SpondonBassed

Your builder of choice might offer suggestions as to a modification such as leaving the surplus driver out and recalculating the overall cab volume. Also, I think you might find more stuff like that if you do a 'net search from time to time. It's an interesting project.

I feel sorry for all those laptops left naked and shivering after they were evicted from their homes. For shame!

I'm sure someone here would build one for you for expenses. I'd even consider it myself if transport wasn't an issue.

Dunno. I'd suggest you have a look at some online plans for cabinet building ideas; fEARful™ enclosures for bass/drums/keys

Do you have any switch cleaner in an aerosol? If not, it may be worth buying a can from RS or similar. A quick blast in the socket (smirk) may restore the resistance value of the connection to what's expected by the device. That or you've got an excuse to buy an entirely new rig. I find it takes very little surface muck to affect certain plug-in connections. I think the point was already made above about hyper-sensitivity to current loss with solid state devices. Very interested now to hear how you get on when you've done all of the trouble shooting.

Excellent.

I've had a 5m jack to silent jack cable for my bass from Obbm today in the post. It's smashing. Nice and thick and with my initials under a protective heatshrink sleeve. Dave's service is prompt and uncomplicated. There is a tangible feeling of quality to his cables and end fittings. I have to recommend them if you haven't tried them yet. Cheers Dave.

I think the black is classy looking against the natural grain. Are you still wanting to do the chequerboard thing?

YW

That's okay. I have made a note to delay laughing at the quip by roughly the time it took you to change your mind... Heeheehee. Are zithers tuned in courses too? I got a headache before I could get it around the different tunings. It says you can have one to fifty strings on a zither. Try fingering that bugger with a couple of shorts down you.

I am one of those who doesn't mind paying a little more and buying from a real shop that you can actually take the goods back to if they are faulty or in need of maintenance. I think you are right however, many customers are counting pennies. The future of high street shopping is not certain. We are still in a state of flux, the flexible and competitive nature of Internet sales being difficult to match. Until there is stability it is hard to see what would secure the future for a business starting up with premises to maintain. Are we really in a state of growth yet in the UK? We've had some unconvincing attempts by some institutions to say that we are. At the end of it the greatest rewards often come from trading in uncertain conditions to those who are nimble enough to adapt their businesses from day to day. I don't think a pop-up-shop business model would work for a musical outlet starting up but it might be the answer to supplement an established premises's business.

1. I still prefer to shop in real life from a physical outlet. Could be from a private dwelling as well as a showroom. Online listings are very useful but I am not comfortable with internet purchases unless from a major and trusted supplier. 2. Instruments, effects, amplifiers, yes. Sundries, no. 3. A decent selection of strings. 4. Up to fifteen miles from home. 5. Assuming a range of basses already, good lighting and a selection of strings right off the shelf.

I understand course tuning to mean tuning strings in groups or... courses. It is not the same as coarse tuning, which just sounds vulgar.

I'd like to replace the word odd in my previous comment with the word outrageous. Yes. That's why I find it hard to understand how an instrument with such a difference in string gauges adjacent to each other would be sold without being independently adjustable for each saddle. I suppose I shouldn't really be surprised when Leo's bridges were pairing different gauges on the same saddle for years and they're still popular.

You must be thinking of WILF - Wrinkly I'd Like to.... I should watch myself. I'm already eligible for SAGA insurance myself.

Funny that. I used to wonder if that was recognised as a chord myself. I also used to wonder if I could find a previously unheard of chord by chucking a few choir boys off of varying heights of step ladder simultaneously but I haven't been able to test that one yet.

Thanks. I knew I wasn't the only one.

That's odd. The 'net images I saw look like there isn't any staggering between the heavy and light gauges at each individual saddle. I wonder if the maker supplies own-brand strings that do intonate correctly? Otherwise, I can't see how they'd get away with it.

Good point, a bit sticky mind you but a good point none-the-less.

Yes. The strings being grouped by threes. I struggle to stop two adjacent strings on the same fret with some of my fretting fingers. It would take a bit of effort to span three at a time with my narrow fingertips every time I fret a note. I'd hate to imagine what it would be like if I really liked playing chords*. It seems like a tool for a specific job to me. Given a particular goal that would require a lot of pedal tweakage to achieve otherwise a twelve starts to make sense. I wouldn't think it is a sound that I'd want throughout the whole of a set. *I am assuming that a twelve is not best suited to chord playing bassists, generally speaking, although it seems to work for guitarists who have six groups of two...

In my case I only sat on the 'bike. I never even got to turn the motor over until the swelling went down a week later! @Happy Jack; It sounds like you'd need a massive sac(k) to accommodate your bulky peripherals.

The incident is one that I will never forget. The site of the sting was right on my glans! I modified the story slightly for laughs to compensate for the days of agony that I suffered. I'll let you imagine what sort of ribbing I got from the other campers. That was the last time I swung a leg over a motorbike whilst naked without checking the saddle first. Talk about motorcycle helmets... mine was a beaut for a while.

I understand your smugness. I was getting remarks along the same lines after a bee-sting to the scrote at a naturist campsite years ago.

Yes. A right old rip-off they were. If the vinyl was any thinner it'd be transparent.