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Sounds cool - I'll be there but sadly not an expert on anything bass-related, and don't even have an interesting job worth taking about.

Cool. Mine will be with a jazz bass instead of my usual P bass - playing lots at home but not the same as cranking it at a gig. The audience won't notice but I'll be having my own little party in my head on my side of the stage!

Got my first gig coming up the weekend with a new bass. I think that must be just about the most exciting band-related situation ever! Or is it just me, or does everyone look forward to giving their new instrument its first outing? I just hope it sounds/plays/looks good!

Must say this is news to me too - I've owned five Fender basses, three of which i still own, and none have got dead spots. Saying that, I've got a bass Fatfinger clamp lying round at home which i don't use (having sold the bass concerned) if anyone wanted it for the purpose of moving/eradicating their deadspot....

Totally - I've started using my tone control loads for different sounds. Fingerstyle gets a nice variation when you roll the tone down for a smooth old school sound, and I've always rolled a bit of tone off when going at it with a pick to prevent it getting too harsh. That's before you get into playing with fingers near the bridge, over the pickup or at the bottom of the neck for even more variation.

Not bringing my Sandberg TT4 now, having just part-exed it for a Fender Jazz, which I'll bring instead...

Dep if you can get it, but otherwise just do it missing one member. My band has a core line up but all sorts of combinations of deps have played with us, depending on who's available to cover, ranging from a five piece to a trio. As long as you can still make music which the audience will enjoy/expect, no one will care about the exact line up. Go for it!

My jazz - a 2008 USA jobbie, which came secondhand with a set of Aguilar pickups. Sounds ace. Only had it two days but haven't stopped playing it yet, which is always a good sign!

Saw a customer playing a red roadworn jazz at Bass Direct last weekend. It sounded awesome, and we got chatting, and he let me have a quick go. It was stunning, in looks, feel and sound. I've been curious about them for ages but never quite made the move to buy one (partly cos I can't find any locally to try out) but if the one I played was typical of them then they really do seem very good indeed.

Stunning basses. Very nice. Well done!

[quote name='Lozz196' timestamp='1454884330' post='2973957'] Congrats, I`ve just recently got hold of a US 2012 in the same colour combo and agree, love it. Bet those Aggie pickups are good. [/quote] Cheers Lozz - and congrats on your new purchase too! Yep those pickups certainly sounded great at the store thru an amp even with the EQ flat. Plenty of welly and fatness but still a passive pickup tone. I spent a fair bit of time playing the various basses I liked unplugged first anyway, to get a feel for which were loud and most resonant. I had a half hour blast of it when I got home just straight into a Little Mark head and my Schroeder 1210 cab and it sounded really good.

I paid a visit to Bass Direct on the weekend, to trade in my Sandberg TT4 - a stunning bass, amazing to play and so light and comfy, but rather too polite and hi fi for me, and sadly just not the sound i have in my head. I am something of a Fender fanboy I must admit. Came out with this - a 2008 USA jazz, which the previous owner had pimped with a pair of Aguilar hot jazz pickups. It sounds immense. I had a good noodle of a lot of really nice basses while there, but this one came out the best match for my needs - fat and full and loud, but still with the extra tonal range on offer from a jazz over my existing P basses. I love the black/tort/maple combination I've gotta to say! Currently doing the thing of just carting it around the house with me so I can look at it wherever I am sitting. Done a lot of sofa noodling. Likely to get a chance to gig it this weekend, and prepared for my band to go: "What? Another bass?" And me having to say: "Ah yeah but this one is different...." Excuse the upside down pics btw - can't seem to correct them but you get the idea anyway.

Graham bought an acoustic guitar from me. Prompt payment and good communications throughout - happy to deal with him again anytime.

Yeah keep it dude. I had my precision bass all thru university and finished with no cash, maxed out on overdraft and just a couple of bar staff jobs to try to turn things round. But I vowed I wouldn't flog that bass. That was 20 years ago this year and I've still got the bass. I'd have got a few hundred quid for selling it, but that would be gone by now.

Ah man Terry Wogan was excellent - a proper broadcasting legend. I loved his whole Janet and John thing he used to do. Brilliant. Gutted he's gone.

I paid £560 for my first LM3 about seven years ago and I must say I love it. Managed to pick up another secondhand LM2 on this forum last year for £220 in near mint condition, which I guess is due to the price that the new far eastern ones are selling for new. I haven't tried the newer stuff tho.

I'm 41, but I act about 12 and feel about 65 some days...

[quote name='Bassmachine' timestamp='1453244415' post='2957878'] Warwick Hellborg power amp and preamp.. Cabs Schroeder 210 12L and 15 12L [/quote] Whoa that's a monster rig! I love my Schroeder cab. I think they're amazing.

Here's my full rig onstage at a big festival gig I did in the summer. Amp wise I've got two Markbass Littlemark heads ( a III and a II) each going into a 4-ohm cab, in this case one Schroeder 1210 and one Aguilar GS410. I used a boss chorus pedal turned off to split the signal into the two heads, as the pedal has one input and two outputs. Apart from one of the Littlemark heads it's all stuff from Basschat too! Bass wise, it's a 1996 USA precision, and a 1970 model of the same bass. My Sandberg didn't come to that gig. Usually I'll just take one of the heads, the smaller cab and one bass to a gig.

This'll be me then. Now, and back in the day c1992

My first gig was Dio on the Dream Evil tour in 1987, when I was 13, and Jimmy Bain played bass at that gig. He was part of a real pivotal moment for me, experiencing the excitement and volume of my first live gig, right at the start of my bass playing life. So thanks Jimmy, and take care.