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A Fender Pino Palladino Sig Precision. Was a cracker. Have to admit next for me in terms of basses I`ve not owned are the Road Worn Precisions, amazingly good basses.

Really? Whilst I do agree that you have to write music for you, and not because you think audiences will like it, take away the audience completely and what do you have left, bedroom guitarists/bassists/drummers. The audience and fans are to me the major thing - what we all do means something to people who come to see us. A few weeks ago we were asked to play a gig for a guy who unfortunately had cancer - I say had as sadly he passed away recently. At the end of the gig he said to me "that made my night". I was really humbled and pretty choked by this, I felt honoured that we had been asked to do the gig. Never forget that whilst we get pleasure from what we do, it`s who you deliver it to that counts, and your music could really mean a lot to someone.

These cases look pretty good, have been tempted for a while to get one for touring, make life easier with the wheels etc: https://store.trifibre.co.uk/waterproof-wheeled-rolling-travel-equipment-tool-hard-case-pick-and-pluck-foam.html

I had Eminence Betas put in a couple of Ashdown 210 cabs, by Ashdown, and I found them to be very nice indeed. Re 610s, well I`ll take the opportunity to shamelessly plug the Ashdown RM610 that I`m selling, and I`m pretty sure Ashdown also have one of these as B-Stock, unless they`ve sold it, so you could get two pretty decent cabs that would be big enough for any gig with change from £800. Which is nice.

A great gig for me is where many of the audience buy merch and tell us how great it was. I don`t say this because I want the attention and to be loved, it just means that they really enjoyed themselves and liked the band, which after all is the reason why we do it. I`ve played to some very small audiences but because of their reactions to the band these gigs have been some of the best, like a gig we did in Bremen last year, small venue (full though), first time we`d played there and they went nuts. To get that reaction means we`ve done a good job. We try to remember that the audience are the important ones, not us, we`re there for them, not the other way round.

The answer from me is no, however my backup Vintage Tony Butler Sig Precision at (new) about a fifth of the price of my my US Standard Precision isn`t as far away as the price gap would suggest.

For anyone liking Rotosounds, Warwick Red Lable steel roundwounds are great, last a fair bit longer, and you can get them for around £8/9 a set.

+1. I`ve had many Class D amps and the RMs are the closest I`ve found to that big weighty sound you get from a big weighty bass amp.

Tone is in the plectrums?

There`s probably a lot of science and theories on this, but if the sound is acceptable to the ear then that has to be the most important factor. I think they`re probably more designed to be removed to make shipping easier/less prone to breakages/able to be stacked better.

Providing they hit it musically, I like tribute bands, especially when they try to look like the band, and play the same type of instruments. Best I ever saw on a pub-level was The Likeness, they just nailed the sound of The Darkness, best all round was Bjorn Again, just amazing. Another great band are The Ramonas, an all-girl Ramones tribute band, though they do now do their own material as well.

I use the same tone at home and in the band, figuring if when I`m writing I need to hear the sound I`ll be making on stage to give as good an idea of how it will sound. So for me, on my Sansamp Para Driver it`s bass boosted a tad, hi-mids (3kHz) and treble (3.2kHz) boosted a lot, gain set to breakup if hit hard (so all the time then).

And was a bit disappointed to see 2 other guitarists doing most of what JDB does, with him only playing in certain parts of the songs. Not a fault of the show I should add.

Looking forward to seeing The Manic Street Preachers on Joolz this eve

I`ve not got experience with these cabs, but did have a similar issue with a cab, had a whistling/vibrating/wampy noise when a low B was played. Turned out to be the tweeter was iffy, so it was replaced/upgraded and problem sorted.

Tsk, tsk, how unprofessional Shelly

Must admit having had bucket loads of lightweight gear, I`ve found that I prefer the sound of the heavier gear - or at least I prefer the sound of the heavier gear I`ve tried, such as Marshall, Ampeg, Ashdown, Peavey. I just seem to get the sound I`m after better with a heavy as hell cab, coupled with my trusty Ashdown ABM600/Sansamp Para Driver set-up. Even if just using the Para Driver into a full provided rig I`ve preferred the sound when it`s been a bigger, heavier amp to a smaller lightweight Class D one, the only exception being the Ashdown RM500 - that`s a weighty sounding amp for its size.

Or maybe they use terms like that to - shall we say the less technical of us - in an attempt to be speaking a language that we will understand. I`m in no way a technically savvy person, but if someone says the bottom end will be tighter or looser I`ve got it straight away. Whether it`s engineer or marketing terms, if I`ve understood what they meant the communication has been successful.

Sold a set of Hipshots to Etienne, great comms throughout, swift payment, advised when received, great transaction all round.

When I was at Ashdown a couple of months back the discussion got round to Sica speakers, more to lighten the load of my ABM410 than to increase power handling, and I was advised that they would make the cab sound "tighter".

5.5 miles for me, prob same for the singer/guitarist, and about 15 for the drummer. It`s nice to have a nearby rehearsal studio, we start at 5:30ish, sometimes I`m home in time for Eastenders (how punk is that?).

Pretty much the same for me, Blue, aside from I`m 52.

Yep, on a gig like this I`d ideally try to be invisible, as in play for the songs, be solid and do the job that we`re there for, making the band sound good.

I think it`s from a later model than a 51, once they started putting a bot of contouring in rather than just the slab body.