NancyJohnson

First thing I thought was who the hell plays on the 24th fret? A few factors to consider. Strings, old/new? Action at 24th fret? Is the buyer playing the harmonic or the fretted note? Do the other strings intonate correctly up the dusty end? Neck on the wonk? It's feasible that the 24th fret could be in the wrong place, unlikely, but possible. It's also possible that if the action was a bit high at this point, simply depressing the string might throw out the tuning. Given the scale on these is (I believe) 34", you're looking at a fretted note at the 24th fret to be c.8.5" this high up the neck. If the frets are wide/jumbo and haven't been crowned correctly, given the shortness of the scale at this point, this could throw out the tuning/intonation a little. A little. Millimetres, or part thereof, will make a difference at that point, no significant but a difference.

Why does it take longer? Logistics. Thomann are a pan-European supplier with a level of instrumentation-supply that (for instance) Andertons or GuitarGuitar can only dream of. I can't honestly imagine how much kit get shipped here weekly, I'd imagine it's mind-boggling. They likely ship enough product to the UK to warrant everything going into containers rather than simply going out on an individual basis, so as @BigRedX has said, Thomann are likely have enough power to assign UK shipments leaving their facility on certain days of the week and coordinating with FedEx/UPS/whoever well in advance of that day to book freight slots to get it to this country.

Years back I landed an Aria Pro II Primary bass on a late Friday hunt. It was in rotten shape..over 40 years old. After I got it up and running I decided that every time it left the house I'd put a ding in it, walks, floor, pavement, dragging it along the road a bit. It looks glorious.

I had one put in my Lull after the East preamp stopped working. I'll admit that when I (finally) got it up and running (see elsewhere), it didn't really do it for me. That said, I haven't run it through my XB Driver. Might be a revelation. I'll try later.

2007. I know how this place works!

Aah, it's in the garage. MDF is also quite moisture prone too, when it's stored in a hot/cold (damp?) environment, it'll effectively delaminate (even though the product isn't laminated); it'll just start splitting along it's length!

I'm constantly amazed with the amount of solutions that are proposed for questions like the OP! Plugging holes? Get some dowels (there's probably a bloke in your immediate vicinity who has spares in their shed from IKEA builds), drill out the holes to the required diameter, glue and plug, cut/sand back smooth, redrill new pilot holes in correct locations and reattach neck.

With the best will in the world MDF probably isn't going to be the best product to build from if you want something robust. End of the day it's just wood dust and glue/resin; it won't hold screws well and glue penetration isn't great. Honestly, treat yourself to a sheet of 1/2 birch plywood and joint/mitre the edges. Any decent wood merchant should be able to mill/cut sheets to whatever size you need and a good sized sheet will probably only be £30.00.

The original Mark Hoppus signature basses were Jazz body/Precision-profile neck.

Just to answer, he said he's not between tours, he still plays drums in a couple of local projects. He's 67 (doesn't look it).

And no. Don't ask.

In an almost surreal moment earlier today, I was served in a decorating centre by a drummer of a band who scored a handful of Billboard Top 30 singles in the 1980s/90s and (on further investigation) have over 1.5 billion streams on Spotify (nearly 12m listens a month). Bonkers. [Edit]. One video has a staggering 890m plays on You Tube. Double bonkers.

A few weeks in and it still gives me immense joy just looking at it. I don't really have basses out all the time (generally on rotation), but right now it's just this one. Neck hasn't moved at all and thankfully the new smell has disappeared. Buy with confidence from the named seller.

I am curious about the ABY scenario. If you're running a single out (at 4ohms) into an ABY with both outputs open and then into a pair of 8ohm cabinets, would the load be recognised as 4ohms?

Moving forward, could you drill out a second jack socket (or make up a replacement plate) to allow the cabs to be daisychained? This will give you the option of going out of the 4ohm output. Alternatively (and I don't know whether this would work), output the 4ohm to an ABY box and squirt the signal to both cabs in parallel? (If the ABY option is doable - I'm sure someone will know - I have a Vein Tap Separator mini I can send up.)

I have a side jack/barrel on one of my Hamers. While it works ok, it simply will not stay tightly bolted in and the space inside the body cavity is a nightmare to get even a little spanner into to tighten the nut. Horrible things.

All down to personal preference, but you don't see many Hamer, Travis Bean, Mike Lull. At one point I thought I'd like an Aria Primary (one of the late '70s Jazz copies) to go with my Primary P-bass. Don't see these.

If that!

Not tending to do much home recording at the moment; got all the instruments, but guitar amp is elsewhere (and always such a faff to fire up, mic and use in the house). Never used amp-sims in my life, my only experience of anything similar is one producer insisting on recording guitars clean then adding effects in post. Armed with this, I just avoided them like the plague. Decided to spend an hour or two getting my head around amp sims. I'm running Cakewalk as my DAW, initially installed the Neural Amp Modeller (easy) and a couple .nam patches (it was harder trying to find the directory where to put these) and fired up Cakewalk. Honestly blown away. I downloaded a few more .nam files and some IRs. All free. Want to try and SVT through a Fender Tweed emulator? No problem. Want to sound like Eddie Van Halen? No problem. Within minutes I realised how unnecessary it was to have an amp set-up for home recording. I spent about four hours in all...a wonderful bank holiday diversion from the wind and rain happening outside. Only downside is my PC is woefully low on RAM so was getting some pops, so I've ordered a 16gb of (new) RAM.

I think it would be prudent to share who you play for (apologies if this has been mentioned elsewhere) and what you would gauge as 'a few knowing us in the UK'. A couple of years back my old band played three dates with a band of American younglings. They were travelling very light (minimal instrumentation/outboard) and were pretty much reliant on borrowing backline or sharing gear at each venue. One of the guys mentioned they had a small following in London, but needless to say not one of those following turned up. The live environment in the UK is, as I understand it, somewhat different to the US. People don't want to travel, it's difficult to park a car in a lot of venues and people would rather stay home and watch TV than pay to see a band.

It's also difficult enough if you're based in the UK as well!

As an aside, I've just eaten the Sweetwater sweeties that came in the box. Laffy Taffy. Kind of lime flavoured chewy Tootsie Roll. Soft toffee fudge thing. Dubble Bubble. Bubble gum. Softer than Basooka Joe, almost identical flavour. Smarties. Different to ours. Like little Love Hearts. Message ends.

Yarp, bloody whippersnappers! #335

I was on Bass world, honestly couldn't tell you what my username was; seem to remember being quite slack in moving over to Basschat and getting a membership number of 200 or something. It's odd how most of us older chaps were likely active on alt.bass or alt guitar.bass type newsgroups as well (back when we were all on AOL or had newsgroup access bundled in our email clients).