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The Magellan 800 will do clean and some drive (dunno how much you're looking for) very nicely, and is switchable. That'd be my fave...

Oooo, Nordstrand...I have a single Bigman pickup in one of my Shukers, it's basically two Big Singles, and I have it three-position-switched for single coil (front coil), parallel and rear coil (series was just wayyyy too mental) - it's a great pickup in a MM shell. Now then...a nice light P with two of these and the switching/controls of that MTD (two 3-way switches, plus blend)? Bwahahahaaaaa.... 😀

That's the Bongo you're thinking of... 🙂 I've never played a bad (US) Stingray (I presume that's what the OP is thinking of when he says 'Musicman'), and the US Subs are pretty good, too. I love the look of them (especially the black and maple...oh, and that new Starry Night), and they play very very well, I just don't find myself using them once I own them. So I sell on, then a few months later, I find myself looking at them again... I've had (I think) five now, on exactly this basis...they're getting a bit too expensive to keep doing that, though... 😕🙂 The two Bongos I've played have been even better, if anything, but I'm terribly shallow - see my first comment above 😕 I'd like to try a Sabre or a Cutlass (the graphite Ray one, not the new one), but see 'getting a bit too expensive' above... 😕 Ooo, Steve's just reminded me - a SLO Special Ray, with the slimmer neck...that'd be nice... 😁

Yep, we do this already: as I say, my in-ears mix is (was) pretty good, I just wasn't aware the FOH bass sounded quite as bad as it apparently does. I know I wasn't happy with it, on those gigs when I've had to monitor from the FOH... As I say, I may have improved things considerably for my feed to the FOH, but then again I may have completely ballsed things up - that's the danger EQing in isolation... 😕🙂 I'll know more Satdy...

That's rather the point: my in-ears mix is pretty damn good, but is separate from the FOH mix, and I've never been totally happy with that, and now I'm seeing why...I'm sure I'll need to rework my in-ears mix (and so will the other guys) now I've modded my B3 presets, but that shouldn't be the end of the world, and we can do that as a band round at someone's house one evening. I'll have to re-EQ the 'real' bass rig (Walkabout and BF Super Twin) to cope with the B3 changes, too, but I'm happy doing that: I play far more with the in-ears and DI than anything else, so that should be right first and dictate changes elsewhere...

You've only got to look at the number of Jazz copies offered by pretty much every manufacturer, from small luthiers to huge companies to see how ubiquitous the design is. Sadly, it's one that's never appealed to me - tho I've owned a few, and for the record, one of the best was a Lakland DJ4 - I'd go so far as to say the number of Jazz lookylikeys out there outnumber all the other designs put together...which would indicate that far from there being anything wrong with them, for most bassists, there's everything right with them, there's just an overwhelming amount of choice...

Ok, so, after having a bit of a lightbulb moment whilst typing in another thread, I realised yesterday I have the band's PA under my stairs, and an empty house for a few hours, soooo.... I pulled one of the RCF Art 732s out, plugged my B3 into it, stuck it on the floor in 'wedge position', annnnndddd...crikey blimey... 😯 First off, it sounded godawful: no punch, no heft*, it just didn't sound much like a bass amp at all. My first thought was 'Gawd, is this what I sound like FOH?', and it wasn't a reassuring thought. I stomped through my B3 preset sounds - I have nine which cover all the different genres/songs we have in the function band; I've mentioned (at length) previously the range of stuff we do, so I won't bore anyone, but as a three piece my tones do need to be ballpark at the least, so...nine it is. None of them really went anywhere, so I did a bit of digging into the presets: I'd created these tones using in-ears, which is a completely different scenario to FOH. While I was (I'll be honest, a bit listlessly) trying to rescue the tones, I noticed I hadn't used any cab sims on any presets. I switched them in, and boom, suddenly the RCF began to sound like a bass rig. Next salute was to roll off the low bass, and after an hour or so of twiddling (see 'nine presets', above), I've got a very very good 'bass rig' sound from the RCF, and hopefully as a bonus, I've tightened up and improved my FOH sound, too. I know this is all in splendid isolation in my kitchen without the rest of the band and at, erm, kitchen volumes, but I've a gig Satdy, so I'll report back on the in-ears/FOH results then. It's just a shame I can't try an RCF735/745 in a backline scenario at the moment, that'd be the clincher for me (the wedge thing is a bonus, too). My other Rawk band (no in-ears, just attenuators and backline**) is on a bit of a hiatus at the moment, and it'd be interesting to see if the 12" 732 would cope with two Marshall half-stacks and that gorilla from the Cadburys/In The Air Tonight advert on drums... So, the TLDR bit: yep, you can make a single RCF sound like a 'real' bass rig...and I'm very interested to investigate further. Depending how Satdy's gig goes, I might even persuade the band to do a Technical Rehearsal (normally a once-in-blue-moon event) at a big rehearsal room with the full PA and tweak from there. We'll see. I shall report back... * Noooo, don't click away, it's not one of THOSE posts... 😉 ** Someone's got to try and keep rock'n roll alive if everyone else around here is busy killing it... 😁

