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OOh, I know this one! All the squares are the same colour, aren't they, and it's just an optical illusion.

Something else to try is to shift everything up five frets and down one string, so you only go below fret 5 if you have to play a note below bottom E.

Sounds absolutely dreadful.

Presumably he doesn't think much of the bridge position as he switches after a few seconds and never goes back to it. Two pickup positions with no ability to blend between them and no incremental change (like the Westone Rail and Gibson Grabber), plus either it has sliding contacts for the pickup (potential for noise) or wires (potential for metal fatigue and breakage).

Looking forward to seeing this assembled.

Well, headless is the way of the future.

I think the term for that is "hostage to fortune".

Would a stool count? Asking for a friend...

Wireless isn't laggy per se, it's Bluetooth wireless that's laggy. My Sennheiser wirelesses (HDR 120 II) are fine in terms of lag but there's built-in compression which I find a bit over-enthusiastic.

I think once as a bassist, quite a few times when I was on Robot Wars - the queue to get in ran past the pits and people would ask us to sign their programmes.

I searched CPC Farnell for LTC1144 and couldn't find it, then I tried searching with that part number and also couldn't find it. Are you going via the website or the internal stock system?

The Ebay one from China came to about £8 total, so it depends how patient you feel like being.

And Precisions have one. But here we have a Jazz bass with a Precision pickguard and single novelty pickup, just as in the past we had a Precision with two Jazz pickups. I'm not sure how this is "something different". I await them coming up with a neck-through headless [1], active, with PJ and piezo bridge pickups, made of carbon fibre. [1] Hands up whoever knew I was going to say that

https://www.mouser.co.uk/c/semiconductors/power-management-ics/voltage-regulators-voltage-controllers/switching-voltage-regulators/?series=LTC1144 Also available from China on Ebay.

The Steinberger system came later and is a more satisfactory solution, but various others simply put normal bass tuners at the other end.

My experience has been similar. Don't like the Rickenbacker parallel neck. Don't like the Wal neck. Also don't like the Fodera neck, or the Spector neck, or the thick Warwick neck (I love the slim Warwick neck). This has probably helped save me a lot of money.

They look lovely. The only purpose of the headstock is as an advertising hoarding to show the name of the maker, otherwise it just adds weight and unbalances the bass.

Hideous headstocks though, they should offer a headless option.

My Peavey Zephyr 5 had a 34" scale - the later Grind had a 35" scale.

Basses - somewhere in the 20s. Guitars - about 10. I'll be able to be more accurate when we have the spare oom cleared.

I had this problem when trying to play a file which was 48kHz instead of 44.1kHz. I used Audacity to convert it, after which it was fine. See page 12 of the owner's manual. Just checked the specifications section of the manual and it says Playback format WAV: 44.1kHz, 16/24 bit MP3: 44.1/48kHz, 32/64/96/128/192/256/320kbps I'm not sure about the MP3 though, but I can't remember if it was WAV or MP3 I had problems with

When I was with the ceilidh band, our dulcimer player had a brace of Appalachian dulcimers, tuned to G and D IIRC. Both were six-strings, three courses of two strings. He didn't have those extra frets but he did fret a drone string on occasion.

No, much better headless.

I have a Mk II Ashbory. Only 73 made. That must be worth £100k by now.