Quilly

I’ve been playing a secondhand Ashdown CTM-100 for a year now with no issues. You just need to remember 2 things. Always have a load and don’t move the. When they’re hot and you’ll have no problems (with well made ones). They’re worth it IMO.

Its a disease, every time I whittle my collection to the bare essential of gear, just to keep afloat, I get the fever. I've a serious addiction to tube heads that I know wont be sated until I own a sandbox WB-100.

Hi People, Where I'm from (SE Ireland) there seems to be a serious dearth of decent drummers. Most good ones are in at least 5 bands. Our excellent drummer has recently decided to quit our band (we're a bunch of old fogeys and he's a young lad destined for stardom), so it looks like we'll be doing semi-acoustic gigs until another one comes on the scene as we're not really into electric drum machines. Is this the same situation in your neck of the woods?

No - I couldnt assume a PA system in the pubs I gig in so it would have to be able to stand on its own 2 feet as it were.

I was thinking it should sufficiently be loud through my Two10?

I owened the pf-350 for a short while and I found it to be a very warm , clean sounding head. Solidly built also . I thought it should have been louder though. I understand I was playing at 250w through an 8 ohm genz cab but I thought it still should have had more headroom than it had. My current valve head is just 100w and it would eat the pf350 for breakfast.

For such an unusual shaped amp I would have thought they would provide a decent case for it. Id prefer the PF50t if it came in a traditional 'box' case. I wonder could one be retro fitted around it? It looks a little vulnerable.

Sell a kidney or turn to petty theft, do whatever you have to do and get yourself a valve amp. You wont regret it. I have nothing against SS amps at all and some are great (in truth they probably make a bit more sense for bassists) but there's just something about the sound from a valve amp that hard to beat.

It’s is capable for small / mid gigs ? I have a really efficient barefaced cab.

Anyone ever try out the new Ashdown CTM-30 little stubby?...very neat looking small tube head.

Are you getting the 50t?

Indeed! the 50t at £429! Now I wont be able to sleep tonight 😣

Sure I can drive up to KK with my barefaced and CTM-100

The CTM-100 is a serious amp but it needs a good cab. I gigged with the barefaced two10 in a loud outdoors gig unsupported by a PA last Friday night and it was great, warm and clean while being plenty loud enough. Its relatively portable compared to most big valve heads (its only 19kg which isnt bad at all).

Hi Bigwan, I remember buying a LB-30 from someone up North about 3 years ago and he kindly sent it to Waterford (was it you?) , It was fantastic sounding amp and I foolishly thought it wasn't powerful enough (it was my cab) and I sold it on - I really miss it. I now too have a barefaced two10 and am running an Ashdown CTM-100 through it and it has heaps of power...which got me thinking about revisiting the low wattage valve thing. I'm wondering if a 50W tube head would suffice for home use / small gigs. Let me know how you get on with it.

When the Lead guitarist picks songs to cover and then can’t manage the solos. 😡. Sounds really amateurish and pathetic when they’re fluffed .

The best ‘jazz’ I’ve owned is my current 2008 passive mayones jabba 4. It just does everything a Jazz is supposed to do in spades and built like a tank . The pickups are amazing . Delano big pole piece pickups .

I currently own a non fender precision (sand berg) and a non fender jazz (a mayones) and I’ve no desire to sell either of them. I’ve never been able to find ‘the’ fender jazz bass but I know they must be out there somewhere

No matter what market place I look at these basses are always for sale. I’ve sold a few myself and never really found one I was happy with . Not just mim ones either , anything from squire affinity to vintage Mia basses. They seem to be far more available than p basses. Is there something not quite right with them , or what ?

I thought I was the only one that had bad experiences with them... they kinda ripped me off

There’s one for sale in bass direct.co.uk it’s the new model but just a p bass again (no mm humbucker)

Hi folks , struggling to get high frequencies out of my Ashdown CTM 100. Treble turned nearly all the way up ??. Bass and strings ok. Should I change the pre amp valves ? I bought this amp second hand and I’m pretty sure the preamp valves are original .

Mayones Jabba 4 Passive.

For those of you like myself that like German instruments, i found ebay kleinanzeigen to be fertile hunting ground for Warwicks, Sandbergs and other boutique instruments such as Human Base for example. Technically its a classified ads page but if you ask a lot of sellers are more than willing to ship. Prices are very competitive.