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Eh, it's just stuff. If you can afford it without jeopardising the roof over your head and the food on your table then go for it.

I'm a series sl@g, I love the sound of pickups in series! Each to their own. At least the switches are there and the pickups are already split at the series join - wouldn't take much to replace the switches with 3-way ones and rewire if one was so inclined.

Mini toggles are 2 way, series/single. So a coil split, that's all. Was getting confused because the specs mention a 3 way control but they're talking about the pickup selector blade. Can also confirm that the jack socket cup isn't so deep as to prevent the use of right angle jack sockets (Neutrik ones at least).

Well, it has arrived. Pics soon (I'm supposed to be working...). First impressions favourable/good/great. More details soon.

That's interesting. Andertons doing their best memory hole impression to try to imply that these are revelatory then?

All of these easily remedied things would actively dissuade you from buying a bass? You're easily put off!

It's a cricket joke, nae a gender joke, ye gype

Fun fact about Methlick, they have a cricket ground which they have affectionately named "Laird's" (Doric for "Lord's").

Bloody hell, Fyvie, that's a wee place that doesn't get mentioned very often!

Scenic route theory confirmed, just got notification that bass is out for delivery today.

The acoustic bass thing. Many bassists have tried and asked exactly the same question as you, myself included.

Live and learn

Colour me interested...

Happy for you. Me, never. I enjoy the variety.

Lots of contenders this year (zero chance of doing back-to-back gear abstenence threads, I'm only human!) Ultimately though, despite buying some interesting and fine basses, I think my best purchase(s) this year is a new rig consisting of Markbass Mini CMD 121P IV and Markbass NY121 cab. Great sounding rig. Honourable mention goes to the Tecamp Puma I bought after borrowing it when my amp died - that's a great sounding amp.

Interesting, I noised up Andertons and they got back to me pretty quickly, and they see "Discrepancy scan" as "Misrouted". This makes sense now as I've seen a further "Discrepancy scan" in Edinburgh. So looks like it might be getting to me, but taking a "pin the tail on the donkey" approach to getting a parcel to Aberdeen... Edinburgh, close enough, innit? Scotland, innit? EDIT: It's starting to look like a case of "got put in the back of the wrong van/truck". If it is indeed in Edinburgh this morning then fingers crossed I'll get it tomorrow.

Tracking's gone dry, projected date of today has disappeared and been replaced with... nothing. There's a worrying line in the tracking that Andertons links you to - "DISCREPANCY SCAN". Getting the sinking feeling that they've "lost" my one. If so, that'll be the second bass of mine this year D!ck Heads Limited has eaten. FFS.

You don't need to justify yourself or your decisions, to me, at least.

You're free to disagree. Just as I'm free to disagree with you. But it's not ok for you to cast aspersions about band chemistry in bands you know nothing about based upon a few words on a web forum. I think you've taken that too far. Also, in my crappy amateurish world, we're the ones paying for studio time and we'll use it as we see fit. Feel free to disagree, of course.

Favouritism! And it's not as if I'm that much further up the road. Damn you, DHL!

The stock pickups could be great, as I define great to mean. I am open to this possibility - I'm not one of these people that change pickups as soon as the bass arrives. Nothing will get done until I've heard it in cans, through the amp and at war volume in a band context.

I have all my eggs in 2 baskets, if that helps?

I'm not holding out on yous... my delivery got bumped

Don't move then!

Yas, the three point love make a welcome change from the usual derision. Why are you top loading? Preference, or strings too short? Just curious - no wrong answers.