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"And if you don't sort out this fret wear issue, it's the garotte for you".

FTFY.

Maybe, but the alternative is 2-strokes.

I've made the comparison between Fender and Harley for many years. Both produce variants on products originally introduced decades before, making occasional forays into new areas which peter out after a while, as their adherents stick rigidly to the antiquated designs rather than embracing any sort of progress.

Most of the bands I've been in have been democracies, though they do tend to have members who will tend to lead and others who will tend to follow. I think I've only been in two bands with self-appointed leaders. No problems with playing what I wanted to play but there was a degree of personal friction with one (who sacked me) and the most recent one I decided I'd had enough of supplying the PA (mutually agreed separation). I prefer the democratic model as long as there aren't any rogue members - with one band, the guitarist simply didn't learn any songs that he didn't particularly fancy doing, even though they'd been agreed. Plus there should be a limited ability to veto a song. I don't really want to play "All Right Now" but the others do, so I simply refuse to play during the verse.

You can get one with an oscilloscope included for fifty quid. https://manuals.plus/fnds/dso-tc2-oscilloscope-transistor-tester-manual

On a headed bass, there is a greater length between the two absolute fixed ends, the bridge/tailpiece and the tuner, as there's a non-sounding length of string between nut and tuner. Assuming two identical strings, the tension on the string for the same scale length and same note will be the same, so headed and headless will be the same tension. In order to fret a string, you have to push it down, which deflects it very slightly so it needs to stretch by a minute amount. That minute amount will be less of a proportion of the length between the fixed ends for a headed bass than a headless. I don't think you'll feel the difference in the real world unless your action is a couple of cm at the 12th fret.

I have headlesses that use DBE and headlesses that use standard strings. I use Elites, 40-125, on almost all my basses, which are almost all 34" scale, and there's no difference in tension.

I always take the transmitter out when putting the bass on its stand. The only issue I have with the edge mounted sockets is when they're locking ones which are a PITA.

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.