chris_b

I'd have a look at the website. Alex covers a lot of ground there.

For me, the wider technique for learning a song is to get the feel, groove, structure and sections sorted. The repeats, intro, outro and riffs come later. Once you understand the structure and relationship of the sections the key can be moved around as required.

I'd suggest the Super Twin or the Four10 as the best 1 cab solutions, in this case.

I would imagine Alex is too busy. . . . . to take on custom work and at a price that you would be happy paying. If Alex is that busy then I'm very happy. Small UK companies using US imported components could easily be facing serious difficulties in the Brexit cock-up world we currently inhabit. If you really have to upgrade to 4 ohms then the kit, apparently, is pretty straightforward to install yourself. IMO it be more effective to buy another cab. Two 12 ohm cabs will look like 6 ohms to your amp. A difference in watts you'll not notice and an improvement in SPL (air moved) that will be significant. If the Dereham Blues Fest is a [i]serious[/i] musical event they should be putting the bass, and the rest of the instruments, through the FOH. If they aren't I'd start complaining now, so you can get this problem fixed by July.

I had heard it on the radio years before, but the first time I played Long Train Running was on a gig. I knew it by the end of the second verse. I rarely play complicated stuff but if anything won't go in I'll just write a chart.

The Bass Gallery fret stoned and set up one of my basses. When it came back I could just about get a fag paper under the strings. I tried to adjust my technique to it but I never could make an action that low sound consistently good. My view now is that a low action is pretty irrelevant. I don't hit the strings hard, just firm and even, so IME there doesn't need to be a connection between a light touch, a low action and a good technique. When I set my basses up I take the strings down till they buzz then raise the bridge saddles until the rattles stop.

I have never downloaded or streamed anything. I like to be able to hold my music.

+1 for replacing them. My sweat doesn't kill strings so when they have come to the end of their useful life, I just replace them.

Fender Jazz basses have the A profile necks. Back in the day they were also an option for Fender P basses. Lakland Duck Dunn basses had J necks and there must be more out there.

[quote name='KingPrawn' timestamp='1492541049' post='3281113'] Chainey do. The pointer sisters. You have to check this tune out!! [/quote] I haven't heard Steppin' in a long while. Some serious groove from bass and drums across the whole album.

Good thinking.

If you are thinking about another 4 ohm 210 I'd also get a second amp, (you're using an LM3 I believe) and daisy chain both amps using the send/return. You can run each as a linked 4 ohm systems.

It's a blanket application of the rules and age doesn't come into it.

The saddles on my Lakland are similar but much less pronounced. The A is extended the furthest and the others are slightly set back from it. The differences between them are no more than 1/4 of a saddle width. This after a set up at the Bass Gallery. I'd suggest the bass is probably fine and just suffering from a DIY set up.

You've got the cab so I'd carry on using the Ashdown until you have settled down with your new sound.

I've used 1 Compact for a gig. It was fine. Aguilar seem to underrate their TH amps and the Compact is very good at turning watts into SPL so I'd say you'd be fine. What were you using before?

I mainly use a TH500 with my Super Compacts, so I'd suggest the TH350 from your list. Unless you want to sound like Mark King, these amps are perfect. I've read read that the Streamliner has a very bass heavy tone. That wouldn't be for me in a million years. I don't know the VT500 at all, so can't comment there.

Dunlops all the way. The Schallers have a reputation for coming unscrewed! Have a look at All Parts Strap Loks. They are rebadged Dunlops and are a lot cheaper.

The best 210 I've ever used was 2 Bergantino AE210 cabs. Tight low end, punchy mids, full, fat, no boom, mud or woolliness. Low B (and the other 4 strings) heaven. I moved on to Berg 112's then a Berg 212, which were all fantastic cabs, but those 210's really were special. I would expect their replacements, the HD210's and HDN210's, to be equally good. Bergs are going to be increasingly unobtainable with the pound exchange rate tanking. If you want to find a great UK made 210 I'd read some reviews of the Barefaced Two10. I haven't played one yet but my One10 is an eye opener and the reports of the Two10 seems to indicate another equally game changing cab.

I have never seen strings wound in this way. If you wind around the post there doesn't seem much point in #3. And #4 seems to have the strings wound over each other. I wouldn't do either of these things. The usual advice is for 2 or 3 wraps around the post, finishing with the string at the bottom of the post.