Downunderwonder

There's a cost to clear through Customs now. I think the couriers are taking the wizz with their charges on that. Post used to be able to do that for free here. Stuff arrived declared and Post it put on a shelf while Customs sent you a demand letter. Once you paid up Customs told Post to carry on and deliver it. Now NZ Post is in bed with DHL. Can't even post a bass in a case any more.

The waters are muddied by general opinions being in the same stream as advice for the OP. The OP has said he brought up the inadequacy of his current axe. He still hasn't decided if the reply from his bandmates amounted to a demand or a suggestion albeit a stupid expensive one to many of us. No wonder then that folks feel free to add alternative more pocket friendly options.

Superglue can be very toxic to susceptible individuals. Cyanoacrylate can send your immune system haywire. Before you you know what's going on you can be destroying your own gut and developing allergies that dog you for life. Not worth the risk if you ask me.

Worked fine for me too. Yamaha BB 5'er factory strings down a half step and cut the Trace 12 band EQ's low sliders.

Appoint yourself Chairman of this democratic band. When it's 2-2 the Chairman gets the casting vote. If you keep getting out voted 3 to 1 you are in the wrong band. Alternatively you make yourself President and start firing people until it's the right band.

Scooping all the mids out will do that.

I see. Must be a duff one. I had a similar problem with a cheap EUB open big wheel gear tuner breaking free at the key, except the whole key separated from the drive shaft. A bit of Selley's black 2 part epoxy bodged it right back.

Iirc that amp has the same power module as the 450 which was actually 243W RMS.

Hard to distinguish the split from reflections but I take your word for it. I wonder if it's a fake Schaller as they are supposedly the good stuff.

Not familiar with Schaller tuners. What's wrong?

Most likely covid has slowed the wheels. Amazon collects GST for NZ with a click. I guess Kiwi shoppers buy with intent and much consideration making returns not a thing?

Mountain out of molehill making methinks.

You said you weren't sure if it was a suggestion or a demand. That says to me it was just mouthing off.

The listing says he doesn't have a box to post it in. I guess that means he doesn't have a car to go fetch a box or take it to the post office.

Not a chance.

Ain't nothing to be done about the current situation unless you mean undo Brexit. EU merchants have to jump through HM Customs hoops. No big deal. The only difference is the effort to do that. UK customers pay them the same price as the EU customers with none of their sales tax. Customer pays for shipping and UK sales tax at the border. What would you suggest is out of kilter that could be tweaked to make it more favourable to sell out of EU to UK?

What do you mean? There's nothing unfavourable to EU merchants about the status quo except having to deal across tax regimes with documentation.

He means don't over drive the cabinets as in don't blow them up. Easier said than done at war volume with 2 cabs and 600 w on tap. Volume is a result of applying power to cabs. Whether it's gain applied at the input or the output doesn't matter a whole lot. Volume is volume. The bit that can really screw with you is purposely distorted tones. At high volume it's very hard to distinguish between sounds of bass glory and the sounds of your speakers being tortured. As you are playing a solid state amp it's quite easy to explore the limits with a clean tone to find where the cab starts to cry. If you are using a pedal to get boss tonez make sure it doesn't push too much extra volume. You are going to need earplugs or you will go deaf.

I wonder if your fuzz is also partly responsible for dropping the balls out.

What you are calling rolling is plucking with less aggression than what you are calling plucking.

Seriously every bassist? Hell no, surely not serious.

''The one you're using right now''. Must not be too loud. Must not obliterate the bass guitar.

I wonder how many upright players in all of history took a pick to it.

Surgical spirit sounds similar to Meths which used to be the goto for blisters.