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Really like that, add me to the list for when they’re ready to go.

Thanks for the tip, I wasn’t aware of that, certainly will make life easier 👍

I think it’s harder to win over an audience with original material, even if they’re into the style you play.

Just got in from my latest, an after-show gig at The Bear in Northampton. On at 1am - yes you read that right - for a 45min set. Made a change to be leaving home at 10pm to go to a gig. Went well, played well and a good crowd who had poured out of The Roadmender at 12:30. Given the late hour and potential drunkenness of the crowd I used my Mex Precision rather than US, and it was fine, sounded good and stayed in tune nicely. Only downside was M1 J15 was closed so had a bit of BBC a detour to get back on it via Milton Keynes. So 2 gigs in with this band now and am really enjoying it.

Spot on, as the saying goes professionals built The Titanic, but amateurs built The Ark.

They’ll be the original Compacts which were 15s. Darn fine cabs too!

I changed a set on my Mex Precision, from stock to Hipshots. This is the bass that I’ll do flying gigs with so I want to be sure of good tuning stability for the slackening of the strings for the flight/retuning for the gig. I’ve also had the nut changed to a Graphtec one to help on this. But if I were only likely to be doing UK gigs with it I’d have left it stock.

I’m so inept I consider calling them out to put in diesel….

Nice one, you won’t regret it. I’m using my RM500 this evening as want to keep the load as small as possible given there’s no parking at the venue. I know it will sound great as they’re superb amps.

I think that’s where my money would go in this situation.

The Squier Jaguar would be my choice, as you say smaller & lighter, plus a Jazz width neck. Reckon that fits the bill nicely.

Agree, it would be nice to see the band with the male singer do something like I Predict a Riot, a song with a bit of guts to it. It would still need to be a bit mainstream as both for the TV show and the generic festival audience but something with a bit of life to it.

Yeah it’s a bit much to believe that someone who gigs basically for a living struggled that much on Angels.

Those were my thoughts too 😂

I use it so I’m getting all the eq from the pedal, so Ultra Low In Ultra High In Bass 12 o’clock Mid 12 o'clock Treble 11 o’clock Drive 1 o’clock Blend 9 o’clock I’d say from your pick-tone thread that probably best to leave all the eq flat if just using the pedal as an always on drive. I really like the drive on this pedal, to me it’s strength is the “add a touch of break-up” to the sound that in the mix won’t be heard but just smooths the notes out a touch. Much like the isolated bass tracks that sound gainy & rattly on their own but sit so well in with the rest of the recording.

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Have you tried getting it fixed by Ashdown, they’re great on the customer service aspect, and seem to be able to fix pretty much all of their amps if something goes wrong.

You can get near the ABM tone with it by lots of careful playing, mainly cutting on eq rather than adding, but it’s not exact as the ABM has a lot more tonal options, especially the 600 where it’s 9 band eq v 5 on the OriginAL.

I don’t think this is necessarily a different bass situation than a different string situation. It’s much easier to emulate flats with rounds by dropping the tone on the bass, if it had been that way round I doubt you’d have suffered, but wanting a clear defined sound from flats on a rig set up for rounds, very unlikely. I’d look at a bass string with rounds for these situations.

On multi band bills be accommodating with gear, what goes around comes around, do someone a favour at some point and it’s likely you will be repaid. Not saying loan basses or amps but def cabs, makes changeovers much easier if the bands agree amongst them beforehand who is bringing what, ideally one bit of backline each.

It has to be hollow, otherwise The Clangers would have nowhere to live.

And a kipper tie with milk and thray sugars playse

Yeah thinking about it I rarely used to change strings and used to get annoyed that my bass (Yamaha BB1100s) couldn’t get a sound that so many others could (that ringing sound of new strings, doh). And in 1990 when we did a recording with a professional producer he set the intonation, I’d been playing 10 years at that point and had no idea what any of that was.