the house, and probably have bad backs now!