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Hi all, going for free is an ashdown abm 115 cab with a blown speaker (I think). The result of using it for a whole tour with an incompatible head, luckily didnt blow till the last night! let me know if interrested, collection from southampton.

I'm new to valves, and this forum so forgive me for intruding. I must say though, playing through a valve amp for the first time was a semi spiritual experience Hearing the tubes sing to me as I hit the overdrive, leaning the bass against the amp and just wallowing in a bed of feedback, driving it even further with compression and hearing that amazing warble effect as the tubes break up and die out. That said, I can really appreciate a lovely hifi solid state sound. I guess its a case of horses for courses. But I'm pretty sure my horse is hot and glowing and sings when you slap her

if i was you, i'd keep at least one bass. i gave up for a few years and concentrated on electronic music, but when i was ready to play the bass again it was nice having it there. just my 2 cents good luck

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[quote name='umph' post='937361' date='Aug 26 2010, 05:47 PM']they coulda stuck an 82 in the wrong slot which would lower the gain a fair bit and having a 83 in the phase splitter wouldn't be very ideal drive wise either.[/quote] If that's the case, its gonna be pretty embarrassing for the guy who personally checked my amp and signed the manual I'll check that video when I'm back home, its really surprising that ashdown don't have more YouTube videos of their own products....

Check out 'three trapped tigers' Really progressive stuff, floats my boat anyway. Also feeling caribou, and deerhoof 'Milkman' is constantly on

[quote name='umph' post='937029' date='Aug 26 2010, 12:24 PM']only need to take the back off it and to have a look its nothing to serious, you could take some pictures while your in there though![/quote] If the problem persists when I'm home at the weekend ill pull down its pants and take some pics. @ tee really not sure what valves are in there, seems strange to me though that its responding differently to other peoples units.

[quote name='umph' post='936252' date='Aug 25 2010, 07:01 PM']thats my initial reaction to, whats the valve line up? If they're all 83's i'd try some new vales since one may be a bit buggered[/quote] I'm pretty hesitant to open it up. Hopefully a call to ashdown should get to the bottom of this....

Ah ok didn't test the low input much as I presumed it meant low gain. Waiting to hear back from ashdown, ill have another chance to test it thoroughly at the weekend. Working away sucks..... Thanks for your thoughts, ill report back soon.

The lb has no gain knob, just high and low inputs. Iv tried both and it still sounds clean, like some frickin cliff Richard bass sound :s Using the westone thunder 2 which takes 2 batteries so the signal should be hot. I'm hoping its the speaker lead, and not the spirit of an easy listening singer trapped inside the machine....

I recently bought my first tube amp, the ashdown little bastard. I was finally able to test it on Sunday, when I bought an abm 115 compact cab from the ads here (thanks tom!) Initial impressions are mostly positive. It had a lovely warm clean tone, and the eq whilst not being very versatile fulfilled my expectations. The problem was, I just wasn't getting the drive out of it I thought I would. I'v read on these very forums that other users are getting too much tube break up, weras mine produced a clean tone even with the volume on full! I have already diagnosed a few things it may be. I wasn't using a dedicated speaker cable between the amp and the cab. Could this be it? I now have one on order from gak. Could it be the cab? I know that the recommended 112 cab has lower wattage than the abm. I really don't know enough about that stuff though... With my drive pedal engaged it was a different story, I could hear the tubes singing, the decay really blew me away... I was however hoping I could have some of that with the drive pedal off. Any suggestions?

Generally practice in a chaotic rush the night before the gig. Pickled eggs are usually involved, they have been shown in clinical trials to improve concentration by filling the room with a pleasant scent. I'd love a regular weekly rehearsal but its not possible

Seeing nick oliveri with qotsa, Halloween in my home town. He was naked, painted as a skeleton standing atop the left speaker stack for most of the gig. Before then I was mostly into jazz and funk bass players, but all of a sudden I decided playing with a pick was not sacrilege but a necessary tool for certain scenarios.

it only has an xlr out, no jack

hiya im the proud owner of a westone thunder 2 with an xlr out on it. im a little confused by the xlr though..... im guessing it has a balanced out, so im unsure what type of lead i should be using with it and i'v had varying responses from different sources. everything was great until the first time i gigged it using an unbalanced lead. got a really nasty hum through the house bass amp. i borrowed the soundmans balanced xlr to jack lead and didnt get any sound at all so had to just soldier on and cut all the mids and highs from my tone to kill the hum. any advice on the correct type of lead greatly appreciated, thanks for your time lewis

sounds sensible thanks

hi. so im wondering what advice the board could give regarding trading? if you are both sending something by courier for instance, theres gonna have to be a lot of trust involved? or is there a 3rd party through which you can carry out the transation? any thoughts on this greatly appreciated, as im thinking about doing a trade. cheers

[quote name='bassmeg' post='880109' date='Jun 28 2010, 05:41 PM']Also due to the hole in the middle of my bass, could anyone could suggest a type of pickup for me to drop in there as a cover up?[/quote] alembic

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