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I changed a set on my Mex Precision, from stock to Hipshots. This is the bass that I’ll do flying gigs with so I want to be sure of good tuning stability for the slackening of the strings for the flight/retuning for the gig. I’ve also had the nut changed to a Graphtec one to help on this. But if I were only likely to be doing UK gigs with it I’d have left it stock.

I’m so inept I consider calling them out to put in diesel….

Nice one, you won’t regret it. I’m using my RM500 this evening as want to keep the load as small as possible given there’s no parking at the venue. I know it will sound great as they’re superb amps.

I think that’s where my money would go in this situation.

The Squier Jaguar would be my choice, as you say smaller & lighter, plus a Jazz width neck. Reckon that fits the bill nicely.

Agree, it would be nice to see the band with the male singer do something like I Predict a Riot, a song with a bit of guts to it. It would still need to be a bit mainstream as both for the TV show and the generic festival audience but something with a bit of life to it.

Yeah it’s a bit much to believe that someone who gigs basically for a living struggled that much on Angels.

Those were my thoughts too 😂

I use it so I’m getting all the eq from the pedal, so Ultra Low In Ultra High In Bass 12 o’clock Mid 12 o'clock Treble 11 o’clock Drive 1 o’clock Blend 9 o’clock I’d say from your pick-tone thread that probably best to leave all the eq flat if just using the pedal as an always on drive. I really like the drive on this pedal, to me it’s strength is the “add a touch of break-up” to the sound that in the mix won’t be heard but just smooths the notes out a touch. Much like the isolated bass tracks that sound gainy & rattly on their own but sit so well in with the rest of the recording.

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Have you tried getting it fixed by Ashdown, they’re great on the customer service aspect, and seem to be able to fix pretty much all of their amps if something goes wrong.

You can get near the ABM tone with it by lots of careful playing, mainly cutting on eq rather than adding, but it’s not exact as the ABM has a lot more tonal options, especially the 600 where it’s 9 band eq v 5 on the OriginAL.

I don’t think this is necessarily a different bass situation than a different string situation. It’s much easier to emulate flats with rounds by dropping the tone on the bass, if it had been that way round I doubt you’d have suffered, but wanting a clear defined sound from flats on a rig set up for rounds, very unlikely. I’d look at a bass string with rounds for these situations.

On multi band bills be accommodating with gear, what goes around comes around, do someone a favour at some point and it’s likely you will be repaid. Not saying loan basses or amps but def cabs, makes changeovers much easier if the bands agree amongst them beforehand who is bringing what, ideally one bit of backline each.

It has to be hollow, otherwise The Clangers would have nowhere to live.

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Yeah thinking about it I rarely used to change strings and used to get annoyed that my bass (Yamaha BB1100s) couldn’t get a sound that so many others could (that ringing sound of new strings, doh). And in 1990 when we did a recording with a professional producer he set the intonation, I’d been playing 10 years at that point and had no idea what any of that was.

I loved the sound of the Fender Precision for years. So quite typically I only bought one after playing for about 20 years (was always trying to get the sound from whatever other bass I had bought).

Further to my original post, re any new Precisions I get I do the following: US made I add A String Retainer Mex made I add North West Gtrs Hi-mass bridge Hipshot 3 way string retainer Additionally if the Mex is for overseas flying gigs I’ll get the nut changed to a Graphtec one and change the tuners to Hipshots

One of my bands doesn’t have a singer so I’m in this position. I just find that practice practice practice is my way of learning, and when we’re playing I replay the actual song in my head along with us so I know where we are. A good few of our songs are quite difficult too, timing changes, breakdown sections etc, so doing this really helps me to focus on where we are.

I prefer passive basses, nothing to do with technology or anything I just prefer the sound.

Definitely, at rehearsal the other day I changed the bass frequency from 40 to 80 on my Sansamp and it made things much clearer (I was cutting not boosting).

Never underestimate how useful that is…….

Calling Agent Tort……