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The Bass Gallery fret stoned and set up one of my basses. When it came back I could just about get a fag paper under the strings. I tried to adjust my technique to it but I never could make an action that low sound consistently good. My view now is that a low action is pretty irrelevant. I don't hit the strings hard, just firm and even, so IME there doesn't need to be a connection between a light touch, a low action and a good technique. When I set my basses up I take the strings down till they buzz then raise the bridge saddles until the rattles stop.

I have never downloaded or streamed anything. I like to be able to hold my music.

+1 for replacing them. My sweat doesn't kill strings so when they have come to the end of their useful life, I just replace them.

Fender Jazz basses have the A profile necks. Back in the day they were also an option for Fender P basses. Lakland Duck Dunn basses had J necks and there must be more out there.

[quote name='KingPrawn' timestamp='1492541049' post='3281113'] Chainey do. The pointer sisters. You have to check this tune out!! [/quote] I haven't heard Steppin' in a long while. Some serious groove from bass and drums across the whole album.

Good thinking.

If you are thinking about another 4 ohm 210 I'd also get a second amp, (you're using an LM3 I believe) and daisy chain both amps using the send/return. You can run each as a linked 4 ohm systems.

It's a blanket application of the rules and age doesn't come into it.

The saddles on my Lakland are similar but much less pronounced. The A is extended the furthest and the others are slightly set back from it. The differences between them are no more than 1/4 of a saddle width. This after a set up at the Bass Gallery. I'd suggest the bass is probably fine and just suffering from a DIY set up.

You've got the cab so I'd carry on using the Ashdown until you have settled down with your new sound.

I've used 1 Compact for a gig. It was fine. Aguilar seem to underrate their TH amps and the Compact is very good at turning watts into SPL so I'd say you'd be fine. What were you using before?

I mainly use a TH500 with my Super Compacts, so I'd suggest the TH350 from your list. Unless you want to sound like Mark King, these amps are perfect. I've read read that the Streamliner has a very bass heavy tone. That wouldn't be for me in a million years. I don't know the VT500 at all, so can't comment there.

Dunlops all the way. The Schallers have a reputation for coming unscrewed! Have a look at All Parts Strap Loks. They are rebadged Dunlops and are a lot cheaper.

The best 210 I've ever used was 2 Bergantino AE210 cabs. Tight low end, punchy mids, full, fat, no boom, mud or woolliness. Low B (and the other 4 strings) heaven. I moved on to Berg 112's then a Berg 212, which were all fantastic cabs, but those 210's really were special. I would expect their replacements, the HD210's and HDN210's, to be equally good. Bergs are going to be increasingly unobtainable with the pound exchange rate tanking. If you want to find a great UK made 210 I'd read some reviews of the Barefaced Two10. I haven't played one yet but my One10 is an eye opener and the reports of the Two10 seems to indicate another equally game changing cab.

I have never seen strings wound in this way. If you wind around the post there doesn't seem much point in #3. And #4 seems to have the strings wound over each other. I wouldn't do either of these things. The usual advice is for 2 or 3 wraps around the post, finishing with the string at the bottom of the post.

If you feel like you're "somewhere else" with these, then non filter plugs will be even worse. I've been using my Pro17's since Christmas. They replaced my ACS ER15's of about 10 years. I wouldn't use anything else. Any plugs will change what we hear (that's their job) but in doing so they're protecting hearing even in the noisiest bands. I can still hear from the loudest guitar solo to the slightest stage whisper so it's all good. I see a lot of the older guys coming to gigs these days and taking their hearing aids out. But they still aren't putting plugs in when they play! They're not playing Roulette with their hearing, it's Russian Roulette and with 6 bullets!

Izal is best for fretless.

I recently replaced my 5 year old GHS flats with TI flats on my P bass. This seems to have been a good move because the guys in the band commented favourably on the next gig, and without any prompting from me. The J basses have either DR Lo-Rider or Dunlop Super Brights.

As a long time Lakland player I think everyone should try one of these before they decide on a new bass. http://basschat.co.uk/topic/297268-lakland-44-02-cherry-sunburst-bartolini/page__fromsearch__1

Perfection is anything Keb Mo has recorded. Great songs using the world's best bass players playing the best lines for the last 20 years. Hard to beat this though. . . . The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down by The Band [url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w69ZVHpjYAk"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w69ZVHpjYAk[/url]

I'd use someone in the UK. Who does Shuker, ACG, Sei, Wal and Overwater use? I believe Martin Simms is in Kent and has a very good reputation.