Woodinblack

The only P Bass I ever got was the Classic Vibe 70s P bass, it just outshone everything in the store in some way that mattered to me (not that the store had much in). Played it for ages but it eventually got sidelined as I can't really gig a 4 string.

Have you tried it with batteries. When you say 'I was brief getting power' does that mean the screen lit up?

The fretboard is anodised, I am not sure how robust, other than I haven't scratched it

Dont you just post a thread in the events, like you did with this one - why does it need a mods intervention?

It doesn't matter where something is made, all that matters is where that thing is. If you are in the UK and want to send something to the EU or vice versa, you need to pay import duties and VAT to your own country. So it doesn't matter if it is someone selling a german bass from the UK to Germany, all that matters is that it is in the UK and it needs to go to the UK.

I am the same with that - I can't stand using a cable, it feels too odd, its in the way etc. I would be very reluctant to go back to a cable it has to be said! Why not send it back to thomman if you don't want it?

They dont' need to make customs, they already produce the pickups for the 1505s etc.

My first one that I sent back due to the cracked headstock had fine knobs, which was good as they just replaced the neck! It has the east knobs that are close to touching but don't quite. There is no stiffness though.

These are almost certainly the right answers, but it just makes me really nervous, there is a bit of a risk of damaging the surface, or if it gets messed up, cleaning it up afterwards. Maybe the real answer is to give it to someone who won't mess it up

If you are not careful when listing it automatically switches that offer thing on, so last time I listed something as an auction someone immediately made me an offer of half my starting price. So I switched offers off.

That is indeed how it is supposed to work. Although obviously you can offer anything, and if they wanted to accept it they could, but generally it is an offer above the starting price to end it eariy.

Depending on if you are really asking whether there is an advantage to active pickups or active basses (which as mentioned are generally passive pickups and a buffer or preamp), the initial (and still the best) purpose is to reduce signal loss going to your amp. If you have an active bass, the signal created by your pickups is sent to your amp. If you have a passive bass, the signal your amp gets is the signal of your pickups and all the wiring that goes between you and your amp (or effects), so you tend to loose the high frequencies quite a bit with such a circuit. Also because the output is a low impedance, you have less noise injected in your cables on a long signal run.

Well, I would suggest you are in the wrong thread then! The couch ones are the softest and most comfortable ones I have, busy replacing all the leather ones.

Sadly not, but do they not just do rather flat plain plastic?

I have the paisley blue and its really good. The only downside I would say is that it is a bit stiff. That and I sold the bass it lived with!

Sort of of topic I guess, but it is inlays in general! I have a chapman stick railboard, its basically a slab of aluminium, and it has a group of the long inlays, either painted or moulded in - not sure how it is supposed to be, but can be seen here: http://www.stick.com/instruments/railboard/inlays/rb_bronze_linear_close.jpg Anyway, when I got mine they just had small strips of gold (paper / leaf? not sure) that sort of but not quite fitted in the hole, like this: Never liked them that much but not an issue. At the bass bash one of them fell out. After getting home another one fell out. Not generally a problem as I didn't like them but the problem now is it turns out it is really hard to play without the fret markers as from the top it is just a series of frets with no contrast. So I want fret markers. I made a mould with wax, then a reverse mould with some hardening putty things, and then an inlay with some acrylic stuff with glitter in it, but turns out surprisingly that it looked a bit sub-par! The slots are 1.6mm deep, 6mm wide, 56mm long (incuding the 3mm radius at the end). How would anyone approach making an inlay for this? What is that normal stuff that people make inlays with?

True, it will just make sure you know which effects you are using. It will work just fine. Although I must say, if you are playing two independent basses into two independent amplifiers, and you have to use a block to get one of the blocks out, and share the remaining blocks with the two instruments, what is the HXFX bringing to the party that you couldn't get cheaper from two independant chains? I mean two entirely separate B1/4s would cost a third of the price of a HX, and give you a lot more flexability.

I have an ABM 600 evo iv, and use the di at all gigs to run into the mixer that I use for my IEMs and recording off the desk. It doesn't sound flubby at all, it sounds pretty much exactly like what is coming out of the speaker, so I think you might have some kind of an issue with yours

Does Phil have another divorce to support then?

Who is going to be in charge of blinding the people in the side room?

It has two mono signals, I use that with my chapman stick, as that has two mono outputs. It has two outputs but they aren't independant unless you run no effects on them that join them together, so any stereo effect is not a dual mono effect, but works on the stereo spacing. So effectively 'yes, but...'

Ahh - I guess if I was after them I might ask bassdirect if they could get them as they sell the others.

Bassdirect do them: https://www.bassdirect.co.uk/bass_guitar_specialists/Markbass_Strings.html as do thomman https://www.thomann.de/gb/markbass_strings_groove_ns_5_045_130.htm

My wife has done a lot of deliveries and has had problems with all couriers. UPS are in the better group, although not as good as DPD but unfortunately as she does most of the shipping it is hard to deal with UPS as our normal delivery driver is a massive raccist so my wife won't deal with him, so it is not often we use them (and tend to avoid people who do use them). I have never actually had problems sending / recieving a bass, but then the only one I did was hermes.

Another thread that was popular before lockdown but became redundant when the answer was 'noone'. Tickets booked to see Tool at the O2. More than I usually pay but I haven't been to a gig in that there London for 5 years, and haven't seen a gig at the O2 since 2012, so I thought it was time!