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I think it’s the imperfections that help to make the songs be as good as they are, as I’m sure there are similar in the guitars & drums. Sometimes being too perfect sterilises a song imo.

Yep sounds fairly unremarkable in isolation, even the sound not being that great imo.

In the main I prefer to get my sound from my amp with no pedals, however in my last band I acknowledged that I’d be using so many shared/provided rigs that might be difficult. So I got my sound from a preamp pedal (Tech21 Para Driver) and then no matter what amplification I was using the audience would always get the right sound as all our gigs went through FOH PA. A couple of times the amps provided had broken so it was just my bass/Para Driver, with monitoring providing on stage sound. If good monitoring could be guaranteed I’d be happy enough to gig like that all the time.

Never really liked The Smiths but do like a fair bit of Morrisseys solo material.

Nice one, good result there

No experience with them, but re a bass & flying accept it`s going in the hold so get a case suitable for that.

In my old band I did a lot of gigs with shared/provided rigs. The two that made me smile the most were Ampeg SVT and Ashdown ABM. Check out the ABM600, it’s an amazing amp, loud, versatile, at 13kg easily carried, and of course you benefit from Ashdowns fantastic customer service in the unlikely event of any issues.

Definitely, I use Dunlop picks and the difference in sound between their Tortex and Ultex picks is easy to hear, with the Ultex giving a more scooped/studio type sound with sharper highs and tighter lows.

Agree, back in the 90s I had an Epi Les Paul Custom, when I bought a Gibson Les Paul Studio the jump in quality, playability, tone, well it was very noticeable. Now that jump isn’t so much, aside from price tag of course.

Given how much I rate my recently acquired Epiphone SG guitar I I can only assume this has to be of the same quality, in which case you’ll have scored a cracker there.

Def, some of the best support & customer service is offered by Ashdown, I’m sure they’ll be able to offer some advice.

Good point, certainly applies to all the gigs I’ve done since 2014, onstage gear purely for on stage sound, and even then the sound was also through the monitors.

It was 85 when I first saw them and was knocked out by just how good they were live.

That’s a good point Ricky, no matter what type of bass I play I’m listening for a Precision sound coming back at me. Probably why although I love the design, feel & playability of Stingrays I just don’t get on with them but love the sound when others play them.

That’s a good way of describing classic Precision playing @such

Same for me, one bass - Yamaha BB1100s - did all my gigs in two major gigging bands without any backup. As you say back then (late 80s & early 90s) even the pro bands we played with the bassists only had the one bass with them.

When I had an OTB I used it with a Marshall VBC412 and couldn’t even get to 9 o’clock on the master volume without completely obliterating the rest of the band (a punk band with 2 guitarists both using 100 watt valve heads & 412 cabs). Amazingly loud amps.

Looks it’s exactly the same aside from headstock, weight is about the same, it’s the sound and the playability that do it, it just feels better in the hand and reacts better to my playing style.

Congrats, I love Ashdown gear and the amps look to be very good.

Ok, not bass related but musical instrument related. Last week I bought a Gibson SG Standard, great guitar but realisation hit at the weekend, I’m not in a band playing guitar, and very unlikely I will ever be so having a grands worth of guitar seems a bit extravagant. So I ordered an Epiphone SG Standard which arrived today. I was hoping it would sound ok and play ok, if it didn’t I’d send it back but hopefully it would do for my needs. Would it do, it’s amazing, I prefer it to the Gibbo! Now I’m not a great guitarist, I can play rhythm pretty well but that’s my limit, but this Epi just works, and out of the box with no tweaking at all plays and sounds fantastic. Am well chuffed, my mature decision to offload an expensive instrument and replace with a cheaper version has paid dividends.

Ok, not bass related but musical instrument related. Last week I bought a Gibson SG Standard, great guitar but realisation hit at the weekend, I’m not in a band playing guitar, and very unlikely I will ever be so having a grands worth of guitar seems a bit extravagant. So I ordered an Epiphone SG Standard which arrived today. I was hoping it would sound ok and play ok, if it didn’t I’d send it back but hopefully it would do for my needs. Would it do, it’s amazing, I prefer it to the Gibbo! Now I’m not a great guitarist, I can play rhythm pretty well but that’s my limit, but this Epi just works, and out of the box with no tweaking at all plays and sounds fantastic. Am well chuffed, my mature decision to offload an expensive instrument and replace with a cheaper version has paid dividends.

I think it’s one of those “if it works it works” things. If I recall correctly Dave Swift has a round wound low B on his basses with flats for the rest of the strings.

I’ve been down this route, trying to have basses for every eventuality, but have had to acknowledge that I’m a Precision player through and through. I had a lot of fun with my Jazz Bass last year but I have to accept where I’m at home, and that’s in P-Land. As such I’m doing similar and offloading my other basses.

Sad to hear this, all the best for wherever your non bass playing future takes you.

I remember helping a band with their flightcased 810 up the 2 flights of stairs at the back of The 100 Club. I wasn’t young, and neither were the other 6 people also struggling with it!