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Marseer is another one for the list.

Get a smaller, lighter head. Overhang problem solved, and your back will thank you in a few years.

I've just gone round the room looking at six or seven of my basses, and in every single case the bridge saddles are adjusted with the greatest string length on the lowest string, whereas you've got the shortest string length on the lowest string. That seems very odd to me.

Is it just the one tuner that's missing? Not that finding a replacement is likely to be easy.

HX Edit 3.51 has been released (no new HX firmware though). Also, an updated driver for HX Stomp has been released to prevent crashes when using it with Cakewalk, which could well be handy for me.

Impressive copy of the guitar on Ebay: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/134347289847

You can get wireless headphones which aren't Bluetooth. I have a pair - Sennheiser HDR 120 II which I think have been replaced by the RS120. However, there is a compressor or automatic gain control (AGC) which adjusts the volume down, presumably to preserve one's hearing, and that does seem a bit strange. They're £100 which is expensive in my frame of reference (but not in @ped's, who is evidently rolling in it), but available second hand for half that.

Another vote for this - use rechargeable batteries, obviously (which you could also do with an Amplug) or power it through USB - a phone charger with a USB lead with mini USB plug will do that. Other alternatives - Zoom B3, B3n, and any number of other larger format multi-effects - the Zoom stompbox multieffects won'[t do it though. Small mixer (Behringer Xenyx series for example). It does sound like you need better headphones. Worth a look here: https://www.studiospares.com/headphones-and-speakers/closed-back-headphones.htm?product_list_order=price_asc I have a pair of obsolete Sennheisers (HD209 IIRC) and a pair of Audio-Technica ATH-M20x. I'm very happy with them both.

If the answer is a tuba, you've got to wonder if you're asking the right question.

You're not getting me to click on that, I haven't been Whamageddoned yet. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whamageddon

If you're playing at gig volume at rehearsals, why not use the Ampeg for gigs too?

Hadn't realised she was 79. Not a bad innings, and quite a legacy.

Could you put a cable tie round the cable, to stop it being pulled should anyone take the controls out and to ensure a bit of slack in the pickup cavity?

I've got a feeling that I had one of those knocking about in the garage a while ago, and I chucked it. Looks like something from the Audition range - I had the semiacoustic one a very long time ago.

A shame it was already routed at the front, rear routing would have concealed those wires. https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/364041779794 The strings seem a bit oddly spaced at the nut.

Originally intended to open very small bottles of beer?

I made one.

I think I could have coped with that until I saw the top horn, which reverses the dildo trend and goes for the "flaccid and just emerging from a very cold sea" look.

Cabaret is less obviously Irish though.

Sei Flamboyant or Original. Or an Ibanez EHB, maybe the multiscale.

You can get cranked ones for that. Can be found in the more specialist pages of the Ann Summers catalogue.

Headless basses are a thing of beauty. All headstocks are dreadful.

If they were exactly the same height, you'd just need a solid male-male thingie to connect them. See an Ann Summers catalogue for examples. Or, indeed, Ebay:

For use in setups, maybe live, but not a pedal - Korg GA Custom, another strobe tuner which is rather considerably cheaper than a Peterson.

A capo is an almost indispensable device to help with setup. A set of feeler gauges will also help. Put the capo at the first fret and then push the E string down around the neck pickup, ie. beyond the last fret. Then check the height of the string at the 7th fret. Depending on your feeler gauges, it should be somewhere round 8-14 thou if you're primitive, or .2 to .35mm if you're using proper units. If it's a lot bigger, slacken tighten the truss rod. You can probably guess what to do if it's a lot smaller. Leave it all to settle. Look along the neck and see if you've got a pretty uniform curve.