My back has been bad for years, permanent injury on right shoulder so doesn’t affect mobility too much, and bass on strap isn’t a bother.
But it’s been bad over the last couple of months where I’ve annoyed it at work by lifting something, so have been seeing an osteopath. It’s not fixed yet but best I’ve felt for a while.
I gigged a couple of weeks back on guitar and wasn’t too bad, fortunately my gear is small/light/modular so can do it all in many trips one handed.
This has been my conclusion every time I’ve tried out a different type of bass. I just end up trying to make it sound how I want it to, which is like a PBass.
First time I ever saw a Thunderbird being played was by Sami Yaffa of Hanoi Rocks, just looked so exotic in comparison to the Fenders & Rickenbackers I’d seen when growing up.
For me whether it’s a formula, an emotion or a whatever I just concentrate on one question, do I like the music. And I do. Punk for me was always about exciting sounding music, the “movement” and anti establishment stuff passed me by, but the clothes & music, great.
Don`t think I`ll be going unless my band manage to get on - we were in discussions but have had a brief pause due to health of one of the guys so don`t think we`ll get on this year.
Also made me chuckle a bit the way he went on about how important the mids were yet they were backed off in pretty much every shot of the eq section.
Not that I’m an AC hater I should point out, never seen the point of the what seems to me to be irrational hatred towards him.
When I spoke with Ashdown about these amps they said that yes the Studio 15 does put out the full 300w power into the single 8ohm 15 speaker.
Which is different to the 210 version which without an extension cab delivers about half, maybe 2/3 of the power into the speakers in the amp.
Jazz is good, neck pickup on full, bridge about 30% and you’re pretty near Precision territory, but it’s of course much more versatile, skinny neck might be off putting. Or maybe a Deluxe Precision - P/J pickups, option of active/passive, def the most versatile basses I’ve used.
I think it depends on their caffeine-fuelled-chimp. In one of my bands my ABM600, connected to a 115 or 410 is on 9 maybe 10 o’clock on volume. In the other, connected to an 810 it’s on 2 o’clock, and it’s solely down to the drummer, who to this day doesn’t think he’s loud.
When my last band started out the singer/organiser looked at the (punk) scene in general, saw who the promoters were & where they were running the gigs, developed an online rapport with them and got gigs from there. We swiftly realised that Tues & Weds multi genre gigs weren’t the way to go, better to be first on the bill to a “name” on a Fri or Sat and build from there to a genre specific crowd.
For myself it was that quest for the perfect sound. In many cases it was having heard others use something and thinking it sounded great, then finding it did once I bought it.
My quest stopped when I used an Ashdown full rig at a gig, it was the nearest in sound & feel to a full Ampeg SVT rig than any other brand I’d used, but in a set-up I could carry.