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Our users aren't "home users" though. The computer they are assigned is a work tool. They don't have any of those things you describe getting in the way. That's because we manage our devices, they have Windows installed on them in a manner that we dictate. Updates are pushed on a delay so we can ok them. Privilege management is in effect so that we can tread a line between protection and letting people get on with it. In a large, managed environment, such as the one I help maintain, the things you are describing simply don't happen.

Well, if it's at a similar price point, the fact that it's 5.4GHz could be explained away by the natural advancement of technology. You're not buying it on a whim, you've got a problem with your current gear, it's defective in the sense that it doesn't work in the context that you need it to. I would be miffed if I was out because of this. Hardcore folk might say, tough, wireless is a privilege not a right, back to cables you go etc, but maintaining the status quo is allowed. It's a bye from me (unless you replace the Lekato with something significantly more expensive, then I might call shenanigans).

This is what they don't understand - the reputational damage caused by accusing your customers of incompetence/dishonesty. They won't care, because they're a big fish in a small pond and there's not a super amount of choice in these specialist markets. Still sucks though. I'm kinda out of the game right now, but I will take what you say into consideration when next I need computer bits and bobs.

God bless Cadfael's cookbook.

Which is why I'll always err on the side of humour. I am a stirrer too, but there's a time and a place for it, and it should never be personal.

Now you're getting it!

I'm touched, but I'll cop to being an old fart and of course aware of every name you mentioned, old and new, because I am a nerd.

Are you aware that a smiley on the end of a sentence means that the preceeding information is not to be taken seriously? See, no smiley this time, so it's a genuine question.

Oh, it's you, you nerd!

Who?

There's too much mild dislike in this thread for my tastes. Death to all Jazz basses!

It's all about that forearm ledge...

Is there a "best" side? My face doesn't have one of those! For me it varies by venue. Most of the time I play at the drummer's left side when I have the choice. But some venues with their own backline, the bass rig is on the right, so I go on the right. It's not my stuff so I don't want to be a diva and demand that it's moved around on my say so. I don't think it matters anyway, no-one notices the bass player

Hope it's OK to mention here but a few of my basses will be available to buy at the bash, specifically: Epiphone Korina Explorer Harley Benton HB-50 (prototype, not available to buy yet) Soloking MJ-1 Classic (Fender Roscoe Beck inspired) Special deals for people helping lighten the load on the way back up the road - and save yourself postage from Aberdeen! They will get listed up on BC after the bash but I thought I'd give yous first refusal...

Surprisingly for the usually rabid YT comment section, very little is mentioned in there about the pot guts replacement, and none of them being all "HOW VERY DARE YOU". Someone asked about not doing anything about the tuners and the video poster replied saying there was no rust on them, so I guess their focus was on removing rust, not polishing things that didn't have rust on them. In the end, it's not my video, not my bass, so I enjoyed the video for what it is and I really don't care beyond that.

Advocating restraint and relevance in a BC thread? It'll never catch on...

If it's a single pickup then it doesn't really matter. Electricity flows either way through a pickup. The only time it matters is when you have multiple pickups and you need to get them in phase. Also, the worst thing that'll happen if you get it the wrong way round in a multiple pickup bass is that the bass will sound a bit thin/nasal with both pickups on and turned up full. Then you just swap the hot and ground. You can't break a (passive) pickup by wiring it the "wrong" way round.

I think I should bow out of this discussion. I will never be interested in buying an old Fender, so I don't suppose I've got a horse in this race. In the waters the aficionados swim in, it's probably a drowning offence. I don't even swim!

Some relevant chat here (and a video you might find interesting)

Depends who you ask. Some people will be wiping the foam from their mouths. Some people (me included) will just get the popcorn out. I personally find it amusing that people would rather hang on to some crusty, malfunctioning pot in the quest for "provenance". Pots are consumables, moving objects that wear out over time. Pot codes on the casings are important as they provide a useful indication of age of an instrument in the absence of other indicators. But whether or not replacing the guts of a pot and retaining the casing is "blatant fraud" is a matter of opinion. No, that pot casing doesn't belong to that pot. But surely it's the casing that's the important part? I don't see what the problem is, personally, but I'm not a vintage Fenderhead, so I'm probably wrong.

New guts, old pot casing. Because some people care about that sort of thing, it seems.

Is this a resale value question or are you actually looking to refurb the pots with a view to putting them back in the bass for your own use?

Bit of a trek for me, appreciate the free entry though. Closer people - you've got no excuse - free entry FFS. Get off your butts!

1 month to go...

Nice one, enjoy! When I saw the title, I was expecting to see the ACG that's being sold on Gumtree right now in Kemnay...