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The Ashdown Lo Menzo (or whatever his name is) blends a clean low freq channel with the higher frequencies being o/d'd. No idea how it sounds tho. I use my bass murf as an o/d sometimes & the resonant filters can allow you to add extra depth to the sound, tho it's a bit pricy to use just as an o/d. I've also just found an old PSK Super Distortion that I got about 15 or more years ago & has never been used (still in it's box too). A friend of mine bought it to use with his acoustic guitar (not semi!) & then discovered that he couldn't use it so gave it to me. It's sat in a cupboard ever since. I'm gonna try it out tomorrow on my bass.

Hobbycraft or any good craft shop will have good velcro. I got 1 mitre of Velcro Heavy Duty for @ £7 odd. Enough to put 2 strips across the board & plenty for my pedals (2 moogers, a moog exp pedal & a boss chorus) & still have some left over. Cheaper Velcro has rubbish adhesive, so avoid unless you plan on superglueing it on (now there's an idea?).

A filter pedal to use with the EHX bass synth.

Another method is to follow the vocals & play their melody or even harmonize with them (mind & play some extra notes when they're not singing (such as after each line in the verse/chorus). Alternitavely, just play alternating octaves & pop down a disco groove

I used to have a zingy tone but my search for my sound has made me put flats on my ibby & neck p/u on full with the bridge p/u on slightly & then thru the moog pedals for extra bass (even in bypass) & a very slight ammount of od. EQ on the MB is set flat with the VLE set to @ 10 o'clock. I could discribe my sound as a fuzzy sine wave with some resonance.

I think it's a nice looking bass, but it doesn't push my buttons & for that price I could get a really nice bass made here in the UK.

You could make a spacer to hold one cab on top of tother. There appears to be a Dalek approaching from the left!

From what I've been told previously on here, 2 2x10s stacked vertically to make one single column 4 high would give you the best sound dispersion, but will your ABM head fit on the top if the 2x10 is sideways? I'd have a try of both 2x10 & 4x10 with your current rig to see what sounds best to you.

How about the new [url="http://www.gear4music.com/Keyboards-and-Pianos/Moog-Taurus-3-Bass-Pedal-Synthesizer/CK0"]Moog Taurus III[/url] pedals? They are quite dear tho.

Started off with keys at about aged 5. My wee bro got a cheap acoustic guitar when I was 12 & i started playing basslines on it to go along with sequences that I programmed & then bought myself a bass when I was almost 14 (Vox Standard, that I am in the process of turning into a fretless) & decided it was the instrument for me. I then decided to learn some guitar & I is fairly competent on it, but I don't enjoy playing more than 2 songs in a row in front of folk.

I haven't tried the MB cabs (but want a 4x10 MB cab to add to my combo sometime), but I would get an 8 ohm & as you have an Ashdown rig so far, I would try out their neo 4x10 & you could then run a 6x10 stack if you added your current cab.

I had to use a lace out of a pair of converse all stars because my strap I got for my semi never had the bootlace. Makes wearing those connies a bit of a pain now!

I had a listen to the different EH Qtrons & didn't like the whishy whisper sound that they seem to give everything. I love my mf101 & although the filter amount only works upwards, can be gotten around by taking a patch cable from the env out & back into cutoff in. Or use an expression pedal (or 4). I also find it adds more bass to the sound & you can even add analogue overdrive to the sound. Downsides to the pedal (if you wanna call em that): If you turn the drive up to give you some OD, it can't be turned off with the bypass (not true bypass) or linked to an exp pedal. It's big. & with a couple of exp pedals it could take up most of your board. None of these are negitaves to me tho as I usually use the mf105b for OD (& other things) & only have those 2 pedals, 1 exp pedal ( but gonna get another soonish), a tap tempo for the 105b (which sits in front of the corner of the board) and a boss chorus (which I have borrowed to try some swishy pad like sounds in conjunction with the moogs).

I think the one thing I would change is the top horn so it doesn't look like a butternut squash. It's the only thing that puts me right off Fenders.

I'm another for the Dunlop .73 yellow tortex picks, tho I only use pick on a couple of songs. I've tried countless picks & find these the best for me & can easily be seen when you drop one.

I regularly put my semi acoustic guitar & a female vocalist into a mixer & then into my MB combo & has no muddiness whatsoever. Freshman make good semis at all sorts of prices btw.

The MB LMII has 1 speakon & 1 jack also. All you would need is another Bearfaced & a speakon to speakon.

I'd get a DiscumBoBulator just for the name alone, but I'm happy with the moogerfooger LPF & exp pedal.

I believe all the combos don't have a dial for the piezo. However, I only ever hear the piezo at gigging volume if I don't use the VLE, but I usually have it set to @ 10 o'clock & never hear the piezo (I don't think I've typed piezo this many times all year, let alone one post!).

I work with a girl (I play g***ar, she sings) & she knows very little about music. If she can't sing the key it's in she always gets the direction backwards, eg: if she wants me to go down a key she asks me to go up & knows ziltch about theory in any form whatsoever. But she's got a good voice & is a nice girl so I usually just ask her to sing & then I find her key (which 8 times out of 10 is Eb).

Or you could get yourself a B string & tune your bass BEAD. This way if you don't like it, you can go back to what you had & if you do like it & want the G string back then go for the 5er.

Don't be fooled by the word punchy. The 2X10 combo has plenty of depth & bassiness to shake things with. Next door to the rehearsal rooms that we practice in there is an arts & crafts room. I've moved things off of the shelves many times without having to go into the A&C room (they hate me apparently).

Oh dear. Makes me feel better for the times I've hit wrong notes at gigs!

I kinda learned by accident. I tried it a couple of times when I was a kid & couldn't really do it too well (Higher Ground played slowly) so kinda concentrated more on tapping & other finger styles. I was messing about doing a groove finger style & then the thumb got twitchy & that was it. I'm not great at it, but I'm comfy playing slap in a song to an audience. It's the dead notes that get me too often.

I'm pretty sure the original song is in D, so you wouldn't need to detune. I used to play along to the entire album on bass when it first came out (I bought the bass tab book, but no idea where that's gone). It's a simple straight forward song to play & I like the bass in the intro part too. My faves to play off that album were My Michelle, Mr Brownstone & of course Paradise City. I've never played any for some 10+ years now!