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For me it is completely about not valuing the bass, as per the above. In my last band The Spacewasters I generally used whatever was there, and because my sound in the band was quite generic it was always ok. But in my previous band Knock Off to not use my own sound would have ruined the overall sound of the band. To have people insisting that’s the way it has to be, well no, not when I’m playing it isn’t. I get it when it’s quick changeovers etc, but to me have less bands on, with better soundchecks & changeovers, and give the audiences what the bands want them to hear. In the past I’ve had sound people tell me they’ll get me a good sound and I’ve told them to not bother as I already have one. Edit - I should add to this that in my experience on many multi band bills sound engineers seem to dislike either very bassy sounds or very distorted/driven sounds, as my usual sound is neither maybe that’s why I’ve never really had too much trouble with them using my sound.

I agree, for some reason us bassists - and drummers to a certain extent - seem to end up with the “can’t you just use that and make life easy” situations. In times like these a Sansamp or equivalent is our friend, might not be a great onstage sound through whatever pony rig we end up with but at least out front get a decent one.

Thanks Pete, yes that ascending part is quite (major understatement) tricky, in fact that’s the only bit I’m concentrating on at present, figuring once I’m happy with that the rest will fit in easily enough.

And am now currently tinkering around with The Immigrant Song.

Markbass are good sounding amps, in a mix they fit very nicely.

Well it’s much easier in an originals band on a shared backline gig Dave, we turn up with our guitars and whatever bit of kit is our part of the shared backline, from there good to go. I do remember the days of setting up PAs, lights, removing furniture from stage areas, sound checking in a busy pub/bar. Great days but too much for me over last few years.

That’s a good point, the only compression I’ve ever used that I was competent enough to use was the one knob compressor on my old Ampeg PF500. Cue the claims of one knob using one knob………

I’ve been the same over the last couple of years too, in my efforts to make gigging as easy as possible. And you know what, I always managed to get a decent enough sound irrespective of whatever the rig was.

It’s amazing that such good instruments can be made for this amount, with the difference in quality between these and their big brothers not being as much as the price tag would suggest. Starter instruments when I began playing really weren’t up to much at all, whereas nowadays these could easily be first but kept hold of and gigged regularly instruments.

I shall watch these later when not at work. I loved the stuff you put up during lockdown, it was a real treat to see that a new Alibi clip had been put up.

On a vid on YouTube they said that SH specified an 80s sounding pickup for this bass, not being that knowledgeable about him does that fall into how his bass would have been before any mods, similar to the bridge?

Peach Guitars have one, 10lb 14. My vertebrae crumbled just typing that!

I’ve not used my Lionel with the band yet but I certainly like the sound of the pickup at home. Yes it’s a bit more modern sounding than Fender pickups but don’t find it to be that much more.

That’s really nice, and the colour looks great with the tort. Looks good in the pic with the other two basses too.

Has `Arry ever used a black P-bass - not that I`m a major fan or anything but only ever seen clips of him with the blue or white ones.

Matches my truly nasty voice nicely, lol.

Love The Fleece, great venue.

TC Electronic Spark Booster, or Ampeg Scrambler would both work, adding in just a tad of gain to the sound but not changing the tone.

I used to have an SM58 but at one gig used a Behringer XM8500 and preferred it with my voice, I only do backing vox mind, maybe it’s not an ideal mic for lead vox but it works fine for my uncultured yelling.

Think it looks really good

If I were into pedals I would try and do that. But even carrying one Sansamp around I now consider to be a mammoth task.

Thought this episode was very good. I’m not a particular Foo Fighters fan but they’re my kind of music so nice to see Nate go through his stuff.