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Cheers for that guys. Looks like I'll just give it the "once over"!

Thanks for that, I've had a bit of a hoover... Anyone know much else about this?

I notice a lot of people saying they get their Ashdown ABM heads serviced every [i]x[/i] months/years. I've had mine for 18 months now and feel like I'm missing out on something. What's it all about? What do they do when servicing an amp and should I get mine done? Should I send it to Ashdown? So many questions, so little knowledge. Ta Kieran

[quote name='markytbass' post='125705' date='Jan 22 2008, 08:30 PM']You should have said, "didn't I see you in that film, you know the one with Burt Reynolds, Deliverence wasn't it". [/quote] That's his party piece - sounds better on a low B actually.

Thought I'd share this with you. I think we've all had moments like this: So I did my usual monthly gig, playing blues and drinking beer in my local - bit of a jam, anyone has a go. But I play bass all night. At the end of the night a guy with a banjo and mandolin gets up and we all play some blugrass,Pogues kind of stuff. Goes down well as usual. We drink heavily... After the gig we are having a drink down another pub (spot a theme here) and the banjo guy comes up to me and says "I watched you (me) play all night and you didn't once use your 5th string. You don't need it you're just showing off.... blah blah'. My reply was 'You silly so and so, just listen and enjoy the music............ Oh hang on I play my fifth string all the time.' I then proceed to explain that I use it so I can stay in the same position on the fretboard, some songs have been written in Eb etc blah blah (why am I justifying myself to you?). It then dawns on Banjob Blokey that the extra string is in fact a low B, (not a [i]high [/i]C or B ). Oh dear what a plonker. But he's not finished yet.... oh no he still thinks there’s some more belittling to be done here (he's a teacher!). He informs me that speakers can't reproduce these low frequencies and that 5 strings is totally pointless. I said something about Hertz, 15inch cones, fret positions and that he clearly had no idea what he was talking about. He left pretty sharpish. I forgot to mention that he fancies himself as a bass player and has on numerous occasions told me I am an amazing player! Shame I can't believe him about the latter