fretmeister

It does seem to be an 'everybody or nobody' thing to make it work properly.

Hipshot Ultralites at the other end would do it, and lower the total bass weight too.

There's quite a few without amp sims, but most multi effects include overdrive / dist. There's no point in the makers removing that bit of code! Line 6 HXFX is an example. No amp sims.

I've had 2. I really like what they did, but both of them had a tiny high pitched whine in the signal that annoyed me. I don't know if I was unlucky in having 2 with the same issue, but it has put me off trying a third.

Yes, I know. That’s why I said we are able to do that.

presumbly you have never played a gig with just a clarinet player alone where fan noise is audible to the audience, but then at the same gig then have to play with a 20 piece ensemble without having the luxury of having 2 rigs on stage? There’s a lot more to it than “you can’t hear it over the drums”.

Stop picking on me! FFS!

Frank Zappa made it a point of pride that his live solos were never just copies of the record and he wrote the things! Go nuts and enjoy yourself.

I never overplay. The rest of the band are underplaying.

so tell me, if we don’t have a PA and don’t need one because only 2 out of about 25 of us are amplified, how am I wrong?

We are able to do that, yes. But it's still nearly £300 over here for a new one, and looking at the used sales on ebay and Reverb the used ones of the current model are only hitting £120. That's terrible loss of value.

I disagree with that quite a lot. We all have the right to "quiet enjoyment" of our homes. That means we shouldn't be forced to consider ear plugs etc due to the actions of others. That isn't quiet enjoyment - that's having to take steps to deal with the selfishness of others.

That's a kind offer but my passport has expired and I'm not convinced I can get that far north without one!

It's a difficult one. Even my favourite music is annoying if I don't want to listen to anything. I'm now lucky enough to be in a detached house, but when I was in flats or terraced places I either made sure my neighbours were out or I played at a volume low enough that it could not be heard through the walls at all. In the absence of agreement with a neighbour I don't think anything else is fair. I do realise that many will disagree with me, but that is one of the reasons I moved to a pretty poor condition detached and then slowly did it up (still happening after more than a decade - as I tell my wife, everything is in the planning and I don't like to rush things).

I can't ditch them. My band doesn't have a PA. I mean that literally. We don't own one and we don't use one either. 20+ trumpets / trombones / saxes of all types / clarinets don't need PA support. It's only the bass and the electric piano that need amplification.

I've only had Ibanez glow in the dark dots and they were awful. I had them drilled out and replaced with bright white ones instead.

I really want to try one now!

Definitely email Dave Green. He's really helpful. Last year he modded my RM800evo2, got it turned round on the day it arrived with him, and wouldn't take any money either.

There is no need. There are at least 3 other string makers of roundcore strings who disagree with your statement that all strings other than roundwound hexcore should never be cut.

Did you even read all that tosh? It really doesn't say what you say it does. He says he doesn't recommend that a "beginner" does that. There are many others like DR, Newtone, Thomastik who all make roundcore strings and are happy that they will be cut, and they give instructions as to how to do it properly. Maybe he's only referring to GHS products, but it is certainly not true to say that roundcore strings should never be cut. They just have to be cut properly. https://www.drstrings.com/proper-string-installation

Also - if you want BEAD can you not just ignore the G? If it's ringing when you don't want it to, either learn to mute properly or put a bit of foam under that string only at the bridge.

If you cannot afford to buy a different bass I would say trade this one for a 4 string.

This is interesting. At a basic level it's a blend pedal not unlike many others, but on this there is a 4 band EQ on the wet signal only, a polarity switch, and a contour switch on the clean. There are a few demos with about 5 different drive pedals on their page and YT channel https://www.damnationaudio.com/pedals/p/dirtfixer-bass-blender-and-equalizer I'm quite tempted - I do like blending things a lot.

Hope you got a discount for the missing frets!

Do the hand cream thing?