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Think this Friday on BBC4 will be a good one, especially for @Reggaebass 9:30 Studio 17 - The Lost Reggae Tapes 10:55 Toots & The Maytals - Profile of Toots Hibbert

Well it seems that I’m now a fully paid up member of the Stingray Fan Club. With the combination of the 3EQ rosewood fretboard Stingray & Ernie Ball Coated 50-105s through my Ampeg SCR-DI I’ve finally got a bass sound from a ‘Ray that I absolutely love. I’m going to try it in the classic rock band on Thu (if our drummer has recovered from the curvid).

An all day music thingy, starts 1pm on Portsmouth Pier this Sunday, with the band I play for, The Spacewasters on around 3:30. Shades - check Factor 50 - check

There’s one in Liverpool on Ebay at £450 or best offer @ern500evo

Said guitarist learns a new song at this week’s rehearsal, next week he’ll be able to play it spot on. Work the schedule that way and he has no excuses. All it does is mean that he’s essentially always one rehearsal behind the rest of the band.

Way too much, similar to @WoodinblackI paid around £375 for mine, a B-Stock item from PMT. I wouldn’t expect a used one to be £200 more.

I remember those days well. Our criteria for hotels was anything more than a 3hr drive home, though often what would have been 2hrs ended up well over the 3hrs due to motorway closures. And yes, at that time of night very seldom see anyone working so you do tend to wonder why a whole 15 or so miles is coned off down to one lane when vehicles could be driving along those lanes.

I thought the Fender had a better definition to the sound

Around £350 to £450 depending on condition (and good fortune)

Yep, some things are very unlikely in this world, the above def being two of them

I’m sure that good singers can get away without monitors, but for me I need to hear both the lead vocals and my own in order to pitch correctly so monitors are an essential part of a PA for me.

Well our drummer for his tees did the vacuum pack thing, one tee in each pack with the pertinent logo/focal point to the front. I’m too lazy do they’re all just in one big box together. I’ll probably never look at any of it again but it’s important to me that I have it all.

I’ve a box full of CDs, LPs, magazines where we’ve been interviewed or reviewed, plus t-shirts be they our own merch or festival tees where the band played. This only relates to my last band though.

That`s a ridiculously good price!

I use the BDDI so that whichever rig is there at the gigs I play i get the sound I want. I`d prefer to use my amp (Ashdown ABM600) but if the provided rig is a combo then I`m in a sticky situation, so BDDI all the way so I get consistency to FOH. In past years I had the Blend on full so got the full Sansamp flavour, however now I have it around midday-ish, find it retains more of the bass`s actual character that way, but as with anything that`s more to do with what the band needs, I love the full-on BDDI sound but it`s not really right for my current band.

I find the larger the gauge the more depth to the sound, but conversely I find the thinner the gauge the more I enjoy playing them. So my ideal is 45-100 but sourcing my fave Elixirs in that gauge is pretty much impossible lately so it`s been 45-105, however recently I strung my Stingray with EB Coated 50-105 rounds and have to say I really like them, so depending on how they last I may switch to them on all my basses.

Another Ashdown RM500 (EVO-2) user here. Great amps, very versatile, very powerful sounding too, certainly not a thin sound from these.

Sometimes ash bodied Precisions can bark a bit, I nicknamed my old 78 Ian Paisley as the bark from it just reminded me of how he sounded.

There are many musicians that never learn that, def further on than a start imo

Great imagery there Tim, nice and dark & brooding, really fits the genre well

Almost compulsory to have one methinks

Reverse P makes sooooo much sense, and rather telling that in a blind P-bass shootout the runaway winner was equipped with one.

Yep, when I was younger if anyone was in a band, of whatever ilk, it was great, whereas our younglings at work seem to have no real interest in bands/music at all, only one girl (early 30s) having done some singing and knows a guy that plays guitar, none of the rest even know any musicians.

That is niiiiiiice!