Lozz196

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.

It looks like a robot from 1970s Dr Who!

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.

Yes I generally put a KiOgon loom & CS62 pickups in my Mex basses and the looms have the US spec CTS pots, no problem with these pickguards.

Same here

LM3 or maybe Little Mark Tube

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.

I thought the Toneriders were very similar to the Fender CS62s as well.

My thoughts re the CS62 v the Original is that the CS has more in the low-mids whereas the Original has a spike in the hi-mids.

Up until Basschat: Vox 15 watt practice amp Fender Bassman amp & 410 Laney Linebacker 150 watt combo Trace Elliot GP7 300 & Peavey 115 Black Widow Hartke HA4000 amp & XL210 & 115 Marshall MB450 amp & 410 Marshall DBS4500 amp & VBC412 After joining Basschat: Your guess is as good as mine, far too many to remember but includes Ampeg, Aguilar, GK, Markbass, TC Electronic, Barefaced, Eden. Currently: Ashdown RM500 & ABM600 amps, 2 x ABM PRO NEO 210 cabs It’s funny that I have better recall for the pre-Basschat gear, possibly because I had it longer and didn’t spend a great percentage of my days online reading up about my inevitable next purchases.

On the current punk scene Pat Collier (ex bassist with The Vibrators) is very good.

On the current punk scene Pat Collier (ex bassist with The Vibrators) is very good.

On the current punk scene Pat Collier (ex bassist with The Vibrators) is very good.

Saw this earlier, not good

As much as I love my Ashdown set-up I`m slowly realising that my back is going to be making the choice on the gear I have moving forwards, have to say I think a Monaco might be the ideal cab for me going by the description of the sound, especially the tighter low end.

Spot on, the 4 has a lot more mids, but also doesn’t sound as sharp on the top-end

Probably more lower mids, where the Player seems toppier to me. Our producer said there was a lot around the 400 mark, and this is the area which I tend to scoop a fair bit.

I’ve got a Warwick Rockboard which is slightly smaller in width than the Pedaltrain Nano, a good size for three pedals.

In terms of sound/eq there’s not that much difference, it’s more real coffee/decaf for want of a better description. Similar but just richer and more.

A big improvement imo, a much fuller all round sound.