Happy Jack

Far Canal. I thought I was anal and obsessive about stuff, but you guys are WAY ahead of me.

... and with Free Delivery https://www.amazon.co.uk/Encore-E4SB-Bass-Guitar-Sunburst/dp/B001XURKR2 when you could buy it pre-ruined for £147 plus £18.50 Delivery? https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/P-bass-with-new-strings-and-full-set-up/192781411830?hash=item2ce2aae5f6:g:AWIAAOSwzf9baXQk

Jonny Gonad? Think I'd have remembered that one, Mick!

What are these 'friends' of which you speak?

News just in: The project will start with a series of four 5-hour films focused on the making of the album Let It Be, including many events that didn't happen (the famous gig at Horn's Deep gets an entire episode to itself) and people who weren't actually there but who have been created creatively for creative reasons (see Legolas playing the solo from Stairway To Heaven as he slides down the staircase at Abbey Road balanced on the flightcase for a Fender Precision). This will be followed up by a series of five 6-hour prequels creatively stuffed with ludicrously over-created creative decisions (Mick Jagger makes a cameo appearance in a day-glo Morris Mini being pulled by six very stoned super-rabbits). The project will culminate with a series of six 7-hour prequels to the prequels in which the role of skiffle in contemporary urban society (and in Liverpool too) will be creatively examined to death. And back. I can't wait.

You may well be right, but Silvie bought me one of the Snapdragon folding basses for Xmas and I have to say that I'm delighted with it. The fact that I normally play expensive boutique basses with more strings and a different scale length doesn't impinge ... this is a very practical travel bass which absolutely delivers, and can only be judged in the right context. Would I play the Snapdragon on stage at the O2? Well, not by choice, no, but if I had to then it wouldn't be a problem for me. Can anyone get me a gig at the O2, just to prove the point, you understand?

The SB301 was the only passive bass in the range, IIRC.

There was a time when Alex Claber still talked to me, and one of the things he told me was that this particular pair of cabs was just that - a pair. Every individual cab is, of course, a compromise which inevitably means that there will be something "missing"; this pair of cabs is designed to be complementary, i.e. each fills in the "missing" part of the other. Now there are some on this Forum (and you know who you are) who will tell you that this is weapons-grade marketing cow poop from someone whose claims they don't trust, and I get that, but Alex didn't tell me this and then I went away and thought, "Wow! These sound really good together." It's the other way around. I went to Alex and said, "Wow! These sound really good together." and he then explained why. Making a totally uneducated guess at the problem encountered by Huge Hands, I would be suspecting the use of a 2x10. Not because of cone filtering, about which I know nothing, but because of comb filtering, about which I have read extensively (and slightly glassy-eyed) here on Basschat. Stacking a 1x12 on top of a 1x15 should not lead to comb filtering, as I understand it. Or don't understand it, as the case may be.

My old friend Dave Pomeroy does a fair bit of this stuff:

[SHALLOW ALERT] One of the reasons I wanted to learn DB in the first place is that it is the absolute essence of cool. I've tried playing both standing and sitting (using the correct stool for the task, too) and not only was standing a far better position for me but sitting wiped out maybe 80% of the coolness. [/SHALLOW ALERT] In all seriousness, I have suffered from pretty unpleasant back problems for well over a decade. If playing when standing was going to give anyone some long-term issues, that would be me then. It will pass. Promise.

And they just get better and better ... https://www.joinmyband.co.uk/classifieds/need-a-acacia-strain-style-singer-t1139119.html

I know it's only a shortscale, but it's a bit harsh of Musicman to describe it as "Limited".

Or indeed burn it. Whatever ...

You'd think a tax collector would be able to speak English ...

Hmmmmm. Depends. You don't actually say what you want "sound wise". If you're after something that sounds just like a P or a J, only shortscale, then you're unlikely to get that in an off-the-shelf instrument. Shortscales have a character, a sound, and a feel that's all their own. People who want something that sounds like a Precision usually buy a Precision. Fitting very bright rounds will help of course, but they won't stay very bright for long and that could prove an expensive route. Very generic advice would be to start by buying a cheapish Mustang just to make sure that you get on with shortscales and that they actually solve your problem.

Interesting, didn't know about that so I went looking. https://www.factmag.com/2017/06/28/moog-minimoog-model-d-reissue-discontinued/ Not so much a planned Limited Edition as undercut by cheaper alternatives after the first run was finished so they quit while they were ahead. Sensible business practice.

6x10 ... lightweight ... does not compute ... does not compute ... I loved my Barefaced 610, and it was certainly way lighter than any other 610 I've tried to move, but I moved from that to a 410 plus a 210 - i.e. I sort of went modular. Far more flexible than a single unit, in every way possible. Then I discovered that at any gig big enough to need both I had PA support so I sold the 410. Now I get by just fine with a single 210.

"Limited Edition of 2500" after which no more will be made. Only the finest weapons-grade marketing cow poop for Moog, I see. If they sell 2500 of these, what chance they'll respond to requests from dealers with: Oh no, we couldn't POSSibly make any more, after all, we promised ...

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Fender-USA-Custom-doubleneck-Jazz-bass-Stratocaster-late-70s/362537932551?_trkparms=aid%3D777001%26algo%3DDISCO.FEED%26ao%3D1%26asc%3D20160801204525%26meid%3Dd80a3a89c640474ebdeb6e536265f5a5%26pid%3D100651%26rk%3D1%26rkt%3D1%26%26itm%3D362537932551&_trksid=p2481888.c100651.m4497&_trkparms=pageci%3A8c4b8c2f-1f65-11e9-92f0-74dbd180ee85|parentrq%3A7d0451b31680ab673423d6b1ffffe000|iid%3A1

Extending the aerial cables on a wireless headset mic so that the antennae can be front-mounted.

I'm no fan of wireless at all, but I've recently bought a cheapish wireless headset mic (Thomann T-Bone Free Solo) specifically for when I'm singing BVs while playing double bass. It's such a physical instrument that getting pulled out of shape by the need to get your mouth up close to a normal mic is a real pain, quite literally sometimes. I like to use good kit, and the wireless Lavalier mic is nowhere near the quality of the Beta SM57 I use with a mic stand, but it's horses for courses, innit?

The sticker on the cover of the catalogue warns that the prices are probably out of date so you should go to the website before buying anything. I'm not making this up.

My goods weighed 80g. The catalogue weighed 2.2Kg.

And the goods I had actually ordered?

What was all the weight then? Ah, that would be this: