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Bad Company - Can't get enough of your love, Feel like making love. Hackneyed but you may decide to abandon fretted altogether as you can play everything fretless. Marillion - Sugar Mice. Like much of Pete Trewavas's work, it's more like an extended bass solo than a song, as he plays so many variations. Gets you up the neck (and discovering what an impediment the Fender neck joint is). Any Paul Young/Pino Palladino song. Any other song that you fancy. Just because it was originally done on a fretted bass doesn't mean you can't play it on a fretless. I generally use a fretless for gigs with the covers band and the originals band.

Didn't I say headless was the way to go?

Also Switch Sound File Converter, free for home use. You can do batch conversions with that.

Ronnie Pickering. He's Ronnie Pickering, you know.

Don't you know who Ronnie Pickering is?

Almost everything I've got is active, and I don't have anything with Jazz wiring, so I can't experiment. Have you tried experimenting with VVT? Everything turned to max, VV turned to max and T to min, neck V to max and bridge V to min and T at max and then min, etc?

That sounds like some sort of impedance matching issue which the effects mask by buffering it. Is it a passive bass?

Thanks - it's 15mm x 25mm at the widest points, wrapped round a corner at the rear bottom and not really visible from the front. I'll have a think about it.

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.