Lozz196

I used to have 45-100s on my Precisions and found them to be pretty much ideal, much better balance across the strings and less low end flub on the E string (I find mainly the G is the note that booms).

Have you had some work done Jack 🤣

Aaaaaaarrrggghhh

There are a couple of decent looking Gator bags up for grabs on here at the moment Dave, that’s what I used for my PF500 many moons ago.

Very good points there Dave, especially the last.

At present my band does so little there’s hardly any point in being in it, but looking at it more positively where would be the point of leaving. I don’t want to be in any other bands, this is the one I feel comfortable in.

Agree, a good while back I bought a Gibson Les Paul Studio. The shop had three so I tried them all, one sang, one muttered, the other vomitted. I bought the singer.

In that case - and depending where you are of course - I’d be looking at the ABM500 that’s on here for £175. Slightly less flexible eq but still very good amps. You’d be able to source an Ashdown MAG410 with the rest of your budget, possibly an ABM410 if lucky. Edit - I’ve just seen the Spyder & cab that @Pow_22 has up for sale, also worth checking out if near enough.

I think I’d have the discussion with them along the lines of, you’ve got x number of gigs lined up, after paying the new guy his share this leaves y left over after each gig so I expect you to pay me what you owe after z gigs. I’d probably deduct expenses for each of them from the y figure unless they got like donkeys.

Agree, I had far more than I would usually choose but in the band mix it wasn’t noticeable at all as drive, just a warmer fatter sound.

Keep your eyes on the Amps For Sale section, you see them go from £350 upwards

I tried out my new Ampeg Scrambler overdrive at rehearsal last night, had to have the drive on way more than I do at home volumes to even notice it, as others have said set the sounds at gigging volumes.

I’d look at the ABM600, has a much more flexible eq and has some serious weight to the sound, the valve gain really adds in thickness and some nice break up.

The true spirit of this forum

I’ve found that when learning songs playing through a compressor helps on this aspect, really helps getting the notes in the right places for the right amount of time.

Which can only be good thing imo, just not keen on the look of it

Definitely, in my last band we used to see a lot of this, bands wanting to use full back-lines (often even asking to use guitars) as "they were travelling to the gig" - well none of the other bands lived at the venue so they must have been "travelling" as well, spending an hour on a "sound check" which actually turned out to be them rehearsing their set as they clearly never did this anywhere else, and as soon as they were at the venue their priorities were where`s the free beer rather than checking out the stage/PA/lighting/sound-man/areas to display merch etc. As one old-hand said, they weren`t bands, they were groups of blokes on a Saturday night out.

Oh I get that, in all honesty I`ve more than expected to meet those types along the way. I do think it best to move on when something isn`t right, however I similarly think that it`s fair to not leave people in the lurch. I`ve moved on from bands several times but the only time I`ve left instantly was a band which had two bassists anyway. I would feel very uncomfortable leaving a band unable to gig if they had gigs booked.