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I'm assuming there is an amusing typo in there? Unfortunately my dyslexia won't let me see it, and I probably wouldn't get the joke anyway...

IIRC the proximity effect (which requires you to lift the cab a long way off the floor to break) was more important than mechanical coupling for a good bass sound.

IMO it is not the mass of the bridge that makes the difference (after all the extra mass over the BBOT in relation to the weight of the body is minimal) but the fact that they tend to be better engineered, especially with regard to reducing lateral movement of the saddles. Of course if you play with heavy-weight flats it probably doesn't matter what bridge your bass has.

Strange. I've owned two Kramers and several other aluminium necked basses and guitars and never had any extra temperature-related tuning problems with them.

However the best song writing partnership I've been in was with a guitarist whose guitar style was almost exactly the same as mine only loads better. He could take my guitar ideas and play them brilliantly first time and always seemed to get exactly what I was after. Never found that with another guitarist, they always struggle to get their heads around my guitar playing even when I think it is something really simple.

Both of the guitarists in InIsolation are probably better bassists than me. I’ve also auditioned several bands as the bass player and ended up joining, playing guitar or synth because one of the other musicians who also auditioned was a better bass player.

Do you need to detune? The one band I’ve played in the had a detuned guitar, I kept my bass in standard tuning. It meant the bass lines I was coming up with for the songs were more interesting. of course if you need to do loads of octave/unison riffing with open strings then detuning might be the only way.

The neck should be the same colour as the body.

I believe that if your are brand new on eBay and haven't built up a buying history, or you list 1000s of items every month then you might need to pay some form of listings fees. By the time I came to list my first item for sale on eBay I'd been buying stuff for over 5 years and I was offered a limited number of listings for free, but I would have to pay for any additional ones. I've always been careful to keep within my free listings limit. I've just checked and currently I'm allowed 999 free listings each month. I doubt anyone other than those who make a living out of selling on eBay pay listings fees these days.

What sellers fees for listing? I've been selling on eBay for 15 years and I know I've never paid anything for a listing. However IIRC if I wanted to set a reserve price it would actually cost me.

I really don't understand the point of a reserve price on eBay. If you don't want it sell for less than a particular price, start your auction at that price. As a buyer I see little point in placing a bid on an item which has not yet reached the reserve price. This is from several previous experiences where I have ended up being the highest bidder but have not "won" the item due to the reserve price being higher than my winning bid.

Early versions of the Wal MIDI bass sported a separate pickup for the MIDI part. On later versions it appears to have been incorporated into the standard Wal bridge pickup. Since the pickup portion of the MIDI bass is simply there to sense whether or not a string has been plucked it can be quite rudimentary. I don't know for sure, but it wouldn't surprise me to find that an extra set of individual coils (individually wired) have been fitted onto the pole-pieces closest to the bridge for the MIDI triggering (hence the raised pole-pieces) and the rest of the pickup is just a standard Wal one.

But it is being filmed, therefore make an effort. Certainly if I knew one of my band's rehearsals was going to be filmed, even if I didn't wear my "stage clothes" I'd turn up in something a bit more interesting than just a t-shirt, jeans and bad trainers.

It's being filmed, so she has made the effort. Unlike the old blokes who appear to have turned up in their "slobbing around the house" clothes.

It very much depends how you listen to music. I tend to listen to the whole piece as a single item and generally if something sticks out to me it's because I think it's "wrong". There are plenty of cover versions where the vocal melody only seems to bear a passing resemblance to the original and the rest of the arrangement is completely different. Think of all those "sensitive acoustic" versions of rock songs that appear to be popular as advertisement sound tracks at the moment. Often I'll be struggling to recognise the original song from this new "arrangement". When I write, even if it's on a "full range" instrument like guitar or keyboards, I can hear in my head what the other instruments are going to be doing when it comes to presenting the music to the rest of the band.

I thought that the Wal MIDI bass used the fret sensing system developed by Steve Chick?

