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When i get mine im having it in candy apple red with a maple neck i think that is just about the nicest combination ive ever heard of lol. Markus

Hi there i would suggest an ashdown rig ive got a 600w head woth a 2x10 cab and a 1x15 cab and i paid far less than the RRP for it by going to www.musicwarehouse.co.uk and my rig came to far less than the 800 quid your willing to spend i would also suggest ashton heads as i use them at the studio we rehurse in and they use some old worwick cabs in one and an acoustic cab in the other studio and they both sound very nice to be honest and have plenty of grunt. I would also agree with with the comment above if you are playing in that type of band you want a fair amount of wattage i would have thought that 600 should do you i would hope you wouldnt need any more than that although out on the road that may change. In my local music shop they have a hartkie 2x10 cab a 1x15 cab and an amp not sure of power but not quiet and thats only 799 and they are very nice bits of equipment i must say. and i would imagine that if your ung them if you were interested they would post it to youif you were interested in it. The shop is in kigh wycombe and it is called kingfisher music. hope this all helps Markus

[quote name='Protium' post='752009' date='Feb 20 2010, 06:17 PM']I have run a 300W head into just a single 15 before with no volume issues. 200W into a pair of 15's should be plenty loud for most gigs.[/quote] Well i dont know what to tell you but the 300w combo i had running a 115 ex cab didnt do the job for me at all i was disapointed to say the least i thought it would happily do the job but it just didnt and i have to say im not the first to have said it. I do wonder if runing the two cabs was a bit much for it or somethig, i really dont know but i stand by my comment in a largish venue i think it would struggle to keep up if manage it at all but there are lots of variables to take in to consideration like what bass is used how loud the rest of the band is and size of regular venues played in so if you mainly play medium sized pubs then it may well do you nicely but in a venue the size of the one i played in recently which i wouldn't call huge by any means my rig struggled i had the thing right up all night and that was just to be heard so it went back and i bought a louder amp and im waiting to see what happens with that one. Markus

[quote name='alexclaber' post='639729' date='Oct 29 2009, 09:01 AM']Almost 100% wrong. (500W into a 10W speaker will blow it up pretty easily, so that's the fraction that is correct). Not a good analogy at all. Alex[/quote] I have to say i agree you could get an amaizing result from a 10w amp even if you were running 500w cab if the speakers in the cab were highly efficient if they were very sensitive and not in any way power hungry they could sound fantastic and then you could put a different set of speakers in the same cab that were very power hungry there for not being eficient at all the amp would probably have trouble powering it at all. its vvery important to know how your speakers perfom always check your db rating the higher the better and make sure your speakers are made of something lightweight Ie paper and so on as this will help massively with thier effciiency levels and as previously stated more speakers equalls greater SPL sound preasure levels. Markus

[quote name='Oxblood' post='39703' date='Jul 31 2007, 07:26 PM']In a typical instrument amp, the first "Volume Control" you find is simply a pot placed in the signal path - just like the one we find in a passive guitar or bass, between the pickups and the jack socket. All it does is act as a [i]potential divider[/i]: a variable resistance that bleeds some of the signal away to earth and allows the rest through to the next amplifying stage. Turn it up full, and all (or nearly all) of the signal gets through. Like a water tap, it's a purely passive device. It can't give out more than is being fed in. In some amps this first pot is positioned directly after the jack input itself, but more commonly these days it is placed after an initial amplifying or buffer stage. Either way, the effect is the same. Likewise, the "Master Volume" or "Output Level" control is another passive pot, placed at the point where the signal leaves the pre-amp/EQ circuitry and is being fed to the input of the Power Amp.[/quote] I understand what your saying about the input volume control but if i was to turn that volume pot up all the way on my ashdown amp the needle on the vu meter would go right up in to the red and distort to hell so in that instance i dont believe you are correct in your comment unless ofcourse ashdown have put that there for no reason other than for it to look good/bad dependant on your taste and my amp is not a valve amp so i dont entirely understand why turning it up all the way isnt possible on my amp going by what you say above. Markus

Yeah what i was getting at is that i believe the 15" cabs are around the 250w mark and if the one in the combo is too then your asking alot from a 200w amp to drive them to any great extent. Markus

when using the amp in a line out situation if he wants you to turn up turn the input volume up making sure you dont head in to the red to much if you touch it occasionally thats fine but stay out of it the best you can if he wants more volume tell him to turn the channel up on his desk but as stated above always try to use the DI socket it is the best way by far of getting the best from your amp in to a PA system and if you are going to be using a PA system for most gigs then that shdown rig will do you just fine. we dont have a PA system for all our instruments just for vocals and the bass drum so i need a fair amount of power just to be heard the 300w i had did the job but i had to have the poor thing all the way up just to keep up so i chopped it in for the 600 to have some head room. Markus

