Lozz196

Blackstar sponsored a gig I went to a couple of years back, and I thought the bass combo & cab sounded great.

When I was in my last band, an originals punk band, I found loads of great new bands on the scene. Obviously I wouldn’t have known about them had I missed out on them but I’m glad I didn’t.

Speaking only for myself Stevie, I’ve found that basses/amps/cabs that I really like the sound of isolated in general don’t work for me in a band setting, I can just never seem to get what I want from them. Knowing that now I’m objective enough to not fall for them isolated, but in the past, until I realised that gear I thought was a bit “meh” isolated worked best for me, trying in a band scenario was the only way I’d establish if gear was right for me. I suppose we all have our own ways of learning and that was mine, did take a while for the penny to drop I have to say.

Got to be the best way as a customer to try a cab, and from a retailer point sell a cab.

Heresy, it’s the liquor that makes Pie & Mash so great.

Whilst I wouldn’t particularly credit racists with great intelligence Eric Clapton would need to be a spectacularly stupid one, given the music that influenced him. And re Tears in Heaven, beautifully sad song and given the subject matter I always wonder how he manages to perform it live without breaking down.

I really like them Dave, I do think the Custom Shop 60s that were in the previous US Standards are a bit better but not to the point where I’ll replace the V-Mods, so there’s not much in it. Decent pickups, a bit more modern sounding is how I’d describe them.

Niiiice!

Might be worth a call to Dave Green at Ashdown, I’m sure he’ll be able to advise of the best option (he did with my RM210 cabs, and his advice worked a treat).

Very good ones is the answer, they sound great.

That is a beautiful instrument, just looks stunning.

If matching the amount of sound the Ampeg 410 makes then I’d be looking at a 212 from the selected cabs. The Barefaced Big Twin or Super Twin would be plenty enough to cover what you need. Other than that the Markbass cab would be more similar sounding to the Ampeg. But as others have said, maybe two smaller cabs such as 112s or 210s. I use two Ashdown RM210s and it’s much easier to cart these two smaller lighter cabs about than one heavier cab, plus stacked I can hear them better as well (the speakers in them are diagonally arranged so they are squarish in shape so stack nice and tall). They wouldn’t sound too far from the Ampeg if you want to recreate the same sound.

Yep, I recently sold my beloved Ashdown ABM set up as I just can’t manage that kind of gear anymore. Luckily my Ashdown RM set up is almost as good.

I’m currently on five : Fender US Standard Precision x 2 Fender US Professional Jazz x 2 Fender US Deluxe Active Precision

Don’t know the song at all but great bass-line played very well indeed. Reminds me of a disco type bass-line.

What’s the weight....,,

I found Warwick Red Labels to be of similar roughness to Rotosounds, but with the added bonuses of being nearly half the price and lasting at least twice as long.

Precision Lyte, and at present there’s a Japanese Precision at Bassdirect that’s less than 8lbs.

Yep, local church halls were where I practised with various bands as a teenager, with whatever guitars/amps/speakers/drums/cymbals we managed to get our hands on. Similar experiences with Woolies as well, every Saturday morning would go in there and look at the guitars and amps, even though we had a proper music shop (Mr Music) just around the corner. The guitars in Woolies at £40 - £50 in the early 80s were within dreamable reach for a teenager, the £400 ones in Mr Music were def not.

A few years back it would have been slim neck profile, now I can’t get enough of those boot-lace Jazz necks. Funny old game.

It’s funny, a few years back we got chatting to some guys who’d just watched us and they said we were great but were terrified of looking at me, seeing I was staring the audience out, and didn’t want to risk annoying me and possibly provoking a row. I was looking at the audience to see if they were enjoying the performance, so duly made note to self to remember to smile more when playing 😁

Well of your choices the Fender Rumble 500 gets a lot of love on here, plenty loud enough for gigging and is apparently quite lightweight too - but not in sound I should add, they have a great meaty sound and pair really well with a Precision. Might be worth checking out Ashdown though, their RM combos are similar to the Rumbles in power/size/weight but you get the Ashdown sound (which I prefer) and the bonus of great UK based customer service should any faults develop.

The Black Bull perhaps?

As well as a clever science theory which is probably more accurate, I think it could be that the majority of bassists/bass lines that we seem to like, in isolation are clanky, buzzy, driven and not very well defined. So if that’s what many like, advise to set the amp accordingly.

The majority of the places we played that were dedicated music venues were separate rooms attached to pubs so I wonder how this will work. Strictly speaking they’re part of the pub, even though unless you had paid for a ticket you couldn’t go into the venue part. Confusing methinks, can’t see said band in this room of the building for free but can in that room if bought a ticket?