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When the alternative is me playing it, yes, definitely.

That just reminded me, my oldest instrument isn't the Eko Ranger, it's a violin I bought when I was a student with the idea of playing some violin with the proggish rock band that four of us had formed and I'd started playing bass for. This was based on me learning to play Twinkle Twinkle Little Star six years before. It's still in the cupboard upstairs.

There's also a seller's premium, of course, so the seller probably sees less than 50% of what the buyer pays. I'm sure that the buyer's premium was a little less than this at the last auction when I bought a Variax guitar.

Looks like it's been dipped in a British river.

Well, there's a solution to that. Two solutions, but I won't mention the guillotine one. Convert it to a 3+2 headstock and put licensed Hipshot Ultralight tuners on it. Drilling the hole somewhere round the "c" should do it. Alternatively, just go with the Hipshots.

I think UHF wirelesses would have companders in them - a compressor in the transmitter and an expander in the receiver, to limit the dynamic range in the transmitted signal, so that might have an effect.

And Ian Bairnson's too (Pilot,0 and he played the solo in Wuthering Heights). Including the Les Paul he played on Pilot's hits and for the Wuthering Heights solo.

I assume he's used at least one of these with Whitesnake. https://www.the-saleroom.com/en-gb/auction-catalogues/gardiner-houlgate/catalogue-id-srgard10272

The Enhanced range would be intriguing if I was in the market for that sort of thing, MM bridge humbucker plus either J or P neck pickup.

There's a lot of Lekato wirelesseseses available - https://lekatodeal.com/en-uk/collections/wireless-guitar-transmitter-receiver I use the WS-50 - 5.8GHz digital. Toying with getting the WS-90 which has double the battery size. Edit: Oops - accidentally pressed "Buy it now" on a WS-90 with box opened for £40. Oh dear.

Those who follow Glenn Fricker and the Spectre Media Group on Youtube may recall him mentioning a book called The Physics of the Electric Guitar (only in German) by one Manfred Kollner. Although the book was only ever printed in German and is now out of print, there is an English translation of most of it. The separate chapters are available as PDF downloads at https://gitec-forum-eng.de/the-book/.

Have a look at the switch assignments for each of the effects you're expecting to have switches for. It does seem somewhat odd.

There should be one in fairly soon at Bass Direct, they seem to be punting them out as fast as they get them in.

It replaces my large pedalboard (HX Stomp, homebrew MIDI controller, expression pedal, power supply, wireless) so it's the same footprint. I'll still be wireless but using Lekato bugs so no need for a board-mounted receiver.

It reminds me that I've played a Wal and really disliked the neck.

I never knew Rowan Atkinson played bass.

I would argue for x-n, where x is the perfect number of basses and n is the number of Basschat members.

Lovely grain on the body.

I think I've bought all but one of the current basses (so that's somewhere north of 25 plus some guitars) while with the current Mrs Zero.

Yes. The soundman gets just as cross.

My Seis don't have a volute and I don't have any problem with them at all. However, I have noticed that when switching to my Hohner B2AV, it does take me a few minutes to get properly aligned, probably because of how far the neck goes from the body - it's a fair stretch to the first fret. It took me a while to get used to my first B2, a long time ago. It's worth it though, headless basses are lighter and better balanced than the headed equivalents, plus you can tune them from both sharp and flat, unlike a conventional bass where you have to tune from flat.

Could we have the names of the guilty parties please? I recognise a few from Moffat bashes (although I feel sure @neepheid never had that much facial covering) but it would be nice to have the blanks filled in.

Never got to the point of gigging when I was with a Marillion tribute - I did already have a Warwick Thumb and I went to the trouble of finding a strap the same as Pete Trewavas's, and I got a Cort GB4 as he also used one of those (or a GB94, identical other than the colour of the logo). I'm not slim with curly hair though.

As far as self-penned material goes, my songs do tend to the bleak - I've always thought Leonard Cohen was quite a cheery chappie. There is one song that I wrote about 30 years ago that has still to be performed in public - I may do it at an open mic night some time.