Nickthebass

Line 6 FM4 filter modeller - aka a purple box of awesome squelchy and synthy goodness! Loads of grindy, growly, weird(y?) amazing synth sounds. I love combining it with an OC2 and to create multi layered synth sounds. You can even pitch the synths and create a wobbly harmoniser! It'll do you some good MuTron type noise (up quack and down quack) too. Comes with the original power supply but no original box.

Line 6 expression pedal - plug it into the purple box or other stomp box modeller and use it to sweep filters and all that good stuff.

Combined sale preferred but would take £150 £130 for the FM and £30 £20 for the expression pedal. Open to trades too, in particular compressors (MXR M87, Empress Bass Compressor or similar) or DIs (Radial JDI, Ampeg SVT DI or similar).

They're both great fun and full of great noises but I just have no call to use them right now.

What the case and packaging situation?

PM’d

On 24/05/2022 at 08:40, Bassmingo said:

I'm in the opposite boat, I'd like some flats that have similar tension to 40-100 rounds tuned standard. 

Bass is a jazz type. 

 

Any recommendations?

I have 40-100 Dunlop flats on a Jazz. They feel pretty much the same as the 40-100 Super Brights (a smidge  higher tension but not enough to need a truss Rod tweak).

Thanks for the input folks. I have ordered some covers with the extra foam padding. 
 

There is currently a 15% summer discount running which pretty much covered the extra cost of accelerating the order.

2 hours ago, jezzaboy said:

I recently got a cover for my Ashdown 4 x 10 from them and they are a nice piece of kit. Size was perfect thanks to @Lozz196 having placed an order with them before for the same cab. It took 4 weeks for the order to be made but it`s worth the wait.

 

A couple of other folks mentioned Hotcovers based in sunny Carluke as well.

 

Did you get the retainer strap on the bottom? If so - how big is it?

I'm going to order covers for a Get 2 Midget and Compact (15) most likely from Roqsolid (with the added foam stuff). Does anyone have a picture of one that they could share? I'd like to get a sense of how big the placeholder strap is.

I was planning to get the covers in "carry mode" (i.e. with the handle on the top) which would mean that one of the long sides of the cabs is only covered by this strap.

Anyone got any better alternatives to Roqsolid or know who makes the current Barefaced covers?

5 hours ago, Pea Turgh said:

Let the designer design, I say!

Totally. Don’t think anyone here is expecting to sign off on a design. Personally I’m just chucking out a perspective - in the knowledge that I’m only one data point!

2 hours ago, Merton said:

All that being said, if we’re trying to keep the footprint small, having so many speaker outs doesn’t quite sit on the same brief for me 😅

Speaking personally - any outs other than a DI and Speakons are a waste of space. If it were up to me …

Front panel - one input (with a pad if you must) and DI out (before pre-amp, after pre-amp) with a ground lift

Rear panel - 4 Speakon / jack combo outs (2 each on 4 ohm and 8 ohm taps). DI out off the power amp.

2 hours ago, Merton said:

Valve amps don’t do min load like solid state amps, they prefer lower rather than higher impedances. I’d avoid the word “min” basically. 🤓

For me the 4 ohm tap would have two parallel jack/speakons, with a box saying “1x4 ohm or 2x 8 ohm” and the 8 ohm likewise but “1x 8 ohm or 2x 16 ohm” 

🙂

Works for me. 

3 minutes ago, Merton said:

I can’t see there being an issue with providing two, but it needs to be idiot proof ideally. And that’s where the idea may fall down for the general population

Have 4 speakon combo jack two per tap. Draw a big box around two and write “min 4 ohm total load” - big box around the other two “min 8 ohm load” - then make sure you don’t ask the singer to set your rig up. 

9 minutes ago, warwickhunt said:

 

Why would you make a small cab with no option to chain another?  Seems a daft idea and a single input limits use... with valve amps! 

I think it was because it compromises the performance of the cab (you’ve just punched another hole in it from which sound can leak) - someone who knows more may correct me.

Also - if you daisy chain and first cab fails you may lose output from the second one. If they’re both connected directly to the head then a fail on one cab won’t affect the other.

From a practical standpoint (storage as much as anything else) - two heads and two 8 ohm cabs is (for me) a neat and flexible  solution. 

Just now, warwickhunt said:

 

You just daisy chain 1 cab off another.  Very few cabs have no parallel option.  

