mcnach

I'm not sure. To me it just looks like the neck is *slightly* misaligned, the sort of thing you fix by unscrewing the neck screws a bit, pushing the neck in the right direction and tighten screws again. The bass had issues, but this is getting overly picky now, I think.

That's... something! I don't know exactly what it is, but it is something. Not even by accident? 😄

Johna bought my markBass Octaver pedal. Good chat, a pleasure to deal with

But... what happened to the 195 ones before you?

Que mala suerte has tenido!

That's cute 😄

Treble is cut+boost on both Z3 and Z7. It's just that the Z7 has an additional passive tone control (which is of course cut only). I prefer the Z3, but that's just my personal preference: the semiparametric mids control on the Z7 can be very useful but in general I find the fixed mids on the Z3 to be just where I want them. If having a Jazz neck pickup is important to you, I'd say go for the Z7. Otherwise, while the Z7 definitely feels more 'premium', I find the Z3 more to my liking. One thing about the Z7 that is worth thinking about, is that some people find the neck J-style pickup to be much quieter than the bridge pickup. Whether this is more for the 5 string than the 4 string versions I don't know. Mine was noticeably weaker and impossible to balance with the bridge no matter how much I tried adjusting the pickup heights. I didn't mind too much because the J alone sounds great, it's just quieter than the MM... which makes it complicated if you wanted to switch sounds live, but you do get a wide range to blended sounds that work very well. Sire is installing a different pickup now (the older one had the small twin poles per string like a Jazz, the new one has big single poles) which seems to fix the issue. I got one of those new pickups from Sire, I just haven't tested it yet.

I have both a Z3-5 and Z7-5. I no longer have an EBMM Stingray 5, I have the Ray35 which isn't that different from the 'real thing' (and the 4-string EBMM Stingray that was my main bass for over a decade). My comparisons are based on that specific sample of basses, and my opinion is just that: like, my opinion, maaan. The Sires' built is more than decent. Their necks are just beautiful. The Z7 is the winner in terms of looks and feel. The neck of the Z3 wasn't as well finished, but this is not so much to say the Z3 was bad, rather that the Z7 was superb. I think it would be very difficult to match the general build quality of an EBMM instrument. But they also cost quite a lot more, and these do not feel 'budget' at all (especially the Z7). Both can sound very Stingray-like, with the Z3 closer than the Z7, to these ears o'mine. I've been using mostly the Z3 live, since I bought it.

email may be the least sensible *to you*, but not necessarily to everybody else... I personally do a lot by email, because it gives me a written record and I can do it at times when most shops are closed. I'm not against other methods, but if offered I'll probably take it. If email is not an option that works well for a shop, then do not offer that as a method to communicate? Can't really blame people for using a method that is right there in the list of ways of contact.

No, you can use wifi or radio transmitters. Radio transmitters have extremely low latency but sound quality can be 'meh' especially at the lower end of the budget range, but they do work. WiFi systems are all over the place. There's lots of very cheap ones, but latency tends to be higher on those, up to 12ms in some. On their own that might not be a problem, but if you have other digital devices in your signal, all adding their bit of latency, it can get noticeable, but this is very much depending on your use.

Worst than truly shocking

One thing that catches people at times is that there is a little internal battery, same as computer motherboards have. It was not even mentioned in the manual! The battery lasts a few years and when it dies, so does the V-Amp. It stops being able to save/recall presets and things just generally do not work well. Really easy to replace, if you're aware there's a battery inside in the first place.

Well, I liked mine I still have it and use it sometimes, there was a handful of guitar amp models that sounded pretty decent. FX are not very good.

It wasn't quite a band yet but... I wanted to start a new project in a particular vein, as a side thing to my main band, with as many new people (to me) as I could. I made it very clear I wanted it to be a collaborative thing, writing together etc. Mostly reggae-tinged. One guy stood out, who played guitar and sang and we seemed to be looking for a similar thing, so we met. It was fun initially. He showed me some of his stuff, singing mostly in French (he's from Senegal), and it was cool enough. He was going to do a little solo thing at a coffee shop in a couple of weeks and I agreed to play his stuff with him, mostly on bass with a couple of songs on guitar. It was fun, and then we went busking and it was fun... Until it wasn't. Very quickly it turned into just playing his stuff, and only the way he wanted. Basically I had no input... and since this was not bringing money or what I had set out to do, I brought it up one Sunday afternoon while jamming at his, with his teenage son playing various percussion instruments, and it was as I had farted, no, sharted on his face. He basically kicked me out of his place I was a little amused by it because it felt so crazy. As I was packing my stuff he was just ranting about his integrity as a musician and how it's impossible to find someone to play with because everybody wants to do their own thing and be creative with HIS songs. I had to remind him the premise under which we first met, which only aggravated him more. His son looked like he didn't know where to hide... He slammed the door behind me, and as I walked to the car I was laughing, it was so surreal... A bit later I was talking to somebody who had seen me busking with the other guy. I told him I was not doing that anymore and that's when he smiled and said "I didn't think it would last". He knew the guy... 3 years later, the guy is still playing solo. It sounds good, I enjoy his stuff, I just don't want to play with the guy. His erratic sense of timing in particular was really difficult to deal with... but as a solo artist he's good.

It wouldn't be the worst possible idea, you know?