Downunderwonder

I expect any endorser of anything gets theirs similarly.

Actually that was in a subsequent comment that I missed.

Not a horse I'd want to ride.

There is no slack, it's under tension! Nominally the string is in a straight line between nut and bridge, only nominally because we are ignoring gravity effects. For it to be bent to contact the fret it has to be physically longer and for it to be longer it must stretch and for it to be stretched it must be at more tension than when it was straight. The deviation from straight is small so the increase in tension is also small, but it is inescapable. The force that is required to push the string over to the fret is amplified manyfold in the increased string tension, by the ratio of the string length to the deflection.

As always it"s horses for courses in the wild wide world of gigging bands.

You would buy into it too if your livelihood depended in large part on upcharging for exotic timbers.

In that case you should loop the cable forward of the body and back in between body and strap. I don't think I have seen a jack so far back that it is impossible.

I think that ship already sailed.

From the link: "Manufacturer Musicman" So it should show in the EB serial machine, no?

Still about 5 too many? In last three years I have only sold basses. That's good justification for the latest purchase now that I think of it. Need to offload more.

In the case of new amp sold out of the EU the advertised price will include EU VAT so I believe you are wrong!!! The vendor sells it to you with no EU VAT being applied as it is being exported. To do that he must go through the correct export process but it's pretty simple. Thomman are all over it and I would expect Mr Handbox also. Sadly nobody seems to be able to get their head around EU VAT refunds on used goods exported privately. So for bringing in used stuff the 20% number may be close. You're in the cart for UK VAT on the shipping cost as well as as the purchase.

There isn't a reliable cable made that can compete with anyone's time when they are free. For most workers 72 quid for a cable they can put together in ten minutes with 10 quid worth of parts and a screwdriver is crazytown.

Akg P2 is very flat response up to 5kHz. It is inexpensive. You need a 5/8 female to male 3//8 steel adapter. The 3/8 goes into the supplied steel insert in the clip. Then you're sorted. This gets around having to screw your integral plastic mic 'clip' onto the mic stand 5/8 male and chewing it to death in three gigs.

The correct position for the Sub Harmonic muddifier is button out = off.

Yep. Many is the time I have gone to rehearsal for my jazz band after playing down the Dog'n'Duck with da Boyz and gone wtf is that mad dog barking coming out of my amp.

What's with all the reluctance to partake of your 5 seconds of fame?

Best autograph story so far by far. I never put out a recording or sold merch so no surprise no John Hancock requests either.

Fx send from your amp going to Fx return on the Trace is safe.

Danger is you sound rather unfamiliar with the rights and wrongs of plugging in stuff. A spare speakon is definitely not an open invitation to plug in another amp as in most cases that would blow up both amps. If you can completely disconnect the Trace amp from the cab then it is just a cab and you can plug your amp into it. Otherwise hell no with a side of fuggedaboudit.

Years ago there was a similar epic grimace immortalized as a "smiley" on TalkBass. "Atoz" was short for an expression of dismay.

The thing about open mics is Forrest Gump might well show up before Donald Trump. As the bass player you have to be prepared to sit one out as necessary. With a bit of experience it can be quite a wild ride accompanying trusting singer songwriters sounding like you had rehearsed for a week. Then come the 'man what are you doing here' comments. Some guitar players telegraph their chord changes. Some don't.

Akg P2 is the mic for the job. Cheap and near flat response to 5kHz.

Get an Akg P2.

180 switch is a phase reversal option that fully corrects a 180° phase inversion, keeping in mind some pedals are odd amount shifting. Phase is indeed an electronic phenomenon. If I understood it properly I might have become an electrical engineer. If you throw a tennis ball against the ground so it bounces against a wall and loops back to drop into your hand and threw another as it was hitting the wall then the two balls are out of phase with respect to their altitude 'signals' by crudely 180°. Ignoring the crudeness we could look at ideally thrown and bouncing balls... Now if your mate stands further back and throws his ball harder so it bounces higher but comes back to his hand at the same time as yours you are in phase and the sound of your ball has a higher pitch added on top of the original. But if instead your mate throws his up against the wall and it bounces back to him off the ground you get a cacophony of bounces. Importantly, unlike tennis balls bouncing the brain does not notice small discrepancies of phase when summing audio. Nor does it notice differences in phase reproduction across the spectrum.

Make it the original prototype "Boner P".