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so i need a new home/ mini rig as i cant exactly take my 810 and 1000w orange around with me!

have been looking on line and as ive fallen right back in love with ashdown stuff, my 810 is a mag, i saw a deal online where i could grab a CTM 15 and a cl212 to go underneath it! for a decent price so hopefully its turning up in the next few days! :-)

from the videos on youtube really looking forward to putting my pedals thru this! however i can also see this giving me gas for a ctm 100!

pics and most probably a video coming as soon as its all here!

andy

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well the ctm arrived about an hour ago!

such a nice looking piece of kit! gonna give it a more in depth play thru tomoz but thru the 212 cl cab its got a bit of volume behind it!

actually seriously looking at grabbing the 100w version for my big rig forgot how nice valves sound!

and yes for joke reasons at next practice i will be running this into my 810!

http://i245.photobucket.com/albums/gg72/0175westwood29/IMG_0231.jpg

andy

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[quote name='Pow_22' timestamp='1416382702' post='2609517']
I played one at PMT not long ago, lovely tone but im just a bit put off by the ''All Valve'' marketing when the amp is actually a hybrid?

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It says its all valve in the blurb, with pre-amp and output tube?

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I sold my CTM15 last week. A fantastic little amp. I put JJ EL84s in and a GT5171 in the pree. Teamed up with a VS115 and a VS112. Made a cracking home rig and inspired me to build my own amp. To be honest though I did find it quiet noisie once you started to wind the gain up and it didn't take pedals as well as my modded fender excelsior. They do get plenty loud though, dont let that 15w thing make you think any diferent and the tone is to dye for.

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I couldn't find a schematic for the amp and decided no to pull it apart to do my own. it is possible to use just one valve for the pree and the phase inverter though. the other possibility is that it is single ended output with the two EL84 valves in parallel as they say the output stage is one half of an LB30 output stage. The LB30 being two pair of parallel EL84valves connected in push pull.

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from playing amps with valve pre's for along time this little thing really does blow them away, sounds aleast to me very full and breaks up lovely, yes some noise comes when you crank the gain but this happens on alot of amps.

played thru my full pedalboard today, which includes alot of fuzz, dirt and also a overdive/boost handles them all very well, yes ive had to change settings on a few but thats to be expected with a new amp.

as you can see from my sig im selling a few bits to grab the 100w

[URL=http://s245.photobucket.com/user/0175westwood29/media/IMG_0231.jpg.html][IMG]http://i245.photobucket.com/albums/gg72/0175westwood29/IMG_0231.jpg[/IMG][/URL]

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[quote name='0175westwood29' timestamp='1416395882' post='2609679']
from playing amps with valve pre's for along time this little thing really does blow them away, sounds aleast to me very full and breaks up lovely, yes some noise comes when you crank the gain but this happens on alot of amps.

played thru my full pedalboard today, which includes alot of fuzz, dirt and also a overdive/boost handles them all very well, yes ive had to change settings on a few but thats to be expected with a new amp.

as you can see from my sig im selling a few bits to grab the 100w

[url="http://s245.photobucket.com/user/0175westwood29/media/IMG_0231.jpg.html"][/url]
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Nice rig, and good work on going for the CTM100 as well, you'll love it I'm sure :)

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[quote name='0175westwood29' timestamp='1416395882' post='2609679']
from playing amps with valve pre's for along time this little thing really does blow them away, sounds aleast to me very full and breaks up lovely, yes some noise comes when you crank the gain but this happens on alot of amps.

played thru my full pedalboard today, which includes alot of fuzz, dirt and also a overdive/boost handles them all very well, yes ive had to change settings on a few but thats to be expected with a new amp.

as you can see from my sig im selling a few bits to grab the 100w

[URL=http://s245.photobucket.com/user/0175westwood29/media/IMG_0231.jpg.html][IMG]http://i245.photobucket.com/albums/gg72/0175westwood29/IMG_0231.jpg[/IMG][/URL]
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Great rig, I really want one of those cabinets! You know you want the 100 ;)

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