Steve Browning

Yikes!! I confess I'm a bit of a Luddite when it comes to amps and have an unfair bias towards some amount of genuine valve in the path. My friend bought an M-Pulse 600 on the basis of hearing mine through the Diesel 2x15 that was my cab until about 2 years ago. I bought the two Subway 1x15's to replace the old 2x15. Using the M-Pulse and Subway cabs gives me the same sound as I had with the Bass 400 and Diesel rig IMHO. My friend tends to use his M-Pulse too, I should add. Just to throw a further spanner, if the weight of the amp ever proved to be prohibitive for me, I would happily use the Subway. The tone was certainly the same (pretty much) across the range of amps but the valve pre-amps did have 'something' which may have just been valve colouration but not to the extent that we thought it was completely different. I think the vagueness of that answer suggests that we didn't think there was much of any significant difference but I have let my bias towards valves colour my judgement in favour of the M-Pulse.

I have used Boogie gear continuously from 1988 to the present day, going from Bass 400 through Walkabout to M-Pulse 600. Fairly recently a friend and I did a comparison of my amps and his Subway 800, through the same cab. We both concluded that there was a noticeable 'dna' that was present in all the amps (all bar the Bass 400 which wasn't included in the comparison).

Not sure where you are but BCS in Hampshire make excellent cases and will custom make for you if you supply the spec. http://www.bcsmanufacturing.co.uk/

Great to see Stretch here. Kirby is a truly fine guitarist and there is also the pre-Quo Jeff Rich on drums (on the LP that followed this one).

I take the above picture was taken just after LB had the phone call!!

I have had the great pleasure of playing with Dave Mattacks. If you are in West Sussex he occasionally surfaces around Worthing playing with Bob Brookes and Miller Anderson.

You should do as you feel. I do wonder whether the Jazz bass should remain and other gear go. The reason for that is that gear is relatively cheap to replace and a nice Jazz bass will always be worth a good deal. Just a thought. A tad excessive for noodling I accept.

For me, a lot of it is being 'triggered' by the kick drum and playing a line that i sympathetic to the overall drum pattern. Over time you get to be able to read the drummer and you play the songs almost as a duet.

Really sorry to have missed this but was away gigging all over the weekend. I hope to be there next year - on whichever day it is held.

Congratulations on the outcome. Just need a tort scratchplate now, of course.

It was this that turned me on to the Pbass.

The SKB by a mile. I tried both when choosing cases and the SKB was the only one that didn't allow the bass to move around inside. The SKB is a specific fit whereas the Hiscox is essentially a generic case.

I had a similar thing and found that the cause was some staples that had attached to the magnet by the cone. The guy attaching the wadding when the cab was being made had obviously reloaded the staple gun and dropped some into the cabinet. Took them out and no problem.

I don't use any effects but I do have a (Lehle) switcher to allow me to change between passive and active basses. I am currently using an old Palmer Y box with a buffer in it between the switcher and the amp (which is a Mesa). So my plan is to change the Palmer unit for either a Lehle unit or the Boogie. Does anyone have any thoughts on either of these? I certainly noticed a difference when I first started using the Y box so am pretty sure having such a unit is worthless.

No, a ship's chandlery.

Graham Wheeler, who can be found one day a week at GAK in Brighton. His workshop is just outside Worthing.

I'd go for the Wharfedale at the price but my band (vocal only and a smidge of guitar) use Alto TX10s very happily. You don't need massive speakers for vocal only.

I meant to start a thread when it started last week.