Woodinblack

The reason it is cheaper in many cases (not specifically amazon, I don't order from there) is you have nothing like the protection that you get here. Probably doesn't matter with strings, but things cost more here due to protections that we take for granted, like over a year warantee instead of 3 months etc.

The wierd thing, if you select a spaceship board, you can click the 'make a bundle and save 5%'. as part of the bundle you can pick many types of power supply, but not this one that literally goes with the board. Maybe they are new and they haven't caught up. I mean my pedalboard is fine (case is screwed) but that power supply looks great, maybe I can just hacksaw the back off and fit one

Indeed - I think you need more synth! Is the plethora no good for octave then?

There is an additional screw that stops it moving back and forward, but the two at the top control height, as long as there is height to take off. Like all bolt ons, if you run out of height to take off at the bridge you need to shim the neck. And if you do that on a Maruszczyk, be carefull of the screws!

Completely untrue. Most active basses don't.

Which is what I said in the first place - I wasn't disputing any impact of punk, I was saying that a lot of 'punk' bands had nothing to do with a 'scene' and it wasn't all teenage rebelion, therefore as a music it is just as valid now as it was then.

They do other sizes

Oh why did I not see that before, it has a 3A 9v supply, so it can power a Helix too. That sounds like a good thing and it connects with a real power supply.

I was in my beginning of the my teens, it was significant (in the UK - although measurably not had that much impact worldwide), but after that it was a label given to any band with harsh sounding guitars in the late 70s. And of all those bands, only a small minority wanted anything other than to make music and get famous / rich / pull.

I lent a planet waves strap to someone - it cam back rather nasty (only 1 gig mind).

I have a variety. Most of them are Couch vegan straps, as they tend to be bought for me by my (vegan) wife, they tend to match the bass that I have them on. I also have one of the really wide couch straps on the 5005 as it is so heavy. One is a denali strap, which I got as it was the only thing I could get to match my shuker I have a couple of leather straps, but they tend to be on things I don't really care that much about, as they don't match (they are brown or black and I have fewer of those now) I have a Comfort strapp somewhere, comfortable but ugly and I never really got on with it Oh I also have a really wide maruszczyk strap, which came with my maruszczyk, which is a bit pointless as that chambered swamp ash!

They do come in a much nicer box though

Indeed, cable loss is not an issue where wireless systems are employed. So if that is your only reason for active (and is primarily mine) then it is not an argument.

Yes, I think that is a backward step by Schaller - the changes they made to the lock was good, but why do they need to change the other end that wasn't an issue, especially as now that increases the likelyhood that it would unscrew itself. I have some of the new Schaller S's on a couple of basses, but they all use the original Shaller posts with the original screw.

I would have a minitaur if they hadn't put an arbitrary limit on the top end that it could play. Seems a bit of an odd thing to do.

The reason that the Minitaur is twice the price of the model D is that one is made by Moog and one is made by Behringer.

I guess at this point it probably wasn't Maruszczyk who put this bridge on after all unless it was a change in production. Either way, it seems to have come off without much damage

Mine was a custom Elwood, sort of a L24 with a few differences, ie, lightweight, 24 fret, neck like an ibanez, 3 / 2 machine heads.

Mine is a Maruszczyk as well, with the same (if black and 5 string) bridge, and the same zero fret so seems unlikely.

There isn't too much in it - mine is about 1/8" further back than yours

I can't see how you would be able to correct that without moving or replacing the bridge. Seems it was put too far forward.

If only someone knew what that bass was <sigh>

well not surprising you are failing, that isn't under pressure at all, that is a completely different song!

Well, I managed to get one now, so thanks for another expense

I put mine in high gain on the last practice so it was really dirty and feeding back - when it did the guitarist kept going to his amp to check what was going on!