Kevin Dean

My opinion after 3 gigs is that they are like playing strings coated in toffee , compared to my Newtone strings that have done 6 gigs & a lot more rehearsals ..I thought they looked cool though .

I was wondering what the TC unit would be like at a gig thanks .

I have a Korg pitch black rack , & Peterson Strobe , But was thinking of just using my TC clip on hat I use on my acoustic at Home .

Before I order a new 3U rack case I'd be interested to know if most people just use a TC clip on these days pros & cons , cheers.

& I've a large selection in those .

But I use a plectrum

I'm also an engineer & I use words like Good or crap

Lol , with these speakers there is very little difference in the weight , the actual cab yes Plus I can not get the bass out put even with the bass turned all the way up with the sic neo speaker in the lighter cab ..I have to cover a lot of styles & use a Roland GR55 & the simple solution is to use the speaker that suites me .

Yes The Neo speaker in the sealed cab it came with sounds great its just a bit heavy for me ..But putting the Neo into the smaller sealed RM cab it lost a lot of bass compared to the original ceramic driver ...earlier today I tried the same with some 12" cabs & had the same results I'm not saying that one sounded better than the other just very different ..It all goes to show how complicated this stuff is .

I've been using a Ashdown ABM1000 digital head 1000w RMS 2000w peak & I had my 12" root masters upgrade with Sica neo drivers to handle it .I've started using My ABM neo 400 ,500w rms 1000w peak as it has a different voicing more suited to the type of stuff I'm doing at the moment , with a RM15" & 2x10RM cabs ..as I have another ABM15 neo cab that I don't use only because of the weight , I thought as it has a higher speck driver I'll put the 15" neo into my RM cab .what I found interesting was that the White RM speaker placed in the ABM cab sounded virtually the same but obviously at a lower watt rating , But the Sica 15" put into the RM cab had a lot less bass than the White line speaker when I thought it would have the opposite effect .

Or the handles ....oh .

I threatened Lemmy by accident once .

Why don't Valve amps have features like compression etc built in , like a lot of solid state amps have ?

Hi Torby , you said a stretch of water as involved , If you are on the IoW you can borrow one of my Ashdown rigs until you get yours sorted , plus I'm going over next week & could possibly take it down to the Ashdown chaps or get a friend who does amp repairs to cast an eye over it , if that's any help .

I have a 2 x10 & for me playing plectrum style it doesn't have the mid punch & depth the 12 or the 15 has .

At the moment my choice is a Ashdown RM 15" & RN1 x12" both with Sica upgrades . I fancy the idea of a 2nd 15" RM .

My RM 12" also have 12" Sica 700w upgrades but that was only done to handle my ABM1000 that I use sometimes .

When I experimented with it , I had the PA set up in a hall & I sat/stood out front , The top were 12" EV rated at 400w rms per cab . thev Rig I used was a Ashdown ABM400 ( 400 watts )powering 2 x RM cabs .

I was using an Ashdown 12band graphic DI pedal . The PA has a 100hz cross over to the EVS So I guess the tops are not producing the mid punch my back line does ..

It copes but I just can't seem to get the mid range punch or volume ,for rock style It's perfectly fine for micing a drum kit though .Maybe I should experiment with EQ settings ..

What size of PA would you say was required to DI your bass straight into & not use back line at all ? My pa is 2 x EV 750w powered subs & 2 x 600w tops but still doesn't give the power/oomph even my smallest 400w rig does ?

Nice Song as well .

yep top one is the ABM400 ..interesting to compare to the inside of a MB head that's half the size & still looks empty .

Trace Elliot use to have ports that you put a plug into .I find compression has a desired effect .

Just out of interest the ABM 400 was a deeper in tone with exactly the same settings , But I think that is due to the ABM1000 having internal adjustable filters that were probably backed off as I know a few 8x10 cabs were blown in its development .