funkydoug

Pretty sure the Dual VU is the same (great) amp in a different housing. It can be racked or can stand alone with the metal case. For those troubled by such things, the absence of the wooden sleeve makes the Dual VU ABM narrower, and thus less of a problem to stand it atop a slightly narrower cab. Same is true of the rackmount version of the ABM (https://ashdownmusic.com/collections/last-chance/products/abm-600-rc-evo-iv-uk-custom-shop) .

First pic on google of the back of an ABM shows a line in. I must be missing something. I’m happy to be educated Sorry if I sounded grumpy about it… I wish Ashdown well and take the point about strats and signature series stuff, but they’re still called strats. This is an Interstellar 600… I suppose I was hoping for an ABM Evo5 or some new ideas. Hope it’s a success for them.

I have to say I don’t really get the point of this amp. It is an ABM with a renamed line in and a fixed rather than variable set of controls. Yes it looks different and is made in the UK factory but is that it?

I agree - looks great

Compressor I reckon, with the sub filter switch next to it like the guy Pratt comp pedal they did?? That’s my guess anyway.

Zoom in and you can see the Guy Pratt ‘signature’. So what does that big knob under the Eq do??

Paul bought my Broughton pedal, all went very smoothly. One detail that was a touch of class was that he paid extra to cover PayPal fees.

Headrush gig board looks like the most direct competition; 4 effect switches, touchscreen etc. I think they might struggle at that price but then again everything is going up on price right now. Had this been released pre-clusterfunk it might have been sub- £400.

Get in!! Been waiting / hoping for this. Thanks for spotting it. Im curious as to how many blocks can be used at once though… answering my own question… the G6 allows 9 effects on a patch, but a ‘large effect’ counts for two. Adopting that on the B6, which is very likely, would mean, for example, the mark bass amp model is a small effect and use only 1 space but the Ampeg one is double-sized so would take up 2 spaces of the 9.

He doth protest too much… I detect an unresolved Eden issue. @GearguyDid your Dad have a World Tour rig that he never let you touch??? 🤣

These looks awesome!

I’ll take some pics at the weekend. Work is a bit crazy this week, sorry to keep u waiting! I’ll add an honourable mention for BlueAran. They’ve been great. They’ve accepted returns, answered questions and made a custom crossover for the 110. It’s great to have that kind of support from a retailer.

Sharing this with the lovely BC crew as no-one else will care For ages I've been messing around with the idea of using two combos as my modular rig. Over lockdowns etc I got a bit obsessed with it and hugely over thought it. However, I've now screwed the last screw and I'm feeling very smug I ended up with 2 ashdown NEO ABM combos - the NEO C110 and NEO C115 from about 2014. Both are UK custom shop made and after being turned inside out as you'll see below I have to say they are very well put together. I have however made some modifications and I'm pleasantly surprised that as a result of the knowledge and advice of a few great BC dudes I managed to avoid ruining the whole thing! Thanks particularly to @stevie, @agedhorse, @Bill Fitzmaurice, @Phil Starr. I used WiniISD to model stuff, and the cost was pretty low. Just took me ages to get around to doing everything. The C110: I added a nice wide port on the back of the combo, an APT80 tweeter, a 2 way crossover that crosses at 3.5khz, an LPAd to control the tweeter level and finally swapped the 8ohm 10inch OEM driver for a 16ohm Sica Neo, the same one that comes in the 210 version of these amps / cabs. The result there is a small portable combo that is actually pretty loud and maintains the lows (thanks to the port) and highs (thanks to the tweeter) as you turn it up. The 16ohm driver means that it can be paired with a 2nd cab (or in my case another self-powered combo) without being overpowered or getting into over-excursion trouble, and without overpowering the port. It can handle the full 100w of amp power that it could ever draw from the amp without trouble, whereas I thought that asking the box to handle 200w was asking too much. The APT 80 and LPad allow it to be as bright as I want, and also to provide the top end to cover the second cab / combo - so that I don't need a tweeter on the second box - which could be a source of interference. I did less to the C115, just added a matching crossover for the APT80 and also a switch for it. That way if I'm using both combos I can switch off the tweeter on the bottom cab and turn up the top tweeter. Oh, I lined it too. The other aspect of the dual combo rig is that both boxes have amps that can be removed / replaced / repaired and with exposed send / returns and even exposed amp-cab connections so that if one amp fails there is always a backup there. To top it all off, they both look great are easy to move around and most importantly, each one sounds great on its own but together they do sound fantastic. It gives me a two channel blended sound with independent eq, drive etc. and flexibility about how much of each tone I want. If I want to use the FS4 pedal for the ABM features I'll probably use the combos as master and slave, and thus be matching tone-wise but independently powered. Would recommend the approach to anyone (If I were starting from scratch now I'd probably get 2 matching RM combos). Anyway - thanks for reading this (if anyone makes it this far!). It's been fun

The OP wants a very reliable and extremely loud amp for about £600 (and already has a preamp? I know it’s not all valve but you could consider a new ABM600, it will last more or less forever and will come with a 5yr guarantee with UK tech support. It is also lighter than most valve gear. Is also notoriously powerful.

Brilliant, thanks for your answer Bill. Feeling pleased with myself here… I chose a 16ohm driver for the combo for the reason you point out. Also because the port in such a small box couldn’t handle more than about 100watts. My 210 will be another two 16ohm 10s, so all should be good on that front.

Bit of an update on this little combo… I’m happy to report that it still sounds very good to my ears. I’m now thinking about the extension cab and have realised that finding matching drivers for the 210 to live underneath it is near impossible, they’re discontinued. This leads to 2 questions: 1) what are the advantages / risks of having the exact same driver vs a matching pair of different but good 10s? My decision is, do I buy the best 210 I can find for the job or do I also need to replace my existing 10 to make a set of 3 matching drivers. 2) does a no-tweeter extension need to be low passed to make way for the tweeter in the combo? Concern here is whether the highs coming from the bottom woofers would interfere with the tweeter. Lastly, remembering that this is a learning project more than anything else… if you had a driver with lots of highs like a whizzer type design, would interference with the tweeter be an issue?? Thanks again, learned scholars of BC.

To the OP: Have a look at Tecamp Bonafide and other true two channel bass amps. Eden and SWR did them, plus others no doubt. There’s a Bonafide for sale at bassdirect I think. Also, the orange bass butler preamp is designed around a similar idea.

IQ is surely a function of scale length anyway…😅

I totally agree, was just joking seems like a no brainer to me to offer a few 8 ohm options

What do you mean… 2 x 410 not modular enough?? 😂 Seriously though, I think you’re right and can’t work out why they’ve done it that way… especially when they’ve made lots of 8ohm and 16ohm cabs previously.

No but I wish they did a 210 or 112 cab! Very tempted but I'd prefer a modular cab situation