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While practising with Positive Grid Spark NEO wireless headphones, I noticed a twittering (for want of a better term) from my Sei Flamboyant when it was in active mode. It stopped when in passive mode. None of my other active basses did the same, and when I used a wireless dongle plugged into the headphones and the Sei, it went away. The preamp is a Delano Sonar 3 - I have a Delano Sonar 2 in the Sei fretless which didn't do the same thing. Battery was showing 8.75V when the bass was switched on - not 9V but should be enough, and anyway I haven't got a spare battery (got some on the way now though). I wondered it there might be some strange issue with the jack socket, which fortunately isn't a barrel type, so I extracted it and the battery negative wire immediately fell off the ring terminal. Looks as if it was either fatigued or had been stripped rather too carelessly and only held on with a couple of cores. Stripping and resoldering the wire solved the problem. My conclusion about what had happened is that the dodgy wire was presenting a certain amount of resistance to the 0V line and therefore reducing the effective battery voltage. Why it only showed up on the Spark NEO dongle is another question - possibly it's a low impedance and consequently a higher current draw for the preamp, but that's just a wild guess. Obviously a low battery is the most likely cause of low battery issues, but this does show another possible (albeit unlikely) cause.

"Stuart Zender remembered". Personally, I think that just having someone's name with no other information is just as bad - I'm on an email list and in a newsgroup where a name with no other detail as a thread title means the named person has died.

Tuesday night at the Cavern, finished up playing with three others - female vox, female guitar, and male drummer. Sum total of their ages was 23 years younger than me. It was great fun. They are all really good - from a bassist's POV, the drummer and I have clicked from the start and like each other's playing. There were a couple of bands on - one was a duo, guitar/vox and drums, deafeningly loud (I carry earplugs and they went straight in), the other a three-piece who are regulars there with a drummer who only knows BANG BANG BANG - earplugs back in. There were four or five guitar/vox artistes, and in the absence of Mrs Zero, I was one of them. Rather a contrast to Wednesday night, which was quite a low turnout - normally it's a full list with everyone getting two songs, tonight it was three songs apiece. Managed to get Mrs Zero out so the audience weren't subjected to my voice.

As far as Chinese sellers go, I would mention that AliExpress have a returns policy that seems to work and return items are sent to a UK address.

I am 1619. Who is 8647? He/she has a lot to answer for.

You have to make sure that it's trying to load http:// and not https:// - Chrome has an unfortunate tendency to change everything to https://, Firefox is more subservient in that respect.

Revived purely to slag off the Jazz bass. Seems a bit pointless. They're basses.

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I get that occasionally too. I just have to trust my eyes and proprioceptors.

I remember The Bottom Line, but more because Steve Manes also ran a Triumph email list which I was on. I've learnt a lot about the existence of many makes of bass which I never knew existed, all of which are very expensive and several of which I now own. It appears that the level of one's knowledge is in inverse proportion to the contents of one's bank account.

October 2007 - I'd been trying to find some information on a harmoniser and stumbled across BC.

It's never Victor Wooten's hands either.

That's the trouble with topic titles that just consist of a name...

Antoniotsais. I'd like another 5-string Ritter Roya influenced one to defret.

The owners love them so much that they hang on to them for ever.

Has he died then?

That ash body looks like a nice bit of wood. It would be a shame to cover it up with paint.

There's no electrical detail for the 10.5 but it's half an Omni 10, so the two relevant options are Parallel - gives higher sensitivity for a brighter sound Series - reduces tweeter output if option 1 is too bright My guess is that the switch is simply to cut the tweeters out. The tweeters go in parallel with the woofer, + to +, and the speakons go 1+/1- to + and -. You could get all sophisticated and work out a way of switching between no tweeter, series tweeters, and parallel tweeters. But first you'll need to work out where the other ends of all the wires go, and maybe label them all.

Thomann have a couple of 32"/812mm scale 5-string acoustic basses, so they do exist.

I have the plans for the Omni somewhere but can't find them at the moment.

The Phil and Holly of the bass world.

Preferences for neck profile, through neck or bolt-on? Push the boat out and go headless? There's Cort and Hohner as well as your list, and you might even find a Shuker at a bargain price.

Warwick JD Thumb 5-string. I've only ever seen one and it was when my finances were at a rather low ebb so I couldn't buy it.

ITYF (as I've said twice already) that it's not 5 x base plus 2 octaves, but 15 separate strings (see video immediately above) as string selection for a 15 equivalent to a 12 would be similar to the string selection for my 10-string Dean (BEADG plus octaves) but with 5 extra octave strings.

I'm not.