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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.

If you feel like you're "somewhere else" with these, then non filter plugs will be even worse. I've been using my Pro17's since Christmas. They replaced my ACS ER15's of about 10 years. I wouldn't use anything else. Any plugs will change what we hear (that's their job) but in doing so they're protecting hearing even in the noisiest bands. I can still hear from the loudest guitar solo to the slightest stage whisper so it's all good. I see a lot of the older guys coming to gigs these days and taking their hearing aids out. But they still aren't putting plugs in when they play! They're not playing Roulette with their hearing, it's Russian Roulette and with 6 bullets!

Izal is best for fretless.

I recently replaced my 5 year old GHS flats with TI flats on my P bass. This seems to have been a good move because the guys in the band commented favourably on the next gig, and without any prompting from me. The J basses have either DR Lo-Rider or Dunlop Super Brights.

As a long time Lakland player I think everyone should try one of these before they decide on a new bass. http://basschat.co.uk/topic/297268-lakland-44-02-cherry-sunburst-bartolini/page__fromsearch__1

Perfection is anything Keb Mo has recorded. Great songs using the world's best bass players playing the best lines for the last 20 years. Hard to beat this though. . . . The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down by The Band [url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w69ZVHpjYAk"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w69ZVHpjYAk[/url]

I'd use someone in the UK. Who does Shuker, ACG, Sei, Wal and Overwater use? I believe Martin Simms is in Kent and has a very good reputation.

Insisting on new is a big expense. It means you're restricting your choices to cheaper basses. You can buy better basses in new condition in the BC Classifieds. There are also some great used basses on the Bass Direct web site http://www.bassdirect.co.uk/bass_guitar_specialists/Second_hand_Ex_demo_Bass_Guitars.html

Does it have a rosewood fretboard?

[quote name='Number6' timestamp='1491992006' post='3276972'] I gigged my Squier Friday night and i'm not affraid to say it.....so there! [/quote] Good job I was sitting down for that!!

[quote name='Nicko' timestamp='1491914152' post='3276403'] I find the choice of songs that can be played well as a 3 piece covers band frustrating. [/quote] I think you're confusing cover bands with tribute bands, or you need to develop a better imagination. Songs are usually written on one instrument. The rest is just window dressing.

[quote name='inthedoghouse' timestamp='1491989512' post='3276940'] I gigged for a while with a pro band in the 80s using a nice Squier and nobody said a word or gave me a funny look [/quote] This is almost totally a subject that interests the non-pro world. The only things that interest a pro band. . . . how well you get on with the band and how well you play.

As someone already said, Gibson are already not shipping rosewood abroad. They have already been hit with CITES related court cases and fines. Sadowsky (at their low volumes) won't either. Anyone with a bulk export business will have to stop unless they have a magic wand or just make an instant switch to Morado or Maple etc fret boards. That will include all the Asian companies. Custom builders, including Fender's Custom shop, will probably continue to use up their stock of rosewood because they can inform the individual customer of the restrictions and will presumably only sell within their countries borders. When you make in bulk and send thousands of instruments abroad then that is what CITIES is preventing, because each instrument has to have provenance and paperwork from a government department and apparently the US Civil Service is even slower and less efficient than ours. I would imagine money talks in the East so they might get bulk stamped paperwork. It will be interesting to see what happens when someone attempts to re-export those basses. Currently individual musicians can still take their instruments across borders, but they probably need a receipt dated before the start of this year. It looks like provenance and "passports" will ultimately be required there as well. Looks like it's working but the music business is only a bystander caught up in a bigger problem. It's the furniture industry and kick backs to dodgy governments that is destroying the forests.

IMO, if you can feel good about a deception then that really isn't much of a good thing at all. If a bass is good enough for me to buy and play I'd be proudly displaying it's real identity.