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Elixirs - due to the coating they’re incredibly smooth to play, plus last for ages.

Have you checked out Lars’ other band, The Old Firm Casuals? One of my faves, awesome live.

Yes Elixirs are a good call, I get about 8 months to a year from a set. They don’t have that real fresh new string sound out of the pack, more like 2 week old sound but they retain it for so long that the slightly higher initial cost actually works out cheaper in the long run. My earlier post re Warwick’s was more on a nickel like for like basis but thinking about it a set of steel Elixirs would probably match up quite nicely with EB Slinkys.

The material isn’t really my thing but the musicianship from all is excellent and JB, well how he did what he did, just amazing.

Good point I am better than Jaco!

Jaco only needed 4 Which explains why he’s twice as good as me as I only need 2

I used to have the same with Rotosound steel rounds, 3 to 4 weeks from them max. I read a recommendation about Warwick Red Label steels and tried them and found that I could get 2, maybe 2.5 months from them. Might be worth checking out the nickel version.

My fave artist of the last couple of years, Morgan Wade

Seems to be more & more manufacturers going down this route.

I find the irony of the modern music of my teens is that I hated it then but love it now. So working on that theory in 40 years time I’ll love the music of 2023.

Def something wrong there Andy, the Ashdown I used at Skegness was an ABM500 through an Ashdown 215 cab and I didn’t need to push that at all.

I don’t use compression live, have tried many times but just don’t like it. However for home practice I like it. I wouldn’t say it covers up poor technique rather than really highlights it, and as such it improves technique as a result.

Agree, this series is def my fave too.

I like the Ampeg SCR-DI, it has a more traditional bass amp sound, plus a nice drive which when used sparingly sounds much more tubey, plus it can be switched on/off independent of the rest of the pedal.

Bruce Foxton used to use one, with two of the matching VBC412 cabs, sounded immense but really captured his sound.

What band are you in @Combed20, was gonna come down last night as have played many times with Menace but I fell asleep in front of the box.

Looked like a bit of Riverdance going on there Jack

They’re a very comfortable Pbass neck, think Fender put a lot of thought into these as they feel just right.

Makes playing bass so much more enjoyable when there’s a good drummer in the band

In my experience with bands there’s always been someone not so much in charge but with a clear vision & focus about what the band should do & where it should go. I don’t have any problems with that, it’s if they have an unmanageable ego as well, those types I won’t work with anymore.

Well given that on my 2015 Fender US Standard Precision (black/maple) I’ve changed the E tuner to a Hipshot Extender, added a Stealth Retainer to the A tuner and changed the white pickguard to black I suppose it could be said I wasn’t 100% satisfied, but I am now.

The last gig I played, in Nov 2022 was like that. The on stage sound was great and the whole gig was amazing. One of those nights where you give yourselves the metaphorical pat on the back.

Same here, Stevie Wonder told me so.

I love playing in bands but I also love having my free time. Although I’m in 3 bands at present I still have more free weekends and nights in the week than on band duty. I’ve been in bands where pretty much every weekend was gigging and it’s just not for me anymore.

I think it`s realism, as although I rarely use my full gigging rig I`ve done pretty much the same. My mind tells me that my ABM600 and matching 210 & 410 cabs was better - and it was sound-wise, however my ABM600 with two ABM PRO NEO 210s is better for my needs, and that`s the important thing. Even better is that for one of my bands the RM500 fits the sound more than the ABM600 does.