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That was my main reason for replacing bridges on my Mex Fenders.

It’s got the Shape function on it as well, a feature I find very useful

Put in an hour or so on this bass earlier and it really lifted my week long crabby mood. Whilst my Sandbergs play and sound great, plus being lightweight suit my back nicely, the above will always be my dream bass.

“The main challenge will be learning choreography.” I’d say a real challenge for the drummer.

Thanks, so going through this evens out the balance between E/A & D/G. Hmmm, def something to think about.

Which one is this Rob?

In my classic rock band we’re pretty much as near as we can get to the originals. We decided to do that to make us better musicians, rather than dumb bits down. Only real changes are endings where the original fades, added keyboards, and minus second guitars. But structure wise we play them as recorded.

Same here, Tech21 gear sounds great, is super reliable, and as a bonus sound people seem to love it too.

I’m not in a gigging band, if I do stand in for someone I use the provided rig, and I use the studios amps when rehearsing. But still want one! Love that the amp is now Ashdown blue, looks much better than the silver & black earlier versions.

And it looks like they’ve just got a makeover and are now the RBM series.

I got an email via Ashdowns mailing list detailing some new amps & cabs so suspect they will be there promoting these.

Good point, live arrangement for a studio recording to make it more dynamic, makes sense.

The latest Ashdown RM800 would get my money.

Said BL sounds as mad as cheese.

That’s a great idea, PsychovKiller segue to 500 Miles

Hard to believe its a year since this sad news. Great pic @Blondy, thanks for sharing.

The main thing for me is thinner strings further from bridge/thicker nearer the bridge must make for a better balance. I often find that the D (and G should I ever use it) lack depth in comparison to the E & A.

I had those Gear4Music ones for my guitars and they were very good, not just for the price either.

In my old punk covers band The Daves we were sure we played everything correctly, until we needed a new drummer. The new guy learned the songs correctly and we found a good few we played differently, with no ideas as to why the changes had been made. Maybe this happens in other bands as well?

Looks like a bass that Mr Soft from the Steve Harley/Cockney Rebel song would play.

Yeah I get that, certainly less pressure my way, learning 12 when given 3 than being given 10 to start with. But being given 10 can be a good way of looking at both the commitment of the auditionee, and their ability, if given a fairly wide range of material. I think the most I’ve been given for an audition was 6, tho was 15 years ago so could have been more.

If a US Fender I’d look at the bridge that currently comes on the Professional series. If Mexican then the Fender Hi-Mass or Gotoh 201B-4 are both decent, and reasonably priced.

I’m not so sure, last audition I had was told of 3 songs off the bands album. Got to the audition, they asked me where I wanted to start and my reply was let’s do the album start to finish. My thoughts are it doesn’t hurt to learn a good few songs even if I don’t get the job, as surely I must like those songs in order to be auditioning for a band that plays them. I did get the job btw.

There’s Road Worn, and there’s Shagged Out. I’d put this cab in the latter.

Fingers crossed for you Nige, hope it goes well