AttitudeCastle

[quote name='neepheid' post='805767' date='Apr 14 2010, 09:50 AM']Well, they're probably still there, knowing them [/quote] I was playing the exact one a few days ago, i really like the neck, very quick and to me slim! I really like wide necks and fairly deep necks, Millars are stupidly priced =/ espically the ampeg stuff if you want it through them, On another sour price note, anyone seen the price of the Ashdown ABM300 in R&B?

[quote name='budget bassist' post='808861' date='Apr 16 2010, 08:13 PM']Wouldn't we all? I my ABM is make in the UK as well, and so is my electric blue head, funnily enough the electric blue blew up [/quote] Haha, for anything less than "giggable" ie practise i use laney, i quite like them oddly... i designed an Amp (i know nowt about amps so it was an idea) and sent to Laney, no reply ='( haha, How come the Electric blue Blew up? So what is on Everyones GAS LIST?, mine keeps growing it i will soon need GAS removal surgery, the only problem is the side effect of empty-wallet-itis mine currently stands at, in vague order of likeliness of getting one/importance to me MXR Distortion + pedal, Ashdown ABM 300 of some form (there is one on here for £200 but that is £200 more than i can spend! i am so gutted) then a Cab to match probably a Mag 410, a new BASS, preferably a 6 string, looking for a Yamaha RBXJM2, and there are a tonne of pedals i wish to buy to faf with [-------- INSERT MOST THINGS BASS RELATED I HAVE EVER SEEN--------] A Musicman Bongo, probably a 6, \ a Status Graphite B2, |------ some point in the future! Another Yamaha Attitude, / Can't wait till i'm allowed to work properly, xD

[quote name='budget bassist' post='808764' date='Apr 16 2010, 06:34 PM']Fair play for selling it if you couldn't afford a cab, solid plan though, you could easily get £100 or so for the MAG head when the time comes, and you'd only need another £100-£150 for an ABM (i paid £230 for my ABM 300)[/quote] Thanks! yeah, might keep the mag and try and sell something else, actually quite attached to it for some reason, its an orginal, with serial number 5, after a few 000 which is quite nice, but yeah i would give it for an ABM300 4 times out of 5, i'd have both in an ideal world, and a super model girlfriend, i can dream haha,

As all have said and i can easily agree, Dan is a great guy, very easy to deal with, smooth transaction good communication, The Ashdown LoMenzo Hyperdrive will arrive when ever the postie does Thanks Dan!

[quote name='budget bassist' post='807413' date='Apr 15 2010, 05:38 PM']No valve preamp in the MAG, biiiiiig difference! (If you use it like i do.) The MAG range is still nice gear for the money though.[/quote] Yup! The being 100% honest the ABM trumps the MAG almost in every way apart from price, but there is a reason for that! The valve drive was fabulous, but hopefully the gig money will allow me to get one back! best of both worlds well thats the plan, hence why i (still either way regrettably) sold the ABM,

[quote name='budget bassist' post='806681' date='Apr 14 2010, 11:10 PM']Don't you regret getting rid of that ABM for a MAG? I wouldn't be without my ABM now, they're SO much better than the MAG and electric blue stuff, in my view.[/quote] Yeah i do miss the tone, but its pretty close, just not the real thing if you know what i mean, but the ABM was great for recording and using on its own but the swap seemed practical more than anything else, i needed a cab, and had little money etc and i intend to exploit both outputs of my Attitude so i'll end up with two MAG300 heads and two 410 cabs and 2 15s in the end, its the same power, and this mag head is cool, its also and orginal non evo, its the serial number is 5 (after a load of zeros) made in enland which is cool, but overall keeping the ABM would have been my first choice, i will get 'em back at some point but gigging starts soon and i need a rig, as i had no cab

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[quote name='AttitudeCastle' post='796838' date='Apr 5 2010, 06:56 PM']I've been playing about 4 and a bit years! just bought (literally just now) an Ashdown ABM 300 (non EVO an orginal!) and orginal MAG410T both made in the UK =) Combined with my Yamaha Attitude LTD II bass, quite accomplished i feel! I'm actually saving for a MAG810.......or two... haha pictures next week when my camera gets back from the repair placey down the road oh one last thing.. NOTE: i spend 3 years saving money and i spend a tiny portion of my university savings to get all that! Linked by a Bullet 44 coiled cable bought as a gift by my guitarist brother they are all right Chaps if you get to them them, sometimes and a prize to anyone who guesses my age, and yes i am a teenager haha[/quote] ARG, i ALWAYS ALWAYS forget! I USED to have an ABM300, but sold it and got a MAG and paid for a bit of my trip to iceland in October picture in a minute

handy talkbass.com thread i found may offer insight, [url="http://www.talkbass.com/forum/showthread.php?t=632001"]http://www.talkbass.com/forum/showthread.php?t=632001[/url]

Run all three at once? :brow: hmmm very interesting, i think i'm in the same boat!

