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Given that The Edge seems to use a different guitar for each song the guitarist will need a big van & deep pockets. As a slight aside a mate of mine is convinced that different guitars/body woods/pickups/strings make no difference to the sound, and that the only thing that does is speakers. So we’re telling him that from now on The Edge will just play a Strat for every song but that his roadies will be wheeling out a different cab for each, so he can get his sound.

That’s a very good call, he’s used plenty of different types of basses over the years so not really identifiable with anything long term or specific, realistically Precision or Jazz will cover the sounds needed.

Ah, yeah that would be a tad too much

Good to see “your Malcolm” has the right guitar 👍

Fender Precision (1957 onwards) Musicman Stingray 4

Might be overkill in terms of what volume they can put out but having a set up which makes it easier to hear yourself has to be a bonus. Plus a better depth of sound from two 210s as opposed to one.

Good call, possibly a spare as well?

I went for orange figuring easy to see if I drop them.

Well there’s no point in rushing these things……..

No problem with an 8” speaker, I’ve had Ampeg BA108, Fender 15 Rumble, Ashdown After Eight and Marshall MB15 practice amps, all had 8” speakers. All had a good sound at low home volumes though all would have been too loud for home use if turned up on full, I’d happily have any of them again.

I’d venture a truly monstrous sound was had?

Great post @Linus27, reinforces what a good musician AC actually is.

Agree, this thread shouldn’t be one-upmanship, it should be about finding out what other bassists use/want and why. I find this very interesting and am sure many of us do as well.

I was going to mention that Ampeg BA-108, very nice little amps and really capture the Ampeg sound well.

Yep, practice amp with a preamp pedal for home use for me.

I never tried out the tone control, just left it on full all the time. Pickup volume was nicely balanced, my fave tone from it was both pickups as it did the scooping mids thing nicely giving quite a modern sound.

AC/DC at Donnington, starting off with Thunderstruck. 🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘

Well being a punk band - The Squatters - we’d not actually rehearsed, and only met the drummer that evening. I was using the headliners guitar and had never played a Gibson Les Paul type guitar before, having tinkered on Strats, plus really being a bassist I wasn’t that great on guitar, especially one I’d not played before. I was on lead vox but never having really sung before I had a habit of walking around whilst playing so was often away from the mic - probably a good thing thinking about it, Vicious Sidney certainly had me beat on that song! My mate who was on bass - and had agreed to do it with a few run throughs over a couple of weeks - got lost at one point so he played all the notes he’d missed extra extra fast to catch up rather than just play the part where he actually was. Ironically our next number, I Wanna Be Me by The Sex Pistols went ok.

First song I ever played live on stage was C’mon Everybody, the Sex Pistols version of Eddie Cochran song. I was 16, on lead vocals and lead guitar. It was a disaster.

Well I found the combination of short scale, the Precision pickup soloed and the nickel strings to have a bit too many low-mids for me, if I’d kept it I would have put steel rounds on it to counteract that a bit. So I’d say on a Mustang bass that a Precision pickup with steel rounds and a regular Mustang pickup with nickel rounds will get just about the same sound.

Well an update, as per the text below from my initial post, sadly it’s going to have to go back as it’s causing my thumb some bother. Fed up as I really like this bass but no point in keeping it if I end up not being able to play it. “Just have to make sure my arthritic thumb is ok with the neck, at first try it feels slightly thicker than my Japanese Mustangs so next few days I’ll be putting in the hours to make sure.”

Sometimes opportunities just come along at the wrong time, I bet you were gutted you couldn’t do that Pete

That is a great set list, both to listen to and (I’m sure) to play.

Happy Thanksgiving Daryl, have a good one