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For me, where on a good deal of gigs we just get line checked as we start I need to know the sound I send to FOH. I may need to tweak the eq on the amp on stage to get what I want but a great starting point would be that the same sound was being sent to both the amp and FOH.

That's a biggie for me - I like to understand the singer, not just hear them. I always want our vocals loud & proud, if there can only be one loud & proud thing in the PA then it has to be the lead vocals, not the darn bass drum.

Yeah, really nice sound on that clip.

I saw a bassist using a CL610 about a month back. Had a good sound, and was super portable, lighter than my Ashdown ABM410. Everything was through FOH, but I could hear his sound pretty good on sound-check and the sound from the rig wasn`t radically different to that of FOH, so maybe this cab doesn`t have the high-end roll-off that some Markbass cabs seem to have.

Love that, JJB would be proud of you Kevin!

I`m gonna contact our singer, I think it may be him and he`s lying about his age...................

Thanks guys, always nice to hear actual specs from the companies themselves, and Tech21 are always good with this.

On a similar vein we had the possibility of a gig in Vegas, looked at flights, cheapest we could get would take 26 hours. I mean you could take off and hover and get there quicker. I think their theory was take off and go extra fast over Europe/Russia/China/The Pacific, rather than just head out the other way..........

It does seem to be the more popular type music attracts this - don`t get much of it on the punk/Oi scene but whenever I`ve been to the bigger venues you do wonder why many of the audience have bothered to go. Pretty much happens at football too, when I`ve been many of those in the expensive seats seem to spend equal amounts of time in the bar as watching the match.

Rather immaturely we have a new song on the way called See You En Tee (typed like this to avoid pranity laws). It`s basically about how to dislike someone for their race/colour/culture/religion is pointless, and that you should really only dislike someone if you consider them to be a ****. Likewise it`s also about how someone from a different race/colour/culture/religion can be a ****, so it is fine to dislike them, and that it`s not racist to do so.

IMO Behringer gear really punches above its weight. The BDI21 is a great Sansamp clone, yes the Sansamp is better but again, is it 10 times better, probably not but it costs ten times the amount (and should point out I`m a major Tech21 fan so not being critical of their products at all).

That`s just killed my wanting one of these.

That`s cruel Bas, my powers of imagination hadn`t got round to those thoughs - they`re now firmly implanted in the brain, drat!

That rings a bell, I was in The Shout. Used to play The Powerhaus, Bull & Gate, Boston Arms, that circuit. Great times, from what I can remember of them.

Sounded more like a turbo charged Flea to me. Shame, I reckon backing off of the gain a fair bit and playing a Ricky that might just get a fairly decent Lemmy sound.

Slightly different for me, I was going to treat myself to a Fender 51 Reissue Precision on my 51st, but for some reason never got round to it.

Played there a good few times myself back then, what band were you in?

I`ve flitted between using both, but found that for gigging on the originals circuit it`s easier to have amp-head & cab, as gear-shares mean carrying an amp head to gigs with a provided cab is easier than carrying a combo to a gig with a provided cab, which I can`t use anyway.

Yep, love Tech21 products as well, congrats on the new amp.

This is interesting, I`ve always cut my strings to 10cm to allow for two windings around the tuning peg, however a couple of weekends ago put a set of Warwick Red Labels on my Mex Precision and a rattle/buzzing was coming from the E string, although only when played open. I took a look over on Talkbass as there seemed to be more threads on similar issues and the common theme was especially on Fenders cut to allow 3 windings on the E & A string if there wasn`t a string retainer to guide the string as far down as possible. So I put a new string on, cut to 15cm/3 windings and rozam-kobar, sorted. Must say however, I`ve had many other types of strings on that Mex Precision but have only experienced this on the Warwicks. But now I know, not an issue, I have a string retainer on all other strings so will just remember, 10cm for A/D/G, 15cm for E.

Not played one but heard a bassist using one a fe weeks back, teamed with a Precision and a bit of grind it sounded really good.

I think there`s also the question to be posed, how many who just use bass/amp are those that use a different array of amps/cabs/combos as provided gear on a regular basis, where they don`t know what gear will be provided until they actually get there? Do you still rely on this gear to get the sound you want?

Well both Duff and Steve Harris use Seymour Duncan pickups, Duff has a Seymour Duncan Hot Stack Jazz bridge pickup, so it may be worth looking at the neck version of this pickup for your bass. They`re much fuller in the sound than a regular Jazz pickup, and hum-cancelling too which is always a bonus with Jazz pickups. Sort a KiOgon wiring loom off of here and do the install yourself - John makes excellent products which are easy to fit, I`m testament to this, as if I can fit one pretty much anyone can. I think that may be as near as you can get, as with all of those mentioned, they do have a split Precision pickup, which putting one of those in would possibly require extra routing by a luthier.

If I were to use a generic Precision sound then I would, however as the sound I use is pretty specific and not obtainable from many amps (I can get it from my own amp) I have a preamp/DI pedal in the chain to get it. As such it`s easier to always have the preamp in the chain and get the sound from that, even if using my own amp, just makes setting up more standardised.

Re this, the ones I`ve had have never worked on the low E at gigs, too much background noise have affected the performance, so over to the TC, is it good for all strings in gigging conditions?