Hi there i just bought myself a 300w combo and 15 extention cab and i took it back after my first gig it judt didnt cut the mustard as far as i am conserned. i had it a whole two days the shop were good about it and i opted for the 600w head and a seperate 210 cab and kept my 15 cab. i would think that the 200w would sreiously struggle to be honest especially driving two 15 drivers it really does depend on how power hungry the two units are i guess. does the extention cab have a power rating on the back to give you an idea of what you would need to run them both? Markus

Hi there i own a bass bomber the 125w version of your amp i must say i have never had an issue with mine but if you have changed the fuse and it turns on and you get a pop when it does so i would guess that the pre amp is blown i would suggest maybe checking on this your self if ou feel happy to do so and see if there is any aditional fuses and or capasitors dionde etc... that may have gone. I will add also that mine is currently up for sale as i have just purchased a new ashdown rig and no longer need it, on the off chance you may be interested. Markus

As its an ashdown valve amp you should be able to turn the valve stage up to get the sound nice and dirty without turning the amp up to much to be honest. I would also say being a valve amp it should give him the sound he is looking for i would suggest that he tries one out before buying one. Plus there are a couple on ebay right now so im sure he could find a good second hand one fairly cheap if he keeps his eyes pealed. being an ashdown user myself i can say hoestly that they have a lovely sound to them and i would think it would dp the job nicely. Markus

cheers guy i will look in to the gotah and also as mentioned i was planning on changing the neck anyway for a maple one so hopefully with the neck and bridge being changed it might help me some i guess. also the point made about the sr300 i am getting that impression that you may be right but i do love the sound of my p bass with the pick ups i already have in it now it does have a lovel sound i i dont expect the ibby to sound the same thats the whole point in me buying it i dont want to it sound the same but i would like to just make my p bass sound a little nicer if i can do that for not to much money. its a cream one with a white pick gaurd which is why i think it would look lovely with a maple neck. I personally think it would really finish it off as far as looks go. Markus P.S. can anybody tell me how you get your picture up on the left hand side of your posts i cant figure it out for toffee and its winding me up somthing cronic. lol

lol yeah well im planning on buying an ibanez sr300m fairly shortly so i can the pull my p bass apart and do what needs doing. I do think the hum/his issue might be an earthing issue it makes sense to me for it to be that but im really not sure i am fairly tempted to change the pots as they aint very dear and im under the impression that a good set would make the world of difference. The only thing is i really like my tone pot i wouldnt want to looe what it is capible of as i find it much better than most tone pots oh and the ive just remembered that the hiss goes away completely when you turn the volume pot down hmm i wonder? Markus

yeah i apriciate that but if it was the tweeter then it wouldnt get wprsre when i am not touching the guitar would it? Any idea what bridge would be best? Markus

I have a really nice looking squire p bass which i have already put seymour duncun pick ups in and they sound fantastic but i want to change the neck for a maple one and i wondered what i could do to the old girl to get some more sustain from it also i would love to get rid of the his/hum that i have when im not touching the bass if im playing or have hold of any metal part its hardly there at all but if i let go of it then its there and fairly strongly i have had it looked at and the guy clean up the electrics and i thought it had gone but when i used a rig with a tweeter agan i noticed it again is there anything i can do the get rid of it? change pots ect... Markus

Funny isnt it watts they really mean nothing when it comes down to it its the same with home audio equipmen you can buy valve amps that are no more than a couple of watts ans with the right pair of speakers they will sound louder thanmost hi fi's with 100w or more. Its all about the db's. Markus

