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    Show us your rig!

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    18 hours ago, bigthumb said:

    Reminds me of my old Ashdown 'big rig' many years ago. This was something else with the Ampeg SVT Pro4. I'd love it now, trouble is, I'd never be able to lift it! One of my last gigging rigs was a MarkBass Tube 800 and two ABM 410's. I've always liked Ashdown and @Painy's gear is something to be envious of! 

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    JEEZ! WTF are those cabs???

    Low Wattage, Sub £100 Practice Amps

    in Amps and Cabs

    Posted

    11 hours ago, JottoSW1 said:

    As it happens Im about to post a line6 ld110 for sale here. Hilarious little amps, though the Roland is slightly better really.

    Been 7 or 8 years since I owned the Line6 and I currently own the Roland so hard for me to say! Greatly enjoy(ed) both! 

    Low Wattage, Sub £100 Practice Amps

    in Amps and Cabs

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    In your shoes I'd go with either a used Roland Bass Cube 30 or a Line6 Studio 110 if I could find one. Slightly more spendy, but the sounds available are outstanding. I used to gig the Line6 straight to the PA, kicked back against a wall or wedged up on a block of wood as a personal monitor. Great bit of kit.

    Metal bass players thread

    in General Discussion

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    4 hours ago, Iron1 said:

    Checked out the tracks - great bass tone. 

    That was an education! Really talented guy called Dave Castillo recorded the bass at Ghost Ward studios in Stockholm. 4 tracks. My US P bass, to 2 tracks, first was a straight DI and second was through a sansamp BDDI plugin with Dave's default settings in protools, then the clean DI was reamped through a rat into a traynor head and 8x8 cab with 2 different mics for the remaining 2 tracks.

    I don't think he'd ever recorded a straight P bass before - "Everybody turns up with Warwicks and pointy ESPs" - he was like a kid in a sweet shop! Sat so well with the guitars and drums with very little work. 

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    Metal bass players thread

    in General Discussion

    Posted · Edited by Bigwan

    2 hours ago, bagsieblue said:

    Metal or Hard Rock - you decide....

    My band Soldato released these 3 songs last year.  I trialled a load of different gear and I've found and settled on Spector basses to work best for me.

    Signal Chain on these is a Spector Euro > Tech 21 DP-3X > GK Fusion 800 > BF BB2.

    I was looking at Spector (Euro and forte) recently, had wanted ads up for Dingwalls, Spectors and Vigier (had previously had a Dingwall D-roc 5 standard on order from Bassdirect, but car issues forced cancellation of that - then some funds magically became available!), but the Vigier came up first and I have to say I'm really impressed it. I'll own a Spector some day though!

    Can't fault your rig - BIG fan of the dUg!

    Metal bass players thread

    in General Discussion

    Posted · Edited by Bigwan

    I've played metal (among other things) on and off for nearly 30 years, everything from hard rock to pretty brutal death metal. Heading closer to djent type stuff more recently but most time spent on what somebody else described as "melancholy metal" - Paradise Lost, My Dying Bride, Anathema, Katatonia type stuff. My previous band released a pretty decent album 11 or so years ago with ex-paradise lost drummer Lee Morris and Jens Bogren producing (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC7Mhb2Peo_VtXjbkDJX1M9w).

    Things looked to be going pretty well, decent reviews, etc. Then the singer disappeared up his own derrière with ridiculous self promotion antics and everything stopped dead at that point... 

    Gear wise I've played pretty much everything going over the last 20 odd years but my signature shows pretty much where I'm at now - Vigier leading the pack at the minute. Ridiculously good bass. Still love my ACGs to death, and really I'm a dyed-in-the-wool P-bass guy and have too many basses, but it's a nice problem to have...

    Rig-wise, after being an Ashdown fan for the longest time, I moved on to an Orange Terror which is probably my fav head of all time, but with no gigging band for the last few years my rig is kind of up in the air. Lots of nice gear knocking around. I'd love an oldschool Trace Elliot SMX rig after playing through one in a rehearsal room last year. Maybe a cull is required to enable that to happen...

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    Ashdown ABM 300 EVO II power section

    in Amps and Cabs

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    I "upgraded" my 300 watt (originally badged 200 watt) combo to 500 watts YEARS ago with a couple of power transistors and a couple of filter caps. The original line of amps (Klystron Bass Magnifier - still my favourite amp of all time!)  had the same PCB for the 200 and 400 watt versions, just omitted some components in the lower powered versions. These were rebadged as 300 and 500 watt amps without internal change (Ashdown confirmed this to me via email). The official Ashdown schematic suggests they had the same rated transformer too... I believe this was the same for the original EVO version of the amp, but the EVO II changed things.

     

    Like lomenzo

    in Effects

    Posted

    12 hours ago, bode said:

    I have this pedal still unopened in my box of tricks. I do know that the pedal was modelled on the Billy Sheehan modded Pearce BC 1

    Another 'overdrive' pedal modelled on the same pre amp are the Suncoast HD1 and pre amps.

    http://www.suncoastanalog.com/

    I like the sound of the HD-1 from listening to Eric Arko's youtube demo, but I don't think it does quite the same thing as the Lomenzo which only distorts the (adjustable) midrange frequencies.

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