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And received it today. And it’s true about the 2-eq having more grunt, much more to my taste, looks like I’ve a whole lotta (had to chuck that in) AC/DC songs to learn now.

And Ashdown currently have B-Stock ones for £450 (my old band just bought one from them for their new bassist to use, on my recommendation).

As above, pretty much exactly my thoughts, including the regret selling part. I’ve no need for an amp like that now but I do miss it.

In their guitar cabs HB use Celestions. Our guitarist has one of the 1x12s and it’s a Vintage 30 in there. Great sounding little cab and surprisingly pokey.

If anything he was asking me to be slightly ahead of it, which when it was mixed sounded dead on. I’ve never played like that before as I do tend to be slightly behind the beat, letting the drums lead on the rhythm. Strange really, as listening to the two previous albums we did with him I couldn’t tell the difference.

I’ve always followed the drums, though on our recordings the producer hit me to “push” the bars so I was more on the beat. Felt a bit weird but worked a treat.

They’re great pickups. When I got the TB I thought I’d have to replace them to get a sound similar to my US Fender with Custom Shop pickups but no, the Wilkinson’s were near enough for me not to bother, and I’m very OCD about stuff like that.

The Tony Butler has Wilkinson Pickups, Jon, so as long as you’re happy with them in that bass prob wise to put them in the build.

I get the feeling there’s an interesting story here.

Good vid and very good production

Yeah, really looking forward to getting my paws on it, my first ever 2eq ‘Ray.

On Mex Fenders I usually change the base plate of the bridge to Gotoh, as it has the grooves for the saddles to sit in. Just makes sense to me that given I’m applying downwards force into the strings that there is something on the bridge designed to hold them in place.

Same here. I might change bridges or parts of them for better quality/stability but never based on lack of sustain on the instrument.

That’s the one Andy

Well just to update re this, have managed to score a 1987 2eq in my favoured black/maple colour scheme on the ‘bay.

The ideal punk bass, turn it vertical and give the crowd the v sign.

I bought a bass online from them which when delivered I just couldn’t get on with. Contacted them by e-Mail, very swift response, return dealt with very well indeed.

Yes, spot on. The younglings at work listen to a lot of earnest meaningful other young people and can’t quite understand the loud aggressive bands that I listen to.

More by luck than anything, no, never been in a band with a guitarist that was better than me on bass. Sure most could play the instrument but what they all fell down on was both knowing what to play/what not to play (I’m the same in guitar I should add) and timing, very loose in all cases - take away a guitarists overdrive and it exposes timing issues.

So he slapped two ponies in your pocket, well that’s inflation for you 😀

It did take me a while. I tried it by keeping the amp set as flat as possible and using the eq on the pedal, no good. So I had a Tonehammer with eq set to taste and our producer added in the BDDI set flat but with a bit of drive. Was a revelation.

I have a maple necked black Jazz with black pickguard that looks great, also think sunburst looks good with maple.

We def wouldn’t have made any money that way!