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[quote name='Treb' timestamp='1481585369' post='3193567'] What kind of RW strings? Mine is strung with MM's default Slinky's ATM. Planning on trying DR Fat Beams on it. [/quote] I did have a set of Rotosound Billy Sheehan strings as it has a heavier E which is handy when detuning but I got 4 gigs out of them before they went completely dead so I've gone back to my favourites which are D'Addario EXL165

Towards the end of last year I had an older Stingray 5 with the ceramic pickup that I found to be a bit too heavy for long function gigs so I decided to go for a Sterling which, although not identical, is pretty similar sounding to the Stingray 5 that I had. Side by side the Sterling is lighter than a [size=4]stingray 4, the neck is nice and slim which makes it easier to play, for me at least. To make it even better for me I changed the tuners to ultralights and fitted a Hipshot extender with the double stop lever so I can go down to low B on the E string.[/size] [size=4]I bought mine from GAK without trying it and am still loving it. GAK have a [url="https://www.gak.co.uk/en/music-man-sterling-natural-rosewood/25845"]natural one in stock now[/url] at a really low price compared to normal[/size] [size=4]I had Chromes on mine until recently but was missing the growl so changed back to rounds.[/size]

I'm the band eye candy apparently. Especially after last night Apart from that I also play the bass, showboat occasionally and generally have a good time

I used Chromes on my Yamaha BB1025 and the B was clear as a bell all the way up the fretboard

Chris (Thornybank) had one of these monster cabs - in fact I'm sure he had two but the second one had been cut down at some point in the past. It was something like 18", 15", 2x10" - might even have been a 2 x 15" - it was a long time ago I saw it

Since I've gone back to roundwounds I'm also interested in cheap strings that I can change often. The Billy Sheehan set I have on my bass are almost dead after 4 gigs. I've looked at the Thomann ones and they look suspiciously like the Alice branded strings on Ebay that double as cheese wire

I started listening to the Floyd when I was at school about 1991 and everyone else was listening to 808 State & The Prodigy. Comfortably Numb is still in my top 10 all time favourite songs. An interesting fact is that Dave wanted the bass notes to sustain and Roger wanted them to stop after every note. They couldn't agree on it so they recorded it twice, once Dave's way and once Roger's way and spliced it together. If you watch Echoes Part I from Live at Pompeii, when it gets to the point where camera comes around in front of the PA, I'm convinced that it gets louder but I think it's in the mind. I have the vinyl copy of the Wall and at the time when I was dabbling in LSD, Mushrooms and so on I had a turntable that you could stop but the needle would still pick up the sound. I turned it backwards at the track "What Shall we Do Now" and heard the secret message. Probably the most scared I'd ever been in my life to hear a proper backwards recording. The best gig I have ever been to to this day is still seeing the Floyd at Earls Court on 23rd October 1993. It cost me and my best mate £65 each to get a bus from Glasgow down to the gig. I stayed up for 54 hours that weekend and it is something I will never forget. The band were amazing. Dave Gilmour has one of my favourite sounds. It's never shrill or unbearable like some. It's like velvet and just glides across the ears. I agree that he might not be "the best" which doesn't really mean anything but his sound and his choice of notes is incredible. I like some Syd stuff - Bike was always my favourite, I like some of Saucerful but from Meddle onwards is where it is for me

I'm always looking for Cheap Trick to come back but I fear that the first time I saw them a few years ago may be the last

The ones I remember are the Seinberger stick and the most famous for me are the precision fretless ones - one red and one natural if I remember rightly

My next one is Roachford now that Living Colour have ditched Glenn Hughes for Alter Bridge forcing Glenn to cancel. Bah Ah well, still 3 concerts this year - Roachford, Chilis & Status Quo minus Rick Parfitt

I absolutely detest any kind of dings or marks and it's not the first time I've been looking at a bass on here or Ebay and spotted a ding and walked away There have been times when I've looked at the damage on some basses and wondered how they managed to get so badly looked after. It is a tool to do a job but you don't go out of your way to dent your car or break a window of your house so that it looks well used

I was thinking about stand mounting the cab already but was offered the top hat mount so that was perfect for what I wanted. It's a standard top hat mount and a gorilla speaker pole. Everything is held together with 10mm wide velcro. I bought a 10m roll of it from Ebay and it goes round everything front and back so I can put the whole thing in the bag as one. There are velcro loops all the way down the stand so that I can keep the cables tidy as I hate messy cables and a surge protected 6-way power supply zipped tied to one of the legs. Means I can set up and strip down in less than 5 minutes each way

It means that I can have the speaker at ear level so it is loud enough for me to use as a monitor while being quiet on stage

I use one of [url="https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B00N1I4A1I/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o08_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1"]these[/url] for my one. I have my cab, MB500 and wireless unit all velcroed together and they all go in the bag together This was it when I briefly had the MB200 which is now for sale but am now using the MB500 [URL=http://s927.photobucket.com/user/Delberthot/media/14089238_186834378388756_330157803568661876_n_zpsouj6rnhg.jpg.html][IMG]http://i927.photobucket.com/albums/ad111/Delberthot/14089238_186834378388756_330157803568661876_n_zpsouj6rnhg.jpg[/IMG][/URL]

I had an LH1000 and gigged it with Laney 4x10" & 1x15" cabs. I liked the fact that on that one it had a balance so I could direct more to the 4x10" which I sat underneath the 15" as it produced more bottom end. Anyway I was able to get the valve to overdrive on that with my Precision with EMGs. It sounded incredible but the amp on it's own weighed more than my current entire setup, including my bass. I was going to hold off and buy the TX600 but going by this review I'm glad I went with the MB500 instead

I had one of these and although 35kgs is about the same as a 4x10" from the same era it's awkward to carry more than anything else.

That's to give you extra honk from the neverties position pickup

If it's a one piece graphite bass then that will make it a Stealth? I nearly ordered a 6 string headless and fretless Stealth a few years ago

Yeah unless it's a super hot bass and badly distorting then passive is fine. My Sterling is hot enough for me to need to activate the pad switch/button on both MB200 & MB500 amps but there's plenty of volume in both amps, even with the pad selected.

I had a caramel BB1025 and it was much much better in the flesh than the awful reddy colour it looks like on every website. Fantastic basses with super hot output and the best precision bass I've ever owned bar none