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What a beauty! You didn’t purchase that from me though? 😄

Thanks for the heads up. I’ll have a play during sound check 👍🏼

I might just have to do that! Thank you!

Fantastic, what a great photo!

Blimey, I bet that melts your face! Mine is the 250 and it’s really got some kick. Thanks for that, I’ll take a look.

P.S. if anyone knows where I can get a spare white button for the missing Graphic In on this amp, please let me know? Thank you.

I’ve not played with this amp for a while but now I’m wondering why I haven’t! Plugged in, Input Blend all the way to the right to use the valve (instead of solid state), Pre-Shape 1 engaged, Low Compression on 12 o’clock, EQ Balance at 10 o’clock. Wow!!! Fat, warm and an abundance of heft. It makes a big difference whacking the Input Gain up as much as possible too, the Trace seems to respond well to that. Looks like this is being gigged again tomorrow night now! Anyone else have this head? What do you think of it?

Yes totally could gig with a pair of them 😊👍🏼

Perfect, thanks! 😄

Just had this cab delivered, it’s fantastic. I wanted a smaller stage footprint from using my 1x15 Ashdown but this is ridiculous! A great punchy sound, goes really loud and I’m only using it as my monitor because I DI into our PA but i reckon it’s easy enough for a small gig without PA support. Two of these would be awesome. Really impressed with this cab, highly recommend checking one out! Sorry about the amp overhang in the picture.....

The loom is a VVT&S/P fitted with an old school Sprague 0.1 cap. It gives you more velvet tones from both neck and bridge pups in parallel but you loose a bit of grit from the bridge pup. You pull the tone pot to switch it to series. The sound becomes huge without any mud and you can get some P Bass type sounds going. I’m really pleased with switching my old loom out for this one.

I bought a Kiogon Serial/Parallel switchblade loom for my J Bass, sounds great! I play 2Tone, Ska and Reggae.

I’ve got the CTM30 and it’s wonderful. I’d love a CTM100! Very jealous!

Bought a Jazz switchable loom from John. He dealt with all my issues professionally and with courtesy, a proper gentleman. The loom sounds amazing, just what I wanted the bass to sound like and I couldn’t be happier. Thanks John!

Beautiful Bass. I keep GASsing at these on the Bass Centre website. Congratulations! I love the look of the covers but as said above, they just get in the way of my playing. Such a shame because they make the Bass look cool as hell!

I’ve never played an Ampeg PF-20 so I wouldn’t know I’m afraid. The new version of my amp is the Ashdown CTM30 Little Stubby. It has a couple more features such as Input Gain and a Feedback dial to fatten the tone even more. Looks great! https://ashdownmusic.com/collections/heads/products/ctm-30-little-stubby

REVIEW AFTER FIRST GIG: I gigged the amp for the first time yesterday. Pub gig, roughly 150 people with my 6 piece 2Tone band. I used an Ashdown 212T cab and my 70s Limelight P Bass. As started above, this amp would be ok for a small gig but an efficient cab is critical. I ran out the DI on the amp into our PA and my on stage setup was my monitor. Perfectly fine for monitoring but I wouldn’t want to gig without PA support. The volume was set just under 12 o’clock and was perfect. The tone out of this amp is absolutely amazing. A Fat, warm, vintage valve tone which “breathes” at you in an organic way. I have the Mid set 12 o’clock, Bass set at 2pm, High set at 10am and all the switches engaged. My tone on the P Bass is set about 1/3 on. Beautiful tone, I am in love! If you are after a reliable, solid built, not too heavy (14kg), all valve tone monster and you have PA support to run out to, I highly recommend checking one of these bad boys out! I wouldn’t rely on this and a cab to do anything other than a small gig though. I will be using a 1x15 Ashdown as in the original picture for the next gig instead of the 212T. A bit more compact seeing as it’s only for monitoring 👍🏼

It’s not that heavy at all, an easy one hand lift. Volume wise, it’s perfect for on stage and I imagine smaller gigs. I’m going on the DI to our PA so that will take the bulk of the volume

Thank you!

Cheers Lozz! I’m looking forward to playing this in anger soon with the band 👍🏼

John made me a fantastic P Bass loom. Easy to install, sounds great, top class components and quick delivery! Thanks John!

It was winking at me too! I talked myself into buying it and I’m glad I did 😄

I bought this on here from Tonic and it just got delivered all the way from Croatia! It sounds great, just what I hoped it would be. I can’t wait to gig this amp, I’m going to DI straight out the back and this setup is for onstage. I’ll report back after my next gig.

I bought and Ashdown valve amp off Tonci. No problems whatsoever. Top bloke and really quick postage to the UK from Croatia! Thanks Tonci!