Thanks. I'm a pretty competent DIYer and have kept the house maintained that way over the past 25 years. However I had reached the point where the standard of work and finish I was after had noticeably outstripped my abilities, and having come into some money, decided to get everything redone properly. Apart from fitting the kitchen, all the outstanding work, even if I was to do it myself, requires me to find money for the materials - new windows, radiators and boiler, all of the bathroom fixtures and fittings, and right now I don't have anything like enough. The only part I would be confident about finishing off myself to a standard I would be happy with is the electrical wiring, which of course I'm no longer allowed to do. Also from past experience, whilst it is possible to do a lot of the work myself nearly all of it goes considerably faster if there is at least one competent helper. My friends are very nice people but none of them are really very practical - in the past I've usually been the one helping (read: doing) their DIY. Anyway the police have got involved from a fraud angle so I probably shouldn't say anything else on a public part of the forum.

Work-wise overall I've only been slightly affected by Covid. I've been self employed (graphic design and artwork specialising in books and packaging) for the last 11 years and work mostly from home anyway, so those rules hardly affected me. Some clients have been given me less work than normal over the last 6 months, but others who have experienced a boom in on-line sales have very nearly made up for that. I am likely to loose one of my biggest clients at the end of this year, as they reorganise due to a change in ownership, and it looks as though the work that do for them is going to be taken in-house. Music-wise I've done very little since March. Neither band are gigging or rehearsing at the moment since there are members or immediate family of members in the at-risk group in both. We have both been able to release recording that were made earlier - In Isolation to the form of our second album "Shards" which is available to download and stream and will be out on CD on 10th October. Hurtsfall have just released their 4th Single "Revelator". I was hoping to use the down-time to get some unreleased tracks by previous bands out as digital downloads and streaming but that has been put on hold by more pressing matters... Before this all kicked off I was in the process of having my house completely renovated. Unfortunately my builder stopped work when "lockdown" was announced and has now informed me that he has gone out of business, leaving me with a property that is not really habitable. I am currently working out of the one room that is mostly finished surrounded by all my other possessions packed up in boxes. The rest is building site, with no kitchen, a basic bathroom, no heating or hot water (other than what I can boil in a kettle) and no power or lighting in the rest of the property. Most of the funds required to finish the work have disappeared along with the builder. I have kitchen appliance and units, but they are all packed up and in storage in one of the bedroom with the guarantees running out as I type this. I am expecting something from the insolvency when it is sorted out but it is likely to be a small percentage of flip-all. Quite what happens next, I don't know, but I am seriously looking at having to sell just about everything I own in order to get the work completed without having to wait 5 years while I live frugally and save up...

But there's plenty off people who want that sort of thing. Think about the numerous Rickenbacker threads where it turns out that what most people want is not a Rickenbacker, but a P-Bass with a Rickenbacker holographically overlaid on it.

Exactly. When I was doing my printing C&Gs one of the things we did in the non-technical parts of the course was the standard colour-blindness dots test. It turned out that one of the lads on the course was so badly colour blind that he couldn't even see the "wrong" numbers on the test. Every card was just a random arrangement of dark dots on a light background to him.

TBH I can't see it happening any time soon. Members of both my bands are either at risk themselves or have immediate family at risk, so we are not even rehearsing.

I have the home page bookmarked. I read the interesting looking threads (or those I have already posted in) in General Discussion, Gear (except EUB and porn), Recording, and eBay, and maybe in Off-Topic if there is an interesting looking thread visible or I am involved in an on-going conversation.

IMO even 42mm is too narrow to comfortably accommodate the thicker strings of a Bass VI. Have a read of my thread about Bass VIs: https://www.basschat.co.uk/topic/325732-alternatives-to-the-squier-bass-vi/?tab=comments#comment-3534563 which gives plenty of alternatives along with their pros and cons.

I wouldn't be so bad if it was actually possible to search for your own posts within a thread. Often I come back to a very long thread - especially if I have already contributed and wonder exactly what my previous contribution was, so any new post I make is not simply a rehash of what I said a year or so ago. Unfortunately as I have already discovered this is not possible, so unless I know for sure that my new contribution is based on recent experience or information I have only recently discovered, I'll mostly likely pass.

Um... there's one right there in the photo top right?