Woodinblack

This is with the battery out certainly (with the battery in things can be different). With 'normal' active wiring, the socket acts as a swtich, so the ring goes to the battery negative and nowhere else (as you say). When the plug goes in, the socket shorts out the ring and the shield and negative terminal of the battery is shorted to ground, which powers the preamp. As the wiring here is very simple, it is worth checking. it should be purely one wire that connects battery - to the output socket ring and not connect to anywhere else. If it is wired like that, there is no battery in and there is no plug in the socket and you can read any connectivity with any instrument you have (and you are not touching the probes), your socket is broken.

No, not that big/heavy *for an all valve head*, but I wasn't making that distinction. For a *thing that I have to carry* it is big and heavy.

I am certainly not going to take my £1M violin with me to europe, thats for sure.

Oh that looks interesting, same as the 1005 but 3" shorter.

We covered it in the bit about the 5 string a few weeks ago

That is the prevailing logic yes, but when I had mine I flipped between flats and rounds. Probably was better with flats but I have never really been a fan. I guess probably old short scales like Hofners suit flats as they are fairly dead anyway.

They have yet to make a bass that doesn't.

And I will take them when Al moves them on again

Indeed - so not for a commited Jam fan as it was never used in the jam, so they would want one of the others. I think I saw him playing that live a few years back. Yep - I did.. ftj-bass.mov

Additional purchases of the year since the november edition. An honourable mention goes to my new ABM600 evo IV, which for less than £350 as a B-Stock from PMT is more than worth it (It has a break on the tolex on the side, pretty small, first gig sort of injury). Run it up loud once, still yet to gig it obviously due to a lack of gigs. The BAM200 at the top though still doing sterling service for home practice. While I am here, I forgot the pictures of the other things, which of course means they don't exist.. The Shuker: And the (replacement) EHB1505MS Actually, that isn't the replacement, that is the original, but it looks remarkably similar!

Stuff not really selling at the moment

Same here - couldn't gig that, I would be frightened of messing it up

My gigs haven't been that successful!

Just looked at it. Some are completely missing, some a really detailed, I never wrote a diary so I have no idea why I started but I am glad I did.

I made a note of mine over the last 5 or so years, and it is interesting to note. Just simple notes on it, not settings etc, just how it went, what out of the usual happens etc. Normally a couple of lines

All of my SRs have got dents in the top from low practice ceilings. Luckily not hard ceilings!

Must be a pain walking behind with an old pink torpedo linnet!

That would certainly be memorable!

I think it is a very good album. Unlike the new one, which is remarkably unmemorable.

I have a CTM100 and it does sound good, although I rarely took it to gigs for convenience sake, too big / heavy.

I have been playing 5 strings since the 90s, and never had a 35" (unless the spector legend was? I didn't keep it long). Almost all have been 34", apart from a 37" Dingwall, a 33" shuker, and a 30" messinger.

I think it is impossible to predict as it isn't really based on anything other than perceived value, and there is no way to predict what perceived value will be. So just rarity and whatever was flavour of the month, as people have said people spend a fortune on 70s fenders, when in the 80s the standard wisdom was you didn't touch one with a bargepole as they were terrible. I have played a JV strat and it was ok, not really any better than any current strat, but that isn't really important. In a world where people pay actual money for a Kay without the intention of burning it to keep warm, there is absolutely no logic to these prices so no way to predict.

Honestly if it takes you more than 2 seconds to change your E string to a D string there is something wrong, with or without a tuner! I had a phase of bringing a couple of basses as there would be a 4 string I wanted to try but I could never play the entire set with a 4 string, so I would have to change, and our set list is never that fixed so too much of a hassle to change basses.