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How do you guys like the new mexican p basses with the gold pickguard in two color sunburst? I've been thing about getting one of them and a new '51 from japan in two color sunburst.

I always liked a fender precision bass and an ampeg svt head with an 8-10 cabinet and it sounded good in an acoustic 370 head and 301 cabinet. It even sounded good on a kustom k200b head and a 2-15 cabinet. But in the studio, just plug it into an ampeg b15, an old 212 bassman, or just about any...

Get you a second 1-15 cab to keep your cabs small enough for ease of movement. I have used that rig pumping a 1-18 and 2-10's and also pushing a 1-15 and 4-10's. Running the 100 watt treble side through 4-10's is a little too much cabinet. It is nice to use less number of cabs on the smaller...

I used a bassman 100 with a mitchell 4-10 cab for several years. That rig had much more presence and body than the peavey and ampeg transistor heads I had. Presently, I have a 1968 bassman 50 watter which I use with either one or two swr goliath jr 2-10 cabs in low volume clubs and such with...

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What makes a bass a bass besides having larger strings producing a deeper tone is the mindset of the person playing the bass. A bass is NOT a guitar and is NOT played the same. A bass is like into a bass drum or a tuba and provides the foundation of the band and the song. We ARE different...

Try you a set of Ernie Ball nickel flatwounds. Flatwounds usually give a fatter and mellower tone. Be sure and get the nickel strings as the stainless steel strings will be brighter sounding. You might even begin to like flats as they don't eat up frets nor the fingers as much. On my p...

Since most of the great bass lines were performed on a fender precision bass, that would have to be the number ONE bass. Now let's see what would be number two. How about a precision bass with a jazz bass bridge pickup added. There, that's it! The perfect two bass setup.

I have been using fender stainless steel flats and ghs brite flats and their regular flats on LB100's, SB1, and L2000 with great tone and ease of play and almost no fret wear. Stay with the stainless steel for more high end, brightness and clarity. The nickel flats are mellower with not quite...