uk_lefty
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I ordered mine on Mew Year's Day. Everywhere was saying it's out of stock for weeks yet, DV247 said it's in their main warehouse... Who knows when it will arrive. Really looking forward to Boss sounds and touch screen editing.
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Ooops! Well, to be fair I'm left handed so... 🤪
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Sorry if this is not an option but one thing I do when getting fingertip pain is to switch to playing with a pick. Luckily I have free reign over my tone, fills, etc. so if the attack and note choice is different, as long as the fundamentals of the bassline are there it's ok. It made me improve my pick playing to a point where I will play almost anything with a pick if I need to.
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Get some gigs for my new 80s band Risky Business. Ideally first gig before end of March. Get some fresh material in for The Desert Penguins, ideally for the second half of the set. It's a really solid set list but i'd love it if we could shake it up and make picking those end of night songs a bit tougher than just going through the same ones all the time.
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Ashdown ABM Neo 1x15 cab with switchable tweeter. Owned from new, some minor scuffs on the tolex (photos to follow) but absolutely sound. Never pushed hard. Really good compact cab, weighs in at less than 15kg so an easy one hand lift. Takes speakon or jack. Only selling as I recently acquired a 4x10 and my office is becoming too crowded. Will post at cost.- 1 reply
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Very good condition, comes with box and power supply. Excellent for guitar, very good for bass. They usually go for a lot more but I'm selling this just to recover what it owes me. Really good pedal, used it for my last gig. Bass gear is well covered, 7x usable amp Sims, cab Sims, Darkglass distortion, plus all the other guitar effects and amps. You can do parallel processing, add external pedals, endless possibilities. I love it for the touch screen editing, only use the PC to backup settings and a firmware update when I first got it. Collect from St Albans area or will post for a fiver. -
Boss VE-20. You can Google for all the details but here's my view after a fair while owning it... It's superb for finessing and evening out vocals for performance or home recording. Like any pedal you need to get the gain right if going through a PA. It can do some nice stuff like adding a second and third part harmony to your voice. It can "double" up your voice to add extra presence, it really doesn't sound like there's any delays, it's just a good thickening of the sound. Overall its great, if I did loads of home recording I wouldn't be selling it. As it is I'm just not getting the use out of it and was really only using the "megaphone" effect for the mid 8 in one song while playing live. I just need to get back the money it cost me as I've already spent the proceeds. Collection from St Albans area or I can post for a fiver. PM me with any questions. Pretty sure I have the original box.- 1 reply
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I change gear so often that I don't think there's a particular sound apart from whatever it is I play close to the bridge, usually finger style, and there's probably some licks I'm tiring out each time I play.
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I've only had a brief play with it but cranking the gain gives a nice wooliness round the edge of the sound. There's definitely some "poke" to it which I was looking for, I'm confident there's sufficient volume here. It's a different flavour to my ABM and Bassman. I don't have any info on the cab, it has what appears to be two speakon inputs (one could be a link, not sure) and I have no idea the wattage or ohm-age but I'm guessing it's a 600w as most of these seem to be.
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I've been reading this thread with interest... I've been using a Headrush MX5 for a few months now which is the same "form factor" as the GX10 and also has a touch screen. I'm really impressed with it, mainly for the touch screen and how easy it is to create and edit patches. I will probably sell it and replace with a GX10 purely because I prefer the Boss bass amp simulations. This would mean that my ME-90B is going too. I'd be ok with that, while I really enjoy the ME-90B for it's simplicity I hadn't experienced touch screen digital effects. A GX10 will cover me for guitar and bass. I've also got the Headrush on a small pedalboard so I can have my wireless and vocal FX mounted with it, a GX10 would just slot in as a direct replacement...
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I love the concept for your band!!! 😎
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This is ours... I couldn't say if it has brought any new bookings but it definitely can't have lost us any. The audio is from a different gig and the video from one of the larger festivals we do. Before this we have quite a few videos that have spliced together mobile phone videos from different angles and then original audio too. The guitarist makes those somehow on an Apple PC. Feel free to follow the band page and book us for any gigs in 2026. https://www.instagram.com/reel/CvKAESgOpYH/?igsh=MjFrYmE1eXlxYTBk And here's a version made for phone screens: https://www.instagram.com/reel/CvdGYWFAxXV/?igsh=MWJvc3hteGh3b2xqcA==
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So I took a slight detour on the way to work yesterday and picked up this rather handsome but weighty unit. I fancied a 4x10 to replace my 2x15 cabs and ended up with a Warwick 4x10 and head. I had a Warwick Sweet 15 combo in the past and was very impressed with it so at the price this was a no brainer. It's been in the freezing cold overnight so I've brought it in to warm up before I test at my lunch break. Depending on how things go this could be... It's the best amp and cab ever, becomes my main rig, Ashdown rig goes on sale; Keep the cab, sell the head. Sell off my Ashdown NEO 15s and run my ABM600 into this cab; It's good but it doesn't beat the Ashdown, so it gets moved on to someone who will give it what it deserves
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I can't begin to understand the science, maybe it's down to coincidence... When I had an Ashdown Routmaster set up I preferred their 15" cabs over their 2x10s. I had both at the same time. So for me I've just sort of stuck to 15s, though a Trace Elliot 2x10 combo sounds stunning. This morning I just picked up a 4x10 cab because I like the idea of having only one cab in my office rather than 2x 15s... Now someone is going to tell me that will make no difference whatsoever... But it will, one box takes up less space than two.
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Excellent work, good luck!
