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Matches my truly nasty voice nicely, lol.

Love The Fleece, great venue.

TC Electronic Spark Booster, or Ampeg Scrambler would both work, adding in just a tad of gain to the sound but not changing the tone.

I used to have an SM58 but at one gig used a Behringer XM8500 and preferred it with my voice, I only do backing vox mind, maybe it’s not an ideal mic for lead vox but it works fine for my uncultured yelling.

Think it looks really good

If I were into pedals I would try and do that. But even carrying one Sansamp around I now consider to be a mammoth task.

Thought this episode was very good. I’m not a particular Foo Fighters fan but they’re my kind of music so nice to see Nate go through his stuff.

I did Bas, the warmth of the P-Bass and Ashdown combined nicely with the more clinical sharpness of steel rounds & Sansamp, was ideal for my then punk band.

Two things I really like from last nights episode were for one the appreciation from bassists re those who can do lead vocals when on bass, and secondly the comments from MADM about how much she enjoyed her role in a band when she didn’t have to do any vocals and could just play bass. I really get that, just sitting back and providing the groove/foundations for the song.

So an update on this bass, after tinkering around this week getting it set up as I like earlier on this morning I played it for about an hour and a half, just along to fave songs on YouTube and when I put it down I was absolutely buzzing, I’d enjoyed playing it soooo much. Safe to say I consider this was a good purchase.

As with most of these queries Bill is the one with the knowledge making a good point, if the gear has been ok everywhere else then it’s venue issues. As well as you would need to adjust to the room so would the others, sounds like little co-operation there.

Tonight’s episode is Nate Mendel, looking forward to this one (plenty of Precision!!)

Currently on and focusing on Melissa Auf der Maur, don’t know much about her so finding it quite interesting.

Good choice but if ultimately looking to be in a band you might find 100 watts may struggle, depending on other instruments and the attitudes of the players.

Yep, great looking bass

Great programme but was expecting more actual bass lines highlighted, analysed and dissected, leading to why they are considered the greatest.

That’s a good shout, may well look into that

I should have but as I knew we’d have to go out to get grub was dubious about leaving it without my beady eye keeping an eye on it, even though we did grub run in shifts.

I put my dislike of compression solely down to me being too rubbish to know how to use it properly.

Yep, at many gigs I did where the promoters hired in gear often it was Ashdown, which was the reason I started using it as the sound was good, but there is also the thought that hire companies will want reliable gear on their books, which was another factor for me.

Just got in from my last Spacewasters gig as a full band member (I will be depping for them next year for one gig). Was at The Milton Arms, Southsea, Portsmouth, supporting The Witchdoktors (great band btw). The Witchdoktors provided the backline which was very decent of them, we only had to provide cymbal stands, so made for an easy gig, our drummer drove so all good there. We played well and went down well, though it wasn’t as large an audience as when we’d previously played there, even on pay day, maybe people holding onto cash for Xmas. I played my JMJ Mustang through an Orange Crush (I think) combo, which sounded very nice. Footwear was DM Chelsea/Dealer boots. And now back indoors, well I hurt all over, really reinforcing that my leaving is the right decision, a real shame but I’ve had 4 great years with the band, am so glad I joined them for those years.

That looks ideal