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I was in an originals band (now in hiatus) where the drummer was also a sound engineer, and he went with the sE V7. I decided to indulge myself a few months ago and went for an sE V7 myself. Very happy with it.

I got caught out by two things when I switched to an XR18 from an XR12 - I couldn't power the travel router from the USB port and the AUX outputs for monitors are XLR rather than TRS jack.

No, it's the wrong end, so as to speak. The XR12/XR16 are USB hosts, so they can supply USB power, while the XR18 is a USB device - a receiver of power rather than a giver of it.

Also ordered a fret kisser. Just have to see whether I can rise above my normal level of incompetence at using luthier tools.

Space - that's a nice idea. Wish I had some.

Whoever organises the list needs to put him on first, then put him plus parents on last.

No.

At the Kingfisher in Shard End, Birmingham last night. We were in the front room, unlike previous occasions when we were in the back room. Took my Plenty cab and TC BAM200. A fellow bassist also came along - plugged him into my amp with my lead (home-made, Rean plugs, straight to right-angle) and after one song the lead fell out - oddly, the tip had come off the right-angle plug. Switched leads and all was well. At the end of the evening I found the tip on the floor. On examination, the central shaft that goes between the tip and the plug contact is splined and a press fit into the tip. New plug needed - at least I've got plenty of spares. And his Godin A5 sounded good through my little rig.

Nobody has ever told me I should play a P. Am I doing something wrong?

One passive bass, one which I bought passive but I subsequently activated, 30ish active. The Megatar is also passive. World Battery Change Day promises to be quite expensive. Added to that, all my guitars are active except one - the electrics are Variaxes and a Jamstik, the acoustics are electroacoustics except for one.

Fair Deal Music is only a mile or two from there too. And if he does M6/M42/M40, he can pop in to Bass Direct and Bass Bros.

Is anyone experimenting with a PiPedal by any chance? Just wondering whether to spend a bit of time putting together something else I won't use.

Don't forget that I said "about". Having had a recalculation, and bought a bass or two since then, "over" would be a better word. I'd better do an inventory, I'm not sure myself. In terms of basses, fewer[1] than @cetera and more than @neepheid. [1] Note correct English

I'm surprised at that as the overall length from fixed point (back of the body) to fixed point (tuner) is longer than on a through bridge (bridge to tuner), so the marginal increase in length required to press the string down to the fret would be lower as a percentage of the overall length on the through body than the through bridge, so I would expect the tension on through body to be slightly less than through bridge.

I like Ibanez but $8k for an SR made with pretty woods is a bit of a stretch.

Gone now, which at least has removed temptation from me.

Surely not, Warwick make the Corvette.

Lekato also do them - that's the Lekato whose instrument wireless systems many of us are using very happily. Of course, they're not no-name, they're Lekato (I suspect that M-Vave's offerings will be identical). https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005009288556260.html

Screw-on feet, so that's a possible.

I think there's also an issue with vibration at the point where the solder ends and it becomes just copper, as the stiffness of the soldered section means it will fatigue at that point. I know it's a reason for not soldering spade connectors on motorcycles, although the vibrations on a bass cab are probably less vicious than those on a bike.

OTOH, it's also a lot shorter!

No. I'm not that bothered, just got to remember to put the handle on the side. 12 battens cut out and drilled, next is the circular saw. Hopefully I will still be decidigital following this operation.

Hmm, the TC BAM200 has screw-on feet...

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Both bands primarily rehearse new material, although if a song goes wrong at a gig we'll decide whether it was a one-off or if we need to rehearse it. I'll upload the version of the song to work on to Dropbox for one band so we've got a single reference. For the other band, we have song name and artist name and the arrangements will get rejigged if there's a gob-iron solo (soloes tend to be gob-iron followed by guitar, rinse and repeat). There aren't many complex arrangements, it's mainly Dr Feelgood or old time rock'n'roll with the odd outlier. Where there are more complex arrangements, we follow the original.