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Great rehearsal last night with my punky originals band The Spacewasters. We’ve a gig coming up next weekend so had to work on the set, not played these songs since the last gig at end of Aug aside from the ones we recorded for our new album in Sept. All sounded great, really tight. Aside from the drummer we were all using varying bits of new gear, for myself was my Squier CV Mustang Bass. Was using it as it’s white, the lead guitarist uses a white guitar live and I like the look of the two instruments at either side of the stage in matching colours and wanted to try it out before the gig. Anyway said CV was great and the Jazz width neck made it very comfortable to play. But the all important thing, it sounded great and really worked well with the band. So after this we messed around with a few daft covers just for fun - Addicted to Love, 9 to 5, Go Your Own Way, Bad Moon Rising amongst them. Given next weekend is Halloween weekend we’ll do Bad Moon Rising to keep in the spirit of things.

For a while I had a pair of Ashdown RM210s, they were nice cabs and due to the cones being placed diagonally it reduced the width so they were much easier to cart about. This also helped on the height aspect as well. Sounded good though my only experience was using them with 4 string basses, no idea how they’d work with a fiver.

So an update on this, turns out that backing off on the tone control to about 60/70% gives me the JMJ sound. Have done a bit of research and the pots & capacitor are different so am getting the same installed (better quality never hurts) so not going to change the pickup.

Yup, I used Toneriders in my backup basses to my US Fender Precisions that had CS62s in, very little difference between them.

I had one of their Tony Butler Sig Precisions, was a superb instrument. Up until I got it I read many endorsements by pros stating how much they loved their own Vintage guitars and was sceptical, that changed when I bought mine. If it weren’t for the fact that I somehow feel disloyal playing anything other than Fender - yep, stupid I know - I’d have had a couple of them and gigged those rather than my more expensive US Fenders.

I keep thinking of one of @stevies cabs, given back issues a single good cab seems the way to go and the off-axis projection of these appears to be much better than anything else around.

I play similar basses/strings and have found that if the tweeters were switched on on my Ashdown cabs they added more definition and modernness to the sound, however I prefer my high end in a more old school way, less sharp and precise so I leave them off.

You’re in for a great night, they really are excellent

It`s worth going wireless, standing out front when a song is going on and then when it`s stopped asking the soundperson what the words were on the chorus. If they can`t answer ask them to turn the backline down until the words can be understood. Often it`s the vocals that suffer in the inane attempt to have the worlds largest sounding kick drum and the then desperate attempts to match the backline to it. Getting soundpeoples to acknowledge that the words are important can result in a quieter gig.

My thoughts too, the Stingray just doesn`t seem to work with those great riffs.

The backing vocalists clearly aren`t on the food rider..............

Sounds good Dave, one of my fave SLF songs

Thanks for the tip-off, I didn’t know they were back there. I saw them there last year (or was it year before???) and they were excellent. Ticket now purchased!

I saw 3 different bands last night, all used the same CMD121P and it was excellent. In a room that probably holds 50-80 people it filled the room easily.

All of my gigs are with shared/provided backlines so my Sansamp with its always the same settings goes FOH, I then just adjust whatever amp I’m using for on stage sound. As long as that’s not too boomy all is well & good.

I’ve recently gone short scale and have added Hipshot triple string retainers to my JMJ Mustangs. The angle from the nut on the A isn’t bad without them to be honest but it just gives me a bit of peace of mind as the A can be troublesome on Fenders.

I might just sort some Ultralites for the 2 Mustangs I use with my bands, I’m sure Hipshot will advise which ones I’d need for a JMJ.

I’ve switched allegiances from Precisions to Mustangs this year and whilst there’s a bit of neck dive if I remove my left hand completely from the neck I don’t notice it otherwise.

I’m down to 3 categories on musical instruments My fave ever bass which I’ll never sell The basses I need for my bands (ok prob one too many here) An electric and an acoustic guitar In the past I’ve had different types of bass, you know the classic three of P, J, Ray, but I just end up aiming for the same sound from them so it’s pointless imo. As such I’ve now just got Mustangs for band duties.

That’s a good vid

Those were my thoughts, go out there with an instrument in a case, return with one, just a much better one at a knock down price.

I remember it quite well as at the time I pretty much disliked all of the music on that day - what a fool I was!

Well Tony James used one of their basses in Generation Sex, if it’s good enough to play Glastonbury it must be ok.

I stopped playing in the early 90s for about 4 maybe 5 years, didn`t buy any music at all or go to see bands, but then - and though I didn`t go to see any of them - Brit Pop happened and guitars were "in" again so this being played on radio & TV coaxed me back in. Nothing wrong in just taking a break from a hobby.

Yep, don`t reinvent the wheel, a short-scale BB bass I`m sure would get a lot of interest.