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Funnily enough, I discovered exactly the same on my Portaflex with my Precision and like you, wonderful rich tones 😁😊

This little Ant amp is now top of my list 😊 Dear Ashdown, do you fancy a swap for my Ashdown Mibass 550 😁😁

Hmmm looks very interesting. On my watch list for sure as a back up. Much smaller than lugging my Ashdown M550 around.

I can remember songs that I learned to play 20 - 30 years ago but then I have an amazing memory for some very weird reason. People comment to me, "how do you remember that?" but it just goes in and stays in. However, things like phone numbers, car reg. plates and even pin numbers I can struggle to remember. No idea why.

To be honest, I was also the same with Spirit of Eden and Laughing Stock. A lot less accessible than say The Colour of Spring. I Believe In You however is for me, one of their best songs ever.

Ok cool, I promise, you wont be disappointed 😊

You've not listened to The Colour of Spring yet? Wow, a magnificent masterpiece, you really need to ASAP.

I think on The Colour of Spring, Danny Thompson plays a lot of the double bass parts.

We play 50s and 60s Rock n Roll and didn't play Mustang Sally but got asked to learn it for an 80th birthday once. So we did and it went down well and decided to include it in the set for following gigs and it went down an absolute storm. We now make a thing of it and pull people up on stage to either sing the backing vocals or even the lead if they know it. It's a fun song that everyone knows and joins in on.

Love Talk Talk and Colour of Spring is one of my fav albums ever.

There's definitely no craic in Camberley unless you count the 5 squirrel's having their own party this morning in my garden 😁

Only 68 in 2019 which is quite a drop from the 119 I did in 2018. This was down to a line up change and consciously cutting back as we were struggling to maintain the workload and enjoy it still. For 2020 we have set a limit of no more than 40 gigs a year and we are booked up with 33 so far and a few more still to confirm.

Thanks for the review and info on the Elf. I'm looking to get one or the TC BAM200 as my back up amp this year.

Well, this year I will be 50 and my 32nd year of gigging having starting in 1988 at the age of 18. Last year I did around 90 gigs and the year before 119 so I clearly still love it. This year we have consciously cut back to only 40 as it was taking over our lives and finding that the quality was dropping and we were getting burnt out. Still, 40 in a year is still 3 gigs a month. It is important to share the load, to try and make life as easy as possible, have as much fun as possible with the right people and have a positive attitude. It's also important to remain flexible and open minded and make changes if something is not working. Even more so as you get older and as they say, when something is no longer fun, then it's time to make a change or stop.

I only want one bass to finish my collection, a Fender 51 Precision Reissue. That's all I need and I'm done

I don't understand this thread 🤣😂

Not my cup of tea in the slightest, in fact ugly and ponsy to my taste but that's because I just like old looking Fender's. However, my god Ibanez are making incredible basses and this looks stunning. Good on them for making these basses and doing something different rather than a Fender clone. Great basses and such a great brand. Top Mark's Ibanez.

Yep, unlined as well and I also dont understand the lined/unlined thing. You don't get lined violins, cellos, double basses, viola's etc.

Just love that Tony Franklin fretless Precision.

I would agree with 99% of this and certainly the part where it's in the individual players technique and fingers. This is very true and I've had people play my best sounding Jazz bass and it sound totally different to how it sounds when I play it. The closest was Silverfox but even then, he even sounded darker than when I play it. The only part I would not totally agree on is being able to recognise the difference between certain types of basses. Running everything flat and with the same strings, I would say that I would be able to recognise the difference between a Stingray over a Jazz/Precision and a lot of other basses but that is purely down to knowing the sounds of those basses. I wouldn't however be able to tell you if someone was playing a Thunderbird, a Status, Rickenbacker or an EB3. I did a similar test on my wife and played my two Jazz basses, my Stingray, my Precision and my Kala Ubass and she could pretty much identify each one.

Playing a rather large club which is ticketed. 2 x 1 hour sets and we'll finish about 12.30am. We are getting paid £2k. This is for 5 band members and a soundmen. We are also booked for NYE 2020 in a different club and getting paid £2.3k.

Edited for you Dave because you missed a bit out 🤣😂

Oh geez, I love my Ampeg PF500 but I love my Ashdown CTM15 and this will sound sooo good through my Barefaced Two10. What do we think this will be priced at?

That was my Ashdown Mi550. The TH500 I mentioned was your one as well 😁

Not sure you can ask that question as you will get lots of personal opinions back. I personally use an Ampeg PF500 and it sounds amazing. I've also played a Tone Hammer 500 through it and it sounded amazing. I've also ran my Ashdown Mi550 through it and it sounds great. If I was to be honest, I would say that as it's such a great cab, most decent amp heads will sound good.