bj_rocke

Hi Dan, Its Ben from Drag The Lake.. Welcome to the board!!

Hi mate, sorry its taken a while to get round to doing this..... i'm here now tho!!! lol We did a straight swap for our amps, i live in long eaton and pablo lives on the south coast and we met half way...... great comunication...... would really recommend doing business with this guy!! feel like i'm on ebay!! hahaha Ben

Hi guys, i got a question regarding Sansamp. I have the Sansamp RBI, and i was wondering how would be the best way to use it? Would it be best just to use as a 'clever DI' as mentioned above and have the uneffected signal going to my rig, or use it with my amp somehow???? I'm not to keen on using instead of the preamp stage in my amp, so i am leaning more towards just using it as a DI. Just wondering what you guys would do???? My amp(s) are an Ampeg SVT CL or Ashdown ABM - 500 RC depending on the gig...

[quote name='Oxblood' post='19649' date='Jun 18 2007, 02:47 PM']BJ, that's appalling. Ashdown seems to have really lost its way of late. I wonder if this is one of the new Made In C**na ABMs?[/quote] Just packed the amp in its box ready for collection tomorrow, it doesn't say it anywhere on the amp itself, but on the box written in huge print are the words "MADE IN CHINA".......

yeah it was brand new. the shop has agreed to straight swap it and pay for all the courier costs! also Ashdown themselves have been rather helpful, so i can't complain about customer service! fingers crossed that the replacement amp don't blow either......

Yeah ran ABM 500 through a Ampeg 8x10. Sounded awesome till my head blew up!!! (See other topic)

Just bought a brand new Ashdown ABM-500 RC EVO II and i used it today in practise for the first time. It was fine for about 15mins, then there was a really strong burning smell and the amp just shut down and won't turn on again!!!! Very weird! does anyone know why this might of happened? I wasn't driving the amp that hard.... the input was at about 9 o'clock and the VU meter was no where near the red, and the output volume was at 12 o'clock......

[quote name='largo' post='16060' date='Jun 12 2007, 09:45 AM']I've never played an Ampeg, but I went through the same dilemma when buying my last amp. Tried out the Ashdown ABM 500 EVO II RC and decided that I didn't need to try the Ampeg out, as the Ashdown was exactly the sound I was after. Over on T***Bass there's a lot of posts saying the SVT-3 is underpowered, whereas the Ashdown sounds a lot louder than it's 575W. The Ashdown was a good couple of hundred quid cheaper than the Ampeg too which helped, www.soundslive.co.uk at £499[/quote] Yeah, decided to go with the Ashdown and bought it from Soundslive! i Think its getting delivered tomorrow! Thanks for all the advice everyone, i decided on the Ashdown simply as I'm keeping my SVT Classic anyway i thought there was no point owning another Ampeg. Plus the Ashdown is alot cheaper if using as a backup/cant be bothered to break my back taking the svt to a small gig amp. lol I'll post back in a few days and tell you what i think about the differance between my SVT and the Ashdown if anyones intrested!

[quote name='bassbloke' post='15793' date='Jun 11 2007, 06:33 PM']I owned a F205 with EMG HZ pickups. My problem with the LTD series instruments is that they have sod all character to the sound (IMHO) Most of the players I see using the F or be series basses have horribly scooped sounds - too much bass and hissy top end that gets lost amongst guitars and cymbals which totally screw a band's onstage mix.[/quote] Thats because of the HZ pickups, belive me proper EMG's make a HUGE differance! The HZ do sound all muddy and lifeless, but my ESP with the EMG 35's in has a real nice punchy sound that cuts through everything, i do use a Ampeg SVT classic tho so that might have something to do with it!