Lozz196

We go in two vehicles, me or the singer/guitarist drive with our respective gear, and the drummer takes his van with the drums and merch, plus his wife, who deals with selling said merch.

He`s a natural, great playing, really impressed by that.

Got them off of amazon - did a search and found a place in Germany doing them at about £7.84 per set, delivery extra so I bought 6 sets at once to keep costs down, 6 sets of strings for about £52, can`t go wrong with that.

Yeah I went for these primarily for the price, and really like the sound which is a bonus. I need that new string sound, have to change strings once a month so a real bonus that I can now do it for £8.

Well that`s helped with my decision to put some damping material in, thanks Bill. I`ll update on this post once I`ve got round to it.

Yep I`ve recently bought a set of these, and it`s the "clack" when you fret the strings that really jumps out. Nickel plated steel.

Yep, I`ve been using Rotosound steels for years, recently decided to try Warwick Red Label steels and the end of my index finger on my left hand has developed a bit of fraying skin - am amazed, didn`t think they came rougher than Rotos!

It was a good while back, but I don`t recall having anything bad to say about any of it, band/bassist/singing/anything. I thoroughly enjoyed it.

I went to see Dancing In The Street a few years back and it was excellent.

Well aside from being 52, the above is pretty much it for me. The fool bit is particularly relevant to me

The guy I dealt with recommended that I do this on my cab, said it would really tighten things up. I`ve used the cab this eve and it sounds great though, so coupling this with my natural laziness means I`m holding off on damping the cab at present, think it was Dacron he advised to use?

That`s it for me Dave, never know what amp I`m using, so keep settings on my Para Driver as standard to FOH, amp eq to suit on-stage. I`ll update on this later on, got a prac this eve so going to give it a tryout.

Inline for me - going to try via FX Return at some point just to see, but most of my gigs are with provided rigs so for ease of use and standardising, always inline, makes it easier.

I think you`re on to something there Bill. I`d always loved the punchiness of the ABM610 & 810 when I used them, wondered why the 410 didn`t have the same sound, but last week was told that both the 610 & 810 are sealed - and the blurb on the site seems to indicate that the same speakers are used in all of the cabs.

Cynicism and realism in equal amounts there. Yep, I remember TOTP was THE subject at school on Fridays, and usually determined what your pocket money was going to be spent on.

I`ve recently had the port on my ABM410 closed off. I spoke to Ashdown about what I was after, as the cab seemed too "wampy" and backing off of the bass, although getting there, wasn`t getting as near as I wanted. They suggested closing off the port so last week I stuck a towel in the (front) port. Instantly the sound I want was there, tight and focused, it really made that much difference. Previously, using my Para Driver as my main eq I still had to use the eq on the amp to back off the lows and up the high mids, now I have the eq on it bypassed using only the Para Driver.

Wow, that looks like The Rich Rags from way back in the 90s

Laney gear has always sounded good when I`ve used it, either bass or guitar amps. I had an LC50 guitar amp head and it was immense, really loud, much smoother than a Marshall, worked really well for me as I was the rhythm guitarist in the band so provided a good platform for the spikier sounding Marshall to work over.

That is a pretty stunning collection Steve, and really not helping me with the fact that I currently have 7 Precisions and am desperately trying to convince myself that at least 2 are surplus to requirements (when I really don`t want to offload any).

I really liked Roadhouse, most of the music in that being by The Jeff Healey Band.

That Mesa sounds great in the Bobby Vega demo.

That`s a really nice colour - put tort on there and it`s in Steve Harris territory. I`m confident you`ll be more than happy with it. Like spongebob says, there isn`t a world of difference between the US and MIM - hi-mass bridge, string through body, better tuners and graphite rods in the neck being the main, but as to playability and sound, well the MIMs are much nearer the US than the price difference would suggest.

I remember years ago in my old punk covers band, I bought a cheapie Behringer DC-9 compressor. The guitarist was late as usual so the rest of us were playing, when he stuck his head in and remarked "bought yourself a compressor, Lozz?". He could tell the difference, from outside the room. Whereas the three of us in the room, I`m not sure we could. And I suppose that`s the crux of it, it`s what the listener hears that`s important, and maybe up-close I couldn`t tell the difference but further away I would have. Who knows.

Well our on-stage image (and off, come to think of it) is jeans, Fred Perrys & DMs, pretty much all that`s needed for a street-punk/Oi band. I wouldn`t say that we look like musicians or a band as much as that we look like we`re part of the same group/gang, which is the point imo, a band should like look they belong together.

My fave is the Tech21 Para Driver. It`s similar to the Bass Driver aside from the mids are sweepable, which brings in a great deal of flexibility.