Fisheth

Lush!

[quote name='bowsertoad' timestamp='1480524148' post='3185101']
I have Just bought a CTM-100 from a member of this forum, I have been running on a Ashdown Mi2.0 for the past two years, which is a superb little compact amp, it has served me well and will continue to be my back up head. The guitarist in my band have both changed to all valve amps, so I felt that I should do the same, for prosperity and for the age old reason of "Why the Funk not".

I did allot of research into watts, size, cost. I have always been attracted to the "little Bastard", but never pulled the trigger due to not being sure if it would be fit for purpose - after further research I settled on the CTM series, first buying a CTM-15 for recording and for a practice amp, I was blown away by that little thing, and I have used it at a couple of small acoustic gigs. The CTM-15 did not have enough beans for a full band, so I went to PMT to look at the CTM-30, at the cost of £399 it was within my price range, while I was in PMT they had a CTM-300 set up so I plugged in and ooooo boy I fell in love. Power, tone, growl and style. The CTM-300 was completely out of my price range, so i hunted the internet and found a CTM-100 for sale on Bass chat. I immediately snapped the sellers hand off.

Once I got the amp (at 10:30pm on a Saturday night after a Sisters of Mercy gig) I rushed to my practice space to plug in and turn up, I was not disappointed in my purchase. I am running the amp through an Ashdown EVO410 cab, slowly eased the volume to 11 o'clock and the Gain to 9 o'clock, strummed the low B (5 string player) and I had to take a step back, because of the air this thing pushes. After three hours of playing and adjusting, I know in my heart of hearts i have found the amp that will be with me till arthritis sets in.

Hell of an amp, I can not recommend it enough.
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They're lovely aren't they?

[quote name='scrumpymike' timestamp='1481811905' post='3195356']
I see from your couch shot that it's a Delano P pup - which model is it?
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It is a [color=#282828][font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif]Delano PVC 4 FE/M2![/font][/color]

[color=#282828][font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif]Very nice pickup.[/font][/color]

Thought I'd do a quick post on this, as I've just received this bass, but wanted to give some thoughts.

I'm primarily a Metal bassist and I felt that there was a lack of any flying V shapes among the big boys, so I did some searching and a few brands came up, one of which was Mensinger, who are the same builders as Maruszczyk (say that after a few beers) under a different name.

Which is great as you're still dealing with Adrian throughout the whole process, who is superb to deal with. I've got no qualms with him. However if you're going to email him, be prepared for some blunt sounding and short sentences, due to his English knowledge, but he was very good with communication and other than a slight barrier it was fine.

In terms of specs I went with:

Alder Body
Green Burst
Trapezoid inlays
Maple Finger board
set neck
Delano PVC 4 FE/M2
Custom U shaped neck profile
Reversed headstock

(I don't have any photo's outside of this one, so here you go)




After a Fed Eex mishap (these happen) I was meant to receive the bass yesterday, but I didn't and it came today. So I've only just picked it up.
But wow, it's everything that I asked for.

Including the little detail of the reverse headstock, I felt that the one the standard model has would have been a bit thrashy for what my band play, so I asked if I could get it reversed and more like a typical Jackson headstock and the response was "OK" Which I thought meant was for "OK I've acknowledged it" I forgot about it and got a nice suprise.

The Delano pickup has a Stingray type edge to it. Which is nice, it's got a bit of grind but it's still very musical and articulate through my CTM 100.
But I may swap it out for a Duncan SPB4. But I think I'll leave it in for now and give my ears time to adjust to it.

It plays great with it being super smooth with no sharp frets or any issues, set up great. It's a 32" scale, so it feels weird for now compared to my Precision basses, which are all 34" but it's not as big as a difference as I thought it would and I just need some time to adjust.

Wish I'd asked for Flats to be put on it, but I completely forgot and it has rounds, which are in fact are very nice. If a little clunky being used to rounds.

