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Right, I've taken the screw out of one of mine and can tell you the following about the screw: Size: M2.5 Thread: Metric Fine (0.35mm pitch - course is 0.45mm) Total length (including head): 18mm Now, I have a set of GB7 knockoffs which I was going to raid for parts anyway and I took the screw out of one of those. It is slightly longer at 19.75mm, and has a slightly smaller head, but I put that screw in my genuine GB7 tuner and it tightened up fine - there must be some tolerance built into the design to accept the slightly longer screw. Here they are side by side (and length difference heavily exaggerated by the macro lens - I measured them both with digital callipers) If you'd like me to send you this screw, noise me up in a PM and we'll get it sorted. But if you just want to take the info above to find your own screw, then no worries.

What are these super special capacitors which can only be sourced from the States?

I'll update this tonight with my findings... stay tuned.

OK, well for my own curiosity if nothing else, I'll still see if I've got a suitable replaceable screw anyway and if I find one, I'm happy to send you it.

I have these tuners on one of my basses also: They're good tuners, well worth replacing that screw if you ask me. Let me have a rummage in my spares boxes and see what I can find.

Oh and another thing, you won't find those Gotoh GB7s (if indeed they're even called GB7s) anywhere but the second hand market, especially those ones with the plastic, fluted bit below the button. The modern day GB707 has a different shaped button.

Take another one out, and measure it, then get a replacement? It's just a case of getting the correct screw. Perhaps a local, friendly fastener supplier could help? Contact Gotoh?

Well, keep your beady eyes off of mine!

Let's not dirty up January any further, I'll have to check back previous years but I think it might be a record breaking one. Plus international bass purchasing can be stressful so let's not jinx it with a declaration just yet, eh? We eagerly await your imminent arrival and I'm taking an executive decision to mark your failure down as date of safe arrival. Not the same thing as getting a next day delivery from Andertons etc. is it?

Well, your post seemed coy, I was unsure how final it was. Plus we don't know what it is yet, so I can't accurately record what caused your exit. That's my excuse and I'm sticking to it!

Thanks for pointing that out. First page edited, Jan summary will be amended shortly.

Well, if no amount of settings tweaking can make them work satisfactorily then I guess they are "defective" and it's not your fault they've been insufficiently spec'ed... As for the iPad, I wouldn't even bother reporting it, IMO it's consumer electronics and out of the scope of any tier of this challenge, regardless of what you use it for.

Boss Poly Shifter to the rescue. -4 semitones will be pushing it though. Be good enough for live.

Oh god, that reminds me, that song's on my to-do list as well. Fscking bricking it, mate. Apart from some of the intricacies, it's as much a memory test as anything else!

A fiendish and convoluted plan I wish I had thought of now!

Back at one of our favourite venues, Wilsons on Market Street in Aberdeen on Saturday 7th Feb. Free entry. Please drop by if you're in the vicinity!

Well well well, that's the first month done and dusted, and haven't you all been a good bunch of abstainers? Mostly. But what an odd January - no-one fell in the first week, so there wasn't a lot to laugh at. Some interesting twists and turns in the whole justification racket (with some enjoyably robust debate - love it), and a few speculative "what if?" type queries which will be monitored closely. January summary - 1 T1 fail and 2 T2 fails. 37 out of 38 still in (T1), 35 out of 38 still in (T2). Well done all, I'm genuinely impressed, or sorry if you've been eating beans on toast this entire month. February warnings - I don't know if it's the same in all local authorities, but up here we've got two months off the council tax Feb and Mar. Don't let that extra scratch in your pocket lead you down the path of temptation!

Some video emerged from last weekend's gig. Just in case you thought I just set up my rig in random places and photograph it every other weekend 20260124 Harbour Lights - Zombie.mp4

Looks like a neat and tidy job to me, well done.

I would never use any wireless system for recording, no matter how fancy/expensive it is. It's not as if you need to be mobile when recording, is it? So why introduce the potential for noise/latency/dropouts? I use several pairs of Lekato WS-70 wireless bugs. They're UHF, so probably running on an illegal frequency band, but I honestly don't care - they're so short range in the grand scheme of things that they're never going to annoy emergency services or ham radio enthusiasts. They've been so handy - obviously being mobile during gigs is a lot of fun - audiences love it when I do a walkabout into the crowd/round the pub. Also have used them to link the desk to the PA speakers or wedges in venues where cable runs require shares in a gaffer tape factory to make safe. I have three sets, so I'm covered in case I forget to charge a pair, or to be able to do handy stuff like the PA shenanigans above. Had all three running simultaneously on the same stage with no issues.

Imagine how I felt when the bass I ordered on 18/09/2024 finally arrived on 13/08/2025... frankly I'm amazed I got it, considering this was an oldco Bax order being fulfilled by newco Bax post bankruptcy.

He has a whole 1 subscribers? Wow, such authority!

Thank you for highlighting the personal angle which informed your argument, I appreciate that and understand a bit better why you took it down that road now. But this whole "everyone can be a musician" thing by typing a few words into an "AI magic music generator" can still get in the effing bin, and no amount of arguments, however framed, are going to dissuade me of that. It's delusional!

I know, but I think it was a low blow to take my specific objection to Generative AI in the music context then frame it as some sort of argument about being against doctors getting help to identify cancer. Frankly, I was a little disappointed by that and it made me sad - I think you took that too far.

It's the concept which I find insulting, I didn't mean you were personally being insulting to me directly. Sorry for the ambiguity.