tauzero

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.

I've got one, haven't used it for years. I really should get round to selling it, or check what the Antiques Roadshow say it's worth. The problem with these older generation multifx is that there is one signal routing path, on which you can have one of each effect type, unlike the more flexible later generation ones where you put any effect you like anywhere in the signal path. That's not to say it's not good quality and a perfectly capable multifx.

I want to know the diet that bass went on, it's down to 5kg now (whatever that is in quaint).

Just trying to decide if it's throwing its arms up in alarm or doing dad dancing.

My 1987 JD Thumb is a little bit neck-divey - any strap which isn't slippery stops it though. Top horn extends to the 16th fret, it's not an early short horn one. My 2000 NT with a reprofiled neck is similar.

Isn't it a bit awkward having footswitches on the front? I rather like it. It's certainly distinctive.

It has been a while, hasn't it? I had a Jack 5 then, since then the Jack 5 has gone and I've had a B2V (now gone) and a B2AV (handy backup bass), a Status 2 (now gone), a Sei Original 5 fretless (main gigging bass in the days when there were gigs), and a Sei Flamboyant 5. I do have more headed than headless basses, but I also think that headless basses are lighter, better-balanced, and more convenient than headed basses.

I'm in. I've managed a fortnight so far (in fact, months since I last bought anything) so it should be easy.

Do you have a link to find out more information? There doesn't seem to be any change on the gov.uk website for the advice on exporting from GB to NI.

A little while after getting Covid-19, I noticed that my tinnitus was more intrusive. It didn't seem more intense, but while I used to pretty much tune it out all the time and only really noticed it when the subject got raised, or on the occasions (maybe every couple of months) when for some reason it got louder for a while, now it's more noticeable. I wondered if it might be Covid related as Mrs Zero has had her sense of taste affected, so there are presumably potentially some neurological effects, and I finally got round to using a popular search engine to check it out. And this is what I found: https://www.thebsa.org.uk/covid-19-is-making-tinnitus-worse-new-study/ So if you have tinnitus, beware of Covid. Beware of it anyway, but it's just another reason to keep clear and get vaccinated as soon as you can.

Tried searching on Companies House using his address but there's no company directors at that address.

There doesn't seem to be any obvious guide to exporting items from outside GB into GB (so from the point of view of a non-GB business). There's one on imports but that seems to be concerned only with GB businesses importing from outside GB.

Apologies, I thought I'd got a grasp of it. Evidently not. I'm glad all I have to deal with is the software for the customs side of things of sending pharmaceutical items from GB to NI. I think having to do the VAT too would send me into early retirement.

That will be fun, given the Rules of Origin protocols. If something is assembled in GB, if the parts it's assembled from aren't all GB in origin, they all have to be accounted for and if a certain proportion aren't GB (I think it's by value, the proportion is IIRC somewhere around the 50% mark) then it's not a GB-origin item. I assume that the Irish article means GB rather than UK, as NI is EU (rules-wise, anyway), and UK = GB + NI.

Now, if you want to import something from anywhere abroad (EU or non-EU), the seller (if it's a business) will have to VAT register with HMRC, and collect VAT on their behalf, and then submit returns. Alternatively, they'll say "We no longer supply UK customers".

You can just about make it out in the last photo using the zoom - headstock access.