Gen 2 Super Midgets and Compacts have no daisy chain option. 🤣

1 hour ago, Stoneham said:

So far I'm going with a 3 band EQ, but will be capable of boost or cut and will be flat with dials at 12 o'clock.  It should have the option of some pre-amp drive so a gain switch could offer that.  Yes sliders add a lot of complexity to a small production run, plus pots are so much easier to service or replace long term.

Speaker outputs - jack and speakon, 8 ohm and 4 ohm outputs.  I don't like impedance switches due to the high currents, it's a weak link.    Transformer driven D.I output.

 

Do you guys bother with send/return jacks?  Or a pre-amp output

For me - an effects loops on head are a waste of space. I’d rather be able to hook up 2 8 ohm cabs to the 4 ohm tap if it were possible. 

2 hours ago, Merton said:

Yep, this ☝🏻
 

Also consider two 8 ohm cabs actually present a 4 ohm load (when conventionally wired in parallel) so you need to use the 4 ohm tap from the output transformer, not two 8 ohm taps… 

This was exactly my point. A common modular rig includes two 8 ohm cabs but with the set up on most (all?) valve power stages that I’ve seen you can’t run both cabs off a single 4 ohm output without a splitter. 

Personally it would limit the gig-ability of an amp if I was limited to using only one cab. It sounds like there is a big quality / relatability compromise in building that flexibility that I wasn’t aware of - hence the question. 

15 minutes ago, walshy said:

Yeah DI is a must I agree. The NE Bass Bash is a great day, about 60 P basses and a Ray last time 😂 

I could bring 3 Js so there would be a few with the right number of pickups. 

A good DI is a must to me. The ability to connect two 8 ohm cabs (without daisy chaining) via Speakons would be great. (I know you can get 1 to 2 adaptors but it’s another thing to lose!) There’s probably some physics reason that means most valve amps have only one output each for 4 and 8 ohms. 

The ability to use the DI without a speaker load would be useful, but not a deal breaker.

PS: I’d look to come down from Edinburgh for a NE bass bash!

On 12/07/2022 at 11:23, la bam said:

It's to reduce load ins (so, bag on bag with both basses in, and cabs in the other).

 

A lot of gigs are park away from the venue/stage and a bit of a walk, so if I can do one trip it saves a lot of hassle.

 

Also, maybe looking at using trains in the future too where needed.

With two basses the double bag is hefty but doable. I’ve done two basses  and a 900w rig on my own in one trip

on multiple occasions. 
 

The protection is pretty sound - if I’m moving stuff myself I doubt I’ll use a hard case again. Whichever two basses are going to the gig get stuck in the bag.

The front pocket on the Mono isn’t the biggest, but the headstock pocket is pretty useful. (Mine holds my watch, wallet, pencil phone and ear plugs.)

I’ve had my double bag something around the 8 to 10 year mark (can’t recall exactly) and it’s still doing a great job. 

On 07/01/2022 at 11:36, CJPJ said:

I played my ABM600IV for the first time in the studio last night. Just a wonderful thing with amazing sound - the band commented on how much better I sounded 🙂 . The change in tone with the EQ boost and Asdown magic button on/off is really noticable. I'm not 100% on the match with my recently aquired Epiphany cabinet - its a fantastic speaker but I need to A/B against the K410 I was previously using to really feel its its a keeper - changing cab and amp at the same time makes it hard to track how and why your sound is changing.

 

One thing I did notice was the reasonably loud buzz when I had the valve drive botton pressed in. To be fair, the chap who sold me it told me about it but now that I have it I think it needs a service and I might send to Ashdown to take a look.

Do you think this might be needing a replacement valve or maybe something related to grounding? There is a underlying grounding noise from my P Bass as it's single coil which I'm OK with but this was a deeper and louder 'hum'.

Apologies if this has been sorted but wanted to share. 
 

I had a very similar issue (deep buzz with the drive on - no noise with the drive off). It turned out to be short/failure on a component (capacitor I think) in the Valve Drive circuit that was sending too much current through the circuit. As a by-product it was over overdriving the valve (made it extra hairy extra fast which I was sort of enjoying).

Any interest in trades?

PM’d

Did you buy this new? (It looks very very shiny! 😁)

22 hours ago, NAS Bass said:

It is

 

Offer in your PM

Is this still available?

1 hour ago, spyder said:

Unfortunately I really can't get on with Ashdown heads. Everyone I had sounded simply wrong 😭. I play an Ashdown Arc bass and that is fantastic.

I can highly recommend GK.

How about a GK 2001RB ?

 

 

Thanks. I did think about GK but most of the new stuff looks to be class D.  I went down the Ashdown in the end. It just made too much sense.