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  1. Thanks for your reply. I will have a fiddle later....
  2. Hello, I have an Ashown RM420. It's a great amp and I have worked it hard for about 4 years. Recently I have been haveing some proiblems with volume and gain. to get the sound I like I have the shape button in, boost the low mids to about 3 o'clock small boost to bass and to treble. I use a foot pedal to kick in distortion and some octave. Some gigs I do don't go through a pa so I use two 8 ohm cabs and volume has to be at about 3 Oclock +.I generally keep the gain under control so even during my most enthuiastic playing the VU stays out of the red. Recently after some time I seem to loose control of the gain, every note i play the VU shoots staright to max and I get a really nasty distorted sound. Although the amp does not feel hot my gut tells me it is over heating, Can anybody shed any light on whats going on? Thanks,
  3. What is it really? How do you get it? I play in two average covers bands. One is a 4 piece with one guitarist. Said guitarist commented the band sounds thin during the solos and thought that thickening the bass tone with distortion would help. I added more distortion... Not sure it helped. Is there a good way to fill out a bands sound? Any thoughts or advice would be very gratefully received ?
  4. New pot fitted to good effect, thanks to all those who offered help/advice both publicly and privately.
  5. It's a 1981 Thunder 1.
  6. Thanks Twincam, problem solved and new pot being delivered soon.
  7. Hello, I have an old westone passive p bass. Its lovely to play but the tone pot doesn't work any more. Can I replace it with any 250k pot or will there a particular type that I need? Or... should I just buy a new preamp? Any advice/help very gratefully received. Yan
  8. Thanks very much, didn't know the pole pieces would unscrew. Job done, lovely.
  9. hello, I have a westone passive P bass. It great and I don't want to change a thing about it. The only problem is that a small bit of the metal from the pick up pole sticks up and catches my finger, just enough to make it sore after a couple of hours playing. If i didn't like the bass so much I would have just taken a chance and sanded it down, but I want to be 100% confidant no potential harm can come from that before I do! Picture here [url="https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/5667582/DSC_0125.JPG"]https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/5667582/DSC_0125.JPG[/url] to help explain. any advice gratefully received. Yan
  10. Thanks for the welcome, always good to find a friendly place.
  11. [color=#222222][font=Arial][size=2]Hello![/size][/font][/color] [color=#222222][font=Arial][size=2]My name is Yan, I have been playing bass for about three years although not very seriously and mostly just so I can have some fun playing with my son who plays guitar.[/size][/font][/color] [color=#222222][font=Arial][size=2]A while ago I decided to take it more seriously and now I am about to join my first band.[/size][/font][/color] [color=#222222][font=Arial][size=2]Nothing like doing something for real to make you[/size][/font][/color][color=#222222][font=Arial][size=2] realise[/size][/font][/color][color=#222222][font=Arial][size=2] how much you don't know! I expect I will be asking[/size][/font][/color][color=#222222][font=Arial][size=2] allot[/size][/font][/color][color=#222222][font=Arial][size=2] questions over the next few months,[/size][/font][/color][color=#222222][font=Arial][size=2] particularly[/size][/font][/color][color=#222222][font=Arial][size=2] about that first gig and what I can get away with amp wise as I don't yet have anything that would fill a pub.[/size][/font][/color] [color=#222222][font=Arial][size=2]Bass wise I have a srx430 - £50 bargain from ebay and Guild Pilot that I inherited from an uncle. [/size][/font][/color] [color=#222222][font=Arial][size=2]Looking forward to picking your collective brains, Yan[/size][/font][/color]
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