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I'm a happy customer. Good comms, next day delivery and arriving in the condition as expected.

No joy with the my Nux getting revived. Some good wife work going on here though - I was complaining my old Vox headphone amp broke and now the Nux has broke and the response was "oh I've got one of those for you"! (intended as a birthday present but I'd bought myself the Nux in the meantime)..... I'm not ungrateful but am not a fan of the Vox though, so the brand new one will be in the classifieds shortly if anyone's keen. Don't tell my missus though. It does lead me to the same question as @Fuzzbass2000 though as I don't think I'll get the Nux again and the Blackstar looks pretty much like a re-branded Vox with different rhythm tracks and no ability to adjust the rhythm volume independently. I had the Waza Air which were great but quite hard to justify >£330 for headphone practice, I'm hoping their wireless latency free technology filters down to some cheaper products soon. The Fender Mustang Micro might be worth a look https://www.andertons.co.uk/fender-mustang-micro-personal-guitar-amplifier-2311300000 It has similar features to the Nux Pro but with more onboard control. A shame it doesn't have built-in rhythm tracks though.

My Nux Mighty Plug perhaps isn't so mighty, it has stopped working. 😥 Charging light comes on, but other than that it is dead for bluetooth or Bass and no other lights turn on, reset doesn't solve it. Perhaps mucking about plugging it into a Laptop for firmware updates will sort it, it'll be a shame if it doesn't as it has been a good bit of kit and alternatives don't seem to be in the same league.

Two of my favorite genres of music are dub and stoner/doom, they are similar in quite a few ways but aren't often combined but The Bug does it sometimes: The Bug vs Earth: And a new from The Bug vs Al Cisneros (Sleep)

I think you are correct that the UK/EU deal means zero tariffs (i.e. customs) for UK imports as long as a product has been produced in the EU (and can be proved as per the 'Rules of Origin'). An issue might be if small retailers can go through the faff of proving rules of origin rather than just putting the non-EU origin customs cost onto the UK buyer. The UK 20% VAT (not classed as a 'tariff' in the same way as customs fees) has to be paid, but the EU VAT does not: "The foreign retailer is not required to charge VAT or excise duty (whether at the UK rate or its own) on the sale. Instead, the UK consumer must pay HMRC the tax owed. Usually, the postal service or the courier will pay HMRC on the individual’s behalf, then require the individual to repay them before the goods are released. They may also charge an administration fee for this service: for example, Royal Mail charge £8 per parcel, while some private courier companies charge substantially more." https://www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/explainers/tax-brexit

The D'Addario is the best one I've owned (one downside being I find the # symbol a bit small to see). Korg Pitchbalck mini is good too, a slight downside I've found having owned two of them is they both spat out certain jacks rather than holding onto them tightly so I ended up with elastic bands around them. I like the look of the new Nux but haven't tried it yet: https://www.nuxefx.com/flowtune.html it seems the best of both, it does the D'Addario thing of having the more intuative up/down display rather than left/right, and the Korg thing of being small. And it can do buffered bypass. I'm going clip-on tuner next though - it simplifies things for times I want to just plug directly into an amp without any pedalboard. I've just ordered a Korg Pitchclip 2 (£14 incl. postage Amazon prime), the v1 is on sale for £7 direct from Korg but they charge £5 postage so I thought I might as well go for v2. If it's anything like other Korg tuners then I expect it'll do the job well, I wasn't sure if the extra £20 for the Unitune would've been worthwhile but I guess I'll soon find out if the Korg turns out to be unreadable or falls apart......will report back! EDIT: It arrived, it seems to work well - including on the open B string, it is much smaller than I expected (almost comically small - like when people buy a cheap chair online and only find out when it's delivered that its a Doll's chair), it isn't easily readable in direct sunlight but fine indoors.

Nice one, yeah a few more things to consider than I had originally anticipated. Looks like it worked out well though. I guess if I were to go for new Northwest Guitars Neck (£130) then it doesn't have pre-drilled holes so that solves the plug/re-drill thing, and potentially also a new Body from them (£175) means there aren't mis-aligned scratchplate or bridge screw holes (as it doesn't have any pre-drilled). The price soon starts creeping up though! But I suppose getting those two key parts new makes things easier, then I can gradually add all the other parts second hand. That'd be £305 neck and body + approx. £200 for everything else so about £500......somewhere between the cost of a new Squier and new Fender MIM Player series.

