Lozz196

In my last band I had a very specific sound that with many amps I wouldn`t have been able to achieve, as such I needed my Para Driver and required cables for every gig. Not a difficult set-up but needed for the sound of the band. Lesson learned, in my current band I have a generic Precision sound, just scoop the low mids a tad and boost the highs. I`m sure it will make gigging a bit easier being less fussy about having the exact sound. But whatever I use the playing generally sounds like "me".

The guys in Booze & Glory use (or used) the Shure, said it was great, plus integral tuner makes things just that little bit easier too.

Maybe next time you play it do an announcement, here’s the rubbish song where you can go to the bar or have a cigarette outside.

I used the BOSS WL20, really easy to use, just a little bug in your bass and one in the amp, no leads or packs. They automatically search the best frequency to use in the venue so no settings or anything. Test of anything technical is can I use it, if so it has to be easy & simple to do.

45-100 Elixirs are my faves too.

Agree, getting a too trebly sound onstage usually equates to just the right sound for the room, so moving away from the rig at soundcheck imo is invaluable if providing bass for the whole room.

In my last band we really were a democratic band, but it stemmed from most of the ideas coming from the lead singer/guitarist with the drummer and me fully agreeing (and probably wishing we’d thought of it first).

Maybe someone should write a song with “Tailors gonna sew” but sing it “Taylor’s gonna sue” just to get her foaming at the mouth.

It’s a strange topic this one, as it’s concerning two musicians and about a musical instrument but it really seems to sit better in Off Topic. Reminds me of the sketch in Harry Enfield “ I love cows mate, they’re just like horses but in cow-form”.

And the tort wallpaper

I think the main thing is that hundreds of thousands of years can’t be undone by a dictionary

Further to my posts in November last year I bought another ABM600. Once Ashdown introduced their ABM PRO NEO cabs it was inevitable. I still mostly use the RM500 for rehearsals, but the ABM will get gigging duties.

The human race evolved with the males being in general, bigger, stronger, and more violent, hence they became the providers. Females evolved to have a higher tolerance to pain which is very beneficial for childbirth, and to be more nurturing. Neither makes the other inferior, it’s the evolution of the animal over hundreds of thousands of years. Because that is what the human being is, an animal.

I’ve found that whenever there’s been problem band members it’s been either the lead singer, the lead guitarist, or the lead singer/guitarist. In a band where I was the lead singer/guitarist there were no problems. Or at least none that the rest of the band, which split up, ever told me about…… As it could have been me, as I’d defected to the idiot side.

Clean tone that will bark, scream & shout, well I think GK fits that bill, as does @la bams 550 Fusion above

I’d never heard of them til this thread but just checked them out on YouTube, think the CD is gonna be added to my Xmas list.

I used my ABM600 last night at rehearsal through a Marshall DBS215, what a sound!

Same, a few months back I chucked one, bah!

I think this is the best approach. I’m a pick player so irrespective of how the original line was played I do it with a pick. I can get a good variety of sounds just with technique, though in my bands I’m always “me”.

Sadly I’m yet to use mine with either of my bands as the rehearsal rooms I use have full set ups. At home volumes they sound exactly the same as my old ABM410 EVO-IV cab did with the ABM600 tho. That said I had Ashdown seal the port in that cab for me, made the sound tighter and punchier, so I’d say the regular ported ABM cabs will more than likely have a looser low end.

Would def be hex nut at the heel. Looks like some other tuners have been put on there at some point, the stock tuner holes are the two larger ones to the right of each big hole where the tuning peg itself goes through.

That version of Cars was excellent, we decided to do it in my classic rock band based on that version. Incredibly simple song to play, yet really good fun, especially if you have a keyboard player who nails the sound.

In my last band, which was a 3 piece, people were always saying how tight we were. I took that as a great compliment, even when people said “your drummers so tight” cos if I’d been rotten on timing those comments wouldn’t have come. People might not recognise the bass on its own but if it’s not doing the job people will notice - and luckily think it’s the guitarist who’s pony.

Over the years I’ve gone from 50-110 to 45-105 to 45-100, which are def my faves to play. Who knows what another 5 or 10 years might bring though.

I’m not, but only due to the acceptance that my back won’t permit it anymore. My rig in my last band was Ashdown ABM600 with ABM 410 & 210 cabs but it got too much, so now have two ABM PRO NEO 210s instead. I’m there in spirit!