One of the best things about the Walkabout head is that first parametric band: I set them both extreme left, so it rolls off (according to the dials) 15db at 30Hz (and tho I haven't seen the shelving, presumably more than that), and it sounds soooo much better in the real world...even though (or possibly despite) the BF cab having very good very low extension, in virtually every scenario, I don't want it.

And don't forget that producing any significant output at 30hz will, in an awful lot of venues, sound godawful...

More my era of Rush, but this is terrific, too, especially the vocal: I've heard Geddy worse...

Never really paid that much attention to tweeter type, as long as i could turn them off...the tones I use don't usually trouble normal bass cab tweeters 🙂 The Markbass ones were particularly horrid, though...

Like Chris B, I've played mostly Bergs and BF for a good long while now (tho I've had MB cabs, too), and if I was playing in different bands than I am, and got to sit down and listen to my cab a lot on its own in a Scott Devine kinda way, I'd love a Berg HDN212 just for the hell of it, but my Super Twin does exactly what I need lighter and more easily handled - 40lbs and wheels is genius 🙂. I've total confidence in that whatever I put into it, and however loud I need it to be, it'll deliver. I've run it with Class D stuff, with lots of effects, and with a warm Walkabout, and it produces what I put into it. I've never met a tweetered cab I liked (or at least liked until after I'd turned the tweeters off - the AE112s were an example of that) so my tone goals are different to yours, but I'm sure a Big Twin will do it. Oh, and we use RCF ART735s in our PA, so I get to play through those (and a sub) a lot, too... 🙂 Edit: the 735s are so good we're seriously considering dropping the sub and going for 745s instead, for small to medium venues... Edit 2: Actually, I have the PA here under my stairs, so I might just dig out one of the 735s and have a play later, just to see how loud it'll go with a bass... 😁

Yes, I had a bit of this - I was looking (at the time) for a new build, and contacted Adrian a couple of times, but got no reply, so I went elsewhere. It's a shame, because the Maruszczyk basses I've played have been very nice, but it's not untypical for a small business that becomes very very popular very very quickly...I hope they get on top of it all, because they're a terrific builder...

That's at least a couple of new Ricks, I'd imagine... 😀

You mean it's one careless cough away from a cataclysmic shart event? 😃

I shall keenly await a TC-like witchhunt about the fudged power ratings... 😃 If I won it, it'd all be up for sale on here the day it arrived...still, it's a lot of cash... 😉

The Flying Horse in Rochdale is one of my favourite gigs: it's the last pub open in Rochdale town centre of an evening, so we don't go on till half ten or so, and don't finish till oneish. Always lairy (there's three bouncers, and it's kicked off to some extent I think every time we've played there, usually catfights), always lively, and they love a live band and a sing-song. Great fun...

I love the blue...when I bought my Jetglo, I had the choice of that or blue...Geddy won, but I always regretted not going for the blue...

Ohhhh, ISWYDT... 😃

...and he's not on Mr Hall's Xmas card list, either... 😃

Furious Cat is furious...I take everything back... 😕🙂

Not this again? Geddy's on record as having used his Jazz as well as his Ric to record with (on plenty of songs considered to be iconic to the Ric sound), and he's dropped the Ric completely...pushing forty years ago. Similar situation with Foxton and his Precision. I should have written 'didn't use them exclusively' with the studio recordings in my post above, so apologies for that, but the fact remains, however inconvenient. I've never played a '72, they may well have something the ones I have played (and owned) didn't have...and I've moved on basses by Alembic, Warwick, Status, Sei, and all the more usual suspects like Fender, Gibson and MM, and settled with what I like and won't sell. It's a nice place to be, and I'm glad your Rics are that for you. That brand new one I bought was still nowhere near good enough build and finish-wise for a £1600 bass. For the record, I was gutted.

How very dare you... 😁

Yeah, I used to do that when I used Sunbeams. Until I got a set of cheap copies...