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I wonder which frequencies the eqs are at?

They’ve designed a bass for Stevie Wonder….

Who are you’re fave bassists? If they’re the typical Fender/Ampeg players then go for the Ampeg. If they’re not Ampeg users then the EBS being “flatter” with less baked in character might be the better option.

Yep, they’re not a band they’re a bunch of mates on a night out.

I’ve recently bought a Squier Precision and the adjustment grub screws on the bridge protrude a fair bit and are sharp, so I’ve bought a Fender Himass bridge for it. Better adjusting, and less sharp parts to cut myself on with my rather ham-fisted approach to playing. As to sound, well in the past I’ve had Badass bridges and to my ear they tightened up the sound a bit but would I notice that in the mix, no. Would I even notice it when playing the bass loudly, no, I only noticed it at home rehearsals and even then it wasn’t significant.

The necks on Japanese Fenders are very nice, def worth trying out.

They don’t hurt that much Dave, ok it’s sort of pain but similar to Steve I’ve nearly dropped off having one. I’m not the toughest skinned individual, (apparently I’m easy to tattoo which means I’m not an armadillo) and I have about 30, if they hurt that much I’d only have the one.

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For a scary looking chap Lars is actually a very nice chap.

It`s amazing how well a driven sound fits in the mix and fills it out. My fave example of this is Phil X & The Drills doing My Sharona, the bass is just awesome.

I`d look at adding in some drive/gain as per @Stofferson says. Works quite well going from completely clean to slightly overdriven.

Nice one, I`ve got two of the 210s, am yet to use in a band setting but at home settings they sound great. The ruggedness of the steel grill was one of the factors that made me change up my RM cabs for the ABM PRO NEOs, think they`ll be more hard-wearing for gigging, as well as matching my ABM600.

Congrats Liam, hope it all goes well for you.

I’ve just bought a Spark, the full sized one. Very impressed so far. With just the bass in isolation it’s easy to hear the gain/drive on it but in the mix I reckon it will just fur up the sound much like when you hear an isolated bass track from someone such as John Deacon. On the track it sounds big and warm, isolated scratchy & driven. When I’m playing along to YouTube I can’t hear any of the drive at all, and this is exactly what I wanted from it, it stops the sound from being completely clean but retains the actual sound of the instrument. Just like valve amp break-up.

I can’t remember which one it was that I had but I swiftly got rid, carrying around 20lbs plus of basses and case in one hand just didn’t work for me. One of the sad facts of getting older I suppose.

We used to rehearse on a weekly basis, even if we had 2 gigs that same weekend. Why am I saying this, well it’s so that if we got dodgy monitor mixed instead of that “can I have more upper mids from the hi-hat in my monitor” rubbish that I see many bands do, we’d be rehearsed enough to do the gig with no beaching & whining. I hate seeing bands, after every song complain about the monitors. I used to give the sound people a mic-chart detailing the line-up and what each of us wanted in our monitors as well to try and combat this. The other thing that really annoys me is bands complaining “why don’t you all move forwards/come down the front of the stage”. They would, except you’re shyte. Rehearse a bit more and focus on the songs rather than the backstage beers.

I don`t know, I tried to find out when I saw them but their manager/road-guy wasn`t able to help, said he didn`t know much about guitars & makes.

Chris has now left, when I saw them a couple of weeks ago Rich Jones was on lead guitar duties.

I’ve bought a couple of albums released this year, the best imo being SNAFU by The Professionals

That is a great tone!

Same for me, necks & playability of Stingrays are awesome, just can’t get on with the sound - tho love it when others are playing them.

I’ve not worked for them, have obviously read the horror stories regarding them but a mate of mine has worked for them for years and loves them, can’t stop him enthusing about how good they are.

That’s what I do, it seems to give me more of what I want than leaving the shape off and dropping the mids.

You could be right. Years ago I decided to not join a band based on the drummers inability to keep time, no idea if the rest of the band had even noticed.

Congrats, looks great.