Mudpup

A pub gig just 20 mins from my house Its a regular venue for us with a lovely crowd, ticket only admission, food provided and a great landlord who has said to do whatever we want set wise.....I'm really looking forward to it :-)

My eyes, my eyes!!!!! Aaargh.... 😊😉

You def need the mids back in I think. A lot of the perceived volume comes from them. And try it with the compressor out too - when I had one I thought it killed the dynamics too much. The other thing is try cranking the gain up and don't worry about the VU meter, just use your ears for signs of clipping the input. I had a Spector when I had my ABM500 and tbh I felt it wasn't a great pairing - the amp seemed happier with a more old school bass like a Precision with a bit more mid in the inherent tone. The Spector always sounded a bit dry and clanky to my ears.

This will do the trick - massive bang for your buck! Audio input, headphone output, looper, drum machine and a zillion amp models and effects to play with. Use it on its own for silent practice or plug it in the amp jack input if you want to run it thru your amp. https://www.andertons.co.uk/zoom-b1on-bass-multi-effects-processor-b1on?lgw_code=16284-B1ON&gclid=CjwKCAiAi4fwBRBxEiwAEO8_Hrn9uksjr01rece3FvilmWxBpUyBM4gIeG5Pkh_RG-NVA7RxAXfvbBoCIjYQAvD_BwE

8ohm or 4 ohm cab (s)? Did you have the shape engaged? I found it sucked too much mid out and became spongy with it in - it didn't sound so loud. Did you try it with the valve switched off? May be the valve dying on you?

Is that your headphone rig?

That is a great bit of kit...... Enjoy 😊

Great gig in a fairly local pub for me :-) Its a place thats known more for Britpop/Oasis/Killers sort of stuff - most of the bands that play there fit into that bracket anyway - we're a bit rowdier and rockier than they are and i've thought that maybe its not the best place for us. But its been steadily growing there and last night was absolutely rammed out mainly with people that wanted to see us because we provide something a bit different. Everyone kicked off from the second song and didn't stop dancing and singing the whole night. And the regulars are lovely too - we've got to know them pretty well. Our regular geetarist was at the football up north so we had a dep for the night. He's absolute gold dust and a total fit for the band - he works on the material constantly, is totally reliable and a really nice bloke too. Loads of punters were filming him (he is a bit poop hot on the lead stuff) and all came up to say hello to him after - really nice to see :-) It's quite funny because he really enjoys depping for us and deps his own gigs out with his regular band to do our ones. So, a really nice one...........until i got home to find a missed call from the drummer. I called him back and found out he was stuck in the van with a flat battery with a 3 hour wait for the AA. I offered to drive back and help but he was settling in the cab with a sleeping bag. UPDATE! The AA actually took 8 hours to get to him......appalling service!!

Dan Reed - my all time fave band. Saw them many times back in the day including their first ever UK gig at the old Marquee. They'll be great with that line up And I'm off to see Alter Bridge and Shinedown on a few weeks 😊

It's the temptation to fiddle that's my problem...... Less knobs = less temptation 😊😂

I had a Thunderfunk and a BB800 at the same time. Sold the Thunderfunk though....too many knobs :-) .....i also think the Quilter had more slam about it and La Bam has described the ease of dialling in a sound perfectly above.

Little pub gig last night - a new one for us that came in via our Facebook page. Apparently a few locals had seen us somewhere and nagged the manager to book us. Slightly strange set times - they wanted us starting at 9 and finished by 11 (we're normally starting the second set at 11) but hey ho its an early scarper so no problem. We arrived at 7pm to find 10 tanked up late 20's bods playing pool, being generally loud, lairy and uncooperative when we said we needed to move the table to set up. The bar staff were no help and said can we could set up at 8.30pm and be ready to go at 9pm. Errr no sorry, it'll take us an hour to get sorted...... we waited around till 7.45 and then just started bringing gear in until they got the message and closed the table off. The lairy bods were getting worse - can i just have a go on the drums mate i'm really good etc....we were dumb enough to leave the gear unattended once whilst doing van shuttles and i came back to catch the alpha male one just getting off the drum stool and his mates laughing at him. I had a quick word with him - "go anywhere near that stage again and the gigs off and we're telling everyone why, no second chances" and then had the same convo with the bar staff. Just to try and set the ground rules out before we got going as it had the smell of a difficult night. We got going at 9pm dead. Lairy bods were getting worse, spider dancing all over the place, spilling drinks, trying to talk or fist pump while we were playing, standing nose to nose eyeballing with us etc. They kept nipping off to the bogs too so we soon figured out they were full of nose candy too - that would explain why they weren't conking out or falling over from the booze. It was like having the children of Liam Gallagher and the Duracell bunny slam dancing around the room. Not aggressive really but unpleasant and intimidating. I couldn't wait to get out of there. And they're trying to rebook us...

Have a look at a Fender FB620....They're about 50quid and pretty good - quite slim but with decent support and padding.

I had one - fabulous amp! Not too heavy to cart about but loud and with serious booty. and its capable of zing unlike a lot of other older Ashdown ABM's. I would cheerfully have another someday...

Just picked up a load of surplus bits from the Recycling section from Andy. A truly generous guy and a pleasure to deal with. Thank you!

PM'ed Andy