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Use the least motion possible is my general advice. If you feel like you're not hitting the input hard enough turn the gain up.

When I played with a band who tuned to D standard I found it much easier to play a 5 string in standard BEADG. That was better than keeping my bass down a tone and transposing when playing with people in standard tuning.

Yep, I take plugs to anywhere there's going to be a PA or a drum kit.

If it sounds fine plugged in I wouldn't worry about it 🤷

£500 for a new bridge??? I know inflation is mad but getting a new DB bridge with adjusters cost me a fraction of that a few years ago.

When will the answer be revealed, since it seems most people already know?

No idea about the handedness debate but IME there is very little about age-group classical ensembles that is representative of the wider population -- you're largely selecting for who showed more "promise" at a very young age, and children with more affluent parents are at a massive advantage. Not sure if that makes it more likely that left-handed children are more able to adapt at that age or are filtered out.

ACG?

Sounds quite transparent...

YMMV, but if having it around is going to make you feel guilty, or you don't have the time/means to get it to a standard you're happy with, I wouldn't feel bad about stripping it for parts and chalking it up to experience.

So far this seems to be working, early days but not had any issues resuming since I changed that setting, good shout @Dad3353

I'd have guessed it's a result of the replacement board changing the contact point of the strings.

Thanks @Dad3353 I'd been through and checked if that was available for the interface but not the USB controllers, I'll give that a shot.

I have a Windows 11 PC and an SSL 2 USB audio interface, which work nicely most of the time. My only issue is that sometimes (maybe 50% of the time?) when the computer wakes from standby/sleep the interface isn't detected until I unplug and reconnect it. Anyone know if there's a Windows 11 setting you can fiddle with to prevent this sort of thing? My knowledge of lower level Windows configuration is wildly out of date.

What do you do once you've sobered up though

I quite like that as it is, I'd be inclined to leave it as is. Fretting that board could be painful if there are any discrepancies between the markings and the actual fret positions...

Thumb behind second finger is more like upright bass positioning but can cause problems on bass IME. Seems like you're on the right track now though.

Also take a look at your finger movement - is there any extra unnecessary motion? Are you hitting the strings harder than necessary? The more efficiently your hands move, the easier it is to speed up. Don't be afraid to play with a lighter touch and turn the gain up to compensate, if needed.

Sadowsky Metro Express (cheaper) or Lakland Skyline? Or the fancy Cort ones. Tbh I wouldn't buy a new £1200 Jazz though, as that puts you into seriously nice bass territory s/h.

And they're about 90 quid s/h

Peavey Milestone if you can find one of the P versions.

😍 All pointy guitars should come with metal-shod tips

Very nice! Arch top + gut cut fixes my complaints about the standard LP shape. Possibly, or it might just be how it's intonated -- the nominal scale length would be the distance from the nut to the 12th fret x2.

If you've not noticed any issues I wouldn't worry about it 🤷‍♀️

It also removes a point of differentiation between the Metro Express line and the next line up (German Metros?)