As it's my second bass from Public Peace, I'm very impressed. More so with this one as they've pulled off my dream bass. I'd use them again for sure and depending on how my band take this one, I'm thinking of getting another made.

It has to pass the gig and the rehearsal test, but I think it should with ease.

Another top bass from Adrian and Public Peace.

So my bass came with a flying V gig bag. Lovely!

Just had a quick play of it.

The Delano pickup in my bass almost has a stingray type grind to it. It's rather pleasant!

[quote name='burno70' timestamp='1481796815' post='3195162']
Yeah it has a gig bag included. Will be nice if its a short scale bag - do they even exist?

Scrumpy MIke - it has the tobacco burst finish with the Musz. stock single coil pups.

Fisheth - has it arrived?
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Not yet, it missed the change over (Fed Ex's support was very helpful)

However it's out for delivery.

The gigbags that are supplied are very nice. However I've found they get heavier than my other ones when you put extra in them.


No idea what sort of case my Mensinger will come with, it suggests a gig bag on the attachment Adrian emailed me, but we'll see.

Got no idea how a V styled bass will fit into a standard gigbag. But like I say, we'll see

Today was meant to be a NBD according to Fed Ex Tracking, but the tracking hasn't updated since midday so I have no idea where it is and I was meant to get it by six, which is an hour and fifteen mins away.

We'll see.

[quote name='Leen2112' timestamp='1481720167' post='3194510']
Saw Magnum in Edinburgh recently. Not seen them live for over 20 years but got a feebie and despite Keyboardist Mark Stanway walked out 2 days prior it was pretty good. Bobs singing wasn't so great but he's knocking 70 so that's expected i suppose. Thunders Harry on drums too.....strange but hey.
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Was thinking of going to that actually.

Cracking record.

[quote name='Woodinblack' timestamp='1481666073' post='3194219']
There's a bass and a treble knob. Not too tricky
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I swear I was a drummer in a previous life

[quote name='Woodinblack' timestamp='1481487498' post='3192664']
Not sure what a passive mindset is. I just like my bass to sound the same regardless of the lead I use. The active circuit is there to provide a low impedance path to the amplifier so that there is no tone loss or noise injection. A side effect is you can use active tone controls, but I am not really worried about those.
THe pickups aren't active, they are normal passive pickups.
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What I meant was, I'm a plug in and play kind of guy.

Actives just have tons of buttons and switches and I'm confused by them all!

My speesy comes tomorrow.

If it's good I'll think about ordering another one!

Glad to see Ashdown providing top notch customer support again.

Was about to say I've never had a problem with them and I've been treated like family whever I've dealt with them.

Nice to see it's on the way to getting sorted.

[quote name='paul_5' timestamp='1481558634' post='3193275']
Barefaced Compact/Super Compact
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Used this with an OBT. It sounded great

How are you guys finding the actives? I'm stuck in the passive mindset and was wondering what you guys liked about Active pickups.

Thanks guys!

I was expecting people to run away in terror at the pointyness.

Glad to see it's got some love though, looking forward to playing it!

Got a picture of the bass!

It's gorgeous.

Getting it sent to me on Monday!

How would one embed it in the thread? The image extension isn't working for me!

*Derp fixed*

Am I right in thinking that Ashdown are the modern Trace Elliot?

I normally take two basses to a gig without fail, I should start doing that for practices too...

Sold a few things to basschatters, so thought I'd start now!

Postage on it?

Sold a couple of basses, just need to sell one more and I'm gonna be ordering a Jake I think.

Already spoken to someone about a Jake 5 string today, gonna be lovely!

[quote name='mcnach' timestamp='1480019730' post='3181137']
shut up... just when I was thinking that I knew what I wanted... the sparkly idea comes back to mind
In an ideal world I'd get both finishes I am thinking of. But I can't... It's a hard life
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Haha! Do it!

Going to wait till the money for this bass comes through and then will discuss with Adrian specs...

I'm wanting something sparkly...