tauzero

But the G of Garage is a hard G. The g of garage, however, is a soft g.

Might be worth getting one of those watch polishing cloths mentioned in the polishing up yer frets thread and cleaning up the keypad, in case there's some mucky bits - I think, as @Woodinblack says, it's a resistor network so stray resistances will mess it up. Incidentally, there's a reddit group for it (just happened across it in a search). Might be worth a look.

Maybe they thought people would automatically pronounce it "muggerfugger", like the word "melonfarmer"[1]. [1] https://greensdictofslang.com/entry/pzv2lqa meaning 2.

GR Bass's carbon fibre 4x10 weighs 13.3kg for the 800W version. It's not cheap at £1299 though (the same price as Barefaced's 4x10 which is 10kg heavier, or two LFSys Monacos which each weigh the same as one GR Bass 4x10).

At least none of us have been driven to anjer.

It seems bizarre that the seller has a reasonable set of photos but can't be arsed to put a narrative to them.

Just stick two finjers up at him.

The chipset on the MS-60B+ is an improvement on the MS-60B, though I'm not sure how noticeable that would be. It's also got somewhat easier to use live buttons. On the downside, the only editor for the MS-60B+ is Zoom's one on iOS only, and Tonelib don't do one for it. There is a Tonelib editor that will do the MS-60B which is available for Windows 64-bit, Windows 32-bit, and Mac. There is also an Android version but it's no longer available on Google Play, although there might be an .apk knocking about.

I'd quite like one though. In natural.

No, what you really need is this: https://reverb.com/item/70395452-dean-john-entwistle-spider-bass-limited-edition-only-25-made-fenderbird-2019-natural (sadly sold) Or maybe http://www.alembic.com/info/fc_spyders.html Or perhaps https://reverb.com/item/541029-dean-john-entwistle-spider-electric-bass (also sadly sold)

Not mine. But I think this is reasonably good looking - I'm all for minimalist headstocks and there's very little surplus wood on this.

I don't understand the misconception that the only point of a 5-string is the bottom 5 notes. It isn't as if it's a huge secret.

If I'm not using the C string for anything then there's no point having it. You do realise that with a 5-string strung BEADG you don't have to stretch across an extra string to reach the E, A, D, or G strings, don't you?

I'm not going to mention my 10 string then.

Not a valid comparison. If the notes you play are mostly or entirely those available on a 4-string, playing them in the same position on a 5-string means the same stretch for the fretting hand, whereas playing them in the same position on a 6 means stretching across an extra string. Which is why I play 5s and not (often) 6s.

Shipping costs including time travel are prohibitive.

Oh, it makes slightly more sense now.

I went over to 5 strings when I found one with a neck as comfortable as the JD Thumb that was my primary bass up till then. I've stuck with 5s as I'm used to them and know where I am on the fretboard - I still have a couple of 4s and three 6s, which is probably three more 6s than I actually need. The B string generally has a slightly different timbre to the others, and I make use of that, not just from song to song but within a song too.

Some people just don't get on with fives. Not sure why, but there's always a few in the marketplace being sold by people who tried a five and didn't like it. It's always possible they were just horrible to play and the sellers thought it was because they were fives, not simply because they were shit.

I bought it for Mrs Zero (without her knowledge). Fortunately she did wear it to the following gig, so I don't have to divorce her.

You're either deliberately or accidentally misinterpreting @Woodinblack's reply. You said "As a cut down mixer maybe you are expected to add your own WiFi router if you need to use that, and save money if you don’t. This is not like the XR where you have to use an external device. " so @Woodinblack (and I) naturally assumed that the external device that you were referring to was the router which you mistakenly assumed was necessary to use wifi with the XR series, possibly because so many people say that the XR wifi is unusable (it isn't). Hence his reply "And you don't 'have' to use an external device, I didn't for years and only once had an issue." referring to an external router, not an external controller. So, to sum up A router is unnecessary to connect to an XR box but it's not a bad idea to use one Some external device is needed to control the XR box, which can be a wired control like an X-Touch or BCF2000 or a tablet connected by wifi Don't believe all the bollocks you read on the internet about what is and isn't necessary

Did anyone decide to be a guinea pig? If so, can we all come round to yours to try it out?

Finishes like that terrify me, as I know it would only be a matter of time (and not much of it) before I chipped it, hence my preference for natural. Looks lovely.

My two four-string Thumbs, apart from one being a defret, are unmodded. Ditto the 5-string Thumb, the Ibanez SRF705, the Esh Poseidon V, and the Dean 10-string. Other basses have had replacement pickups or preamps. Other than the Cort Space with the faulty pickups and the Sei Original that had a preamp fail early on in its life with me, I could have lived with the sound of any of the modded instruments prior to their modification.