[quote name='fatgoogle' post='799085' date='Apr 7 2010, 07:08 PM']Ok, never saw this before, im just 17 a couple of weeks ago. My fender jazz 24, which i stupidly sold, best jazz bass apart from the marcus miller that i have played. Might try and buy another one, one day. My Ibanez which is currently my bass, which im trying to sell to buy a Marcus miller or a Jap fender jazz bass My rig is a Ashdown Mag 600R with a EV606 1x15. Which im also trying to sell. Im deeply unhappy with my current sound. I Really want a 4 string Jazz bass and a warwick corvette, and a 6 string Yamaha and ibanez. 5 strings just seem pointless. And im picking up my double bass on friday at long last replacing my old one. I have no money anymore and desperatly need anothe job.[/quote] Very Very nice mate! haha i agree, basses should only have an even number of strings 4/6 only haha

[quote name='dood' post='802203' date='Apr 10 2010, 10:43 PM']look up 'Catalinbread SFT' on the good ole YouTube - i think it's lightest settings are exactly what you are looking for - it also does 'brutal' as well. Failing that - I have an MXR M80 and that does a light grunge too - or full on distortion. The video clip doesn't sound like any outboard distortion as such - just Duff's GK's cranked hard. I am sure I have seen somewhere online Duff's amp settings and remember the dials been set to 'stun' as it were [/quote] The SFT does seem along the right track! i will have to investigate getting one! And yes you right, Duff is using an GK 2001RB which has a dirty channel according to the description of that DVD i found on t'internet

[quote name='dood' post='802203' date='Apr 10 2010, 10:43 PM']look up 'Catalinbread SFT' on the good ole YouTube - i think it's lightest settings are exactly what you are looking for - it also does 'brutal' as well. Failing that - I have an MXR M80 and that does a light grunge too - or full on distortion. The video clip doesn't sound like any outboard distortion as such - just Duff's GK's cranked hard. I am sure I have seen somewhere online Duff's amp settings and remember the dials been set to 'stun' as it were [/quote] Thanks alot Dood! will check it out now!

Hey All! I'm doing some Distortion shopping as it were, i'm after a very slight crunch to add to my sound, think Duff Mckagen, [url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BnHNkWyGmFw&feature=player_embedded#"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BnHNkWyGmFw...layer_embedded#[/url] sort of style, now this will be hard as i am AWFUL at using words and describing things I am interested in the Ashdown Drive plus, the Ashdown James LoMenzo Hyperdrive, and things similar, i don't like the fuzzy sounding "distortion" stuff, Like the Dunlop MXR Distortion + i know that Duff uses it, and i believe it was used on the recording of the Velvet Revolver song "Set Me Free", the kind of sound i'm looking for is thing of the clean tone as like ice cream and the overdrive/distortion as being waffer on either side Like i said, i'm awful with words, I'm would be running the distortion about 85% of the time, i don't want the sound to get too be too fuzz like, or too phat, especially when hitting the high notes, does such a thing exist? And i'll understand if you guys have no clue what i mean haha Thanks, AC

if its a pedal i would suggest not using the FX loop, for technical reasons [url="http://www.ovnilab.com/articles/fxloop.shtml"]http://www.ovnilab.com/articles/fxloop.shtml[/url] its all very well explained there, you may find answers to other questions in the FAQ there too hope that helps! [url="http://www.ovnilab.com/faq.shtml"]http://www.ovnilab.com/faq.shtml[/url] even though that site is about compressors it taught me alot about using effects in general

liking the Iron Cross! Like the epiphone Nikki Sixx crossed with the James Hetfield ESP! i like it alot!

