Gareth Hughes

Hmmm, that’s an odd one. I had one of these years ago, I don’t think I even had a way of powering it with 18volts so it must have been with 9v and it worked fine, from memory.

I’m fairness, I am just stirring the pot - I have both 😜 (sorry for the derail, I am LOVING following this thread)

Blasphemy!!!!!!

You are a legend sir. Eternal thanks for doing these and sharing. Just had a lot of fun reading/playing what I could of ‘Senor Mouse’. The solo sections are going to take some work!!

Cellist-ish here. I teach it, although I don’t play it by choice (the education system has strings split into Upper and Lower string tutors, so I teach about 85% cello to 15% double bass.) Anyhow, advice to start with would be to get your scales/arpeggios together - if for no other reason than to gain familiarity with strings tuned in 5ths. For a long time I couldn’t improvise on a cello as my fingers would default to the shapes they’re comfortable with. Reading parts was a lot easier, probably because I was only focusing on playing the part and not creating it. Hope that makes sense.

Had a lot of fun playing along with the Barry White and TOP grooves last night. Many thanks.

Absolute shame. Met her years ago when the band I was in did a session on her show. She couldn’t have been more hospitable and welcoming. RIP.

Same as that - a Streamliner 900, a Streamliner 600 and a Shuttle 3.0 combo. Eternal thanks Andy.

The Carl Martin one has a great sound, but to my ears there was too much of a volume drop and low end cut for it to work without an external blend/boost pedal.

Yes!!!! My true filter love. I ADORE the original, even if both of mine developed speaker-blowing capabilities. It’s the tone, feel and response I’m always chasing in other filters. Don’t mind the lack of blend, and a volume control was a mod I had done on both of mine. Colour me excited by this!

Ha! I didn’t see that - he designed the amp! There, that worked!!!

Send a message to AgedHorse/Andy on here - he destitute amp. Great guy, super helpful.

Should at least be multicoloured to be called Clown Vomit. Maybe it’s one of those ones that changes colour when you look at it from a different angle, possibly revealing some semi-digested popcorn?

I’ll second Lozz there. Mine is a joy to play - satin feel on the neck is just heavenly. Sound is awesome. It’s a bass I genuinely get excited playing - just damn fun.

Another vote for ForScore. Load everything in as pdf, arranged set lists on the fly. Bluetooth foot switch will stop it looking like you’re checking emails between songs.

Acoustic Image heads all (AFAIK) have an adjustable HPF. Highly recommended. Also recommended is the Fishman Platinum ProEQ preamp, with an adjustable HPF.

Piezo pickups typically used on double basses work better with input impedances higher than 1megohm, so they’re just making it more enticing to upright players. As far as I’ve heard/experienced, a higher input impedance doesn’t make any difference for electric basses.

Could be Ricky Warwick from The Almighty?

Without giving away too many spoilers - what did you think of the fretless?

And a further update - the good folks at Ashdown got back to me, Ant was sent to them on a Tuesday, back in the post by Friday and all is lovely and quiet with the fan. Quality unit, and quality service from Ashdown.

Another vote for the 3 Leaf Audio GR2. My happy place filter is an Electro Harmonix Mini Q-Tron. I love mine to bits but it's a potential speaker destroyer when it wants to be.

To resurrect this thread - I have an ANT! Bought it a week or so back from fellow Basschatter PaulHornBass. Alas I have yet to take it out on a gig, but that will hopefully change soon, or at least with an orchestra rehearsal. Tone wise I'm diggin it - it's just nice and plain and simple - does what it says on the tin. One concern I have is that the fan is very loud indeed. Loud to the point of definitely not using that in the studio, and possibly not using that on theatre gigs. I've written to Ashdown asking if this is the norm or if it can be tamed in any way but am still waiting for a reply. Other than that I can see this amp getting a lot of use.