tauzero

On second thoughts - over 450 solder joints. I've got a better chance of being the next man to set foot on the Moon than make 450 faultless solder joints.

I'm feeling tempted by the Xenotron Modulation Machine, which is even more ambitious than the L4.

Sub Zero seems to manage it every other word. Thus far, I think he's avoided using it to customers of the bank for which he handles calls.

Talkbass has got a DOI thread?

Schalltechnik VONG-Filterung TC Spectracomp EHX POG2 TC Corona chorus in that order. I have the first two and I fancy a POG2 but can't justify the outlay for a plaything, but since @Smanth is buying... HPF/LPF first to get rid of unwanted frequencies, compressor after that to help the octaver tracking, and chorus at the end as trying to run an octaver on a chorussed signal is asking for trouble.

I don't think mods would be able to move threads to Talkbass 😁

Are you sure it's the pickups that should be changed and not the preamp? There's a Schecter Owner's Club thread in the Other Place (in fact, at least three of them) so potentially more information available there.

The love child of Westfield and East Coast?

Scott's Body Lotion - a new product to give you that fresh-off-stage drenched with sweat aroma that all the girls/boys* love. Applicator glove optional. *Delete according to preference

Yes, my Warwick truss rods are left to tighten. At least my 1987 and 1988 Thumbs are, can't remember which my 2000 is and I haven't had to adjust the Corvette, nor did I have to adjust the Buzzard. Evidently Warwick have changed it between 1988 (maybe 2000) and 2013.

My priorities are generally the same as @BigRedX - generally I'm attracted to unusual but attractive basses, although I do have an Ibanez SRF705 which I find somewhat insipid styling wise but does have rather good fretless sounds, and a Variax 705 which follows Fender styling cues but, well, it's a Variax. The bass must be playable (for me, slim and shallow neck, not too concerned about string spacing). I have upgraded pickups and/or preamps on some basses when I've decided that the sound isn't good enough (generally when it's too thin).

I find the most interesting thing is the proof that a 65 year old Fender doesn't have to look as if someone's used it to hammer in tent pegs.

That's useless. It's only got three strings.

Isn't charging e-bikes a significant cause of fires?

I recently put an OBP2-SK into the handmade 6-string headless - I advise connecting as much as possible up before putting everything into the control cavity. I used some heatshrink to hold the six wires going to the bass/treble stacked pot together - you may find the same with the two sets of three wires running to the separate bass and treble pots.

I generally use the Stagg (or related) cheap tripod stands when I use one, the ones with a pivoting bar to hold the neck rather than a big rubber band. https://staggmusic.com/en/products/view/SGA100BK-tripod-guitar-stand/

Sorry, I really shouldn't go doing a TimR. 😁

I played violin (very badly) before I played guitar or bass, and with the Ashbory I find fingering violin-fashion with my fingers going up the neck rather than bass-fashion with them going across is far preferable and helps me get the intonation right.

Let me explain: "as historically Europeans generally went on the left so the UK is doing it the way it always did." Europe includes the UK. Europeans including the UK population generally went on the left. The UK didn't change, so it is doing it the way it always did. Other European countries did change to the right.

Allegedly so, and it's also the reason that we mount horses and motorcycles from the left hand side, as a right-hander would wear his sword on the left and it would get in the way if mounting from the right. I have seen it often repeated (and thought it was true) that Napoleon enforced a transition from riding/driving on the left to riding on the right, as a symbolic gesture against left-hand riders because the aristocracy would swing swords at peasants as they passed them by, facilitated by riding on the left. The Wikipedia article that @Hellzero cites says that isn't so, however.

I used the term "Europe" to mean Europe, not the EEC, EC, EU, or any other subset of Europe. Sorry if you couldn't understand my plain simple English but it should have been quite obvious from the context that I meant Europe as Europe.

Wouldn't it have been more appropriate to ask why Belgians drive on the right, then, as historically Europeans generally went on the left so the UK is doing it the way it always did.

I don't think cars or motorcycles have been positive ground for about 50 years. However, I have both Seis and Warwicks, and they are all reverse truss-rod. It's just the way things are.

Ah, found it. Ken Follett, eh? I've got some of his books.

I'd forgotten about the Esh Poseidon, which is distinctly pointy, but can't find a picture of anyone playing one live. Still, here's someone playing it in the lounge.