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Christophe LEDUC is making what he's calling The Smart Output Jacks and is exactly what you need (works with active or passive circuitry) : http://www.leduc.fr/index.php/autres/electroniques/auto-stereo

Here's the Blue Book official quote with the available colours, so try to figure out which colour it is if it's still the original one, but Fiesta Red or Dakota Red were not proposed...

Here is the official Fender colour chart from the 60's. You can see that according to the photos it could be Dakota Red or Fiesta Red... To me, it's Fiesta Red, because there are shades of orange in the colour, but I would need to see it in the flesh to be sure.

The colour could be a Dakota Red or a Fiesta Red, but it's really hard to figure out what colour it is based only on badly balanced photos... The rest has already been said.

Two other issues are poorly designed PWM power supplies plugged to the same ... (multi)plug and LED lights in the room. LED lights mains pollution is just awesome, people don't believe it until they come across a problem like yours...

I really hope so. 😉

I had a red one bought brand new as a demo bass in a shop in Trier. I was my office bass back in the day. Good bass, but poor pickup. @Happy Jack still owns one.

Not Man or Astroman ? who are just awful, but The Ventures. @Stub Mandrel Do you know Maserati ?

Absolutely excellent stuff !

I would have thought stored in manure...

It's already written everywhere here : my Leduc basses and my Ibanez AFR A104F are keepers simply because these are, to me, the best basses ever on all points, but especially on sound, craftsmanship and ergonomics. Check my endless gear list here if you have time to loose :

As I said to @la bam in his Blue 360 thread : 😉

Hi @billdylan maybe you could also post some photos of these basses here. 😊

I think I'll call you Mad Professor for now on @mhoss32 ! This project is a pure to delight to follow and you have really great ideas. Can't wait for the next episode. Fantastic craftsmanship !

The Warwick Red-Labels are, to me, a huge waist of money. You really get what you pay for, so nothing good. Just buy the usual suspects, called D'addario nickel (EXL) or steel (EPS) : no surprise here, just excellent strings (but not my favourite ones) for a very decent amount of money (between £25 and £29).

Urm, urm, as a regular long scale (34 inches) sixer player for more than 3 decades, I think I've NEVER come across an unwound high C (most of them are 0.028 to 0.035) in the sets sold by all the usual makers. Now, you're maybe talking about a Bass VI which is a short scale tuned like a guitar an octave lower and is not the same...

As I had a few 7-stringers tuned B to F and also wanted a wound high F, here are the only two sets available by resellers. The Newtone strings are also an option. This Dean Markley SR 2000 set is fully wound : https://m.thomann.de/gb/dean_markley_2698_7string.htm This Pyramid SSL 7 set is fully wound :https://m.thomann.de/gb/pyramid_7_string_bass_set_sssl_022_128.htm That said there are these two sets available in the ads here, at a bargain price :

Totally right, each time I see some horrid basses, meaning almost all those old school thingies, I'm just feeling 🤢🤮 , but just don't make any comment. The opposite is, hélas, absolutely not true. A bit sad.

Thanks @la bam : the higher output is also something I noticed on other One Control pedals.

Ooos. Just ordered one...

That's what I did. 🤣

Don't worry @Richard R it's only a test with its flaws. I mean that if you do it again as you know how it is working I'm sure you'll score much higher. For me, as others said, most of the singing was out of tune in itself; the melodic discrimination is a bit weird too as, for instance, if you're accustomed to Indian music, there was nothing really odd, but as it's related to European conception of music some oddities are obvious in our fixed musical system. For the beat, if you take classical music, the notion of beat is not as accurate as modern light music, but linked to the perception of time of the orchestra leader. And, as they mention it, your score is linked to the participants average score and most of the participants are already into music, so it's totally biased. Those IQ tests are absolutely not reliable, but can give you some hints to improve. Keep on playing as I'm sure you're a really good bassist.

This will be a massive problem in the next few months as almost everything is coming from outside the U.K. So better be patient and wait until the stocks in the U.K. are high enough to avoid this situation. Don't blame those who are trying to sell these goods, you are shooting the wrong persons.

Magnifique is the word !