[quote name='Musicman20' post='748162' date='Feb 17 2010, 10:48 AM']Off topic slightly, I used an Ashdown 4x10 at a practice room recently that was supplied. I was actually quite impressed....no wooliness. It could have been the amp and bass I brought with me, but it did the job. I am still unsure on Ashdown though...I would be interested to a least test their new line.[/quote] I too used a 4x10 cab in a studio recently and have used one of the 15" combo's before and i have to say i was really impressed both time so much so that i went out ans shelled out alot of money on a 210t combo and a 115 cab the combo was 300w and i took it back the day after my frist gig with it as it seemed very under powered im now the prowd owner of a 600w mag head with a seperate 210 cab and still have the 115 cab as well so im hoping that will do the job but as far a the sound quality goes i was more than happy i must say just needed a little more juice. Im not a big fan of having to drive an amp almost to the max to just keep up if head room is availible then i wantit so it made sense to go for the bigger amp. As far as that us made amp business i would say i have to agree with others that have commented that it would seem to be more of a gimick there doesnt seem to me to be any reason why they would make an amp over in the us to then bring it back here for sale i could understand them doing it for the us market to make it cheaper for them and so on but i cant see any reason other than that and you have got to ask your self where are they getting there components from because if they are using cheap chinese valves or a valve of a lesser quality then it wont perform as well as the british made stuff anyway. and thats just one component what about all the others. does ashdown have the pulling power to get all the same components shipped to the us for one factory something tells me the answer to that question is a firm no. Its funny though the only bad reports ive really heard about ashdonw seem to come from the U.S. so you got to ask your self why they are even bothering. Markus

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Thanks guys im pretty sure im gonna be well chuffed with it im gonna do my best to try one out but from what you have all said and the rave reviews i really dont think i can go wrong lol. Markus

Hi there i currently have a squire p bass but thankfully not a standard one i have had the thing chocked over recently and it was given a clean bill of health i also about a year about a year ago put seymour dunkun hot pick ups in her so she really sings rather nicely but i am looking for a second bass and want something that doesnt sound the same as the p bass now looking at the sr300 it would appear on paper to be nothing like the squire at all humbuckers in stead of single ciol three tone pots and so on it really does look to be a very nice piece of equipment now i am going to do my best to try one out but i would love to hear what anyone has to say on them good or bad just to give me an idea of what im letting my self in for as i think im going to have to travel a fair distance to have a go on one. Markus

[quote name='derrenleepoole' post='746513' date='Feb 15 2010, 08:56 PM']We've all played with guitarists like this. And this was for an acoustic folk festival event 'nuff said... [/quote] Ive got to say when i stopped laughing that is something else isnt it im mean really thats amaizing i didnt realise that anyone made a set up that big let alone that anyone would be silly enough to consider using it lol that really is fantastic

hm now i must say im a little reluctant to believe that as they do not look the same when you take the covers off they have a different type of application around the outside of the driver to allow the speaker to move they may well be the same wattage but im sure there is more than just the colour that is diffeent but i can only go on what i can see i guess. Markus

that makes sense i guess although both my cabs are ported the both have two large ish ports in each dont know if this changes your opinion at all and both cabs are new Markus

I had my bass overhauled a little while ago thought i might need new pots and all sort 25 quid later i got my bass back no crackles and nothing changed just a bit of cleaning here and there in the electrics dept. as far as the pick ups are conserned i use seymour duncuns but i used the hot pick ups and my god the difference it made im very very happy with the result as not only did it completely change the sound to some so much nicer i got a good price on them too i would recomend these pick ups to anyone with the same bass as we have. although i would love to change my neck for a maple one as i have a classic cream one with a white scratch plate and i think that would finish her off quite nicely. Markus

well they are sertainly different aren't they im not sure about the dovetail joints as i would imagine it would be rather difficult to stop vibration with the kind of power you would be putting through them although all in all i think they are a bit of a gimick i would never cosider having a bare hard wood cab and then gig with it that would get ruined in no time and it wouldnt be long before you would have to cover it to hide all the marks and stains and such then it woud become pointless surely. Markus

[quote name='chris_b' post='744741' date='Feb 14 2010, 01:14 PM']You've made a few points: A 2x10 is OK but more speakers generally sound better at the same volume because more speakers move more air and, in my opinion, that improves your tone. Guys who turn up to a pub gig with stadium gear are usually inexperienced and going for a look rather than a sound. The smart guys, from Deep Purple onwards only plugged in the bottom cabs of their stacks. I think there is confusion between "volume" with "headroom". OK there are some idiots around, but most people don't buy 500/800 watt amps to play on 11. If you play a 200 watt amp at 200 watts you won't get a clean sound with a good tone. You will get an overheating amp and lots of distorted, nasty sounding notes. So if you want 200 watts then get a 500/800 watt amp, which will get you a better tone and cleaner sound (because of their larger power supplies) which won't clip or distort when you want to hit louder notes, when slapping, for instance.[/quote] I agree i have just done that exact thing i bought a 300w amp that i had to turn all the way up just to be heard so i took it back and bought a 600w amp hoping i wont have to turn the damn thing up all the way just to heard i would rather have more power than i ever need so as to not make the amp work hard its entire life.