tauzero

I'm out. Not basses, but a Variax 700 acoustic and a Kaoss KP3+.

It doesn't take long to type "minimum wage vietnam" into Google and find it's 4.42 million Vietnamese dong per month, which is £135. Average monthly salary is 5.88 million dong so their average pay is 1.3 times their minimum wage, as opposed to the UK ratio which is more like double. So even if they're on minimum wage, they're paid 3/4 of the average wage.

It works out the same, they're just connected in parallel.

This isn't an effects unit per se, it's a device to allow foot control of an Android pad with Bluetooth which I think would also work on an iPad. Two buttons, allowing page up and down, and with a menu to allow changing the functions to line up/down and next/previous window. Not up to the immaculate production standards of the other items here. It uses an ESP32 on a development board, programmed with the Arduino IDE, and a backlit 16x2 display with parallel interface, powered through a bridge rectifier (to avoid issues over supply polarity) and a step-down to 5V converter. Top view (note badly sized window for display): Inside view. The ESP32 is soldered to the board and there are female headers on the board just outside it. I put them on both sides by accident, but it came in handy as the unused side, with a few male pins with the board side of the pin clipped off, worked as a spacer. The thing in red on the left is a 10k trim pot to adjust contrast, and the power supply is in clear heatshrink on the right. The display is held in place by four nylon bolts with built-in spacers glued to the inside of the case (you can just see one nylon nut): Connecting to pad: Connected - page up/down: Long press to bring up menu, right button to go through menu, left to select or long press on left to exit menu:

If I was in the market at the moment, I would have a look at https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Caline-P1-Isolated-Guitar-Effects-Power-Supply-Direct-From-Caline-in-China/164191630829 and https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Mosky-ISO-Guitar-Effect-Pedal-Processsor-Power-Supply-Adapter-10-Isolated-Output/313203059775 and see if there's any more info available on the interwebs. In fact, regarding the latter one, see https://www.thegearpage.net/board/index.php?threads/mosky-iso-10-power-supply-any.2162617/ and you will see examples of fact (which say it's a Good Thing) and of speculation (which cast doubt on it being a Good Thing without any facts whatsoever).

I agree, the same with Freebird.

The full length version, presumably? Much as I love it in its many incarnations, I have to say that "Freebird" is another one in this category. Quite a few songs by Green Day have an outro that doesn't really follow on from the rest of the song (eg. Boulevard of Broken Dreams). Maybe it's just to make it more difficult for cover bands to learn.

Flanders and Swann (already mentioned above). Fascinating Aida. Doc Cox, aka Ivor Biggun. All musical comedy rather than comedians doing music, but capable musicians and I happen to find them funny.

He opened the new arts centre at my old school (which also happened to be his old school). Seemed quite a nice chap.

Mine has worked well. I've modified a daisy-chain lead so I can use two or three power outputs to power an HX Stomp, just need to actually try it out. However, you can't get them now. There's a selection of allegedly isolated budget PSUs available with assorted different mixes of power output, mostly taking the form of half a dozen or so low current outputs (100mA or 300mA), one or two high current 9V outputs, a dedicated 12V and a dedicated 18V output.

And veering wildly back on-topic, my approach has always been to find a bass which is comfortable and has a neck that I like, and a decent amount of sustain (doesn't have to be till next week, enough so I won't need more because you can always stop a note but without an Ebow you can't extend it), and any deficiency in the pickups or electronics can be subsequently attended to.

In 25 years of email lists, newsgroups, and web forums, I have come to the conclusion that looking at the subject rarely gives an indication of the contents thereof. The more ambitious posters can manage to go off-topic in the first post, let alone the first reply.

As you say, each to their own. After all, some people even like Prince.

You've obviously never heard me play. You really need another theory. And it is a theory, there' no facts in it at all.

Interesting, my high output twin pickup active boutique basses don't sound like that. Perhaps you've fallen a bit too much in love with your own theory.

Bloody hell, Godwin's Law? Really?

On the original topic, I first found my "the One" when I bought an Antoniotsai 5-string fretted bass. I'd been looking for something as playable as my Warwick JD Thumb but in 5 strings, and that turned out to be it. The electrics were adequate but not the best and I later upgraded them. Later, I discovered Seis.

Was that due to the overall rigidity, though, or the fingerboard material? Just thinking back to when I had a Status, which had a rather clattery neck.

That's going to upset all those people who paid for both pickups on a J bass, to discover that they need only have bought one with a bridge pickup. Just about all my basses are twin pickup, and I never play on just the bridge pickup. And I don't use overdrive or distortion. WTF is a Jaco tone? I'm aware of his existence and that he played a fretless J using the bridge pickup but that seems quite a specialist application to describe as a general tone.

I don't understand the hate for this. It's a brilliant cover, full of passion.

Yebbut that's a pretty low bar.

E string looks rather close to the edge, G string runs parallel to the fretboard edge so perhaps it's a replacement bridge with a wider string spacing not properly centred.

Specifically in terms of Japan, the UK managed to agree a free trade deal sometime in 2020 which is roughly equivalent to the EU-Japan one. Liz Truss did insist on getting some specific stuff in there about cheese, of which we export about £100k-worth per annum to the largely lactose-intolerant Japanese.

I would have said it was the opposite of misogynistic, although perhaps chauvinistic or patriarchal would be a reasonable description.

It's got a pretty reasonable editor IIRC.