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My 20+ year old ABM fizzled out earlier this year; Ashdown fixed it for less than £70 including return delivery. It’s well worth having a chat with Dave Green
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Correct me if I’m wrong but the 12-band head doesn’t have a valve I believe?
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Definitely. MDF is the cheap option for bass cabs!
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Mine certainly were MDF
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No luck finding those jack socket nuts, sorry @VTypeV4
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Yep - they designed it as a cost effective alternative didn’t they! It does sound rather good 🤓
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Ooooh, me!!!
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I didn’t gig yesterday because I was at my cousin’s wedding, but my ACG TKO did 😄 Katy stepped into bass duties in my absence and borrowed my bass as her Mustang has been a bit temperamental recently:
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My first amp was a Mk1 Commando 15 combo. Loved its tone but it never quite managed to cope at a gig. Always fancied either getting one of the (ultra rare) heads or finding a combo and taking out the amp section. Cracking job cleaning up this one! I may have a spare jack nut - will have a look when I get home tomorrow
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The Short Scale Bass Appreciation Society!
Merton replied to Baloney Balderdash's topic in Bass Guitars
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The Short Scale Bass Appreciation Society!
Merton replied to Baloney Balderdash's topic in Bass Guitars
Oooh me likey! That 5er especially interesting. -
Thanks. Didn’t need to read this but now I’ve put this back on my “amps I must own” list. 😄
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The Short Scale Bass Appreciation Society!
Merton replied to Baloney Balderdash's topic in Bass Guitars
We were supposed to be there yesterday but our singer got so ill she could barely speak, let alone sing 😢 I’d have been rocking a medium and short scale collection of basses if we’d made it! -
Yup it’s the GR preamp and one of their PureAmp heads
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The Short Scale Bass Appreciation Society!
Merton replied to Baloney Balderdash's topic in Bass Guitars
Good to know… also, thanks for enabling me 😄 -
The Short Scale Bass Appreciation Society!
Merton replied to Baloney Balderdash's topic in Bass Guitars
I really need to stop looking at this thread, almost every Lionel I see makes me go “ooooh 😍” @Old Horse Murphy’s Lionel being the latest. Damn you all. 😃 -
3 amps 2 cabs Amps are Trace Elliot TE1200 for big gigs, TE Elf for backup/rehearsals and Ashdown Little Bastard exclusively for my home music room. Cabs are Barefaced Two10s so I can take one or two as the mood/situation dictates. Used to have more, this feels bang on the money now.
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Cold wet and windy at Rock’n’Ribs in Wincanton today, thankfully being on the Country stage meant we had cover for our enthusiastic audience. Set delayed and slightly curtailed thanks to the wind and rain buggering up the stage but we had a blast. Tartan Heart Belladrum next weekend, hope the rain holds off for that 😄
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Lovely guy. Met him once many years ago at an Overwater Bass day in London; he spent time to ask me how I approached fretless bass playing - lines/unlined, technique etc. I was 22, this was Mo Foster! But he was genuinely interested in my take on playing fretless, listened attentively and didn’t quash my naive responses at all. Always enjoyed his old Bassist columns and will go back through some of his amazing stories - weirdly I was remembering his story about discovering roundwounds just a couple of days ago. (If you don’t know it, it involves Jack Bruce and a question from Mo about how he managed to bend his strings. “Strength!” was Jack’s answer, Mo later discovered he used these new-fangled rounds which were easier than the flats of the 60s) RIP Mo x
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