tauzero

I played my headless fretless bass for a year with my previous band before any of them realised it was a fretless.

And given that VPN traffic is encrypted, stopping the use of VPNs would prevent anyone working for firms that want any security working from home. Should anyone with a router that doesn't have a VPN option want one, there's some reasonably easy instructions for installing a VPN server on a Raspberry Pi. Not as simple as pressing a button on a router though.

Have you delved into it yet? Could it be something as simple as the bridge pickup being connected reversed? I'd take off the control plate and scratchplate and see if the pickups were both connected the same way round, and also check that they're physically installed the same way round (having a wild thought that one might have been reversed on installation and then connected the wrong way round so it was in phase).

The rear rout is weird. Two routs, one under the rearmost row of pots, the other one not in a position to be behind the front pots but for some reason going under the strings, so there must be a front rout for the front pots (and what is the second rear rout for? A birth canal for baby Hilses? Yet another solution to doing headless tuners?). Ibanez and Cort can manage rear routs on mass-production bolt-on headlesses, is it really that hard? And is the wood they're using that crappy that they can't have a natural or stained finish option?

Negatives: 5-strings are fanny fret only No natural finish option Pickguard - why oh why?

I hadn't realised that ped had posted in the "Tell a lie about the previous poster" thread.

You are inconvenienced by slavery being illegal? If people didn't do things which are illegal then there would be no need for police or courts.

You should also be checking out carrier pigeons.

Last gig of the year for us, and indeed our last booked gig (see later) - time to get some diary action for 2025 (not dairy action, that's a particularly specialised area of Pornhub). The Walsgrave in Coventry, a goodly size stage area (albeit flat to the floor). I took the acrylic bass which I'd just sorted shimming the neck on, or at least I thought I had - some notes were choking out on the bottom two strings so I did some revised finger positionings with only a few cockups. Used the Sei for most of the gig. And me committing "Come up and see me". This is as good a reason as anyone needs for me not to be principal lead vocalist. One audience member came up to me after the gig and asked me where the subs were. He was rather surprised that everything (well, all the vocals plus kick drum) was running through the Alto TS408s. Turned out he was the drummer for Flat Badger, a Coventry band. When I got home, after settling down for a bit, I thought I'd check that the gigs page displayed correctly as we have no gigs - it's supposed to show a message saying we'd got no gigs and to check back, but it showed column headings with no content. This was due to a change I'd made a little while ago, so at 3am I was unable to go to bed without having sorted it out first (didn't take too long though).

I'm pretty sure there was another April 1st RFC for using smoke signals.

That's as bad a generalisation as never joining a band with a couple in it. I was in a successful democratic band with Mrs Zero a while ago, exploding both of those myths simultaneously.

No problem. Just try and avoid an £18 million fine, I don't think I could contribute a lot towards that.

Bass: Trevor Bolder Dennis Dunaway Jim Lea Steve Currie Rather later, Pino Palladino Guitar: Marc Bolan Jan Akkerman Eric Clapton Dave Gilmour Mick Ronson

Pizza Hut. Every now and again, Mrs Zero gets a desire for a pizza. I'm not so enthusiastic about them but find them acceptable with a garlic dip. However, the firms like Dominoes and Pappa John have taken to supplying garlic and herb dips instead, which I don't like as much. Pizza Hut allowed Mrs Zero to order garlic dips, but what turned up were garlic and herb dips. She rang up and was told they'd sent garlic dips, which they obviously hadn't, and after a couple of minutes of back and forth and being told she could come into the store to pick them up, she gave up. So henceforth I am going totally pizza free.

If you look at the various threads about couriers, you'll see that there isn't any great level of consistency about which are good and which are bad. Unless the retailers start up their own courier service under their direct control (and even then it will rely on human beings), they're always going to get let down on some proportion of orders.

An experiment was conducted to determine the nature of the signal diode's indication. The master volume was reduced to just above zero and the gain was adjusted to maximum. A bass on full volume was connected via a multieffects unit with a gain stage which was adjusted to maximum. With all necessary personal protective equipment in place, the amplifier was switched on. The LED was observed to shine green simply from ambient noise from the multieffects. On playing some notes, the LED was observed to change from green to red. Reducing the gain to approximately the 3 o'clock position showed no red indication from the LED. It was therefore concluded that the signal LED shines green for an audio input and red where clipping is occurring. Ah, we knew how to write up our A-level physics experiments in the 1970s.

Bought from Andertons when the price dropped. A minor annoyance was the jack-only output as I know I have a short jack-jack speaker lead but no idea where it is, so had to make one up when it arrived. Had a little test with the newly repaired house jam micro cab and all was well. I'm curious to know what other BAM200 owners have found with the signal LED - the instructions say to adjust the gain to just below where the LED occasionally comes on, but that would be about zero, and having the LED shining green most of the time doesn't seem to damage the tone. Does it turn red if clipping is happening? Should I just ignore it and go by ear?

I'm pretty much resigned to being doomed. I just wonder how far I'll get into the year before the inevitable happens.

Very true, my acrylic light-up bass got a run out at tonight's open mic night and will also do a few songs on Saturday's gig.

If it's because they ring you up and say (or get their robot voice to say) they're HER Majesty's Revenue and Customs, you'll need to find another target.

Over the last month anna bit: Sterling Ray5 TC BAM200 Bits to build a 2-band preamp for the Ray5, and a Wilkinson pickup for same USB-powered pedal power supply Jazz clone neck This last puts me in a bit of a quandary. I intend to use it to build a bass, for which I have some but by no means all parts (the body, for example, is currently absent). Would the building of the bass be regarded as a single good or service, in which case the transaction has been initiated (vide supra), or is it separate transactions for each part acquired?

I think I can clarify and simplify my earlier wording - it is the date of the commencement of the transaction that counts. I can seek the opinion of my barrister brother-in-law on Boxing Day when I see him if any more qualified opinion is required.

I would agree - where the payment for a good or service is one side of the new year, and the good or service is provided on the other side, then the earlier of the two should count, which should delight anyone in the waiting list for a Wal who intends to participate in the 2029 abstinence challenge.

I do know what -40F is in Celcius. I also know 32F and 212F. Everything else is a mystery.

If you've got the budget for a Mesa Subway 15 then you could consider a GR Bass AT212 or AT410 (both of which are lighter than the Mesa).