Linus27

I had the LaBella Black Nylon Tapewound strings on a few of my fretless basses and I absolutely loved them. I've moved on to Rotosound Swing 66 Nickel Rounds now but I'd happily have them again.

That's a bit like me when I went to Andertons and tried the Fender Vintera II Telecaster Bass. I played it through an Orange Crush 100 watt 15" combo and I was blown away by the sound and the adjustability of the EQ. I'd never tried any Orange amps or combo's before and the sound I was hearing was amazing. I wondered how heavy this little combo was so I went to pick it up and as I lifted my arm, its just stretched and the combo stayed exactly still on the ground 🤣 That was the end of that idea. 54Lbs was a bit much to have as a lightweight portable combo 🤣

All I know of they is that they came as a 10", 12" and 15" speaker option, sounded pretty good but are heavy.

I'd also go for a Telecaster like this.

This is simple little number but beautiful all the same.

After nearly 40 years of playing, I've come to the conclusion that a good old passive Fender Jazz or Precision is what suits me best. My favourite's are Japanese Fender's because of the gloss neck but they are also the most comfortable to play in my hands. My Mexican FSR 70's Precision is sublime and the best Jazz I ever played was the Mexican 70's Classic. The best sounding Precision I've played is the Mexican Mike Dirnt and I've had two identical AVRI75 Jazz basses and one was incredible and played itself and the other was as dull as dish water and far from anything special. My first ever Stingray was an absolute dog, my second was nothing special and mega heavy and my third was really nice but my recent fretless SR4 was easily the best Stingray I've owned.

Thanks for posting, will be keeping an eye on both of their amps.

You are welcome, I'll dig out some more for you as well in a bit.

Some nice ones here,

It just sounds to me like a really good vintage P-Bass, with the tone set mid-way so there's just a bit of clank and bite but still some warmth in the overall tone. My 77 P-Bass I had sounded exactly the same. I'm also going to say he's probably using rounds but I could be wrong.

Mine would probably be my 2008 US Fender Precision and my fretless Warwick Streamer Jazzman.

Mine 😍

I agree, that was really good and I did love the bass tone. So am I right in thinking that the other singer at the front, bassist and guitarist were the original musicians from FGTH? If so, the bassist wasn't too bad

You also have the cheaper Musicman basses, I think they are called Stirling. Nice to hear the Squier VM 5 string Jazz is good, I'm looking to get one in a while as my first foray into 5 string basses. Ibanez is the other I'm looking at.

That was great but I was thinking more like this, just an acoustic guitar or maybe acoustic guitar and piano sort of thing. Really stripped back so the emphasis is on her voice.

Ooh I've not seen that, will go hunt for it, thank you 🙃

To me, she's a bit like a pop version of Shania Twain. On her own, she is a great singer and can get up with a band and carry it off with great vocals, melodies and a captivating performance. She can also put on the big show, with backing singers, dancers, lights, theatrics, backing tracks and and go large with the performance and still pull it off. I'd love to see her do a stripped back MTV unplugged type set.

I like Dua Lipa and thought her Glasto performance was good but I do get what you are saying and I was hoping more for something a bit like this which is more like a band performance.

Dua Lipa 😍 Brilliant performance despite the cliche speeches between the songs.

For those who are using a Sansamp to get the Ampeg tone, are you using the recommended settings in the manual or have you created your own. If so, can anyone share their settings please. I also did a gig and used one of the BA combo's, I think it was a 1x12 and I wasn't really very hopeful of it sounding very good but I was really blown away with it. It sounded really really good with my fretless Precision. I've also used a PF500 head which again I was really impressed with, I only moved it on as I wanted something lighter.

I've never used Reverb, is it quite safe or do you still get the usual scammers or waste of time interest?