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That was what I said after trying the Cort Space out at Bass Direct. One came up on Gumtree for a sum not unadjacent to £400, although I had a 280 mile round trip to pick it up. So today I went on that journey, braving the imbeciles on the M11 and A14, and picked up the black Space. The seller didn't get on with 5-strings, so was selling it after just a month or so. I'll be able to do a proper back to back comparison between the Space and the Ibanez EHB1265MS with added Aguilar pickup goodness.

Tecamp Puma 900 - have kept this despite going to a combo for most eventualities. Powerful, flexible tone. GR Bass AT800 Cube - the combo that I went to. Very lightweight and very clean sound so I can inflict my own damage on it. Ashdown Superduperfly (Superfly 1000) - the power amp section could be better, you can get an HF whistle, plus the two 500W power amps can't be bridged. However, the graphic/parametric MIDI controlled preamp is brilliant.

Mrs Zero had no idea that Sleeping Satellite referred to the Moon.

The absolutely dreadful cover of "Hallelujah" by Alexandra Burke is a prime example. Dammit. Beaten to it.

Sadly, both Polly Peck and Poli Tics have completely gone down the Swanee.

I wonder if they'll introduce headless models - they had a headless guitar, the Dullahan, but that's gone (not before I bought one though). They're not averse to making non-clone instruments - after all, the HBZ neck-throughs with a slight resemblance to Peavey Grinds are still going strong.

I thought I'd cheat: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_artists_and_entertainers_with_advanced_degrees A couple of members of Sha Na Na, and Bill Bruford, were ones that caught my eye.

When the alternative is me playing it, yes, definitely.

That just reminded me, my oldest instrument isn't the Eko Ranger, it's a violin I bought when I was a student with the idea of playing some violin with the proggish rock band that four of us had formed and I'd started playing bass for. This was based on me learning to play Twinkle Twinkle Little Star six years before. It's still in the cupboard upstairs.

There's also a seller's premium, of course, so the seller probably sees less than 50% of what the buyer pays. I'm sure that the buyer's premium was a little less than this at the last auction when I bought a Variax guitar.

Looks like it's been dipped in a British river.

Well, there's a solution to that. Two solutions, but I won't mention the guillotine one. Convert it to a 3+2 headstock and put licensed Hipshot Ultralight tuners on it. Drilling the hole somewhere round the "c" should do it. Alternatively, just go with the Hipshots.

I think UHF wirelesses would have companders in them - a compressor in the transmitter and an expander in the receiver, to limit the dynamic range in the transmitted signal, so that might have an effect.

And Ian Bairnson's too (Pilot,0 and he played the solo in Wuthering Heights). Including the Les Paul he played on Pilot's hits and for the Wuthering Heights solo.

I assume he's used at least one of these with Whitesnake. https://www.the-saleroom.com/en-gb/auction-catalogues/gardiner-houlgate/catalogue-id-srgard10272

The Enhanced range would be intriguing if I was in the market for that sort of thing, MM bridge humbucker plus either J or P neck pickup.

There's a lot of Lekato wirelesseseses available - https://lekatodeal.com/en-uk/collections/wireless-guitar-transmitter-receiver I use the WS-50 - 5.8GHz digital. Toying with getting the WS-90 which has double the battery size. Edit: Oops - accidentally pressed "Buy it now" on a WS-90 with box opened for £40. Oh dear.

Those who follow Glenn Fricker and the Spectre Media Group on Youtube may recall him mentioning a book called The Physics of the Electric Guitar (only in German) by one Manfred Kollner. Although the book was only ever printed in German and is now out of print, there is an English translation of most of it. The separate chapters are available as PDF downloads at https://gitec-forum-eng.de/the-book/.

Have a look at the switch assignments for each of the effects you're expecting to have switches for. It does seem somewhat odd.

There should be one in fairly soon at Bass Direct, they seem to be punting them out as fast as they get them in.

It replaces my large pedalboard (HX Stomp, homebrew MIDI controller, expression pedal, power supply, wireless) so it's the same footprint. I'll still be wireless but using Lekato bugs so no need for a board-mounted receiver.

It reminds me that I've played a Wal and really disliked the neck.

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.