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As above, more for your money second hand but if it has to be new then the Ashdown Studio fits the bill. For the genre mentioned I wouldn’t even think of a 100 watt amp, you’d soon find you needed to replace it.

Shame, very talented guy, wrote some classics

Just bought a cracking Fender P/J from Dave, in my fave black/black/maple. We met up and had a good bass related chat, and having got the bass home and played it for a while I’m so pleased with it. Deal with confidence, was a great transaction.

You won’t be sorry, whilst the RMs are excellent amps the ABM600 just have that little bit more. It’s in the mix where it really shines, just feels “bigger” and with more depth to it, especially if on big stages.

ROAR but up to 11?

Very nice

Bargain whichever way

Looks great, never played one but when I’ve heard them they sound really nice

That’s a really nice looking bass, and I love the sentimental aspect to it.

When I was in my band I rarely went to gigs as a punter as I was at them pretty much every weekend gigging, but now I’m not in my band anymore restrictions permitting I’ll go to a few when they’re back on and it will more than likely be on my own. I know so many people on the punk scene now it will only be on the journey there & back that I’ll be on my own anyway.

I did many years ago, and given that I had that bass & string set up from 87 to 91 I suppose I must have liked it.

The Interrupters are great, their acoustic version of Be My Baby by The Ronnettes is amazing.

I’m not currently in a gigging band, have 2 Precisions and a Jazz. One of the Precisions I won’t take out of the house, not an old valuable bass, just sentimental value. So for my current non-gigging band I can use the other Precision or the Jazz, and in reality I’m a Precision player through and through so if I get in a gigging band I’ll get a Squier Precision as a backup. Just got to offload 3 surplus basses now.

For the budget light is unlikely, so I’d look for a 1x15 Trace combo, plenty powerful enough and space saving too.

Our first rehearsal post Lockdown the Third is on 29 April, really looking forward to it.

I’ve been to loads of gigs where the over-bearing kick drum that was louder than everything else including the vocals simply made the whole gig worthwhile.... NOT!!!!

From experience of using both brands I’d expect the TE to have better definition, plus being a 410 there being a lot more presence on the overall sound.

Airbourne? Loved them when they emerged, a higher intensity type AC/DC.

I know I’m gonna regret selling that one, enjoy it Neil, it’s a lovely instrument

Keeping it sort of in the family, why not look at Ashdown cabs to match with the head? They do an ABM PRO NEO range which are light and sound great.

Yeah it was a real shame, my sound was only driven when hit hard, and quite clear & defined. By adding in pre-eq he essentially Motowned the bass for that gig, making it much warmer and more traditional Precision like, whereas Duff McKagan would be a better area to think of for what I did.

I remember playing a gig where the sound engineer wanted to mix a clean pre-eq signal with my Sansamp (usually just Sansamp DI’d), explaining he wanted to keep the lows clean and only the highs driven. Many people who followed the band came up to me afterwards and asked me what was wrong with the bass that night, I didn’t have to say anything, I just pointed. With that one decision he ruined the sound of the band that night - as our fans pointed out. Fans who had paid £18 I should add.

Love that, when you have so much history with an instrument it’s that which makes it irreplaceable, not the cash value, name on the headstock of year of manufacture.