Lozz196

So I’ve been on a bit of a quest, and last week yielded these two fine basses from my fave 2013-16 range of Fender US Standards, a 2013 from our very own @vincbtand a 2014 from the ‘bay. Match very nicely with my fave 2015. All that was needed was A-String Retainers and Hipshot Drop-D Extenders. The 13 gets the gigging band, the 14 gets the classic rock band.

Ah, from memory we do Devils Bleeding Crown - Volbeat This Corrosion - Maryslim version Runaway - Bon Jovi Stargazer, Tarot Woman, I Surrender - Rainbow Dazed & Confused - Led Zep Wayward Son - Kansas Its So Easy, Live & Let Die - Guns N Roses Out in The Fields - Gary Moore Holy Diver - Dio And just about to do Fairies Wear Boots by Black Sabbath Edit - how did I forget to put in Highway Star by Deep Purple!

That’s a great Pbass shootout, I think all sounded great, though I’d reckon the Seymour Duncan QP pickup in the Nate contributed a lot to the top end of that bass. I think my overall fave was the 68.

Will do Tim Chris hasn’t been around since before I joined so it’s vocless at present, and likely to stay that way.

And apparently Ashdown can do a mod on the eq to get greater flexibility from it

That’s what I’m currently doing with Dom & the guys, Tim. We don’t want to gig - hence why we’ve not got a singer - we just like a get together once every other week to play some quite difficult songs. It makes us better as musicians, plus it’s a good laugh. I’ve become a lot better on bass doing this for the last couple of years, can play stuff I would have thought was far beyond me.

Well in all honesty I reeeeaaaallly wanted the maple to win out anyway, so am happy both ways, the best sound and the ones I wanted it from. Maybe as I`ve used maple for years I`m just more used to eq-ing them.

Definitely, I recall one gig a mate of mine did, onstage his bass was just about right, out front it decimated the rest of the band (pub-gig/backline only, no FOH)

At louder volumes the "thickness/heft" of the ABM comes through above the sound of the RM, so the bass would more than likely sound "bigger" - or at least that`s been my experience from using those two amps. The ABM sounds louder when in fact it`s that the sound just has more depth to it, giving a greater presence. As has been said though, you don`t want your on-stage volume to be so much louder than the rest of the band, so going though the PA not at a louder volume than your amp less will still give a better spread for the bass. I`d also in this case consider removing some of the low end for whatever goes through the PA. And after all that, if it`s not worked, buy those subs!

Agree, for some reason Fender & Markbass seem to work well together and produce a very reassuring bass sound.

And the decision is… Maple Identical basses, both set up the same, same strings, the maple bass just fitted in with the sound of the band better, with the rosewood being a lot deeper. We were all quite surprised at the difference. So it’s 3 x US 2013-16 Precisions in black/black/maple, fave for home use, and one for each band.

A few years back on a line check the sound man said he had the monitors on a “festival setting”. When we started playing it the volume through the monitors was so loud it was unbelievable, so we instantly stopped and asked for everything apart from vocals to be taken out. The volume imo would have caused some hearing damage. Luckily he kept to our needs and didn’t bump anything. I think with your case @lozkerrit’s a case of asking over the mic for everything to be lowered, and if it isn’t stop playing. You’re not overthinking it at all, once your hearing is damaged it stays that way.

I used one in an indie type band with drums, 2 basses, 3 guitars and keyboards, was fine, and we rarely went through a big FOH PA, usually just vocals.

Def, the first time I heard John Deacons isolated bass I was quite shocked.

Yep, all the basses I will be keeping are 2013-16 US Precisions, just got to make up my mind whether it’s maple or rosewood which gets the vote - and tonight at band practice is where I’ll make the decision.

Yeah considering the Norm Watt Roy version is next to it at £379 it has to be a typo, I think they’ve hit the 6 instead of the 3.

Thanks Dave, all due to hard work rather than any kind of talent at all. Even though we used to gig pretty much every weekend (sometimes both Fri & Sat) we still rehearsed every week.

It was Knock Off, Dave.

I saw the £625 on Ashdowns site the other day for the OriginAL Pedal, think this has to be a typo @Ashdown Engineering?

I always felt like that the first gig after Rebellion, back to the day job so to speak

That looks stunning, and am sure will sound so as well.

The only Class D amp I had a problem with was my 2nd Ampeg PF500, other than that no reliability issues at all and I’ve had a good many of them.

I find the necks on the 13-16 to be deeper, the 08-12s flatter feeling.

US Standards of 2013-16 are gloss. Def worth trying imo, as this range for me are the best Fender have put out.

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