tauzero

I never knew Rowan Atkinson played bass.

I would argue for x-n, where x is the perfect number of basses and n is the number of Basschat members.

Lovely grain on the body.

I think I've bought all but one of the current basses (so that's somewhere north of 25 plus some guitars) while with the current Mrs Zero.

Yes. The soundman gets just as cross.

My Seis don't have a volute and I don't have any problem with them at all. However, I have noticed that when switching to my Hohner B2AV, it does take me a few minutes to get properly aligned, probably because of how far the neck goes from the body - it's a fair stretch to the first fret. It took me a while to get used to my first B2, a long time ago. It's worth it though, headless basses are lighter and better balanced than the headed equivalents, plus you can tune them from both sharp and flat, unlike a conventional bass where you have to tune from flat.

Could we have the names of the guilty parties please? I recognise a few from Moffat bashes (although I feel sure @neepheid never had that much facial covering) but it would be nice to have the blanks filled in.

Never got to the point of gigging when I was with a Marillion tribute - I did already have a Warwick Thumb and I went to the trouble of finding a strap the same as Pete Trewavas's, and I got a Cort GB4 as he also used one of those (or a GB94, identical other than the colour of the logo). I'm not slim with curly hair though.

As far as self-penned material goes, my songs do tend to the bleak - I've always thought Leonard Cohen was quite a cheery chappie. There is one song that I wrote about 30 years ago that has still to be performed in public - I may do it at an open mic night some time.

No issues with my Schallers as fitted to all 30 or so basses and guitars here.

But with Nirvana you don't have to listen to that horrible Mancunian whine.

I've got an Original fretless and a Flamboyant fretted, both headless 5s, and a headed Flamboyant 6. I don't use the 6 much but I have noticed the tendency of the headless pair to flex the neck one way or the other - I always carry a capo and an allen key with me, and it's the work of a few seconds to adjust the neck.

Well, I know a bit about classical music, and I also know about André Rieu. I was commenting on him having a loaner Strad and not buying one, and seeing as his annual tours gross $50M, and he can afford an orchestra of his own, I'd think a Strad would be pocket change to him.

After failing in the gear abstinence thread, I went in completely the opposite direction. A Behringer XR18, a Helix LT, and now a Behringer RD-8 Mk II. This was another one that first impressions were how big it was - I was expecting something on the scale of the Korg Volca series, instead it's almost as big as the Helix LT. I haven't started using it yet so further news will have to wait.

I thought I'd replace my Stomp with a full fat Helix. Thought I'd got a good deal on a Floor but it got cancelled (I missed his messages which was to say that the funds wouldn't be released until after he'd gone on a tour that he was selling the Floor to buy an amp for, otherwise I'd have bought it by another means) so concluded that I didn't need the four send/returns or the scribble strips so an LT would do. So it arrived, and the first impression was that it was very big. Second impression too. It does mean I no longer need my six-button MIDI controller or external power supply though. I tried restoring my saved patches from the Stomp, and much to my delight that worked. So now I'm going to do some more experimenting and try an organ synth in a send/return loop.

I think if you put that up as a poll you'd get 99% saying that they do, and the others would be you and anyone who only owns 1960s basses that you couldn't do that with.

Bought a Behringer XR18 from Jack - yet again an easy purchase, posted to me this time rather than me collecting.

What top strap button? It doesn't seem to be visible - you can see the bottom button but not the top one. If it's tucked away round the back, that's a good recipe for forward tilt (cf. Hohner B2V). Mind you, thinking of the B2V, despite the teeny tiny body and the top strap button being in line with the 22nd fret, it doesn't neck dive at all.

Dingwall don't do a headless though. So, if that's important, they'd either be up against the Ibanez EHB 1265MS or 1505MS, or the Strandberg Boden.

The same thing happened to me some time ago.

Can I provide long-range support?

It's easy not to notice gradual deterioration of something, which reminds me that I really must give my Eko Ranger 6 its five-yearly restring about now. I might even clean the fretboard.

I suppose it's different for us pub band weekend warriors, my bandmates don't even know how many strings my bass has or whether it's fretted or not, the last thing on their minds is whether it's a Fender (no, it never is).

Do you know who André Rieu is?