Downunderwonder

Yet when a compressor is well engaged the overall volume RISES!!!!!!!!!

Bugger. There was a thread not so long ago about a courier (DHL???) waylaying a Wal on its way to the US. It took heroic efforts from the, UK or EU I forget, sender, going up the chain of command a very long way and never taking their word for it that it was gondburger and eventually it was found and delivered. So keep at it.

... and a nice soft pick up near the neck would help, if it comes to it.

One time exposure is relatively unlikely to result in immune system mayhem. You are one of the 95%, so far. I am one of the 5%. My system has settled down but it has taken over ten years. Trust me, nobody would go down that rabbit hole voluntarily.

Have you not seen the ''air guitar, tonewood" YouTube?

We've been round the bases on that alread. Rehashing it won't do any good.

I expect the SCR does a fair mess of compression in doing its thing.

Seems like nothing has sunk in from all the advice you got in your previous thread. You can use a 500w RMS or 1000w RMS or even a 2000w RMS. Any will work. All could blow up your cabs if you let them. Go back to your old thread and have another read.

Super glue is great until you develop a sensitivity to cyanoacrylate and it buggers up your immune system causing all kinds of disturbances to your chi. Alcohol dries out blisters. A little bit often enough to have an effect is ok but if you wind up with cracks you'll be sorry! A couple of days rest should fix the soreness and it'll probably hurt less after the gig. Then you'll be done hardening up. Use plenty of gain and you won't have to pluck so hard. You can only pluck so softly with control as a beginner with the fingers so don't overdo the gain or you won't have any dynamics.

Surely a used chain would be free from a bike shop.

You want the bridge to line up with the neck. Presumably the spacing of the holes is entirely appropriate for the width of the neck. Then you want a pickup that more or less matches the string spacing where it is going to go, not biased to one side as it was. It looks like yours will be ok once centered. Forget about wrangling the strings at the bridge to match the pickup.

There's a Mex P Deluxe in the classifieds which has your name on it. P and J pickups on a slim P body with a slim almost jazz neck. 18V preamp as well. Not exactly 'high end' but for 650 quid it's a bargain performer.

Can you name any mainstream manufactured 410 115 where the 410 doesn't have at least+5dB of sensitivity and twice the power handling of the 115?

Whatever fits that does good things with the piezo pickup. Alternatively you could go direct out of the jack to a pedal but not having a working volume knob would be a bit naff.

Wot, no break? The neglect, the neglect.

Got to run but if you read back it's all there where the bridge should be. The pickup isn't aligned either???

I see you at least won out on soundchecking at the venue on the night, in front of the punters.

3 hrs of so far so good? Talk about the suspense!

Most of us probably bought a matching first new rig or someone's matching cast off first new rig. Only because we didn't know any better, and because it looked cool and made sense all at the same time and when does that ever happen?

You shouldn't. I mainly play fretless unlined and don't feel particularly clever about the parlour trick that it is. There's dots up the side for if I get lost, which does happen. Intonation is something you either get or you don't.

If we assume you could be wrong about that you should try inserting a lead into the fx send return loop. This will remove the possiblity it is the switch contact in the loop jack playing up.

Need correct screwdriver for the bridge screws and the correct hex keys for all the adjustments. The correct one will fit the fixing like a glove. 'Close not enough' will have a little play.

I don't know why you would attempt to damp before EQ treatment.

The old joke: Johnny gets home from his 1st bass lesson. Mum enquires how it went. ''Today I learned 8th notes on the E''. Next week it's ''8th notes on the A''. The following week Johnny rolls in at 10.30pm. ''WHERE THE HELL HAVE YOU BEEN?". ''Today I learned the turnaround and had my first gig down at the Dog 'n' Duck!!!". Which is where is coming from, but seriously, it has indeed been long enough already already.

If anyone else is looking, there's a very well priced Trace Elliot Elf in the classifieds presently.