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I’ve heard one played with a big band, which can have a huge dynamic range, and it more than kept up.

I think a lot of it is down to the guitarist. Around 20 years ago I played in a couple of covers bands where the guitarist used Line 6 Flextone amps. One guitarist always seemed to make the thing work for him and he sounded great; the other invariably had a thin sound, frequently with an overcooked (and usually completely unnecessary) chorus effect.

I guess we're talking scooping out the mid-range to benefit slappity-poppity shenanigans?

All of the different amp modelling units have their adherents. I was looking at the HX stomp but I dread the option overload that comes with programmable do-everything gadgets.

I have been depping on bass (sometimes) and rhythm guitar (other times) in a tribute band where all the regular guys use Kempers. Both guitarist sound absolutely stellar, having done the hard yards in setting up their sounds beforehand.

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I used to have this setup in my car. It could sound a bit weird...

I had one of these and you definitely need to turn up all the stages to get the full beans out of it. I re-biased mine and ended up fitting a multi-turn trimmer to achieve this reliably - see this thread (sorry, pics are long gone). Be aware that if you blithely twiddle the bias trim pot you risk sending the output transistors into thermal runaway, which will burn them up before you even realise something is wrong.

The one I chose to start with had flats and just wasn't cutting it, so I switched to the other (with rounds).

And mine! And Christmas of course. Sorry - used the C word…

I’ll add my own ‘ooh’ to those already expressed here. If the pickups are like the one in the MIM Mustang that I had, they may be all ‘whumpf’. Mine was greatly improved by reconnecting it as parallel coils instead of series. EDIT: ‘Expected in stock December 2023’? Screw that, something shinier will have come along way before that!

I went from Chromes to LaBella 760s on one of my Precisions. I didn’t notice any change in feel or playability but the LaBellas sound fatter in the mids. No way would you get the same effect simply by rolling off the treble with the Chromes - I know because I often do this anyway.

As a current player of solely P-basses I'm used to brutish!

OK cheers - guess you just have to try these things and see how it pans out. I've got my eye on something else on here but if that doesn't come to fruition then a trip to Bass Direct may be in order!

Are we talking neck or body comfort? Still got my (your old) Super PZ5 btw

The unfretted strings tend to be higher off the fretboard as you go further up the neck, and fretting them then moves them closer to the pickup. This will be more noticeable if you are playing with quite a high action.

@Machines and @krispn - how are you both getting on with your D-Rocs? And why am I asking? No reason really, definitely not Dingwall GAS.

I keep it quite low, just high enough that I can hear the cues e.g. 'chorus-2-3-4'.

I believe Stew is referring to a band that I have done some gigs with, and in fact I have 3 wedding engagements with them this summer. To answer some of the questions/comments above: - Yes they have a drummer. - There is no option of keeping things going without completely abandoning the click. - The light show is automatically controlled by DMX form the same program that provides the click. Also each player can control their own mix using the Qu-You app on a phone or tablet. Enjoy the gig @stewblack!

Well I just found my NBD post about the bass I bought that day (Sandberg VM4), and I have the Dingwall down as an ABI 5! Feel free to weigh in if you know better though...

Some 10-11 years ago I took a trip to Bass Direct. Among the models I tried was the 4-string version of the bass pictured below. According to the photo's name it is some kind of ABZ, but many of that range seem to be active. This one is passive, with just volume, tone, and a 4-way rotary pickup selector. Can anyone giveime a definitive model designation? TIA

Nothing makes a stage look messy like white mains leads. I use black ones, and preferably black plugs too. That doesn’t answer your question but I had to get it off my chest!

The 70s. Not necessarily in general, but I’m a big Bowie fan and during that period he had a phenomenal run of brilliant albums and singles. These are just the studio albums: 1970 The Man Who Sold the World 1971 Hunky Dory 1972 Ziggy Stardust 1973 Aladdin Sane 1973 Pin Ups 1974 Diamond Dogs 1975 Young Americans 1976 Station to Station 1977 Low 1977 Heroes 1979 Lodger If those albums were all I could ever listen to I really could not complain.