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Don't know how much it is for the Birmingham one but it's inside the CAZ which affects a couple of us. So we rehearse at one which is 200m outside the CAZ.

I have two hands, I save both.

Saturday night was another dep gig. The Bonnevilles were the first band to play at The Beehive in Curdworth since the new manager came in about four months ago, sorted out by the new drummer. We got a spacious raised area to set up in, which was nice. And I got a couple of songs properly sorted that I'd had slight trouble with (not car crash type trouble, just stumbles). The newly acquired Zoom MS-60B+ made its first appearance. Sei Flamboyant 5 -> Lekato WS-90 -> Zoom MS-60B+ -> Tecamp Puma 900 -> GR Bass AT212. As always, Caravelle memory foam trainers.

Is it just me that can't see jery978's first post from 24/7/25? Edit: if it was a similar spam to archie637 above, then I understand why it's no longer there.

To clarify - a couple of my instruments are zero fret. Others which don't have zero frets have nylon nuts. I'm not altering any zero fret instruments. I'm making a brass nut for an instrument which has a badly cut nylon nut and no zero fret. And ideally I'd have zero frets on everything.

I sing one song with the current band, the same song I sang with another band a while back - Make Me Smile (Come up and see me). It's fairly easy, I have to concentrate so much on the lyrics that I have no time to think about the bassline, that just comes automatically (and I still get the words wrong at times). And I sing it because I'm the worst singer in the band and it's the backing vocals that are important to be in tune.

My Warwicks and two Antoniotsais - Just-A-Nut I. I've got a couple of zero fret instruments. Most of them are nylon. I'm about to try to make a brass nut for one.

I had a look at the specs, specifically the neck measurements, and they seemed a bit odd - had to translate the measurements from quaint to proper, but the nut depth is given as 1.8mm (0.072") and the 12th fret depth is 28mm (1.1"). I suspect the decimal point got moved over for the nut depth, the 12th fret depth seems really thick. I've dropped them a message to ask about it.

After owning various headlesses for some time, it's still the Seis that I take out to gigs - the neck profiles on the Cort Space and Ibanez EHB are quite similar, both are D rather than C shaped and to me the most important aspect of a bass is the neck. You can bugger around with the electrics to get the sound you want (within the limitations of pickup placement) but you need to throw money at a luthier to get the neck profile changed. The Bootleggers intrigue me, especially the Ace as I prefer a neck-through to a bolt-on, especially for a 5-string.

The ugliness.

"Not now, Arthur!"

Next step up from a didgeridoo.

I ordered an A-B switch on July 16th, and it arrived on the 23rd in time to use that evening. Which was nice. I've had to return a couple of items, it's great being able to return them to a UK address - the most recent one, I got the refund before the returned item could have got to the return address which was excellent.

Rip it off and start again, as somebody sang a long time ago. Skinning it and applying Tuffcab would improve the looks and probably take a kilo off the weight.

I'd be inclined to get a better bass first - there are a lot of inexpensive basses which will be a step up from the G4M one. Does the amp have a headphone output? If so, try using that rather than the speaker and see if it gives an improvement. The amp upgrade is going to depend on what you intend to do - if you're just going to be playing at home, you won't need huge amounts of power, and portability won't be so much of an issue, whereas if you want to go gigging with it, you'll want a fair amount of poke and you will probably want reasonably lightweight gear. For the time being, as others have suggested, a Nux Mighty Plug or Boss Katana Go, or a Zoom B1 or B3 or similar would give you a better listening experience with the bonus of being able to play with effects.

Just sold a BC 112 Mk3 cab to Sean, all a very easy transaction. Hope it serves you well!

Yes, which is a little sad as the Ray5 or OLP Tony Levin (also 22 fret neck) would be good inexpensive donor bodies.

Got the news that Ozzy had died soon after the open mic night started, so we of the house band did an impromptu version of Paranoid. As it happened, the band of teenage girls was missing their bassist, so I stepped in and we did Iron Man as the last number, admittedly somewhat imperfectly.

Ten basses for a band? Are you a U2 tribute?

Yes - when playing in my bedroom, the strap came off my Les Paul copy guitar and it hit the kickstart of a bike engine that was also in my bedroom, putting a big dent in it. Then in 1988 I bought a Warwick with Schaller straplocks, and every instrument that can be fitted with them since then has been. At last night's open mic, the strap came off the guitar of the guy who was doing house band duty with me for the final number. It was a straplock failure, a Fender one that had come unscrewed from the strap. Fortunately he had hold of it and was able to sit on his amp to finish the song.

It took my former bandmates a year to realise. I play fretless the same as fretted for some things, for others I play it with a more, well, fretless feel to it - depends on what I want to accomplish.

The girls that I was accompanying have found a drummer and a bassist (also teenage girls) who have played at the last two open mics in Tamworth. And last night they did Iron Man, which Phoebe had said she wanted to do a few weeks ago so I'd learnt it, before she recruited the new bassist. Oh well. Anyway, they are good.

I got told off for saying something similar on another thread.