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I have only dabbled in Ibanez basses, and I tend to favour their more "traditional" designs. Some might argue that the SR types are typical Ibanez, but I find them to be "generic modern bass" in amongst a sea of similar instruments from other vendors - just leaves me cold. One of the first basses I ever encountered was an Ibanez Musician. It was when I was at school, so I barely remember it, but I remember it was very woody looking, and pretty heavy. Definitely felt like a serious piece of kit. In my actual bass life, I have owned three Ibanzezezezes. First one, early doors, was an AEB10E acoustic. Because you've got to get that "acoustic bass guitar" thing out of your system, right? Many years later, I had a Talman TMB100. It's a nice mix of P bass and Jaguar which I still like the look of. Moved it on though. In the fullness of time, I might score a "fancier" Talman. Currently, I have an ATK200, and I really like it. Unfortunately, the pickup developed a fault, so it currently has a Warman MM pickup in there. It's a chunky beast, but it's a classic Ibanez design. I think I'll stick with the ATK for a while, I like how it looks and I am enjoying playing it.

I would be inclined to turn a blind eye to this one. A clip on tuner is not in the signal chain, not bass specific, and to be perfectly honest, a borderline accessory.

One of the ways I have recently been channelling my GAS - I dug my old Atari VCS out of the shed (a "light sixer" from 1978, VCS nerds). It was a little unhappy, with a flickery screen and some psychedelic colours. So I gave it some love, recapped it and fitted a new voltage regulator, and found a better power supply for it as it turned out that the OG PSU was the main cause of the video issues. So I've got a few carts - nothing amazing - Combat (of course), Super Breakout, Centipede, Jungle Hunt, Empire Strikes Back and a few more. All good fun of course, but you can't play Super Breakout without paddles. Hello eBay! I also got myself a Unocart (an SD card ROM loader which loads the chosen game directly into the VCS). But those old joysticks are gash. So I've got a couple of doozies from back in the day - a Suzo "The Arcade" and a Powerplay Cruiser incoming from eBay again. It's been good fun! And totally allowed expenditure on geeky stuff. There's definitely a lot of fun in these old games still. Also found out about a couple of interesting looking retrogaming shops in the vicinity. Down the rabbit hole I go!

Fail - repairs are only allowed "if something breaks through no unusual intervention of your own". Your removing the pickup would constitute "unusual intervention of your own". Sorry.

That looks fake AF.

Yup, you need to drill your own earth wire hole/channel/whatever. If you can't/won't do this, then this isn't the body for you.

I tell my bladder to STFU until I get to one of them, they're that good.

Pfft - "properly". I change the fingering on songs to suit me all the time. I see some tab/transcription and if I think "nah, that's a stupid way" then I'll change it. No-one's keeping score, so why should you?

I'm always connecting the pedalboard with a cable. It doesn't need to be wireless or mobile. Doesn't mean I use subsequent wireless elsewhere in the chain - been known to connect the PA speakers or monitors to the mixer wirelessly in PITA venues.

Cairn Lodge

Dangerous...

I'm sure I don't know what you're talking about...

Well folks, time for an end of February report. Well done to all who are still in - two months down, ten to go! In the month of February, we had three T1 fails, and two T2 fails. Any attrition rate is regrettable, but I think we got through February fairly unscathed. We have 33 folk with an unblemished record, and a further 4 who have failed T2 but are still clinging onto T1 abstinence. I'm sure you'll all breeze through March!

And you survived!

There's someone in Aberdeen selling an Encore P bass for £20 on FB. Honestly, if I wasn't doing gear abstinence this year, I'd have bought it simply because it was there.