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Love that colour and finish!

I had a no name one years ago. Pretty useless. Bulky, hard to play and just got drowned out as soon as we started playing.

Great stuff. Keep us informed. Potential great cab here.

Glad you're ok.

They were up around £800 a month or two ago.

I think that with any decent cab, it's easy to see its potential straight away, even at low levels. I've put a lot of different things through it including different amp modellers as well and it replicates what I'm putting in, which is great. What has impressed me is that it's quite a tight cab, ie theres no sludge in the sound and it is reacted very well to adding or subtracting eq. Even when I've hit a few full volume notes. The acid test is going to be at volume. Theres nothing to make me think that it wont cope at volume so far. If it does live up to its initial performance, it's a seriously killer cab. I'm talking for fairly large stage areas too - clubs etc. For pubs I've no doubt already it will be a winner. 4ohms you see. Make one cab solutions 4ohms. Stop messing about with 8ohm. Powerful head, 4ohm, lightweight cab = winner.

Nice! Honestly a fantastic cab. Have a play with the on / off / half find the sound you like and you're good to go! It's honestly all you'll need. Hot covers also made me a quality padded leather cover. Well worth the money. You've got a great bargain there!

I rang Dave Green after Mark Gooday said to ring him yesterday, as I was biasing my amp. Theyll sort you out. I had a similar problem with the biasing not moving on certain valves. Dave doesnt think it's an issue. You just balance them to reduce hum. He said use it for 100+ hours then get back in touch. In all honesty, if ashdown sort everything for you, you have got a great deal there! Just remember to check the DI too, just in case.

Yes, the buy it now is for everyone to see and bid on. Then once there is a build up of watchers you get the option to send all of those watches a deal price to try and tempt them.

Give them a ring and they will sort it. They did that to me. Sent me an ex display model in a battered stuck together random cardboard box. The fact dpd delivered it and it had been bumped all over the show didnt help. On mine, one valve looked lose, there were scratches on it, the vu meter didnt work and the DI was faulty. To their credit, the guy in Cardiff got in touch and said hed find which store had the best one and replace it, and he did very quickly. The issue I think is the couriers. Especially now they're so over worked. If they drop or roll it, it's not good. The one I ended up keeping has a few small Nick's, and the vu light didnt work again, but it played brilliant so I kept it. Also, Ashdown very kindly offered to have a look if I wasnt happy. However, PMT were advertising these as clearance, when they're clearly not. They are ex demo or display models.

Definitely. Im starting to get a real rich sound which I like. But its punchy too which is perfect. With the quilter i had to add more bass eq to get that feel of a bigger cab, with the ctm it's right there from the start. I'm also managing to get that kind of third harmonic sound. It's just such a shame I cant give it a full blast work out yet! The one think I will say (although it's based on 2 days at low level playing) is that it's more an old school proper bass cab. It's not a high fidelity slap machine cab. I may be wrong though. So far, very impressed.

Was this from PMT?

Been playing the ctm300 through his today. Absolutely loving it. It a really good sound. The cab just keeps getting better. If it can hold the sound quality at high volume, it's a winner.

Sorted.

Hi all, can anyone help with a biasing issue on a CTM300? I'm trying to bias a few valves, but they wont go to "0" Their limit seems to be 5 and 3. They will go further down, but not further up? I'm turning the adjuster anti clockwise to try and get the needle to 0, and turning clockwise brings it down towards -10. Tube 1 = 3. Tube 2 = 0. Tube 3 = 4. Tube 4 = 5. Tube 5 = 5. Tube 6 = 0. Ideally they should all be at "0", but I just cant get that to happen. Am I doing something wrong? If @Ashdown Engineering could help thatd be great too.

It's crazy. People will happily spend £800-1000 on a barefaced that is nowhere near as solid or well built, yet these are the same weight as the barefaced 4x10s! For £185!

Yep. Both great cabs. The 2x10 is very similar size to the 4x10 though. These never come up, and just as I'm spent up, 3 come along at once!

The Ampeg sim on the bass channel is one of the best amps ive ever heard.

Just a curve ball, but I have a CTM300 and use it with a Laney N410. Theres one for sale on ebay right now for £185 in London. I'd snatch their hand off if I lived closer. I definitely recommend a high quality, lightweight cab. But with as many speakers as possible - 4x10, 6x10 - you just get 'more' using that style of cab with a big valve amp, than a single 12, and itll feel safer on top. The Laney weighs around 23kg pretty much the same weight as the equivalent Barefaced 4x10. They're also a lot more solid than the super compact etc.

RCF M18 - amazing piece of kit. Also has studio quality amp and cab modellers. Very easy to use and fantastic sound. Also works on 2G and 5G.

