Downunderwonder

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.

I am thinking about ditching my bells and whistles preamp as I only really need the tuner in it for rehearsals. I can put my tuner back on. Probably ditch the highpass filter and make do with the bass knob. Then I can skateboard to rehearsal.

The lighter the body the more you give the upper horn the 'boner' treatment.

If you can move 1 speaker a couple of ft you might get interference in the bass enough to reduce it. You can put EQ on the case and cut the bejesus out of the offending frequencies. Much easier than damping it out after the fact.

Don't forget the old VCVCGSCCfade

Most amps with an fx loop will let you plug into the fx return cutting out the onboard preamp altogether. SCR > Power Amp > speaker. The Quilter Bass amp was developed via Talkbass forum initially as a power block to take pedals but as it proceeded it became clear it would sell better with a few extra preamp features. Knobs at noon is supposed to be entirely neutral. Markbass ironically some of the few that don't run serial fx loop.

It won't hurt anything to test it if you can't figure it out from the manual. By rights a full range fx loop should have the EQ in already and if you are using other fx you simply put the DI in post them and before the fx return. The doubtful bit is the onboard compression might be post all of that.

Suggest you look at the item and the price and deduce your BP immediately rising before avoiding that fate by moving on without clicking.