mcnach

Excellent post 👏

Cool idea and

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I bought a guitar hanger from Gareth. Smooth and easy Thank you Gareth!

oh, so now you're taking the P...

My 2022 Ray35 is fine. I was going to replace the preamp with a John East MMSR that I've got in a drawer somewhere, but I ended up liking the stock one enough. It sounds great. So... I don't know.

Paragraphs are so 20th century...

Summer? What Summer?

I thought I was the only one!

I've had a Line6 G30 since 2009, it just works with any bass I had.

If that box came from Amazon, I would have said a plectrum.

I wish we had Harley Benton years ago! ButI'm doing my best to catch up, with 2 guitars and 3 basses so far

They all act the same way, just with higher or lower peaks. There's a period, relatively short, where the emission is brightest, and then it settles at a lower level. It's just physics :shrug:. That lower level does last quite a bit, but I didn't see (no pun intended ) much use for it, as I never play in total darkness. Maybe I was wanting brighter than it is reasonable? Sure, it still glows an hour later, but for me it's not a useful glow. I charged them for a few seconds (each dot) just before going in with a UV torch. A blue torch also worked. The places where it was great is where there were UV lights on stage. This is one of the ones I had done, before they had the version with the black pipe surround. A few min after charging they're still bright to be seen indoors with natural light. But that level of brightness is not where it settles. Mine were the blue ones, by the way, which are not quite as bright as the green ones anyway. I can't find their emission graphs anymore, but their FAQ tracks with my experience:

I would imagine that Thomann would have negotiated a much better deal than that, with the volume of instruments they sell, just like I don't expect they'll pay for the hardware what I would pay in a shop. edit: I also needed less than one rod to do a full neck They do look just like Luminlay, but even if they're not, it's not exactly hi-tech. I'm sure they will do a decent job. I stopped using it because I don't think they're that useful. They're very bright initially, but that fades away rapidly in a few minutes. The residual glow is good in the dark, but any dark stages I've been, there's always some other moving lights and in the end it doesn't help as much as I wished. I once made my own, buying a small pot of glow in the dark paint, and powder separately. I mixed a bit of paint with powder until I got a paste, and put "blobs" over the existing side dots. They were very discrete and glowed brightly... but the best was that I could tell the dots by touch, and that was far more useful than any glow, for me.

I used Luminlay on a couple of cheap basses as a test, it was most definitely 'affordable' I just checked, £16 for the blueish one (side dots: 3mm with black surround, which is what I used before) and £15 for green. I didn't see the shipping cost.

Luminlay is not that expensive, but postage from Japan became very high. At least that was the case last I looked. I bought 2-3 rods years ago and I still have some so I heven't been keeping up.

That reminded me of...

Thank you! 17.5 mm, as on a Stingray 5! 🙈 Now I've got to check them out!

I am the same, that's why I'd like to know. At least 17mm, ideally 17.5 (Stingray, for example) to 18mm. I would even prefer 19mm to 16mm.

I have a little bag where I carry backups: some tools, strings, a strap, cables, batteries, adaptors, a little BAM200 amplifier... a wide range of stuff. I've just replaced it with a slightly larger one. Last night at soundcheck I realise I don't have my usual strap in the case. I had removed it to clean the bass a bit, and forgot to put it back. No biggie, I have a backup! Don't I feel smug? No strap. I didn't put a backup one in the new bag... Guy from the venue finds one. It's flimsy and has seen better days but I'm not complaining. 20 seconds into the first song of our 1st set... strap breaks. Managed to catch the bass, but I had to do the gig sitting down. You know what? It was a little weird but so comfy! I may forget my strap more often

18mm on the 5-string sounds great, but the pictures I've seen looks like the polepieces are spaced as on 16-16.5mm Stingrayesque basses, which are quite common... I would love to know for sure.

Sometimes it can be good, but I wouldn't make a habit of playing depressing songs in a pub, as people generally go there to have a nice time. Whenever I see a "singer songwriter" type with their acoustic guitar my spidey sense tingles, because far too many just spew "deep" dirge song after song and it would definitely make me want to relocate to happier venue for my libations.