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Bought a really nice US Precision from Gunnar. As above great comms and a nice & easy transaction all round.

Some excellent basses there Nick

Some great basses there, plus a great looking Peavey rig too!

I feel for you, after a few fruitless attempts at excuse me I adapt and just walk into said ignoramae with said cabs, I find they then learn quickly.

Ska/Northern Soul, but however it’s labelled I’d look at the ska circuit as that style of music will no doubt get the punters up on their feet.

I’m itching to try mine out, I’ve been really lazy and just been using the rehearsal room cabs but now I’m back in a gigging band I need to try my full set up out. Next rehearsal methinks.

Especially with a Precision

Nice one Si, I remember your previous topic re this bass, glad you’re finally reunited.

In my last band I had a very specific sound that with many amps I wouldn`t have been able to achieve, as such I needed my Para Driver and required cables for every gig. Not a difficult set-up but needed for the sound of the band. Lesson learned, in my current band I have a generic Precision sound, just scoop the low mids a tad and boost the highs. I`m sure it will make gigging a bit easier being less fussy about having the exact sound. But whatever I use the playing generally sounds like "me".

The guys in Booze & Glory use (or used) the Shure, said it was great, plus integral tuner makes things just that little bit easier too.

Maybe next time you play it do an announcement, here’s the rubbish song where you can go to the bar or have a cigarette outside.

I used the BOSS WL20, really easy to use, just a little bug in your bass and one in the amp, no leads or packs. They automatically search the best frequency to use in the venue so no settings or anything. Test of anything technical is can I use it, if so it has to be easy & simple to do.

45-100 Elixirs are my faves too.

Agree, getting a too trebly sound onstage usually equates to just the right sound for the room, so moving away from the rig at soundcheck imo is invaluable if providing bass for the whole room.

In my last band we really were a democratic band, but it stemmed from most of the ideas coming from the lead singer/guitarist with the drummer and me fully agreeing (and probably wishing we’d thought of it first).

Maybe someone should write a song with “Tailors gonna sew” but sing it “Taylor’s gonna sue” just to get her foaming at the mouth.

It’s a strange topic this one, as it’s concerning two musicians and about a musical instrument but it really seems to sit better in Off Topic. Reminds me of the sketch in Harry Enfield “ I love cows mate, they’re just like horses but in cow-form”.

And the tort wallpaper

I think the main thing is that hundreds of thousands of years can’t be undone by a dictionary

Further to my posts in November last year I bought another ABM600. Once Ashdown introduced their ABM PRO NEO cabs it was inevitable. I still mostly use the RM500 for rehearsals, but the ABM will get gigging duties.

The human race evolved with the males being in general, bigger, stronger, and more violent, hence they became the providers. Females evolved to have a higher tolerance to pain which is very beneficial for childbirth, and to be more nurturing. Neither makes the other inferior, it’s the evolution of the animal over hundreds of thousands of years. Because that is what the human being is, an animal.

I’ve found that whenever there’s been problem band members it’s been either the lead singer, the lead guitarist, or the lead singer/guitarist. In a band where I was the lead singer/guitarist there were no problems. Or at least none that the rest of the band, which split up, ever told me about…… As it could have been me, as I’d defected to the idiot side.

Clean tone that will bark, scream & shout, well I think GK fits that bill, as does @la bams 550 Fusion above

I’d never heard of them til this thread but just checked them out on YouTube, think the CD is gonna be added to my Xmas list.