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We rehearse every week irrespective of whether we’re gigging that weekend or not. One of the main comments we get is that how tight we are in our performance so I’d say all of our rehearsals are productive.

It sure is, apparently it’s a Signature model.

Yeah, good bass presence in the mix for The Cure.

Yeah that’s a good point, I always have a spare instrument lead on top of the amp in case of any signal failure/interference on my wireless kit.

There’s an Ashdown ABM600 on here at present, if the seller is ok to ship it would be a great amp to get - Mark Gooday of Ashdown worked at Trace before setting up Ashdown.

Rock star wristbands. Seriously, as well as for support on the wrists these really help to stop the sweat travelling down onto your hands.

Ashdown After 8/Perfect 10, Fender Rumble, Ampeg BA108/110 are all decent amps and can be picked up off here/ebay/gumtree for pretty good money. All more than enough for home practice use.

Played the Bolton Punk Picnic - rather bizarrely named as it was in a pub, and no sausage rolls! Anyway, it was an all-dayer, we were on at 6:30. For most of the last 2 months we’ve been recording our latest album so it was nice now that that’s out of the way to be back where we belong, gigging. And what a gig, the reception was great, bodies flying everywhere, people up on the stage, I had to dodge more microphones coming straight at me than Anthony Joshua dodges punches. Singing backing vox was difficult as the audiences singing of the choruses was so loud I could hardly hear myself. We put some songs off of the new album into the set - it was a 30 min set so decided on 4 new ones and they went down a storm. Recording might be good fun but nothing beats gigging for me. What a gig!

Congrats on both aspects

A good few bands on there I’d be more than happy to see down my local pub for free. The Darkness, Airbourne, Black Stone Cherry, looks a good festival.

Yeah, great basses but what a brilliant cat!

Me too

I’ve had a few Eden 410s and they were very good, can’t see that their smaller cabs would be different. Big sound and loud too, had fairly high efficiency specs and the performance seemed to vindicate these.

Yeah my rig is ABMs, the RM head is my backup. The only real difference in sound is once you get on very big stages, at that point the weight of the ABM sound comes across but in pub sized venues, or regular sized stages with FOH the RM handles it fine. Oh and it’s plenty loud too, not one of those amps that runs out of steam, or at least I’ve not managed to get it to that point. I tend to gig the RM more and more these days.

The Ashdown RM range is worth a look. The amp itself is the fullest/heftiest Class D amp that I’ve had (amongst Markbass LMs, Ampeg PFs, GK MBs, Aguilar THs) and the cabs are quite small in footprint - the 210 is diagonal and the 115 fits with it exactly. They’re also lightweight, but not I should add sound wise, they really deliver on the sound. Plus the whole range is pretty decent value too.

That were the one, had a great sound to it.

Me too, never had one then, and nature/middle age has decreed I can’t have one now!

Yep, you’ve broken the seal now.....

Quality amps the 1001, very versatile and very powerful.

Sounds like a great opportunity, will keep my fingers crossed for you

To be honest I think it stems a lot - certainly with one of the bands - to the amount of beer that gets chucked at them when they’re playing. Why get an expensive bass drenched.

I do know a couple of bassists from pretty high profile punk/Oi bands that use Squiers. One of the bands was very high profile back in the day. And slightly off-post but Pete Shelley used to use very cheap Epiphone guitars.

When we did a blind Precision shootout at the Herts Bass Bash a few years back a Hoppus was the runaway winner. It beat a 50s, 60s, 2x70s plus US Precisions among others.