Machines

Great lineup... need to order my ticket.

Are you sure it wasn't the preamp that was overloading ? Not sure if it has a light to tell you.

Been using PMT Birmingham for about 8 years and have always had good service (when I can find someone that is - don't go there on a Saturday afternoon !). They've chopped and changed (Dave Sheriff moving away from bass to PA) and there are a couple of flamboyant looking egotarts (but they play guitar) but they don't pretend to know about bass and have always found someone who does to help rather than try and BS their way through it.

I once bought a 2nd hand bass where the strings and guitar in general smelt quite strongly of a marijuana - it wasn't pleasant and took a string change and lots of lemon oil to resolve !

These are my Dads... Burns Marvin 64 (Signed certificate) Tokai LS-75 (Bought from Gordon Giltrap, signed) Epiphone Swingster (fitted with flatwounds) He also has an 80's Squier Strat (Torino Red) upgraded with MIA pickups and hardware which is awesome.

Old ones certainly won't be. New ones (after they brought out the HH series a couple of years ago) I also doubt, since it'd cost more to route all SR5 bodies than just the ones they needed to. That said - if it's the difference between keeping it and selling it if you like it otherwise - it's worth the cost of routing and a new pickup.

Time for a more recent pic...

The Vintage should be perfectly useable - I doubt there's much difference between them and the Squiers.

A sound that works at home might just about work in a practise studio, but transfer that to a larger venue which wasn't designed with music playback in mind (a pub, wedding marquee etc) and if you're stubborn enough not to change your tone then you may very well not be heard at all. I don't have 'my tone', I make myself and my gear adaptable enough for most situations.

It seems to suggest the cabinet design is less much important than the quality of the speaker and an interesting potential for upgrading 'cheap' cabs.

A reasonable factor in the military using valves still is they are much more resilient to EMP than solid state is.

Under the control plate at the back (just a few screws). That's a very early and rare model (please don't mistake that as it being worth thousands), very nice - you have a great bass there.

I'm going at the end of the month.. hopefully returning with a Reidmar with at least one cab .

I can't see valves going anywhere - they're still cheap to produce and don't require any hard to source materials. Neodymium on the other hand does seem to be worse off - it's more the price of material than it's scarcity. I read that China seem to be limiting supply purposely to drive up prices.

It's the beginning of Skynet.

I had one and the signal is taken from the preamp output rather than power stage - so you can turn the master volume down and retain the DI.

After more research the Reidmar is currently top of the list... probably with one Classic cab for now. The Shuttle 6 entices me with it's hybrid valve preamp but I know I can emulate that through a pedal if required. The EBS setup just looks so portable and i've seen a lot more positives about EBS than GB.

[quote name='Prime_BASS' timestamp='1326024926' post='1491115'] Just because a cab is looked to be designed horizontal doesnt mean you cant stack it vertical. [/quote] Except if the head overhangs it by 3 inches each side... and won't sit still ! I'm not a fan of Mark Bass, unfortunately. Too, erm... orange. I think current favourite is the Shuttle 6.0 Reidmar is a close 2nd with my reservation being on the upper limit of 250w - will than be enough into 8ohms ? I've played with the Shuttles all day at Bass Day 2008 so am fairly familiar with them.

[quote name='Paul S' timestamp='1326020248' post='1490998'] If it were me, with your budget I'd keep your existing ABM head for now and buy a Barefaced cab. [/quote] My ABM is the wide version (same width as ABM900) so a normal 210 cab has to be horizontal rather than vertical meaning a larger footprint, I prefer the idea of a cab being on it's side and thus taller (i'm 6ft 2 so higher is better).

Thanks for the input so far. It's unlikely to be anything but pub gigs to be honest - not looking for an ear crushing mega-rig. If it can match my ABM's performance in volume i'm happy.

Gigged my Ashdown rig last night and it dawned on me that it's too cumbersome and heavy compared to some more modern offerings. It's a 300w Ashdown ABM (13KG) into a single 250w 8ohm cab (28KG). I have a budget of ~£600 (maybe a bit more if I trade the head in) - here are my options: Genz Benz Shuttle 3.0/6.0 + GB 210T-XB3 TC Electronic BH500 + BC210 EBS Reidmar + Classic 112 cab I'm fairly inexperienced with rigs compared to instruments and the differences between them (stereotypical ones that is) I am unfamiliar with so would be interested if anyone could add the experiences of them