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Have you seen https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Steinberger-String-Adapter-Headless-Hohner-Cort-Bass-or-Guitar-Made-in-USA/323740864560?

Have you actually got the input switched on? If you look at the circular switch, there's a little guitar icon at the bottom - press that and see if it improves it. See page 12 of the user manual (available at https://tascam.com/downloads/tascam/526/e_gb-10_om_vb2.pdf). That's caught me out once or twice.

I've got a Hohner B2AV, natural finish, which has the varnish/lacquer chipped off on one corner. I would rather like to patch it up, so I wondered if anyone knew what lacquer or varnish I should use? It's not terrible, more to satisfy my OCD, so I don't want to make it worse in a quest to improve it.

"Distressed" is understating it. Looks as if it's got as far as self-harm.

I expect an NBD in the next few weeks.

Coming late to the party and reviving this - you could get a better-executed and more attractive one from Aliexpress for £225 (plus £45 duty and VAT if it happens to get done for it): https://www.aliexpress.com/item/In-Stock-Acrylic-4-string-Headless-Electric-Bass-guitarra-Fingerboard-transparent-acrylic-body-with-LED-light/32947033280.html Oooh shiny

It also looks like he was a bit peckish and had a nibble at it. https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Takamine-G330-Signed-By-Nils-Lofgren/183765422387

But he also says he never plays his active basses in active mode, which rather hints that he has a downer on active preamps.

Asking for forgiveness rather than permission works as long as I don't deploy it more than about every other year. Most of the time, I show her what I would like to buy, and because I like to buy beautiful basses, she says yes.

There's nothing special about the bassline. You've just downplayed its significance enormously, as it forms the backbone of the accompaniment, not to mention introducing the entire accompaniment motif on its own. Like I said, I play it as a bass and vocals number - it wouldn't sound anything like as good if it was played as guitar and vocals.

It's a song Mrs Zero and I used to do as a bass and vocals number.

Although it never got into the set list, the vocalist in the covers band did suggest "Youm sex am on foire". With a lineup of acoustic guitar/vox, keyboards, percussion, and bass, that was just never going to fly, especially as the vocalist didn't actually know the song and didn't want to listen to it in case it gave him some preconceptions, or summat. We had a go at it at a couple of rehearsals and it was every bit as bad as I expected, so it got ditched. It wasn't as if we needed any more songs to get p1ssed-up revellers dancing anyway. PS. To put this in context, we play mostly 80s music, including a fair quantity of reggae and ska.

The Rocker was also 3-piece, but (like Travelling in style by Free or Relayer by The Who), it's something cover bands never play and no-one ever remembers.

The question was "which act". As it happens, a couple of former bandmates are part of the backing band for an Elvis tribute, so there are Elvis tribute bands as well as Elvis karaoke tributes.

I suspect Elvis is the most tributed.

On my music stand.

If a little lopsided. I trust the preshape was also switched in.

I had noise using a G50 and a Zoom B3n off a shared (daisy-chained) power supply - that's the B3n being fussy about sharing a power supply though. I used a Vitoos Iso8 power supply, which sorted it out.

Warwick Thumb.

The repeated application of yoghurt to her nose may be having some side effect.

Didn't he say that he never plays an active bass in active mode in his diatribe on tone? I may have extrapolated from him saying that he always plays in passive mode.

Or try Warwick - https://shop.warwick.de/en/Parts+for+Instruments/Parts+for+Basses/Machine+Heads and look about halfway down the page at the Warwick machine heads. For example https://shop.warwick.de/en/Parts+for+Instruments/Parts+for+Basses/Machine+Heads/Warwick+Parts+-+Warwick+Machinehead,+Left+_Bass+Side_+-+Satin+Chrome at 13 euros a pop. I'm not going to pull the machine heads off my HB acoustic to check, but they look compatible.

Put the replacement neck on the body, then get another body and put the graphite neck on that?

It could explain why Thomann put items in their original packaging inside an outer box which is five times too big. The outer box is a crash structure. Did the violin and bow survive?

I thought about that. You could do it with an Arduino - I even wrote the sketch (including the ability to do chords) and came up with a diode matrix to work from the switches, and then it ground to a halt. I was going to do it with ordinary push-button switches. You never know, I might even revive the idea.