Downunderwonder

So the bassist is a re broadcast station for local RF? Not buying it.

Back it up please. Ime an antenna only works when it is in electrical contact with the receiving device.

You're saying the player acts as a big antenna into the bass electronics when he isn't connected to them? But when he is connected to them he stops transmission? No comprendez.

A Compact 12 or BigBaby would be a safer bet. Still pretty easy things to shift.

Is that a trick question? Have at it. I am not an electrician. I don't even know why the strings need to be at ( signal?) ground! All I said was ( grounding everything and everything with ) copper foil fixed the lack of (effective) ground at the bridge ( replacing fingers on strings). I am well aware of Faraday's cage effect. Fingers on strings are not a Faraday cage.

Granddaughter would possibly fit, kinda hard to see how old she is in the photos.

Beats me what contortions one would have to do to have a conflict of forearm and binding.

Your link even talks about compensating for bad bridge grounds. Do you have shares in it?

Bernie is poking a banana in his ear. Burt : ''Earnie, wtf?'' Earnie : ''I am keeping the crocodiles away from Sesame St'' Burt : ''EARNIE, THERE ARE NO CROCODILES ON SESAME ST!!!" Earnie : ''See, it's working!''.

Ugh. If it was grounding then touching the strings would not have made a difference!

There's your 'missing' science! Clearly the bridge was NOT grounding!

Can you explain how the touching strings eliminated the buzz then?

I think hardware is pretty well correlated from the barely acceptable to pretty good stuff. Schallers breaking is a glaring departure from their historical price reliability correlation tradition. They will pay in the end.

You haven't made a point. You have only reiterated propositions of the OP without stating a position. Fancy basses appeal to some players who can afford them. So what?

Supply and demand allows the makers a little profit. Nobody is putting a gun to anyone's head to buy so I fail to see your concern.

Tell her your mates from BassChat request ''Smelly Cat''.

You got the last bit right. Certainly cheap basses have come a long way since 1969 but you're still looking at polishing something that came out the back end of a cow to get a gem like object.

Your complaint is with your govt's 23%, not with UK ending your '3%' discount scheme.

Free shipping on stuff, including Barefaced Retro10.

Cool. You will have incidentally grounded the bridge in the process since there was no buzz when you grounded it yourself. Next time you're playing under a dimmer or fluorescent lights you'll be golden too.

^this.

Angling for a spot on Team Rickenfakerbuster?

They don't go poof because they are also rated for a heap more voltage and the average bass signal is very much less than its peak voltage so the power is much lower than peak in practice.

You can. They have very good rates on their worldwide shipping. You won't pay a penny of VAT to the UK. Andertons in UK undercut BF in UK effectively by doing free shipping! I guess BF don't mind as it saves them shagging around shipping single cabs.

Better sort out the drum track levels before doing anything else.