Lozz196

Not sure about the Peavey but the GK will be a fair bit different in sound to the Hartke. When I used an LH500 my impression was it was a warm sounding amp whereas my GK MB500 was much cleaner sounding.

I’m hoping that my old band have got work lined up, like all of you in gigging bands this year has been difficult for them, though they’ve not stood still, they’ve released an EP and had tracks on compilation albums so still making forward moves. I know they’re already confirmed for the Rebellion Punk Festival in Blackpool next year so fingers crossed they can pick up the momentum that we had.

Great colour scheme, looks so right on a Jazz

We’re itching to get back there too.

The Jazz will be more versatile, and given its a better known model will probably be easier to move on should you not get on with it.

I`ve def used a TE cab with this configuration though not sure if that exact model, and as typically TE, plenty loud enough and a nice tight sound rather than flub-city. Had the usual TE "spike" somewhere in the upper-mids which meant it sat very well in the mix.

My choice would be to keep the lighter more portable amp, easier to take along as a backup or to rehearsals.

I suppose it’s now that it’s finalised rather than speculation that this comes into its own, there’s now a definitive to petition against.

I’ve found when adding hi-mass bridges such as the Badass to Fender basses that they seem to modernise the lows and highs a touch. Nothing I think that could be determined in the mix, but enough so that I noticed it on my own basses. To me it kind of emphasised what a Jazz is about but detracted from the natural rounded mids of the Precisions. Nowadays I only change the bridge for stability - Gotoh do a baseplate with pre-cut grooves so I’ll get one of those but keep the springs/saddles from the original. Whether or not I’ll ever need that extra stability who knows, but it gives me reassurance and that’s what it’s all about, having greater confidence in my bass.

It’s a strange one, as even though my basses have an A-string retainer it still happened til I sussed the windings thing. Pretty much everyone recommends two windings on the peg, but for some reason a Warwick A-string needs minimum of three.

I can see this thread heading in one non-European direction....

I found that exact same thing on the A, and where on other brands I’d cut them to 10cm to wrap around the tuning pegs I needed 13cm to stop this with the Warwicks.

What better place to hide, than in plain sight......

And rather bizarrely at our current rehearsal rooms - when we’re allowed to rehearse of course - there’s one like it there. The difference in the eq I need on my amp for it is pretty shocking - in the other rooms I just set up as would be expected but this specific one, well again it’s cut lows and boost highs pretty much all the way. Rotten cab, we’ll avoid that room once we can go back.

Def going to sell, Tim, I’ll take a couple of pics tomorrow in better light and send them over.

It is good, I’d say the easiest to use pedal compressor I’ve had, and probably the best sounding. And you might not have to wait that long for that bargain as I’m going to be offloading mine. Why, if it’s so good, I hear you ask. Well both my amps have on-board compression and as I both only use a slight touch of compression this will do, plus i’ve just bought a high-pass filter pedal so need the room on my pedalboard. And I really don’t want to become a pedal-monster so it’s 3 max in Lozz-Land.

Well I decided on the HPF/LPF version without the mids function - I’ve enough eq on my amp & Para Driver. Worked out at £158 inc postage (postage is 40 CAD). Looking forward to receiving it.

Entirely reasonable

From recall pretty much the same, if anything the flats are a bit stiffer as I found the Swingbass easier to play.

That’s it, just what I wish I’d done, for me it would be something like: Knock Off - Sat 02 June 2018 Rebellion Festival, The Melkweg, Amsterdam, The Netherlands Fender US Precision/Tech21 Para Driver/Provided Ampeg SVT 810 Stack Good - Band played well/no mistakes, great audience reaction Not Good - landing in Schipol at 23:30 to a message from our hotel saying “thanks for your cancellation” then having to sort out another hotel. Aaarrgh!

Well now having evaluated the update to this is the fiver isn’t needed at present but what I will be adding is a Squier Affinity PJ in black (possibly a Seymour Duncan Quarterpounder Precision pickup for it) and a Broughton High Pass Filter pedal. I’m determined to only go down the 5-string route when the material I’m playing tells me that I need to.

In a quest to establish the right gear for me I’ve bought & sold so much this year. Rather ironically I’ve ended up with very similar gear as to what I started off the year with. It’s been a fun way of making this strange year a bit more tolerable. I now still have a lot to sell but there’s no rush

I’ve just read (Sir) Horace (Gentleman) Panters book, Ska’d For Life, and one of the things that impressed me was his recollection of gigs. Like many of us on here I’ve done stacks of gigs, however due to me liking a drop or two when I was younger I’ve little recollection of many of them. This extends to gigs I’ve done after I quit, I reckon I’ve just ruined my memory. I’ve even met up with past band mates at times who have reminisced about certain gigs we did and I can’t remember them at all. So upshot is, I really wish I’d kept a gig diary of where/when/which band/gear used/what went well/what didn’t go well. Hindsight eh?

@Dad3353 haven’t you heard the 11th Commandment, as a bassist thou shalt join Basschat and be plagued by GAS for the rest of your natural life?

Can you play as if using a pick but with the fingernail on your index finger? I sometimes do that and I really like the sound.