Morning all, Ended up watching hours and hours of old music last night on Youtube, which from one 80s video to another led to the Bangles and in particular Michael Steele. Watching various live, studio and promo video performances of them, I dont think ive ever seen a bassist play so many different basses! It was really refreshing, and a hell of a collection for all you bass geeks! Great Ampeg sound from all the performances too, and great to see all the members playing, harmonising and having their own singing parts too. Michael is really hypnotising to watch. Got to admit, ive probably under rated these as a band in the past. But they sound great to me.

I have nothing to do with this listing, but I do own a laney N410 and love it to bits. At £185 it's the bargain of the month for anyone down south. Best sounding, lightest, compact 4x10 I've ever used. It's on ebay under LANEY N410.

One more photo to add. Bottom of cab. 4 sturdy rubber feet, and 2 ports.

Cheers. I've been playing with the stomp for the last hour or two and turning off the cab sims really makes the cab lively. Sounds great. Liking it more and more the more I play.

Hi all, New cab day today. Thanks to @krispn for the tip off. It's a little known make - db. The company produce the Elbee range and the more expensive Embee. Ok, so first things first. It's a 10" and 12" speaker combined in one cabinet - and its SMALL! They have saved height by angling the speakers themselves at around an angle of 45°. The upper 10" faces upwards towards your head (ears) and the lower 12" speaker faces 45 downwards. The cab is very well constructed. Very solid. A real strong metal grille (rather than cloth that some supply) and tough wood coated in tuff stuff paint. It's a really nice deep black finish and the logo works really well. There is an angled strap handle on either side. It took a while to work out why, but they're ideal for both a one hand lift and if carrying with 2 hands, it makes carrying ot a breeze. This is 4ohm version cab, which makes perfect sense allowing you a better chance of getting full power to the 2 speakers. That is one of the major gripes I had with the barefaced super compact - if it's supposed to be a one cab solution and handle 600w then make it 4ohm so most amps have a chance - especially class d amps. Weight wise it's an absolute doddle. The handles work really well with the weight distribution so it really does feel light. On paper it's only a few kg heavier than the single 12" barefaced super compact, despite housing an extra 10" speaker. I've had a super compact and this feels smaller, more compact. It's almost certainly longer but I like that as theres no way it feels it would get knocked over, unlike the super compact used too, but it feels smaller in every other way. Sounds - I've been playing with it all day using my Sire p7 v2 with daddrio exls, Quilter bb800 and helix stomp. The bass itself is a very bright bass. Plugging straight in to the Quilter produced a bright sound. A play around with the bass - tone rolled on and off and switching between p and j - produced some nice changes in tone. The only way I can describe the initial sounds were that you could tell they were coming from the speakers. By that, I mean that area specifically. Quite a focused area. After a while I decided to play with the amp settings. This is were the cab came to life. Rolling on a lot of bass (more than I would with my Laney n410) added the comfy bass pillow of a sub sound. Now we are talking! The sound was still focused, but it had the extra warmth around it. Making the cab sound much much bigger than it is. Being stuck in with lockdown and neighbours stuck in too, meant I could give it a real blast, but I did hit a few full power notes and the response was very nice. Very warm and full of character. I decided to try the highest note on the G string and it was bright and very clear. So to the angled speaker design. I believe this is designed so that the downward facing 12" produces the low end and the upper 10" angles the sound towards your ears, rather than the back of your legs. So, with that in mind I tried the cab from a few different angles. Standing around 8ft away looking head on at the cab was a nice full sound, quite rich and smooth. Standing right in front of the cab as you might do in a small tight gig (the type where you cant move) was really nice. No problem at all hearing what I was playing. In fact it did achieve its aim. It sounded like when you have a walk out at sound check and everything is really nice and punchy. Not muffled in the slightest. A great idea, well executed. Price - I think these are usually around £600. Thanks to the tip off I got this for £295. Which considering size, weight and sound is a fantastic deal. Summary - Its a shame it's still lockdown and I cant hammer this for a good few hours, but i think on initial first inspection this is potentially a great cab. It's well built, sounds great, lightweight, cheap, a superb monitor and being 4ohm and I believe it will be absolutely fine gig wise. I think you may need to feed it more bass eq than normal, ie the flat sound is very focused, but that's just the design. It wasnt bought to replace my 4x10, but its 9kg lighter and a lot more portable, so you never know! Looking at it the best way to describe the size is that it's probably the same size (height and width) as a boxed off standard p bass body (as shown in the photo). Full specs here: Impedance: 4 Ohms Speakers: 1x10” & 1x12” Bass Port: Bottom Power: 600W RMS Sensitivity: (1W/1m) 99 dB Frequency Range: 50 - 5000 Hz Input: Speakon Link: Speakon (for connecting an extra cabinet) Height: 53.8 cm - 21.18” Width: 34.4 cm - 13.54” Depth: 45.0 cm - 17.71” Weight: 14.6 kg - 32.2 lbs