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They were at a fairly high price before the current political tomfoolery, recall seeing a similar thread about it a couple of months ago.

Impossible to have a thread like this without mentioning Ashdown.

Definitely, I met Bruce Foxton of The Jam when we were on the same show and I was incredibly nervous but he was a really nice guy.

A clip from The Spacewasters most recent gig, Sat 08 Oct, at The Escape Bar, Shepherds Bush. The song is actually called Red Hot.

They’re very good basses, easy to change parts on to suit, but no actual need to.

This is a great thread, must have been an awesome situation to have been in.

Agree Paul, I had similar once and our very own @gary macsorted it for me.

I just wish that more of the string brands, and for both flats and rounds, would do 50 - 105s. Given the pickup placement on a Precision having a heavier D & G really helps balance this out imo.

The sound waves are probably holding it up

That’s one of my fave sounding rigs @Jonse, paired with a Precision just superb

They’re amazingly powerful and sound great, heavy little beasties though.

Going to see my old band The Tuesday Club (which features our very own @TransistorBassMan) tomorrow night in The Horn, St Albans.

And if necessary point at the person in the shop, people who don’t speak English always understand much better when you do that…….

Not done that one but it looks really good

Where you playing in Hamburg, there`s some great venues there.

I left my last band due to the intensive workload, which only showed signs of increasing (and looking at their current schedule, even past COVID it has). I loved being in that band, the guys were great, and I achieved more in that band than in any other band throughout my playing history. It was difficult but I had to take the right decision for me, I was permanently exhausted, the only time I felt physically & mentally ok was when on stage, it was affecting my work - mainly through moods of being shattered - so I had to leave. Hurtling up & down the length & breadth of the country every weekend, and hopping onto planes/ferries, staying away from home in hotels sounds great - and it is - but as I got older I just couldn`t do it any longer. Sadly that band happened 10 years too late for me, if I were nearing 47 rather than 57 I`d still be in it. I`ve still not gone to see them at a gig either, it would be like watching your ex, who was the love of your life, be with someone else, am not ready for that yet.

Kathy Valentine, great bassist, really nice inventive lines

Very interesting about the Ashdowns and the top-end roll-off, as I find I do boost the highs a lot on mine.

Yup, those be the ones

Good instruments, the Korean Squiers

Vicky Smith of The Ramonas. Difficult job that, down-strokes for the whole evening at that speed, but she`s much more accomplished than Ramones material.

The larger Fender Rumble combos get a lot of love, but seeing as you loved the sound of the Ashdown I`d take a look at the Amps For Sale on here, one of the guys @FinnDave is selling a few at present. If looking for a gig-worthy combo I`d go for a 210 and 300watts as a minimum.

Well up to £1200 I’d be looking at a US one, my thoughts of those I’ve had. Late 90s to 2004 - good sized necks, nice balanced sounding pickups 2004 to 2007 - same as above but included the S1 Switch, which can change the sound to similar to a Jazz 2008 to 2012 - neck quite shallow so felt wider as a result, scooped modern sounding pickups 2013 to 2016 - deep chunky necks, Custom Shop 62 pickups so fuller/more vintage sounding US Professional 1 - neck modelled on 63 Pbass, the “holy grail” of Pbass necks apparently. Tall narrow frets. V-Mod pickups are ok/quite neutral sounding. The advantage of the US models are graphite strengthening rods in the necks, plus you can easily add a Hipshot Drop D Extender and a Fender A-String Retainer (some A strings can rattle due to the poor angle) without any permanent mods.

I’ve found that having the neck pickup on full, bridge pickup on about 25% and tone on about 75% gets me a good almost Precision type sound that works really well for classic rock on my Jazz. This setup both reducing highs and adding mids As said earlier the CS62 pickups also help nicely on this as they’re quite full sounding.