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If he reversed the wiring on the 4-lug socket, it would have made no difference, because the socket body (chassis lug) is connected to the sleeve (longest lug).

Agreed, that's exactly how it looks to me.

Being slightly curious about this, I just did a search for "squire bass", used condition, UK only, on That Ebay. That search returns both Squires and Squiers. Intriguingly, until you reach £250, it's about 80% Squier and 20% Squire, then there's suddenly a great glut of Squires from £250 to £260, then the ability to read the name on the headstock seems to reassert itself.

Did you try my suggestion?

I don't remember there being wenge necks, although I have an unreliable memory. There was (and is) panga-panga though.

Pretty. Guykers?

Why not replace the jack socket with a Speakon/jack combi socket?

Their numbering system is getting more and more confusing. It was easy enough at the start, the 10 series was base level with Bartolini BH2s, the 15 series was prettier and with Nordstrands, the discontinued 1265 was in the middle with pretty woods and Bartolini BH2s. MS stood for multiscale, S for short-scale, SMS for short multiscale. Now there's the EHB5MSBSP - 5 strings, multiscale, Fishman pickups, painted, so where does it fit and what does BSP stand for? The 1135MS has a prettier finish and Bartolini pickups, so maybe that replaces the 1265, in between the 10s and 15s. And the 1675MS is presumably now the flagship instrument with the pretty body and Fishman pickups.

Wouldn't "experimenter and designer" be a better title? The electric bass had already been invented, he designed a specific electric bass for easy mass production.

There's new mixing software available for the X-Airs. It's only phase 1 at the moment and looks rather clunky. Don't seem to be able to edit layers but OTOH it's dead easy to skip between mix views for main outs and each of the Aux outs, which is nice. https://www.behringer.com/downloads.html and it's MX-MIX.

And Idris Elba's character Luthier.

Good job it's got four strings and I haven't got £20k down the back of the settee.

I used to cover that by playing classical style, root-5-octave with a picking pattern of m-i-p repeated (ie octave-5-root) so the accent was constantly moving as it was on every fourth note, and pausing in the same places as the guitar does.

I think the processor is a couple of generations on, although the specs look the same and I can't find the reference to it that I had seen before. All Zoom refer to is an improved analogue circuit. If Zoom come up with an editor for the PC and/or Android, I'll be interested.

Don't get a TE combo if you are not a contender for Britain's Strongest Man.

Just had a look in my local Lidl and no sign of them.

Ta. I've got a Zoom H2 which I want to try out as a proof of concept before splashing out.

Even better

Zoom's response when I asked them about including the MS-+ series in Windows Guitar Lab or an Android version of Handy Guitar Lab was to pass the suggestion on to Zoom HQ, where it was presumably ignored. I got a similar result when I asked about Android support for the now defunct MS-100BT (maybe if they had also supported Android, it wouldn't have died the death). I've also asked on Tonelib about support for later pedals and there's been absolutely no response. I appreciate that it's free software and they have other software which is revenue-generating so they won't have it as a priority, but some acknowledgement would be nice.

Both guitarists have two, occasionally three. One is tuned a semitone down (the other guitarist uses a pitch shifter or a Variax for that one song). Guitarist/vocalist regularly breaks a string on his Les Paul and if he's only got the downtuned guitar with him, the other guitarist lends him one.

Might be worth looking at a Faital driver like the 10FE200, 10FE300, 10FE400.

On the tour with Van Halen as support, I went to see them at the Birmingham New Street Odeon. My friend had told me that the support band were brilliant but couldn't remember their name. The support band were absolutely dreadful - a band called Tanzder Youth. Sadly, I'd missed the gig where they'd had Van Halen supporting. Sabbath were fine.

One thing I forgot to mention - my Tecamp Puma 900.

Definitely 7 strings - look at them where they pass over the soundhole. The somewhat ambiguous blob at the right hand end of the bridge is simply an ambiguous blob.

Basses: My first Warwick, a JD Thumb, which I've had since 1988. I don't really use it since moving to 5-strings but I wouldn't sell it. My first Antoniotsai bass, the first 5-string I've had that felt as good to me as the Warwick My first and second Sei headless basses, an Original fretless and Flamboyant fretted, which are also lovely to play Other: Eko Ranger VI which I bought in the 1980s - my noodling around at home guitar Zoom MS-60B which is my swiss army knife pedal