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Also worth remembering that some of the greatest bass tones in history were bass direct into the board with a good compressor like a '76. No cabs, no amps. The Dr Tone Secret Bass lab has a page with EQ settings to be used in place of cab sims and they are excellent.

Ok. A mic'd traditional bass speaker does not need a cab sim or IR.

The 20xl Roland is a great sounding thing. Loads of sounds out of that. I have a silly money Barefaced rig but I’ll never sell my Roland. I wouldn’t swap it for any similar small combo. I’d only add to my kit with a stage ready amp.

Don’t stack speakers into more speakers. A mic’d speaker doesn’t need a cab sim / IR. Go direct into the interface instead. Then you can record a bare tone and change amps and cabs after.

ease of use and none of the dip and swell volume effect that traditional compressors can suffer from. Its very transparent too. No tone changes.

Nothing. Both the bass and Jaco are extremely dull to me.

I’ve had: Empress Cali76 Darkglass Super Symmetry MXR87 Keeley 4 knob Keeley Compressor Pro Marshall ED1. Now I use the newish Boss BC-1X. It’s brilliant. Very simple to use and just works without any faff.

Shame that KA didn't pick an existing common size for their own ones. Mind you, EMG are behind on that too. Aguilar, Nords, Barts etc all make Bart and EMG sized versions of their pickups and EMG won't make Barts sized versions removing them from consideration if a bass had Bart sized pickups when it was built.

Aguilar have the DCB G4 which is 38x102 (as is the EMG 40 sized casing) Nordstrand will custom make anything you like. What pickups do you have in it at the moment?

If I’m getting paid then I absolutely take a 2nd bass and a 2nd head and/or a suitable di unit to go direct and get through it. A wedding gig would be the worst gig to have a catastrophic gear failure. It’s just a gig to us, but it’s supposed to be the best day of their lives for the happy couple. Backup gear doesn’t have to be as expensive as main gear. A Harley Benton bass and a di unit will let the gig continue.

I decided to blind order the Markbass AG1000.

Barefaced Super Twin or a One10 depending on the gig.

I've had 500w and 800w MB heads before so I'm sure it will be loud enough!

@ped I tried drop D. It's right on the limit of floppiness. I play as lightly as possible and I use a ramp and I think I could get away with it. If you play harder or with a pick, I'm not convinced. But the super long scale E is a 101 rather than the 89 so it may work quite well with buying that string separately.

This. It's why my J is a Sandberg.

Well, I decided to order the AG1000. Hopefully with me in a day or 2.

Well the OP hasn't been back so I suspect he got upset that not many were on "his side."

I've been looking at a new amp, and I've got a short list and I'd like to try them in person. There's a PMT close by and I'm an hour from Brum so that's ok too. But I can't seem to find any shop, or even a couple of shops not too far from each other with stock of bass amps over about £400. All I want to do is try a couple of Mark Bass models and an ABM600 to decide. I don't particularly want to order and return 3 times and I haven't got the funds to order 3 amps at once to A/B them at home. Is the component shortage affecting more expensive models compared to the lower powered stuff? Or are shops just not stocking them at the moment as a consequence of a lack of gigs over the last 2 years?

It's not a shorty thing. It's a set up thing.

Does the ABM600 have the annoying notched master volume control like the RM series has?

The LMT interests me at the moment. Might be because I'm on a bit of a Joe Dart kick at the moment and he seems to use one a lot.

Has it got wheels?