dannybuoy

Dave Swift's playing some kind of singlecut monstrosity. What happened to the Dingwall Super P?!

[quote name='Mudpup' timestamp='1388530674' post='2323211'] Nope Lineup is pants [/quote] Doesn't matter, it's worth a watch for Haim's bass face alone!

After getting an Ashdown CTM15, I want to go back to tubes. So I want to try out an RH750, TTE500, and Jule DeMonique for the lighter options, and a CTM100, 100T, Mesa Prodigy and Matamp for the full tube options. And either a Barefaced 69er or Bergantino NV115 to go with it! Oh and a Jack Casady bass. Not much then...

[quote name='andydye' timestamp='1388491806' post='2322542'] no mate, I reckon it'd be even more 'too much'! I'd be having powerscaling fitted to the AD200b so I could render the volume knob useable! [/quote] How easy is it to fit a power scaling switch to an AD200B? Is it just a simple switch to remove a couple of power tubes from the circuit?

My Orange Terror Bass bit the dust recently, so I dropped it into PMT in Cambridge for them to send back to Orange for a repair. Whilst I was there I tried out a couple amps to use a replacement. I almost went with the Ashdown MiBass 2.0, it had a great grindy sound very similar to a Catalinbread SFT pedal. But then I tried and fell in love with the little all tube CTM15 and ended taking one home! I'm not currently in a band so a practice amp is all I need, and this fits the bill perfectly, perched aloft my pair of Ampeg SVT210AVs! I've noticed a couple of issues though that I didn't notice when playing the demo unit in the shop: - When I first turn it on there's quite a lot of crackling that disappears after 30 secs to a minute. It sounds like the crackling you get when turning a dodgy old potentiometer. It's not as bad today as it was yesterday so maybe this is improving the amp burns in? - It's pretty noisy, not bad with the gain all the way off, but as soon as you nudge it up the hissing gets very loud. - The sound with the gain all the way off is warm and bassy, I can crank the master volume and be happy the sound this. However, as soon as you increase the gain, it seems to really over-emphasise the treble. Clank city, which can only be dialled out by turning down the middle and treble controls on the amp or the tone control on my bass almost all the way down! I've tried replacing the 12AX7 preamp tube with a Gold Lion reissue I had lying around, which seemed to make a small improvement to the sound but not to any of the issues listed above. Would the amp need re-biasing if I replaced the EL84s and if so is this something I could easily do myself with a multimeter? I'm thinking of popping back to the shop to compare it to their demo unit again to see if these issues are real and not just down to the wiring in my house etc, but it's quite a drive away from here. If anyone has any advice here it would be much appreciated - anyone here with Ashdown CTM amps suffer from the same problems?

Another vote for the Yam! I love BB's, and prefer the sound of a Precision pickup to a 'Ray any day! Depends what you prefer the sound of really.

Non traditional options (if it's a P sound rather than P look you're after): Yamaha BB2025X/BB1025X/BB425X: MTD CRB 5: Reverend Mercalli:

Cheers, fingers crossed hoping I get a free replacement too! I bought it on here about a year ago, no idea of it's age before that so don't know if I could be covered under the two year warranty or not!

[quote name='Rasta' timestamp='1385247688' post='2286176'] FWIW, I had an early OTB, think it was a 2010. It died a few months back and the amazing Orange pretty much gave me a new amp, minus the main cover bit which had my name on....and it was even out of warrenty - brilliant service Anyhow i rememer the earlier 2010 model breaking up a lot earlier than this more recent model, 11 - 12 o'clock. I do however prefer the newer amp persoanlly and it does also break up around 1 - 2 o'clock with my speakers. [/quote] Just out of curiosity, did you deal directly with Orange to get this fixed or go via your dealer? Mine has died also and Orange told me too take it to my nearest Orange dealer, which is about 25 miles away, so I'm making the trip on Friday! Cheers, Dan

Popping into my local PMT tomorrow to check out some Ashdown stuff. Has anybody tried the MiBass 2.0? I really liked the sound of the 550 in Ashdown's demo video, but I've not seen anyone post anything about the new 2.0 head

The cabs can take it - I've played a pair them at pretty high volume with the Orange Terror Bass. It's something to do with the drivers in these cabs having a slightly lower than specced impedance which drives power module in Micro VR nuts!

It's worth pointing out that the Micro VR suffers from a design fault that means they break up and crackle harshly when used with 2 SVT210AV cabs. They are fine with most other 4 ohm loads, and most other amps are fine driving a pair of those cabs, but stupidly, they don't work well together. There's a couple of threads on Talkbass about it if you want further details. I thought they might have fixed the issue by now, so I bought a Micro VR head to go with my pair of SVT210AV cabs after my Orange Terror Bass died a couple of weeks ago. The issue was immediately apparent even at low-medium volume, so it went straight back to the shop. The Orange Terror Bass is a perfect match for these cabs by the way, I'd recommend one of those, or pretty much any other micro amp over the Micro VR head (Ampeg PF350/PF500 if you want to keep it all the same brand) if you are set on using a pair of those cabs! Oh, and nice username!

I had an AD200B and it was barely ticking over on the gigs I played with it - 100W tube amp should be perfect for small to medium venues.

Surprised this one hasn't been posted, it's the first and only one I thought of: Alan Braxe - Running [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AQFhSHZ3CsQ[/media]

Warwick do a set down to .175 aptly named 'Dark Lord'. They're not cheap though!

[quote name='TG Flatline' timestamp='1386671100' post='2302771'] I have two Spider cases if you want to have a gander at them at some point... [/quote] I had a medium sized Spider case and it fit my VT1 no problem.

Depends on what you mean by bi-amping - are you using a crossover to send only the deep lows to the Compact?

Try rotating it, worked for me!

If you're after a T-Bird, I'd check out the Epi Classic Pro IV - neck through and Gibson pickups, almost as good as the Gibson but far cheaper!

Another demo: [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LqencShg84Y[/media]

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