tauzero

I've got two of the Stagg ones, one small and one large. After a fair bit of putting pedals on and taking pedals off, the "carpet" came away from the base, so I replaced it with a self-adhesive loop sheet.

Antoniotsai 5-string - wonderful to play but a bit lacking in bottom end, due to generic Chinese pickups. Fitted it with Bartolini pickups (it's a long time ago, can't remember which) and a Delano Sonar preamp, and it turned out very well. Handbuilt (not by me) 6-string headless - controls were V-V-pickup select, with the Vs having pull for coil splitting of the generic 4-wire Chinese pickups. Pickups replaced with Aguilar DCBs, preamp replaced with Aguilar OBP2, and a Roland GK3B installed.

It's all to do with whether their tails stick up or hang down (thank you, QI).

Note to self: don't leave Tuffcab sitting in the pot for three years waiting to b applied. Still mostly liquid but some bits have turned semi-hard. Basically, I got as far as assembling the cab but didn't get round to rounding off the edges, then other things got in the way, and then Covid and no gigs, and then I got a really lightweight combo... So I finally decided that I should get it done, and now it's sitting outside with its bottom Tuffcabbed and the first coat on for the rest of it. And I'll soon be able to get rid of the cardboard box with the woofer in and the other cardboard box with all the other bits in which are sitting on the coffee table, so I can find something else to put on the coffee table and annoy Mrs Zero.

A quick look at sold Thunder IIIs shows a couple (one fretted and one fretless) going for about £300 and one fretless going for £1000. Insanity.

Any Alan in particular?

I've decided to give https://www.pedalpcb.com/product/pcb553/ a shot. More news when it arrives.

14 years, eh? And I only had 9 basses back then. More than double that now.

Nice, except for the pointless headstock which it costs 350 euros for them to cut off and which you get lumbered with if you have a 4 or a 5.

I made one. Bastard thing doesn't work and I haven't had much help from the designer.

I did also regret that despite the rather meh tone I got from it, I still bought another TE amp (not a combo this time) after selling it.

While generally I go with the learning experience aspect, there was one piece of gear I regretted buying. It was a Trace Elliot 4x10 combo. As is the case with all TE gear, it was made of depleted uranium, and the first gig I played with it was at a social club up two flights of stairs with no lift.

I found it, in a thread in that forum about what the answer to the captcha is, and for anyone who'd like to know, it's "low b". Mind you, from going through that thread, I'm not sure that it's that great a forum...

Just thought I'd register on there and I'm buggered if I can work out the answer to the Captcha question, "Our guitars are frequently tuned in...". I've tried the obvious, B standard, B, E, BEADGBE, Drop D, Drop A, and I haven't a bloody clue what the answer is. Can anyone tell me?

It could be that something in the environment became more electrically noisy - fluorescent light, fridge, dishwasher - there's quite a lot of stuff that can create interference.

Almost invariably, the dots are where the frets would be (3, 5, 7, etc) for unlined instruments and where the fretted dots are for lined ones. So any unlined one should meet that criterion.

Perhaps you should have defined that when you started the thread.

Because Leo.

This looks like a case of buyer's remorse:

"after being in store for fifty-four years his widow has decided it is time for his guitar to be sold". Why was his widow being kept in storage?

I can see Mrs Zero telling me to bring down 90% of what I own. If I remember to bring it all: Korg AX1500G guitar multieffects Korg AX3000G bass multieffects Tascam US428 USB recording interface & DAW control surface Tascam 788 recorder and HP SCSI CD burner Tascam FW-1082 firewire recording interface & DAW control surface and a couple of TC Helicon effects units

Overrated: Trace Elliot amps - meh sound in a depleted uranium casing. Spector basses - unpleasant necks.

I've got a WAV-4 that doesn't get used much, and I find the profusion of dots confusing. I've had assorted other EUBs (BSX, Palatino, Ergo) and they've all gone with the 3, 5, 7 dots.

Hayman used the same system at around the same time. Much better than taking the neck off to adjust it.

U OK hun?