MusicMan Basses look ugly to me, the Bongo looks like a toilet seat and the Stingray control plate looks jarringly out of place the way it dosn't align with the pickguard. Saying that though, some Stingrays have a larger pickguard instead of separate control planel and there is a Sterling Stingray that does that along with my favorite finish (dark purple sparkle!) https://www.guitarguitar.co.uk/product/220112379376008--music-man-sterling-stringray-ray35-purple-sparkle-rosewood-fing?gclid=CjwKCAjws--ZBhAXEiwAv-RNL1cJJH_b7EJrF3-Y3DXYqSyO68DGNJestZUApk-xB1y6Ovl1AjqNGxoCn0gQAvD_BwE on looks alone I'm quite keen to get it. So I guess it's a bit of a love/hate thing. I quite like the classic style of a Sunburst + Tort Precision Bass, there is something warm and comforting and conservative about it. It seems the equivilant to an old tatty Chesterfield in a smokey dark corner of a 70s snooker club with sticky floor and a stale beer and whisky smell to it.....not sure that's always such a good thing though, sometimes sparkly purple funk seems more fun!

Nice one! That's encouraging, it looks like it worked out great. Some useful things I hadn't considered like Truss rod access, or the thread on the bolts. I'll get into insomniac skip rat mode!

I'm interested in putting together a Precision Bass ('building' would probably be too grand a term!). Basically getting second hand body, neck (complete with truss rod and frets and nut) and other bits and putting them together. I'm assuming that a passive P Bass is the simplest in terms of complexity of the actual Bass and ease of getting parts. I'm also assuming it is relatively easy as I'm basically just screwing parts together and not doing anything like shaping wood or adding frets/fret levelling or dealing with multiple pickups and active preamp.....but is there anything in particular I need to look out for? These are my assumptions: Body £90 (sold, but as an example). Depending on the body, I would perhaps paint it white - knowing that it'd be quite a shoddy sand then rattle can job (I quite like scruffy looking basses anyway). Neck £40 (also sold), this one being a Jazz neck, which I might do - assuming all J and P heel/neck pockets are the same so it's just a case of screwing it on with a neckplate. P bass pickups and loom £75, seems a faily simple process as they fit the P bass body cavities. Tuners £50 (they'd need to match the width of the headstock and ideally match any pre-drilled holes) Bridge £30 (ideally with the screw holes in the same standard P bass positions) Pickguard £20 Additional things like strings, neckplate, knobs, strap buttons, string tree, etc. £50 Total: £355 .......then some fairly easy going jobs of screwing pieces toghether and perhaps a small bit of soldering and Bob's your unkle, a one-off custom Bass! I'm not expecting it to be cheaper (or better!) than just getting an equivilant cost second hand bass but it will hopefully be fun or at least rewarding and I will be able to personalise it possibly cheaper than getting another Bass and then changing lots of parts (Ideally I want: lightweight white P bass body, J Bass neck, black pickguard, white pickups, Black lightweight hardware - including drop tuner).

I thought the Vox was quite shoddy - hissy, crackly wheels, poor construction (jack snapped off). The Nux in comparison is good sounding, not noisy, well built, rechargeable, Bluetooth for streaming music to play along to, 6x Preset settings for different effects like Modulation and distortion and eq (adjustable via the app). Something the Vox wins on is being able to adjust the Bass volume & tone and on-board click & beats as a stand alone unit. The Nux needs Bluetooth connection to the app to access those things.

Yeah, I had the Vox and now have the Nux. The Nux is much better. Or if you want to spend £££ then the Boss Waza Air Bass are great.

RIP:

Unlimited Touch, Searching to find the one:

Alternatively, could've seen 2 piece drums/Bass bands like Royal Blood, Death From Above 1979, Om and concluded it's a worrying time to be a Guitarist. Perhaps some music can do without Bass, not stuff I want to hear though!

A Google search for 'Bernard Edwards Bass sound' led me here so it must be one of the go-to places for information - but it has been over 5 years since anyone posted so I thought it was about time to resurrect the thread, not really to add any information but to continue the appreciation! I think this is a great assessment of his playing style: "Edwards is a master of taste. A player with great technical ability, he exercises restraint and control in the most musical way—creating a part and letting it guide the song. His lines are simple enough that you can sing along to them, yet they seem fresh over and over again due to the subtle tension they create. In many ways, he defined what we consider a “bass groove”—a hook that doesn’t need elaboration to be interesting, and in fact, is more effective when executed correctly over and over again." https://www.notreble.com/buzz/2018/06/14/bass-players-to-know-bernard-edwards/ He is probably best known for playing a Stingray but his white Precison with black pickguard and white pickups (as seen in the picture posted earlier in this thread and in the Le Freak video) is pretty much my dream bass, it looks 'Chic' and funky while also being similar to the quintessential Punk look of Dee Dee Ramone's White/Black P Bass. I can't remember where I read it but aparently he used a Precision a lot in recording for the earlier stuff and used other basses for photos/videos....not that it probably matters what Bass he was playing as he seems to be a great example of someone that sounded like himself no matter what Bass he played.

They have an impressive list of users https://www.audiokitchen.co.uk/users/?product=the-big-trees

One of the less played BMW tunes. I particularly like the bassline - I prefer it when Aston Barrett keeps the basslines simple and repetative/meditative and dubby like this (which he seemed to do a bit more on the later albums).