PatrickJ

Very pretty

The Rebel Bass 😁

Love these

Inspired by the ongoing debate in the Ashdown Basses thread on what does not make an original or pleasing design of Bass Guitar I'm keen to hear the opinion of the Basschat collective on what our favourite unique bass guitar designs actually are. Pictures and reasons please, only rule is it can't be a Jazz or Precision based.

AAF were rhe first band I saw live when I moved to London , dont remember if Tye was playing his sig bass or not, I wasnt a bass player back then so wouldnt have cared. Some of those Master built Fenders aren't bad at all! I like the body shapes and wood finishes on 1 and 2. But again, that's my personal preference and wouldnt appeal to the many I'm sure. Not keen on the control layouts though but again that's only my preference.

I assume Tye was heavily involved in the design of it, so it was probably quite personal to him. +1 to this, but I have no problem with other companies making their own versions, I love my Sandberg P basses (Type II's) and my custom is a tweaked J bass design. It's just what I like. Bringing this thread back to Ashdown, I can't see a compelling reason to buy one of their basses when they are near identical clones and more expensive than an official Mexican model (even the deluxe ones). In the video posted earlier even Mark himself didn't seem very excited by the P and J's and the other two designs didn't really seem that special.

They did for Tye Zamora and his custom 6 string bass.

Pictures are needed

Typically portrait unless there is a platform around waist height I can rest it on in landscape mode. The only thing I want to do is pull off the ridiculously large Markbass Logo which looks even weirder on it's side. Re: EQ I bought it at Andertons and I tried along side the original NY121, A Genzler Array and an Aguilar cab. It sounded much better than the NY121 but with flat EQ it was a bit muddy in the mids and lacked some high end clarity. I found that a cut to the low mids and a slight bump to the treble got me pretty close to the others (especially given it was half the price of the other cabs). I actually used the rig last night for a jam night doing more rocky music and again found my self setting Low mids at around 10 o'clock and upper mids around 1130 and treble around 1300. Your trace head will have it's own character and I of course have my own preference on tone but I'd encourage you to experiment with a bit of EQ to get the best out of the cab.

How about a reissue of the original Fender Dimension IV.

I have that cabinet, it's super light weight and a really small profile. With my Markbass head I do find I have to apply a bit of EQ to get sounding really sweet where as other cabs sounded better flat when I A/B'd them.

Their 2020 pricing does feel a little on the high side. The range of pedals they released cost a lot more than I was expecting and the new line of basses seem pretty spendy at the 1k mark.

That's a fair comment, it is in essence still a traditional J.

It's not for everyone that's for sure, but it's the same old thing. They try something different and it has limited appeal and doesn't sell - they play it safe with the same old Fender shapes and they don't sell because it's just another clone at an extremely saturated price point. It's a bit of a no win I guess.

They haven't put anything on the Ashdown website yet but I've seen a few reference a new range of Neo cabs. I believe they are going to be called the ABM-PN (Pro Neo) range. GAK have them on Pre-Order at around £450-£475. There seems to be a 112, a 115 and a 210. PMT did a little write up of Ashdown's NAMM offering and gave them a brief mention. https://www.pmtonline.co.uk/blog/2020/01/13/new-ashdown-bass-guitars-amps-pedals-namm-2020/ Haven't seen any specs on weight - I'm quite interested in the 2x10 for my Little Stubby head.

Me too, though that unison line is causing me a few troubles. Another great choice @TKenrick - I'll be working on this one too now.

Personally I dont have a problem with the headstock. It works well in context of the rest of the guitar - ties in and balances nicely with the shape of the upper horn.

If every active BC member contributing a £1, we could get one and have it circle the regional Bass Bash events - would ba a talking piece.

I'd suggest it was probably a gallon of moonshine rather than JD. I wonder if Pino or Jaco would still sound like themselves on one of these

My teenage years were the 90s and it was the mid nineties when I was really getting into music. Therefore I'd say the bands that had the most influence on me would have been: - Guns 'n' Roses - Rage Against the Machine - Foo Fighters or the Chili Peppers However, since playing bass for the past 4 or 5 years my tastes are dramatically changing (on a n almost daily basis) and so what's having a bigger influence on me as a bass player today is more like: - Weather Report - Jamiroquai - Snarky Puppy

The cow comment got me interested so I watched the clip - I wasn't expecting for it to actually sound like a Cow - my word, who are the 2000+ people who have purchased these things.

How does the core sound of the RM Evo II compare to other popular Class D amps out there. I'm thinking specifically of the likes of the Mark Bass LM III. I have a MB LMT head and 2x10 traveller cab as my light weight portable rig but I'm becoming a bit of an Ashdown convert and the RM range has piqued my interest. I'm not after Rock tones but something that is fairly versatile and can deliver cleaner more modern hifi tones but can dial in some vintage tones if needed. I'd probably be looking at the lower powered 300 watt version in the fancy Ashdown red.

How do you find the fan volume, and output level?

I'm surprised these basses are passive and I wonder who designed / makes the pickups. I had figured that with all their electrical engineering experience they'd be active with an Ashdown pre-amp and pickups. I'm quite interested in a sub 1k J bass , I wonder how these will compare to the Warwick/Sadowsky Metro Express range which will be around the same price point. Not my thing but the Low Rider is interesting.