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Lozz196

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  1. Vicky Smith of The Ramonas. Difficult job that, down-strokes for the whole evening at that speed, but she`s much more accomplished than Ramones material.
  2. The larger Fender Rumble combos get a lot of love, but seeing as you loved the sound of the Ashdown I`d take a look at the Amps For Sale on here, one of the guys @FinnDave is selling a few at present. If looking for a gig-worthy combo I`d go for a 210 and 300watts as a minimum.
  3. Well up to £1200 I’d be looking at a US one, my thoughts of those I’ve had. Late 90s to 2004 - good sized necks, nice balanced sounding pickups 2004 to 2007 - same as above but included the S1 Switch, which can change the sound to similar to a Jazz 2008 to 2012 - neck quite shallow so felt wider as a result, scooped modern sounding pickups 2013 to 2016 - deep chunky necks, Custom Shop 62 pickups so fuller/more vintage sounding US Professional 1 - neck modelled on 63 Pbass, the “holy grail” of Pbass necks apparently. Tall narrow frets. V-Mod pickups are ok/quite neutral sounding. The advantage of the US models are graphite strengthening rods in the necks, plus you can easily add a Hipshot Drop D Extender and a Fender A-String Retainer (some A strings can rattle due to the poor angle) without any permanent mods.
  4. I’ve found that having the neck pickup on full, bridge pickup on about 25% and tone on about 75% gets me a good almost Precision type sound that works really well for classic rock on my Jazz. This setup both reducing highs and adding mids As said earlier the CS62 pickups also help nicely on this as they’re quite full sounding.
  5. This. I’m Precision nuts, love them and am happy playing any Precision and my faves are the 2013-16 US Standards, but as there are so many different models available get the one your hands like the most. I hit on my faves by trial & error over a period of a good few years. And a thank you to @Jonesy for such fine comments, very pleasant of you!
  6. Placed an order with BD on Sunday, items delivered today.
  7. Not played one of these but the Vintage Tony Butler Precision I had was very well put together, played & sounded great. Not a good instrument for the money, just a good instrument full stop. If I weren’t so hooked on US Fenders the common sense approach would be to own/gig Vintage basses.
  8. I wonder if RedNev means it was the low end of football?
  9. Looks great, bet it sounds it too
  10. The 74s are really nice, I put a set into a Squier VM77 Jazz and they really improved it. My faves tho are the CS62s, they have a nice amount of bulk to the sound.
  11. Maybe do a day to day diary type post? Will def be interested to hear how it goes, that`s a great one to get.
  12. I do this in a couple of songs in the classic rock band, only to a drop D but it makes a nice difference, really brings out the guitar & keys on those bits - and sounds much more powerful on the low end of course.
  13. Agree, and given the quality of other brands at similar - and indeed lower - prices, it can and is being done, so there should be no excuses.
  14. Just got in from my Spacewasters gig at The Escape Bar in Shepherds Bush. Nice venue, parking in the road next to it, proper storage area for equipment, decent stage, provided backline and turned out I knew the guys running the gig and sound, and the headline band as well. All of this made for what we hoped would be a good gig and it was. The provided bass amp sounded great but cut out a few times, however as I was DI’d from my Sansamp it was only the band that noticed. We played well, had a good few people (mainly ladies) dancing, which is an achievement in itself when you’re playing originals. Turns out the guys running the evening loved us so looking forward to a return. Oh and am already in, having just had a free Double Cheeseburger from McDonalds courtesy of my points from the app. Life be good!
  15. My ideal would be an Ashdown ABM600 in BC a preamp/DI pedal, lose the compression & sub-harmoniser, if possible add a tuner (tho not essential). Keep the 9-band eq & valve drive. @Ashdown Engineering, please humour me and make one!
  16. It’s amazing how good a Precision is in the mix isn’t it @TrevorG, on its own it can sound a tad uninspiring but they just fit into so many genres so well.
  17. The Yamaha should be fine for what you’re doing but until you’ve played/got a Precision you’ll never really know and it will forever be lurking in your mind. As such get Precision hunting.
  18. Definitely, that’s why I love my Ashdown ABM600, on those big stages it still delivers a big powerful sound. Some amps are loud enough on those stages but the sound gets thinned down, the ABM retains its “bigness”.
  19. If it can be got to near me (Hemel Hempstead, J8 on M1) I’m happy to drive it to Cobham Services on M25 (between Junctions 10 & 9).
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