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I think I’d look at getting one of the Fender Downtown Express pedals for this.

Bros?

One of my faves

There’s plenty of stuff out there on the punk/Oi scene

In my last band I used a Tech21 Para Driver into my Ashdown amps but with the eq on those in the off position. Not exactly the same as a power amp but doing pretty much the same. Worked well.

The Marshall DBS range was great - albeit massively heavy cabs. Not sure why it never really took off.

Jumped ship to Fender F-Grip 346. 1.5mm thick so get a better attack sound with a softer touch, plus the sound they generate is quite “scoopy” so suits me well. And they’re triangular so still 3 picks for the price of one. Plus the indentation of the F makes for a good grip. And the red/tort makes them easier to see if dropped on stage.

I never understood why Marshall bought them, didn’t seem to do much with them, hopefully G4M will resurrect them.

Vintera 70s P would be great!

The Mex Classic 50s has a real aggressive snarl, def worth checking out (tho neck width not to everyone’s taste)

Looks great, but I bet it sounds even greater than it looks.

I’ve heard many many many guitars & amps over the years, as I’m sure we all have. Imo difficult to beat a Gibson & Marshall, which isn’t exactly new.

I like the “split scratchplate” idea@thodrik, not seen that before but does make accessing the electrics a fair bit easier I would think. Kudos to the previous owner for coming up with that.

1 Doesn’t speed up 2 Doesn’t slow down 3 Doesn’t do rolls/hit cymbals during the parts of the songs that are the “singalong” parts, as these get in the way of the vocal melodies

From the chats I’ve had with drummers I’ve been in bands with they’ve just wanted someone who didn’t get in their way of holding the timing down.

An Ashdown ABM 210 will easily be the happy medium between your two previous rigs, providing you`re ok with the weight they`re a good choice.

Did one in a past band, last Monday of the month for 3 months. In other words a night when no-one had any money and even if they did were unlikely to be spending it on a Monday. 3rd Fri in the month isn’t that bad, I’d say yes to that.

Am getting some great sounds from mine at present, tho tried the SVT style setting and it was light years away from any SVT I’ve ever used. Quite like the Bassman style setting tho.

HiMass for me, seems to be tighter & more precise

Still unfortunate though, and a good reminder why remaining vigilant is a necessity

Great news @Franticsmurf, well done

My main bass - now retired to home use only due to sentimental reasons - did probably 150 gigs over a 3 year period, including festivals & overseas tours, plus video shoots. Whilst not precious about it I similarly wasn’t careless with it. Our driver on the tours used to joke that he’d never seen a bass in such good condition, aside from fret-wear it’s still in pretty much new condition. I’m obviously letting the low-slung heavy-pick attack punks down badly.

I`ve got the ones as per the left hand image on the pic. Plenty easy to put in/take out.

I’m in a very loud band due to the drummer and I have the PRO 17s, pretty much all of the frequencies are preserved, just everything is much quieter, to being roughly at home listening volume for your stereo.

Is it definitely the grill that rattles? I ask as I’ve had a couple of cabs which rattled and the problem was the tweeter - even when switched off, part of it rattled on low notes.