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The free trade deal is that they do not.

A roll of strap and some fittings from Amazon. Cut to length (they even included a pair of scissors!) and a quick flash with a Zippo lighter to seal the ends. The hard bit was making the holes for the Straplock.

How is B* relevant?

As I understand things: New items manufactured in the EU are not subject to import duty. You only pay VAT once, so the supplier should either do the admin for UK VAT or sell it to you VAT-free and you have to pay UK VAT. Actually, UK VAT is 20% whereas German is 19%, so it should be slightly more expensive than retail in Germany. If the seller doesn't do the VAT for you then the courier will likely do it on your behalf and charge you a fee for it. Your shipping fee should be VAT-inclusive. So, overall your extras will be shipping, 1% higher UK VAT, and a shippers fee for doing the VAT (maybe £20?).

I made one - will post picture later.

Well next time just look in your packing cases instead of asking damfool questions here! 🤣

Stereo is about placing the instruments on the soundstage; just a left-right balance control does that. (That's one of the things mixers do.) Of course, if you split your mono signal and route it via separate Fx channels, then you can have two completely different sounds.

I know I've posted this elsewhere, but it seemed on-topic here...

With the 3 you can set the channels in series or parallel. I've never looked at a 2 and thought I'd rather have that. The 3 has a tuner and compression as well.

I have a Microbass 3; the normal channel is excellent. However, the drive channel doesn't do it for me: I'd prefer it if they had two normal ones (like the Stanley Clarke acoustic bass model); if they released a model like that I'd buy one. It has an Fx loop, so you can use it as a hub on a pedalboard, eg. including a drive pedal; on my board the Fx Send/Return connect to a Quartermaster with 4 other pedals in switchable loops.

My neck strap is too short - any pointers where to get one in the UK?

Clockwork Angels is rather good. I went to a hi-fi shop with it and the chap there said "Rush: there'll be no deep bass in that"; put it on and some of the bass pedals work made his eyes pop!

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I bought an SB-700 new back in the day; I liked it but it was rather large. I don't remember when I sold it. I bought an SB-600 (a 700 with a set neck) last year and occasionally pick it up.

The Rickenbacker way is to press the neck to position and use the truss-rod to hold it in place. This is someone who knows using that approach on a vintage Fender bass. NB. don't push/pull on the headstock to do it - press down on the 1st fret.

It’s a really good workout!

Helter Skelter is another Macca good 'un. The thing about his bass lines in The Beatles is to get the feel of them rather than learn them note-for-note, as I think he did them on the fly and would (or could) never play them exactly the same again.

Does a '94 have replaceable truss-rods (ie. without requiring fingerboard removal)?

Minimoog bass (not a Taurus).

Did anybody pay the full price?

We used to play Detroit Rock City in my school band. I've not got that one but do have a couple of other Steven Wilson DVD Audio releases, including Thick As A Brick which I bought yesterday. I rip them to FLAC 96/24 so I can stream them to my hi-fi. (Unfortunately my hi-fi amp is off for a service, so it'll be a week or so before I can have a proper listen.)

I like the bass on Electric Funeral.

The list looks right. It then says "the total output power must not exceed 55.4 W"; by the formula P=IV, I make it 34W: 34.11