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What looks very much like the M-Vave branded equivalent of the Lekato WS-90 has come up on AliExpress for under £30 (until the 27th of August). I've ordered a set as my WS-50 receiver is getting slightly temperamental around the micro-USB socket and I like to have a spare set. https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005006613115406.html - I'll report on it when it arrives.

Brilliant diamond and shining pearl.

I don't use a plectrum for the different tone, I use it because the metacarpal of my right forefinger was broken when I was in my early 20s and it set with the knuckle perceptibly lower than the rest of my hand, so alternating between first and middle fingers is awkward and can get uneven - for some things I simply can't manage it with alternating fingers but can with a plectrum.

Just wanted to check in these super-sensitive days - that's not the same as blackface, is it?

A band I was the co-founder of somewhere in the early 90s played a few gigs. The guitarist/vocalist got rather sweary between numbers at the last one, and the drummer (who could well have been given an offer by another band so there could have been an ulterior motive) said he was leaving because Steve was too sweary. Our viola player was leaving anyway. Steve then rang me and asked me if he was too sweary, and I was rather non-committal. I went to the rehearsal studio soon afterwards and saw a notice from him saying he was looking for a drummer and bassist who had to realise that there was ONLY ONE BAND LEADER and it was him (we both wrote songs for the band, it was about 2:1 him to me). He did get another set of personnel together and they're still going. Their website has biographies of each member, and in his it says he did the folk clubs as a solo act. Rather a lie, as he and I did them as a duo. At least it was the inspiration for a song I wrote called "Revisionist"...

One of the limited edition 15, or one of the vanilla ones?

I started out as a guitarist, in my teens. Played in a school Glenn Miller tribute band but wanted to be the next Hendrix. Went to university and met up with another guitarist, a drummer, and a keyboard/guitar/vocalist. When it became evident that I was the worst guitarist in the band (demonstrating an uncharacteristic self-awareness), and we didn't have a bassist, I decided to change roles. The Fender Soundhouse just down the road had had a fire, and Hayman had gone out of business, and the combination of the two things meant that bits of Hayman were being sold relatively cheaply. So I put together a Hayman 40/40 and went from there. I still love playing, 50 years on. My taste in music has remained with rock - melodic, prog, and glam, although not everything in those genres. And when I was young I aspired to a Fender, which I eventually bought, then I played a Warwick and the P went in part-exchange for it. Then, twenty years later, I moved over to 5 strings - the Warwick is still here though. Most recent couple of basses were a Barcus 6-string fretless and an OLP Tony Levin.

I use the same - I don't use plectrums much on bass so I just stick with what I use on guitar.

https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005003662960717.html is a bit cheaper.

Perhaps https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005003662960717.html would help.

Not a tongue depressor?

Is the pickup module rear-loading so you can change the pickups without taking the strings off? Simply turning it upside down and making it top-loading would mean no dirty great hole on the centreline.

Well, he only put 20 frets on Precisions originally, so presumably he wanted to keep bassists away from that 22nd fret when the pickup would meet the antinode and the streams would cross. After a while he realised that nobody with a Fender goes past the fifth fret so he stuck those dangerous extra frets on for marketing purposes.

I had a similar occurrence with my Lekato WS-50s when carrying them loose in a gigbag - the slide switch on one switched on and I had a flat battery when I came to use it. I bought a couple of plastic boxes, one for the WS-50s and one for the WS-90s, which have spared my blushes.

The Grainger part has been dispatched so hopefully all will be well soon.

Nothing wrong with the MK-1s, they just have a flat output rather than any particular peaks and troughs. It's fashionable to criticise them though. So, appropriately for this thread, people buy or acquire replacements for them because they think they ought to.

I don't have any holes for anything to fit in. It's the wheel bit that's missing.

Are you sweating awaiting the outcome?

There were a few suggestions in a thread that was in General Discussion. I don't think the Stagg that I recommended would be suitable for you as it doesn't fold down particularly small.

"Wasn't it great the way that Bob Geldof got a saxophone sound out of a candelabra?"

Stand it upside down. Oh, hang on...

I've only done a couple of weddings with what were normally pub bands, and they were for friends of band members and were OK. However, I did a few with the ceilidh band and they were very hit and miss, sometimes waiting for ages to set up because we were going to be playing in the room that the speeches were being done in, sometimes having to cope with extremely drunk dancers.

Hercules do make a long arm hanger. However, I don't trust it for anything heavier than an Ashbory.

If you play something that's quite close to the recording that they have in their head, they'll mentally supply all the other bits. Get too far from the original and the gears will start to grind though.

Back at Pitchers and we found that since we were last here a fortnight ago, we've lost 30% of the stage area to some lowest common denominator entertainment device called a Dance Machine. As James and his guitarist-sized pedalboard were here, as well as Phoebe with her far more modest showing, there was barely anywhere to stand and getting to the mic to do some BVs wasn't easy. It wasn't very busy, a few regulars were absent. There were three featured bands - Three Mile Island quite impressed me, an originals straightforward rock band. The monstrosity can be seen behind me - the drumkit normally goes where it stands now. It stands on a platform which the bass amp was set up on (it normally lives where that Boss amp is). Also visible is the first half metre of James's pedalboard.