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Basses are fine, nothing wrong with the sound of the Ashdown combo, I’d just look at a more powerful one - the Ashdown RM combos def worth a look at if you like the Ashdown sound, or look for one of their MAG combos 2nd hand - you’ll pick one up within budget easily. That said, you can pick up an Ashdown 500 watt amp head and 410 cab used with a £600 budget.

Most important for me are pretty simply, a Fender Precision strung with fresh steel roundwound strings and a Tech21 Para Driver. Yes the neck is important to me - I do like a chunker - as are efficient tuners and passive electrics but as long as I have said Precision, strings and Para Driver I’m sorted.

Nice one Andy, the RMs from Ashdown are a real hidden (but slowly popping their head over the parapets) range. Much beefier than any other Class D amp I`ve had.

Best, probably my white/maple US Precision, don`t think I`ve had a worst.

Ashdown ABM600 EVO IV - there`s a chrome faced one up on evilbay at present for £400.

I’m just having one - the XL - installed on a Precision to match another which already has one. I find that the tuning is smoother with the XL than with the stock Fender nut, no experience of the non-XL Graph Tech tho.

Nice one, the RM range as a whole is great imo - I have the earlier edition RM500 and it`s a great amp, If I`m correct I think Ashdown were ceasing the RM800 as given the frightening amount of power available from the 500 there`s not much need for an 800. Still debating whether to get a newer RM500 for the lighter weight.

What a great rig.

This annoyingly seems to be happening ore and more recently.

I think that`s it - I`ve had a good few of the Barefaced cabs and realised that whilst what they do they do brilliantly, I just prefer the more traditional coloured sounding cabs, rather than the transparency of the BF ones. It often seemed to me that although they could go super loud, fra more volume than I`d ever need in fact, that there was something that was just not there. I can`t describe it properly, other than to say put the same gear through an old Ampeg/Ashdown/Peavey 410 and what I want suddenly appears.

A great shame, never got to meet him despite playing on the same bill a few times, The Buzzcocks were part of my youth, seems all to real when your childhood faves pass away.

You`re not going to be disappointed @Bridgehouse (well your back might be with the cab) they are fine amps, bags of power, really effective eq options, I had one for a while and it was awesome.

I went with lightweight amps & cabs and was perfectly satisfied with them til I started using Ampeg and Ashdown gear as provided rigs. From then on the lightweight gear sounded just that, lightweight. At some point I’m going to have to, out of sense and age, go lightweight on the cabs again. Luckily Ashdowns RM range of cabs sound great and are a good bit lighter than their ABMs.

Ashdown RM-500-EVO would fit the bill, and you’d have plenty of change leftover too.

Never seen them live but Out Of Time was pretty much a constant in my car when it came out.

Agree, and I`ve in general found that the better sounding rigs from my point of view have been ones where there have been a whopping great speaker stack, usually accompanied by a heavier weight amp. I`m no good with the techy stuff but to me it seems you need to put less actual bass in when there are a lot of speakers going, but you still get a the low end without the woof.

The one downside to most of the aftermarket ones is that they don`t have the cut-out for truss rod adjustment. I always go for the Fender ones, in terms of quality you can feel the difference, pretty much the same as @Reggaebass expensive bass, not going to skimp on whatever changes I make.

Hanging Around was pretty special too, I remember the first time I heard it I looked round as it sounded like JJ was actually in the room playing .

Most of Bruce Foxtons work with The Jam, JJ Burnels early Stranglers work, and Duff McKagan post Appetite with Guns N Roses & Velvet Revolver.

Nah, they’ll probably run away to a safe distance and monitor it.

Poxy small keyboard - Elvis!