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Last time I saw him - about a year ago - he spoke about the amp they`re developing, sounded like the dream amp for bassists.

[quote name='thebassist' timestamp='1502701636' post='3352902'] They're 34" scale. I had one briefly - it sounded okay but the neck dive was absolutely awful so I moved it on. [/quote] Neck dive, very surprised, the one I had was very well balanced.

Saw a wanted ad for some Precision bits so dropped fftc - Barry - a line. Sorted the transaction, swift payment, advised when items received, good all round.

Bought an Ashdown ABM1000 from Lewis. All round good transaction with great comms and the amp arrived swiftly and well packaged.

They certainly raved about how good it was, so assuming the US model is better - and it should be - then it must be one hell of a bass.

That`s a seriously good deal, they are great basses, and confuse the punters enough that after gigs they actually talk to the bassist, believing that they are in fact a guitarist.

Could be that the mids/highs were much more prominent, being a guitar amp, so seemed a lot louder?

Simple but effective bassline equates to Psycho Killer by Talking Heads for me.

I had an HA4000 with XL210 & 115 cabs. Really good set-up, incredibly versatile. Sold it for a Marshall set-up as was in a rock band, but truth be told the Hartke was better.

Interesting results there, and yep, different pickups/body-woods do make a difference and the pairing of each again can provide quite different results.

[quote name='spongebob' timestamp='1502471044' post='3351738'] Cotswold Bass Guitars has got a SB/Maple version at £575. Looks nice for the P fans! [url="http://www.cotswoldbassguitars.co.uk/for-sale.htm"]http://www.cotswoldb...uk/for-sale.htm[/url] [/quote] Drooled over that a few times, must resist. Had a white one, the neck profile def isn`t too chunky front to back. They`re nice playing basses.

The SD Hot Stack is hum-cancelling, not sure about the QP tho.

Try a Jazz out and if you prefer them to the Schecter get one and keep the Schecter as well. Nowt wrong with having nice instruments, but if you don`t feel as comfortable on a Jazz don`t feel tempted to buy one and think you`ll "grow into it". First impressions on a musical instrument are usually spot on when it comes to playability.

Bigger than most pubs I`d reckon. I`d love to try a rig like that out, just to try and understand why people feel the need for them. I just always think of a "Back to The Future" moment when looking at rigs like that. Bruce Foxtons rig is nice though, he gets a cracking sound from it. Nice & twangy but with a good controlled low end.

I like the Ampeg BA108, Fender Rumble 15, and Ashdown AAA 20. All sound great with a P-bass, simple tone controls. Shameless plug, I`ve a Rumble 15 that is surplus to requirements at present.

I put a Badass Bridge and Seymour Duncan Hot Stack Jazz pickup in my old Aerodyne. Some of them come with a flat area for the bridge, as mine did, so replacement bridge not an issue. Def worth checking on that aspect first tho.

Have had a couple of 78s, so will guess that way.

I loved the sound of the Ampeg but agree with the above posts, it`s not the loudest of cabs and doesn`t do mega-low presence. If your band is not too loud on-stage, and you do FOH gigs then it might be ok for on-stage monitoring, but overall the Markbass 210 would be the cab that can do more, so that would be my recommendation.

In my old punk covers band we used to put the bass drum through the PA, but cut the lows on it, and added highs. We also kept it quieter than the volume of the actual drum itself. This just seemed to add presence, plus putting it in the monitors, again just as a presence was helpful for us on stage too.

BF should be fine, though if you want crisp highs look at one of their range that has a tweeter. Even their biggest cab, the Big Twin 2 is an easy lift. Other than that the Ashdown Rootmaster cabs are good, they now do a 410 in this range and they are nice and light/portable, I have the 4ohm version and it`s a great cab.

[quote name='PaulWarning' timestamp='1502192410' post='3349868'] just got back from the Rebellion Punk Festival, and the sound was very mixed (see wot I did there?) to say the least, outside stage was good but the Empress ballroom on the first couple of days was awful, all bass resonance, and mush, my mate went up to the sound guy during the Leftover Crack set to complain but the sound guy just shrugged his shoulders and pointed at the high ceiling, by Saturday someone had figured out that if you turned down the drums and turned up the guitar you got a decent sound, the other indoor stages suffered as to varying degrees as well, but there was very little bass to be heard all weekend just a low end mush any body else go and have a different opinion? [/quote] Sortof, we played on Fri in the Arena. Obviously I didn`t hear that, but the bands which I heard that had a trebly bass, rather than bassy bass (if that makes sense) sounded great. Skurvi for example, in The Pavillion on Thu were excellent, Liams bass having hi-mids and treble boosted, rather than low end, sounded great. Likewise with JJ of The Last Resort in The Empress on Sunday, again a good deal of high-end on his bass. I think that`s the trick to Rebellion as many bands did seem to have a "wampy" sound. I`ve heard a recording of us - it`s on youtube - and my bass was its usual trebly aggressive sound, and clear as anything in the mix.