Lozz196

Its strange, I don't think that until a few years ago I`d ever seen a badger, live or dead, nowadays it seems obligatory for there to be a dead one at least every 5 miles on country roads.

I’ll always recommend Ashdown gear, not just because I’m selling a load at the moment (still keeping a load too) but because it’s quality, reliable gear at very affordable prices, plus based in the UK with amazing customer service. The ABM range is getting to be pretty much as industry standard as Ampeg on big gigs/festivals.

My old band were due to be joining GBH for a few days in Germany but had to pull out due to an unrelated health issue. GBH apparently played on Thurs then the whole tour has been cancelled.

Hey ho, let’s go! They’re really good basses Don, many congrats.

Is it a Dee Dee Ramone Sig?

The Markbass sim in my old Zoom B3 pretty much nailed it. I had a Markbass set up at the time, invariably used house amps so put the B3 into FOH, it was so near that unless I’d known I would have said it was my actual Markbass amp.

My Stingray is a 2014 and as NJE says, battery goes and so does the sound.

Say that due to the coronavirus you’re unwilling to take it back as you can’t guarantee it will be 100% safe to accept?

Did you get nickels rather than steels, nickels have been blue silks since at least 2013.

You can certainly hear that Rick in there, Col, great overall sound for the band as well.

Good call, a couple of 210s a lot more manageable than a single 410 (for the more mature of us, shall we say, I’m sure the younglings shoulder press 410s, one in each hand).

I’ve recently been considering getting a 5 string but the above is similar to my fear of OCD dictating I’ll have to have a matching 5-er for all my 4s, so have decided to only go 5when I actually need to.

I was told that the bassist wasn’t the most handsome & talented member of the band......,,

Yep, Markbass, G1 or G2 Barefaced, plus my faves the Ashdown RM range, all will do the job very well.

As per Lens post, politics, known affiliation with either side and I’m not playing. I also won’t do anything with religious affiliations.

I work in facilities, looking after a big industrial unit. Given that I have no practical skills at all it might seem strange, but my role is more to arrange repairs than carry them out. It also includes health & safety, fire, and ensuring compliance, plus I do staff training as well. Pretty varied, short hours, flexible hours, lots of annual leave and a decent pension. All if which suit me rather well.

We had the jar-thing in a venue in Bremen that we played, was quite amazed at the money we made, who knows, maybe they just paid for us to stop....

I’m going to go against the trend here and say do all you can to get the best instrument that’s achievable within your means, nothing like playing on an instrument that you really love and gel with.

So, update on this, as is traditional with me I found that I just didn’t enjoy the bass with flats on it (the only bass/flats combination I can deal with is a Precision/TIs) so it now has a set of 50-105 nickel Elixirs and I’m getting near to the sound in my head that I want from it. Will take a bit of tweaking live via my Para Driver but nearly there, a bit of grit dialled in and it’s sounding great. And it is making me play with a much more measured style. Plus at present it’s my fave bass to play, really enjoying this bass.

Like that Tim, got a sort of Tom Petty type feel to it.

And sound great with Fender style basses.

It’s funny but that tone on its own sounds a bit tinny and gutless to me but I’d bet in the mix it translates to a really good thudding bass.

Agree, at the moment for what I’m doing the non-colouring of the sound would make the MXR ideal.

I find this on the break in Dazed & Confused by Led Zep, after a while my left hand just wants to do something else irrespective of what I tell it.

I found the MXR to be much less coloured in the sound, unlike the Tech21 products. Which is why at the time I didn’t keep hold of it.