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Our drummer was ill so she couldn't make it, but the keyboard/singer and I went ahead. Went over most of the existing songs and I realised I should have done more practicing while we've not been rehearsing, and also did a couple of run-throughs of two new songs, one of which he'd written years ago and the other that he'd just written. Both went pretty well, which was nice.

Finally got round to plugging it in. Total silence. Twiddle the knobs, nothing, then I remember about the mute switch on my John East equipped Sei Jazz and switched the bottom switch - sound! The other two switches are parallel-series-single coil switches for the two pickups. Knobs are volume, blend, stacked treble/bass, stacked mid-sweep and boost/cut, and a pull for passive control that is also the passive treble cut control. A real variety of sounds available, and I may even be tempted to use the passive option on occasion. Despite the close pickup spacing, there's a fair difference between the tones on each of them (rather like the Warwick Thumb 5 with its two closely spaced J pickups). The treble and bass controls give a very powerful boost and cut but it's nicely progressive rather than all or nothing.

A Double Six was just sold at the Gardiner Holgate auction. £550 plus 25% or so fees. https://auctions.gardinerhoulgate.co.uk/catalogue/lot/af9fe3e054d9552ea0fd7eb82ba5736b/63b778f7668dabe928d3800924a99077/the-guitar-sale-five-day-auction-including-the-gord-lot-187/ Fixed bridge though.

I meant to also say that I intended to drop into the Birmingham PMT at some point - they moved to just inside the CAZ from just outside it, so as we didn't have a ULEZ compliant car I didn't, and after we finally got a compliant one I never got round to going there. They did have the occasional slightly interesting instrument in there, and in fact I bought my Crafter acoustic guitar from there.

That would be a problem for any music store, keeping 4000 Precisions and 6000 Jazzes in stock before they've even considered stocking Squiers too.

I don't know about that, there are plenty on here with a Fender obsession.

I was also going to suggest having an own brand budget line, like Thomann and Harley Benton or G4M and their own brand, which might have worked for PMT but probably isn't best suited to @Bass Direct 😁

I use bolts and threaded inserts, they work very well. Alternatively, with your pillar drill for accuracy, you could recess the ferrules into the body, giving you an extra ferrule's thickness of thread in the neck. Or buy longer screws, you cheapskate.

Lekato - I have WS-50s and WS-90s. The WS-50s are smaller but have a bit less battery life (4 hours or so versus 6+ hours for the WS-90s). Available for £40-£45 from Ebay, £35-£40 from AliExpress. I use them for everything - rehearsals, open mics, and gigs. Both of them are switchable between channels in case someone else's dongles interfere with yours.

Their track record includes Variaxes, and those of us owning them weren't exactly inundated with updates once they were taken out of production.

I did impose a 10kg per item limit on all my gear, PA included. I have breached that though, got a GR Bass AT212 which weighs a back-breaking 11.5kg, or about the same as a Trace Elliott handle.

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The starting bid was lower than the estimate (applies to most if not all GH auction items) - I did see one auction for a very expensive guitar where the auctioneer started at £18k but had to drop that as there were no takers, eventually went for £17k+. They will courier - £55 + VAT for a bass. My time is my own, my diesel I have to pay for, so I saved a few quid by doing that and saved our guitarist £50 + VAT by picking up his Ibanez at the same time.

I hope "possible" =/= "we could be arsed".

As Line 6 have kept the Helix nomenclature, I would make the (perhaps rash) assumption that HX Edit will also be used for the Stadium, which means an updated version will be coming on the Stadium's release. Also, the release of the Stadium might mean a firmware update to the older members of the family. Presumably Line 6 don't think that this announcement will cause sales of the top end Helices to drop off while people wait for this, as there's such a pricing gulf. Of course, if they've got a few Stadium Junior devices lined up to replace the Stomp sub-family, they won't want to announce that until they're ready for release.