The EVO II are meant to have upgraded components, and i'm pretty sure slightly more output? and overall a slightly "sharper" sound

something i wish to know too! +1 on a reply

I've been playing about 4 and a bit years! just bought (literally just now) an Ashdown ABM 300 (non EVO an orginal!) and orginal MAG410T both made in the UK =) Combined with my Yamaha Attitude LTD II bass, quite accomplished i feel! I'm actually saving for a MAG810.......or two... haha pictures next week when my camera gets back from the repair placey down the road oh one last thing.. NOTE: i spend 3 years saving money and i spend a tiny portion of my university savings to get all that! Linked by a Bullet 44 coiled cable bought as a gift by my guitarist brother they are all right Chaps if you get to them them, sometimes and a prize to anyone who guesses my age, and yes i am a teenager haha

[quote name='bartelby' post='796216' date='Apr 5 2010, 03:52 AM']Already done See post #20 [/quote] Ah! Thanks mate! New glasses you see haha well when i actually have enough money to support daily eating (tad of a hyper-bole there) i shall begin my saving! A Yamaha Attitude LTD II and a Fender Steve Harris! what a combo, people will think i'm some sort of copycat signature-bass-whore =/ haha

[quote name='dood' post='796015' date='Apr 4 2010, 09:08 PM']Ah yes!!! I used to use the BS66 strings way back when they came in the pink packet with Billy on the front mid 'hair spray hell' with that sweet BB3000 Yamaha in hand. The heavier E string was great for drop tuning too. I think if I played 4 strings, I'd still go for those gauges. Infact, on my 6er I prefer a lighter C and heavier B string - sooo.. kinda the same![/quote] nice one dood! Still loving the old school ones seen the pictures, and that rose blue BB3000BS was sweet, yeah, once you start using slightly more even tensions it really grows on you, and becomes something i find hard to live without

[quote name='bartelby' post='795967' date='Apr 4 2010, 08:15 PM']It's a new one. Royal Blue Metallic with an SPB-1.[/quote] excellent then! Where can i get one for less than £900? I was only aware that they were around for like £1200!! GAS building... haha

its meant to be a bit heavier with a thick chunky neck and heavier body than standard precisions, major GAS here excuse the stupid question, is this the older one, lake placid blue or the new one, which is Royal Blue? Older one has an SPB-3 the newer ones an SPB-1 just asking! thanks, AC

Hey All, My First review and shall build on it as i have several of these as a friend gave me a set as a gift, the set that came with my Attitude and the set i first bought as back up strings and thought why not! (i bought them for £25 or there abouts i think but i will double check really depends though) Straight out the packet: First thoughts, Good looking strings, red ends, dark metal (darker than i expected after using nickel for a while). gauges 43- (for lighter tension and easier bends, and it really helps, this plus scallops good technique and the strength means you can get ridiculous bends!) 65- 80 and 110 (to keep better tension when dropping to D via the hipshot Xtender, and allows a bit of a tighter E than the normal 100 or 105 gauges) The more even tension over all the strings really feels quite cool, not a massive difference, if you play closer to the bridge than I, makes no difference. put these straight onto my bass, though i image most basses would need a tad of filling on the Nut to get the 110 in nicely, at first before the strings break in the treble is ungodly, i had to turn the treble to as low as i could and max the bass and roll of the tone before the sound was bare-able! After some all neck playing and wanna be Sheehan shred (which made my brother shout at me for making stupid unmusical noises for most of it) the E and G were pretty much settled but it took a while for the stubborn A and D to settle! After they did the sound was round and full but with a shine of upper(treble-ish/upper mid) Zing very present which is to my taste! These strings (at least to me) don't have an over powering growl but with the right set up that would be easy as these strings have a slight rumbley snarl to them which i try to maximise! The strings are very hard wearing on fingers and frets so be careful! The brightness sinks a little with time and if you want that really bright sounds which i love you'll be changing strings every gig to be honest but when these strings "sink" they really mellow out, in my eyes widening their range just add a touch of treble and you re-brighten your sound, its not the same there is something special about this zing i love but thats just me! Also, they have a slight "jangle" to them and despite the fact they are hard wearing they smooth and make you want to do ridiculous slides and bends which is fine by me! and these strings really compliment the chordal stuff if you care (my guitarist to be honest is fairly useless so i do the ocassional underlining chord) use these strings on any bass from My Attitude to a jazz bass and you will see why Billy uses them not sure how to word it (shows how good a reviewer i am using non real words half this time so i apologise!) And thats about it really, happy to answer questions! i would happily recommend these if you think you have a similar taste to me (the wierdo who likes neck dive ) thanks! Adam,