Now that you mention it, I remember seeing that Carruthers video. Probably most recently watched the other ones and that’s what the music nomad kit says to do for their feeler gauge. I’m betting there’s not a huge difference between either method. Makes sense that a neck through would be measured differently. I watched that video that @Al1885 posted on the construction of one of his neck through basses. It showed a totally different building process for those neck through guitars.
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So to all of you meticulously measuring neck relief with feeler gauges, to make sure you set it to some random person’s idea of where it should be - have you tried setting it differently? You might like it better 
For example, if you only play fingerstyle and want a very low action, making it a little flatter can be nice. Alternatively, if you pick but would still like a low action, adding a little extra neck relief can reduce buzz. Sometimes I even make these adjustments on the fly if I change style of playing (as I like a low action).
The “bounce” method has always worked just fine to me for initial setting. I don’t find the idea of measuring the neck relief all that useful, TBH. After your first couple setups you can get a very accurate feeling for when the neck is either flat or has the right amount of relief for you, just by how far it bounces when capo’d and fretted at the body.
I do like to have a ruler for checking action height but that’s just because I am curious if I am getting buzz at 2mm with a flat neck with my playing style - this indicates I might have a high fret and it’s time to pull out the fret rocker.
Just like fret sprout and neck geometry changes with humidity, any fretted guitar-like instrument can develop high frets from time to time. They are very easy to fix but can drive you mad trying to eliminate buzz in a setup if you don’t find and fix them.
And then there’s nut height, but that’s another topic entirely and something else not hard to fix without any special tools.
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Yes. The way the neck flexes is not linear, but rather flexes more up around the 5th-7th fret area and increasing towards the nut. I usually bounce-check neck relief at the 7th and 9th frets.
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That’s cool. How old is your ride? Antique yet?
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on purpose, I set mine just a bit taller. not just the weather effect but the more precise and particular you are to your playing the more it effects how you play when it’s not where you want it.
I have no choice but to learn to like it “near” perfect. it actually gives me a lot of flexibility I can really dig in and get all of the tonal spectrum out of plugging angrily. 
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I don’t currently have an old ride with a points distributor, I had a 65 Galaxie 500 with a stroked 428 FE engine. I still have a New Old Stock points distributor in a box for a Ford FE series engine.
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The 390 was a great engine. My college car, a '61 Caddy 6-window Sedan de Ville had one.
PreSonus Quantum ES4 DAI
Everything can be managed in software! No need to fumble knobs (except when you’re into fumbling knobs :-))
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The 428 and 390 I’m thinking of are Ford’s. Caddy and Sedan de Ville are GM products… But the Ford and the Caddy 390 engines came out
in '61 that’s cool though.
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Presounus makes some pretty nice interfaces. I had a Revelator io24 at one point for streaming and podcasting. The software was nice but not having a physical mute button was kind of a deal breaker for me at the time. Also, the expander/gate was awful
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To be honest, I had ruled out any hardware of PreSonus cause of my miserable expience with the Presonus AudioBox USB 96 25th Anniversary Edition.
It s#cked so very much!!!
But I learned what I wanted by the great - but imperfect - SLL 12.
I want to control stuff in software only and never touch a knob again
And the ES4 can do just that (or so I hope - we’ll find out)
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looking forward to hearing your thoughts on this one
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I was torn between the ES4 and the HD2.
The HD2 has some better components and is 32 bit (integer, NOT float … so why???).
And it looks super cool.
But it has features like ADAT … which I had to google, so I don’t need it. Can’t justify the price differerence…
Is that different to the Custard factory in Digbeth? I went to a very cool night there in an empty swimming pool (back when ‘breaks’ was a thing)
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Just playing Devil’s Advocate here but it’s just an interface. If you’re that hung up on sound quality and features, I’d just skip past the consumer grade ones and shell out the money for a pro grade DAI. You’re always going to be making compromises until then. Beyond that though, we’re almost all amateurs or casual pros around here. Do you really need an interface with all of the bells and whistles? Shitty Youtube uploads are about as good as almost all of us here need.
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I was almost 300 post behind in this thread (only like 6 days). Finally caught up.
Fender Mustang Micro Plus - Ordered
MusicNomad kit - Ordered.
Don’t really need either one.
Ya’ll suck.
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I think we all know the answer to that question?
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I don’t ‘think’ it was the same club. The one in Digbeth seems a bit more ravey back in the 90’s, but I also can’t find anything about the one I thought it was. I never went myself, so it is a distinct possibility my memory is letting me down. The clubs in Birmingham I went to were Edwards No8, and XL’s, both rock venues
Laney do a Digbeth bass amp though, so …maybe?
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