Lozz196

I kind of understand where you’re coming from, my back having got significantly worse over the last couple of years all I take to gigs is bass and Behringer BDI21. If there’s an amp there great I’ll use it, if not BDI21 to FOH with a monitor mix, this works fine and the band all seem fine with it too. As well as the not having to carry the gear about another important aspect for me is not having to set it up/break it down. I still prefer the sound of an amp behind me - at the same volume as the kit I should add, no louder - but my overall preference is for my back not hurting, hence said Behringer. I doubt I’ll go IEM due to the bands I’m with being unlikely to, and I think once I stop gigging with these I’ll be stopping gigging completely. I doubt I’ll ever stop looking at amps/cabs though, I just won’t be buying any anymore.

Agree, plus the way we buy is different now. When I bought my first couple of basses it was go to the local shop and buy what you could afford. No thought of specs, just what was within affordability. Now there’s so much info online all the research as to what spec is desired can be done at home including the purchase.

I like both, the poptastic remix really “eighties” the song.

Agree with both points there.

I had one of those, great sounding cab.

I’d love to play bass in an AC/DC band. Just that locking in with drums & rhythm guitar, must be awesome. Good call re girl singer and original keys too, I’ve heard some bands try AC/DC songs where the male singer has sung at Elvis pitch, unable to hit the highs.

For added fatness the Seymour Duncan Hot Stack is a good pickup, hum-cancelling too which is a bonus. I copied Duff McKagan & put one in the bridge of an Aerodyne Jazz and it made a lot of difference, not so much to the actual tone but to the amount of it.

Well our current album is The Seven Legged Groove Machine because at the time we were a 4-piece and the singer had recently had a motorcycle accident resulting in the lower half of his right leg being amputated. We’re now a 5-piece so the latest guy in worries about both legs. But in the areas we work in, well for some reason we’re on the psychobilly scene even though we’re more of a garage punk band, so our USP (and is on our merch) is The Spacewasters, Not Psychobilly Enough.

The only thing here is democracy/majority. If you got in an independent sound engineer and most of you went a different way than the guitarist then majority wins. Then write down the settings and have the mixer on the opposite side of the stage to him, and reset them immediately before each set - because he will change them when you aren’t paying attention.

I’d like to reserve judgement until playing one, but given the price it’s highly unlikely. Anyway, it’s lunchtime and for some reason I fancy a bit of Edam cheese……..

Problems are: It’s very “modern” to have a huge cannon sounding kick drum. Guitarists (it seems most at least) just can’t handle singers getting all the attention, hating their “number 2” role. Getting past both is going to be difficult.

Great pic Tim, what strap are you using, looks like a good one to support a weighty bass.

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I think the most neutral amps I’ve had have been Markbass, given the spec of the original post I think that’s what I’d be checking out as although neutral sounding they’re not harsh.

I’m actually noticing that more venues are providing house amps & cabs lately. They’re usually 100 or so watt combos but given all it is is for stage volumes they’re plenty sufficient, band can hear on stage, and sound person doesn’t have to fight against stack volumes. This of course venues on originals circuits.

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Depends whereabouts in Essex, but our very own @gary mac is on Herts/Essex border

There’s a Mono M80 Double up on here at present

Good call, I changed the stock tuners on my CIJ & JMJ Mustangs for Hipshot Y tuners, much smaller & lighter.

If it were a bass I liked and wanted to keep & play regularly then yes I’d spend on it to get it where I wanted it. I know full well from experience if it didn’t sound as I wanted I’d rarely pick it up, so if I were in your situation to me that would be £600 well spent overall rather than £400 wasted.

I’m afraid I just can’t take Beck seriously, solely because he is pretty much the double of a mate from back in the 80s, whenever I see him I just think “Alan, what are you doing up there singing & being cool, that’s just not you”. Because Alan really was not cool - as of course neither was I (and am still not and unlikely to ever be). Great clip though, band look like they’re really having a blast, JMJs bass is great.

All going ahead though a 2 year wait, counting down the days already.