Woodinblack

Well, if you don't notice it, that is probably good because basses with the bart pickups on are much cheaper, so you can save a bit!

Very odd you don't notice the difference as they are night and day from everything I have used

Doesn't that effectively give you an ABM600? A trace elliot class A/B head and a preamp with a tube.

We don't? What circles do you move in?

Going to need something with wheels!

Same here - although I suspect there isn't much they can do, I assume they have been promised by their provider that they are going to get it fixed any time soon, or they would have probably gone elsewhere There is a lot of that in the UK, but not really any here at the moment, we have a lot of American visitors here, so it isn't an issue. But ultimately coming in and saying 'I am offended at that' is just going to get a quite a few more jokes. Not much is that serious here, unless it is in one of the serious threads.

for me its no #1 or might as well not bother!

The ABM600 isn't a valve head though, so not really the same. I think I would probably use the CTM100 more if it was more powerful, but at the same time, that would make it a CTM300, and I would be even less likely to want to carry it anywhere!

Might have to rewrite that 100% figure a bit. Quite a bit Its an english common expression, certainly, not one that I have ever used. The irony is that the only time that happened to me was in the states. Only they didn't umplug it, and it wasn't a vaccum, it was them plugging the floor polisher in the UPS. Every week for a few months until we figured out what was happening.

They had 10M, the tsunami reached 9M where that was, but unfortunately the earthquake caused the land to drop by 2M.

We had a friend who we helped through it, and it was so totally frustrating - both her, and it is worse because you know it isn't their fault, but dealing with the demon in them is very frustrating, and trying to get some service that is interested or able to do something. Got something in the end, and things got a lot better, but as you say, the damage is always there, both phsycologically and mentally. Glad to hear your daughter got through it and sympathies to anyone else out there who has to deal with it

I also wouldn't want one with a big led, it would have to be very small and flashing obviously better than on all the time. Preferably flashing once on startup (to let you know it was working), and when the battery was low. and off the rest of time.

Anyway, you can see we have a lot of new members because of it!

To be fair from the japanese handling of the tsunami, they did have huge sea walls, which sadly sunk due to the earthquake. Portsmouth flooded in 2000 (I remember it well, it was my wifes birthday), it failed due to the volume of sewage and luckily the backup generators were below sea level. It took a while for them to pump out the pumping station to get down to the top of the generators.

Interesting pickup update for the short scale jaguar (it was P/J before). Not a usual config.

I have a TC-450, an Ashdown CTM-100 and an ashdown ABM600. I haven't had a chance to gig the ABM600, as I bought it since the pandemic, but the idea is that that will be my gigging amp. No doubt the CTM-100 sounds better than the TC, but I don't gig it, as I never had the space of the energy to lug it to a gig with everything else (I have the PA as well). Really I should sell it, but its not something that is easy to ship!

That car looks really angry!

the 'oh well'.. 'people can't be bothered'.. 'i'm a unique snowflake'.. passive aggression thing gives that impression I did consider putting on in my 5005, partly because it doesn't have a battery compartment, and partly because there was a hole where a switch used to be!

Sorry if people not wanting one has somehow offended you! Whereas I think they are pretty good ideas, and would be happy if they were built in, I have a lot of basses, I bought 10 alkaline 9v batteries for a tenner, and i have never had an issue of a battery running out on a gig (one that went before a gig but it was a new bass and I didn't realise it was wired wrong). I don't tend to change them that often, but I tend to play with the ones I am gigging. I do always have spare batteries though, and as almost all but one basses have a battery compartment that doesn't need a screwdriver, it is a 30 second job to change it, so it seems like an overkill to retrofit. So not a problem of not being bothered, more a question of the cost and inconvenience of putting one in is vastly more than the inconvenience of not having one.

Ah, gotcha. Well, that makes for a bad monday at work then doesn't it? I mean, on the grand scheme of things, it's not like powering your Nuclear reactor down too low, bringing the power up too fast, it going critical and destroying all your boron rods, but it probably feels like it in your own space.

Looks at watch.. looks up...

6 months, and now you expect us to wait that long?!

It's always easy to be wise after an event but "the fire suppression system was powered by the generator in the area of the fire suppression system?" - umm..

Don't worry, coming out of your cave you'll be doing just fine....

So yes, it is the value that is the problem is what you are saying? if that was just a bass made in someone's garage (which is kinda what it looks like) no one would bat an eyelid, it's just because it is expensive and uncommon