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A couple of places have them around that price today - imo it’s a steal, the Rootmaster range is one of the hidden gems in the amp world, though getting a bit more well known recently.

Being nervous is good, it shows you care rather than being blasé and "not bothered". Good luck, hope you get it.

Hmmm, the articulation and preciseness of the Stingray is similar to the Jazz, but to me the `Ray just has a lot more oomph to it. It`s one of those things though, if you loved the `Ray that much I think the answer is already there - and don`t forget it may be that exact `Ray that you love so much. Bite the bullet and snap it up before someone else takes it.

A couple of years ago i lucked out on Xmas Day, an Ashdown ABM600 was reduced to £499 from £699, snapped it up, best amp I’ve ever had, I usuallly sneer at sales ploys like Black Friday etc but that taught me to keep my eyes open - albeit only for things I would be buying anyway.

There were differing tuners, think my black/maple one had these type. Cracking basses, the Korean Squiers.

Our old producer worked with Trevor Bolder, apparently he used lighter gauge strings in order to be able to put more bass into the sound, without the boom. Quite interesting I thought.

Well I suppose it comes down to the type of gigs you do - are you a covers band where once set up the gear stays there, or an originals band where quick changeovers are the order of the day. For me the former gets the ABM vote, the latter gets the M900 vote.

Start off with carefully applying some Servisol Super 10 spray onto the pots, it may clear this up. I think I got mine off Amazon. Ha - pretty much a duplicate post of the above.

They certainly can, I`ve never had a 210/115 set-up that didn`t sound amazingly good. Only downside was always having to take both cabs to get my sound, as neither could do it on its own. That`s pretty much the reason why I always go for the same cabs if possible, the laziness factor.

Give Ashdown a call, they were incredibly helpful when I had a similar query.

The only time I`ve had amp failure was luckily at the very end of a gig. We finished, got called for an encore, my amp suddenly didn`t work, so we didn`t do one. Turned out the pre-amp valve had become slightly dislodged. Always wise to have a Sansamp or similar in the bag, just in case.

Have a good `un, and my tip would be make sure you get as much rest as possible, touring is harder work than it sounds, and whilst it`s fun to sightsee/over-indulge, it can take its toll.

This is what was explained to me when I was at Ashdown, they said that they have their volume controls so that they go louder the whole way round, rather than peaking at 3 or 4.

These posts nail it for me. If an amp is loud enough for my needs, and sounds good in my band then although I think it’s a tad sneaky to label it as something it’s not, well it’s not the label that either I or the audience are going to hear. I’ve had a couple of TC amps and irrespective of their advertised wattage they were plenty loud enough. I didn’t push them mind, so can’t say if the volume was available all round the dial but for the gigs I did with them they were fine little amps.

Not at all in my experience. I’ve had a shed-load of their gear on my trek to establishing the best gear for my needs and none has been at all problematic. Plus they’re a great company to deal with and UK based with so should there ever be an issue it’s easy to sort.

For rock the Ashdown RM-C210-500 would be a cracker. 18kg, 500 watts (with ext cab, so prob around 300 on its own), 2x10, drive, compression, pre-shape (which is excellent for rock sounds). A good few on here are realising the RM range from Ashdown now, def worth checking out. I have the amp head and it`s a cracker, really powerful and strong sounding.

Depends on size and weight (and value of course) but I`ve had pretty good service from Parcel2go.com, using either UPS or MyHermes. One thing I would say though is if the item is a musical instrument do not use Parcelforce - their terms & conditions list musical instruments as prohibited items, so although you can pay for extra insurance, there is no payout should the item get lost or damaged.

Yes, a mate put me onto the Boss WL20, saw his band play and he went right out into the audience, pretty much to the back of the venue and there were no noticeable issues. Not that I`m ever likely to do that, but to me that just reinforces that I`m even less likely to have any issues when I`m on stage with it.

Yeah it seems like a sort of sport to them, hear a band and think now that Lemmy, he just needs far less top end and gain, why a James Jamerson sound would fit in that Motorhead of his far better.

Yep, only downside is that this way the DI signal is your bass only, no eq/gain etc from amp. So if your specific sound is an integral part of the band, this way the audience don`t hear it.

I look on with envy at bassists who turn up to gigs and just plug straight in, one lead, with a clip-on tuner attached to their headstock, but it just doesn`t work like that for me. If I had a generic Precision tone then it would but even then I`ve found the clip-ons to be iffy on the E string so would still need my trusty Boss TU2.

I found the Ray34 and Stingray I had to be pretty identical, Marc. Both had nice chunky Precision like necks, similar weight, I`d say from memory - was 6 odd years ago - about 9lbs2 something like that.

I use a Tech21 Para Driver to get my sound. I can get the sound I want with both my ABM600 and RM500 but as most of the gigs I do are with gear shares, which more often than not means me using a rig I`m unfamiliar with it`s easier to just always have the Para Driver set-up and going. The plus point is no matter what gig I do FOH gets "me", irrespective of what the on-stage sound is through whatever rig is there as I DI straight from the pedal. I`d like to be a bassist that was pedal free but there are many amps that can`t get the sound I have.

Nice one, the RM is a really good range of gear imo.

I remember your Orange set-up Tim, sounded great and if recall correctly that was flightcased?