Lozz196

Great post @Linus27, reinforces what a good musician AC actually is.

Agree, this thread shouldn’t be one-upmanship, it should be about finding out what other bassists use/want and why. I find this very interesting and am sure many of us do as well.

I was going to mention that Ampeg BA-108, very nice little amps and really capture the Ampeg sound well.

Yep, practice amp with a preamp pedal for home use for me.

I never tried out the tone control, just left it on full all the time. Pickup volume was nicely balanced, my fave tone from it was both pickups as it did the scooping mids thing nicely giving quite a modern sound.

AC/DC at Donnington, starting off with Thunderstruck. 🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘

Well being a punk band - The Squatters - we’d not actually rehearsed, and only met the drummer that evening. I was using the headliners guitar and had never played a Gibson Les Paul type guitar before, having tinkered on Strats, plus really being a bassist I wasn’t that great on guitar, especially one I’d not played before. I was on lead vox but never having really sung before I had a habit of walking around whilst playing so was often away from the mic - probably a good thing thinking about it, Vicious Sidney certainly had me beat on that song! My mate who was on bass - and had agreed to do it with a few run throughs over a couple of weeks - got lost at one point so he played all the notes he’d missed extra extra fast to catch up rather than just play the part where he actually was. Ironically our next number, I Wanna Be Me by The Sex Pistols went ok.

First song I ever played live on stage was C’mon Everybody, the Sex Pistols version of Eddie Cochran song. I was 16, on lead vocals and lead guitar. It was a disaster.

Well I found the combination of short scale, the Precision pickup soloed and the nickel strings to have a bit too many low-mids for me, if I’d kept it I would have put steel rounds on it to counteract that a bit. So I’d say on a Mustang bass that a Precision pickup with steel rounds and a regular Mustang pickup with nickel rounds will get just about the same sound.

Well an update, as per the text below from my initial post, sadly it’s going to have to go back as it’s causing my thumb some bother. Fed up as I really like this bass but no point in keeping it if I end up not being able to play it. “Just have to make sure my arthritic thumb is ok with the neck, at first try it feels slightly thicker than my Japanese Mustangs so next few days I’ll be putting in the hours to make sure.”

Sometimes opportunities just come along at the wrong time, I bet you were gutted you couldn’t do that Pete

That is a great set list, both to listen to and (I’m sure) to play.

Happy Thanksgiving Daryl, have a good one

It’s not you Gareth, I can’t understand how/why anyone employed to do sound focuses on this particular aspect to the point where it’s detrimental to the band playing. I also really can’t understand why the bands themselves put up with it.

Quite right too, Chris

Nice one, I think that will be a good fun gig to have

I’ve used my M80 with both my JMJ and CIJ Mustangs with no problems.

Not new, but a used Mono M80 Guitar Case will just about fit in budget.

For live use I’d lower Presence to about 12 o’clock and up Treble til the desired amount. That Presence control can be very ice-picky, especially with a Jazz type bass which has plenty of highs.

I`d go for a Jazz, battered if possible, will get near pretty much everything he`s done and look in character.

See this is what’s good about Basschat, always someone willing to help out……

I could probably tell my Precisions & Jazzes apart if recorded by me, then played back. Any others I don’t think I’d stand a chance. I found this out when hearing a mate play with the best ever Precision sound, was literally awesome classic punky P-bass at its best, only to find out it was a 70s maple necked Jazz.

Saw this on Coda Musics website, favoured maple neck whereas the majority of Mustang basses are rosewood, and pretty much spot on 7lbs, two major factors for my choices nowadays. Plus I can add some Hipshot Ultralite tuners and shave off a bit more so a 6lb-something bass, result. Out of the box the set up is nice, good even, and though I don’t usually like Fender strings it both plays and sounds good. I’ll have no use for the Jazz pickup on its own but the Precision pickup and both pickups together are difficult to choose between, each being really nice. Just have to make sure my arthritic thumb is ok with the neck, at first try it feels slightly thicker than my Japanese Mustangs so next few days I’ll be putting in the hours to make sure. Am sure I’ll keep it, intention is to swap the pickguard to black, and replace the string tree with a Hipshot triple retainer to encourage a better break angle for the A string. I was thinking about the bridge as well but it’s perfectly solid enough and given that I now play with a much gentler touch I’m not fussed about it not having any guiding grooves so it’s staying.

Good price, may well sort one of these later on