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Any idea what the thread is called? Haven't had any luck hunting it down.

Well, he's got the right idea. If it doesn't sell for £349.99, put it back up for £350.

The Kala U-Bass was the pioneer in acoustic-body bass ukes (the Ashbory is a similar scale but solid body). Tanglewood now make the TWRBE which is half the price of a Kala. If you want to mod a uke, you need to start with a baritone, not a concert. Scale length on the Mk I Ashbory is 19", on the Mk II Ashbory and Kala 21", on the 5-string Kala solidbody (which seem to me to be ludicrously overpriced) it's 23.5".

A couple from The Lightning at Tamworth BotB 2013 - first Ghoti (which as any fule kno is pronounced "Fish" - a full explanation of the title is available on request) [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4dcSVO8MA1w[/media] and next, Alien World [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x0AVMyt0rs0[/media] PS. Sorry about the rather rubbish intonation in parts of Ghoti...

They might want to check that no-one has tipped a pint down the back before they issue the refund.

I never realised Times Like These was in 7/8 until either the guitarist or the drummer mentioned it, just heard the riff and played the riff. Then again, I'd been playing in a ceilidh band for years with lots of random time signatures (9/8 is a particular favourite) and just sort of learnt not to count. Guitarist in the other band has no problem counting 1 2 3 4. However, he does insist on doing it on songs which are in 6/8, which is why we can't do any of my songs which are in 6/8...

I've got the passive version, the B2V, which I use as a backup bass as it's small to carry. I've had a 4-string B2, a 5-string Jack, and this. All competent basses - the 5s have a slightly fatter neck than I prefer. It also tends to hang slanting away from your body, which I think is due to the strap pin placement on the back of the body.

Four pages in and no-one has mentioned Warwick. So I will.

[quote name='ambient' timestamp='1377892875' post='2193426'] A friend of mine does PAT testing, with anything electronic i.e. keyboards, some amps etc, he'd actually only test the lead for fear of damaging the circuits. Computers in offices only have the detachable lead tested too, for the same reason. [/quote] So he's reluctant to put (at the most) 9V DC into a mains socket on a keyboard or amp but happy to put 250V AC into it?

[quote name='barkin' timestamp='1377888214' post='2193346'] Yup. And increasingly, it seems, hotels, social clubs, even village halls etc. [/quote] One venue we played at a bit over a year ago (Crewe Hall in Cheshire IIRC) insisted not only on PAT testing but also on PLI of £10m (not the normal £2m). Fortunately the bride and groom stumped up for the PLI. It's one of those things - if you want the gig, sometimes you have to have the PAT testing. Same as when my old social club band used to have to wear ties to play at one particular club, except that ties are cheaper than PAT testing. Well, the sort of ties I buy are anyway.

Just sold Ian a GK 200MB, all went well and smoothly.

Built on Veroboard. Marvellous!

Now it's gone, and when I looked before it was still up as a 4003. So - pulled or sold?

[quote name='Evil Undead' timestamp='1379181486' post='2209613'] I'm horrible with a pick. Awful [/quote] It's no bad thing to improve your plectrum playing. If you have more than one plucking style available, it does mean you can [size=3]take[/size] [size=2]your[/size] [size=1]pick...[/size]

First thing to do is take it off automatic store. That way, you can mess around with your patches and get the original settings back if you want to. My chain goes Line 6 wireless -> MS-60B -> amp. Or Line 6 wireless -> Zoom B3 -> amp under other circumstances (some of my songs require more than one effect to be switched on and off in a song). And as it's got a tuner, you can leave other tuners out of the chain.

[quote name='Grangur' timestamp='1377758921' post='2191317'] The B3 allows you to have 6 effects loaded for quick access at any one time. So it should handle your needs. [/quote] Have you got new firmware I don't know about? AFAIK the B3 is still 3 effects, the G3 is six.

[quote name='rmorris' timestamp='1378160806' post='2196589'] Heatshrink would be good if you can get a heat gun to use. [/quote] +1 for heatshrink, which shrinks perfectly happily in the steam from a boiling kettle.

There is a way of modding the B3 so you can use an external footswitch to do patch up/down - see [url="http://ashbass.com/AshBassGuitar/Zoom/"]http://ashbass.com/AshBassGuitar/Zoom/[/url] . I haven't yet done it but might get round to it sometime. If you want several effects permanently on too, just get a Zoom MS60B too and you've got a 4-effect chain in a single stompbox...

"Tell you what, if we make it so the pickguard looks as if was actually made to fit on it, they can't touch us..."

How easy are the tuners to use? They look a little less accessible than the Steinberger type ones.

I read it that the seller had posted it but the buyer declined to receive it when it arrived. The bass, that is, not the COP.

Good. Something to consider is the case type. The stompbox-type receivers will happily sit on the floor or on an amp/cab. I wouldn't feel happy with the larger oblong box type on the floor, so if you've got effects pedals on the input side then that means running a long lead from the receiver to the effects input. Also, always make sure you have spare batteries sitting where you can grab them easily.

Tecamp Puma 900 and Tech Soundsystem ND410S.

It would be nice to have a bass properly integrated into MIDI - perhaps a long-scale version of the YR1000 is the answer to that, though that then loses the ability to have a native bass sound as well as the MIDI generated notes. I can't see there being any great change to the basic construction of the bass - the basic concept of a long stick protruding from a wider flat bit is going to stay the same. The two basic methods of combining the stick bit and the other bit, ie. either having the stick bit go all the way along the other bit or have it attached at one end with glue or screws, seems pretty immutable, though there has been the odd instance of a metal frame and suspended fretboard. I can think of three current pickup systems - magnetic, piezo, and Lightwave. I'm not sure that any great advances can be made on those fronts - after all, it's all about sensing how a string is moving. Seeing as how we all have different ideas about how a bass should look, perhaps the most significant advance that could be made would be to have a flat screen on the front of the body that would show a picture of the bass body that you love most. I suppose I'd better go and patent that then.

[quote name='Gust0o' timestamp='1378469909' post='2200771'] If your love is Harley, why would you? If your love was Suzuki or Honda, why would you? You like what you like, you don't need to bow and scrape to appease the egos and interests of others, surely? [/quote] I really have no idea how you read that into what I wrote. Oh well.