Lozz196

Our singer/guitarist hits a note that feeds back, then we all come in. We`ve always started with the same song so people know when they hear that feedback we`re good to go.

[quote name='Spike Vincent' timestamp='1502132880' post='3349525'] Or the alternative title, How Good are Your Speakers. [/quote] Very good point, on my laptops speakers I get a hearing age of 60+, when using my extension speakers I get a hearing age of 30 - 40, which isn`t bad as I`m 51. And seeing as in the last 2 weeks I`ve done a 4 consecutive night tour (hour long sets), then played at a 4-day punk festival, I`m quite pleased with this as my hearing has rather taken a battering recently.

Many venues like to use their own DI, rather than a pedal, not really a problem as long as their DI is after the pedal/before the amp in the chain.

It`s amazing things like this go on. Luckily on the punk & Oi scene I`ve encountered nothing like this, all venues/.promoters have been nothing less than completely honourable.

If you like the 65, it feels good and sounds good, and you can get it for a decent price, it has to be worth getting. In all likelyhood it will only increase in value if it`s all original, so as well as having a great instrument you also have an investment. And really, a P-Bass is Motown, and will certainly cover Floyd and REM as well.

I was thinking it sounded a similar neck to that on Nate Mendels Precision as well.

I`m ok with the amps, but the cabs have always seemed to me to be really trebly. The combos seem to escape this, but the cabs, especially those with 10s in I`ve found to be ear-splitting.

[quote name='Kevin Dean' timestamp='1501587495' post='3345683'] For the same reason I'm looking into a 6 x 10" tilt back cab , as I have a van , even though the weight would be considerably more as long as the venue doesn't have stairs it should be easier to wheel about . [/quote] I`m surprised you`ve not already got the RM610, Kevin. Great cabs, I had a blast through one last year at the LBGS, had a really nice sound to it, punchy and focused. Must admit, if any spare cash comes my way I might end up with one for bigger gigs.

Yep, the SPB-1 is a pretty scooped sounding pickup. Very good at what it does, which is a nice solid low end, with fairly precise highs, but mids, nah, it left those at home.

Some people want to be able to say they`re a musician/play in a band, but don`t appear to actually want to be a musician/play in a band. We see this a lot, people turn up with just guitars/sticks just before they`re meant to be on, expect to use the other bands backlines, then leave as soon as their set is finished. One guy I know put it very aptly, they`re not a band, they`re on a boys night out.

I think a good across the board tone should be able to cover it, but if I went to see a band who did a Stranglers song and the bassist didn`t even attempt to get a JJ like tone I`d be pretty disappointed. But then, out of the whole venue I`d probably be in a group of 1. I don`t see anything wrong with trying to get near without incurring a lot of cost. Sorting a Zoom B3 or similar would be easy enough, and could really make a difference. Sure, most punters won`t notice the difference in bass tone, but I`d bet that they`d think that the band were sounding like the originals, and that has to be the point, making the songs sound better. And having similar tones/sounds to the originals breeds that familiarity, so people will then latch on to the "this band is good" mind-set, which in an ideal, increases gigs/fees/fans.

I have the Ashdown RM414 (a 4ohm 410) and have put some 4" castors on it. It makes it a doddle to wheel about. Getting a set of decent castors will add height to your cab, plus make the actual moving about of it so much easier. I`m 6 foot and the height of the 410 inc the castors is 29"/74cm, and pretty simple to get about. So thinking of the Genz 212 which seems about 78cm you`d add at least 10cm plus make the moving of it way easier.

I think all of the amps mentioned so far are pretty much htting the requirements, though I`ll add in the Ashdown Rootmasters - the 500 is very powerful, so the 800 must be, er, more so. Pretty decently priced new, so plenty left over for cabbage.

I bought a new (used) bass today - Precision, natch - and the amp the guy had for me to try it through was an LB30, connected to a matching 1x15 cab. Tell you what, if I ever ditch my punk boots and start up a Motown band the LB is the amp I`d want for it, assuming it would be loud enough of course. Beautiful tones through that amp, made the bass I was buying sound great, way different to my regular assault on the ear-drums for sure.

Yep, gonna stick with my beloved Rotos. I suppose one saving grace on the fact that they die quickly is that they are pretty much the cheapest strings around, so one set a month isn`t killing me financially. And having just bought yet another Precision today I`m gonna try a set of Roto flats out as well. Not for gigging, just at home use when I want something mellower than clanky-punk.

This seems to be a recurring pattern amongst many genres/areas, bass drum with no actual attack, just made ridiculously loud to compensate. At one gig we played I asked the sound man to add some top-end to the kick drum as our drummer is pretty fast, and all the other bands had a bass drum that was just booming and he said he "knew the room". So why make everyone sound sh*t then was my question (asked after we`d played, I do have some sense, sometimes).

When I depped a couple of times I tried to get the bass sounding as near as I could for each track. For example the tone on All Right Now by Free and the tone on Zombie by The Cranberries are pretty different, so I swapped between pickups/adjusted tone on the bass (it was an active bass with P/J pickups). I just wanted to try and be as near as possible. Whereas when I was in a punk covers band I just had one tone and that was it. I suppose what I`m saying is, either can be done, and probably to the ears of the punters - aside from any bassists out there - no-one will really notice.

[quote name='TheGreek' timestamp='1500558330' post='3338700'] I think that Lozz [u][b]had[/b][/u] one... [/quote] That I did, Mick. Nice case, Precision - what else - fits in it nicely.

Might be a sideways suggestion, but if you liked the VT500, why not get the VT DI pedal? That way you get the sound you had before, a preamp/DI to use with provided rigs if necessary, and keep the MAG - in my experience Tech 21 pedals pair really well with Ashdown amps.

Calling (Mick) The Greek - he being our resident TE nut, am sure he`ll be along soon to offer advice.

TE amps/cabs/combos have a certain colour to the sound that really does punch through, tight and focused but really slams through, probably an upper-mid boost. I`ve also found that the older heavyweight cabs seem to do this much more than the lighter modern ones, having had both but also having had to admit that I can`t manage the older heavyweights anymore.

So changed my regular Roto Steels for a set of Elixir Nanoweb Steels, which I got as part of my subscription to Bass Guitar Mag. Love Rotos, but they give me about 4 maybe 5 gigs then have to change them, so was hoping I`d get longer life from the Elixirs, and have to maybe re-eq a bit. Nah - couldn`t get on with them. If I were doing anything but what I`m currently doing music-wise they`d be fine, but the aggression and punch had left the building - and for those who say this comes from your hands, well checking out my playing style would see that there`s enough aggression there already. It was just the strings, Rotos seem to have an upper-mid punch that I can`t get anywhere else (Elixirs, D`Addario, DRs, Fenders, Dean Markleys so far). Luckily I always have supply of Rotos to hand, so the swap back will take place this eve, was just hoping to get a bit longer life from a set of strings for our tour coming up. Looks like Fast-Fret to the Rotos after each gig then. Bah!

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