Lozz196

When I had an OTB I used it with a Marshall VBC412 and couldn’t even get to 9 o’clock on the master volume without completely obliterating the rest of the band (a punk band with 2 guitarists both using 100 watt valve heads & 412 cabs). Amazingly loud amps.

Looks it’s exactly the same aside from headstock, weight is about the same, it’s the sound and the playability that do it, it just feels better in the hand and reacts better to my playing style.

Congrats, I love Ashdown gear and the amps look to be very good.

Ok, not bass related but musical instrument related. Last week I bought a Gibson SG Standard, great guitar but realisation hit at the weekend, I’m not in a band playing guitar, and very unlikely I will ever be so having a grands worth of guitar seems a bit extravagant. So I ordered an Epiphone SG Standard which arrived today. I was hoping it would sound ok and play ok, if it didn’t I’d send it back but hopefully it would do for my needs. Would it do, it’s amazing, I prefer it to the Gibbo! Now I’m not a great guitarist, I can play rhythm pretty well but that’s my limit, but this Epi just works, and out of the box with no tweaking at all plays and sounds fantastic. Am well chuffed, my mature decision to offload an expensive instrument and replace with a cheaper version has paid dividends.

Ok, not bass related but musical instrument related. Last week I bought a Gibson SG Standard, great guitar but realisation hit at the weekend, I’m not in a band playing guitar, and very unlikely I will ever be so having a grands worth of guitar seems a bit extravagant. So I ordered an Epiphone SG Standard which arrived today. I was hoping it would sound ok and play ok, if it didn’t I’d send it back but hopefully it would do for my needs. Would it do, it’s amazing, I prefer it to the Gibbo! Now I’m not a great guitarist, I can play rhythm pretty well but that’s my limit, but this Epi just works, and out of the box with no tweaking at all plays and sounds fantastic. Am well chuffed, my mature decision to offload an expensive instrument and replace with a cheaper version has paid dividends.

I think it’s one of those “if it works it works” things. If I recall correctly Dave Swift has a round wound low B on his basses with flats for the rest of the strings.

I’ve been down this route, trying to have basses for every eventuality, but have had to acknowledge that I’m a Precision player through and through. I had a lot of fun with my Jazz Bass last year but I have to accept where I’m at home, and that’s in P-Land. As such I’m doing similar and offloading my other basses.

Sad to hear this, all the best for wherever your non bass playing future takes you.

I remember helping a band with their flightcased 810 up the 2 flights of stairs at the back of The 100 Club. I wasn’t young, and neither were the other 6 people also struggling with it!

There was a thread on here a while back, the purchaser was rather phrased if I recall correctly

Used to happen quite a lot on the punk scene. A major band would be playing in a city/big town and then a promoter would put a punk event on on the same night at a smaller venue, pretty much guaranteeing hardly anyone in the audience as they’re all down the road watching the named band.

I found that no matter where I stood (except directly behind of course) the Schroeder cabs I had sounded the same.

The Cure to me are very similar to the Foo Fighters in that I can happily listen to a song of theirs but not a whole album. Whereas live, be it that I’m at the gig is watching it in tv, both bands hold my interest for the whole set.

Easy Check fuse, if blown replace, if not buy my Ashdown After Eight Simples, as the meerkats would say

Bit heavy for me but the mix is really great, even on my iPhone I can hear every instrument clearly

A trip up the A10 takes you to our very own Gary Mac in Hoddesden

Me too, for the same reasons, I find the sound “honky & nasally”. In general in the past I’ve not necessarily reduced the mids as added bass & treble. From there if still honky then look at reducing around the 400 - 800Hz area. But the Shape function on the Ashdown amps seems to just get it right, only a few tweaks for the room needed with that selected.

I can imagine a Spinal Tap type interview re this

Too difficult to resist, although out of stock they were £207 at GAK. Am in no rush so that`ll do nicely.

I felt really guilty for liking Karma Chameleon when it came out, as it wasn’t punk. The deftness of youth methinks.

I know what you mean, after being in the band for about a year I used the excuse of having my ties taken by adoring fans to ditch them full time. Open neck black shirts, black jeans & boots, instant Clash circa 1979 instead of “wacky” US high school kids.

When we did the punk covers we wore black shirts, jeans & DMs with stripy ties, prob a bit like Green Day in their American Idiot phase. I used to get girls asking for my ties all the time, much to the annoyance of the rest of the guys. I think they read too much into it, said girls just probably thought I was the safest looking one in the band.

Yep it’s a funny old world now we all get on and go to the same gigs, given the rivalries back then, I suppose age both gives and takes away.

Same for the 115, very tempted…..