Lozz196

Smooth Criminal, @jezzaboy

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.

And a kipper tie with milk and thray sugars playse

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……

Thinking about this the only time I think I put upgrade is if I’ve put a KiOgon loom in say a Squier or Mex Fender, as imo the parts are simply better quality. The rest of the time I think change or modified is probably more accurate.

Nice sounds with the Sandberg/Black Panel

Yep, copper tape on the underside of the scratchplate, and in the electrics cavity. Apparently slug tape from B&Q works fine, as per another thread on here.

Vocal style/delivery reminds me of The Flying Lizards version of Money

I voted that I didn’t need one, but maybe having one may be an advantage for those who do play short scale.

In one band I was in the drummer spent a good time rehearsing along with a click to iron out any speeding up issues. And then, rather ironically, the songwriter in the band wrote a song that sped up halfway through. Doh!

Comfort Straps or Mono “ The Betty”, both great straps for this.

Those footprints are from The Clangers, even The Master in Dr Who admired them!

I’ve been checking out pickups recently - bear with me on this - and listened to the difference between Fender Custom Shop 62s and Pure Vintage 63s. The 63s have less highs and more low mids and as a result have a more solid/warm sound, so I’d translate this to the eq on the amp, drop some highs a touch and add in some low mids. See the link below for what I mean: