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You'll get the same sounds out of either one, same insides.

[quote name='Shire' post='400956' date='Feb 5 2009, 01:00 PM']Oh and they are loud, would having an active bass give me a bit of a 'boost'?[/quote] Not really - because you'd have to turn down the input to stop it clipping or use the active input, thus the gained 'volume' of an active instrument is limited before it hits the preamp. Does it sound loud enough before the band kick in ? If so it may be the EQing, have you had a play with that too ?

36" is custom territory. There are 35" 4 string but I can't think of any . Oh yes, Warwick Darklord/Corvette Taranis are well suited but they're a tad pricer than £300.

How is the input set, just pre-clipping ?

I've had my MIM Jazz a couple of years now and initially I wasn't that impressed with it. Since changing the pickups and spending some time getting the setup nailed - now it sounds great and plays like butter.

Is there anyone in the Birmingham area that's passing ? Could do with a lift if feasible. I'm near M6 J7.

Is it in warranty ? Even if not i'd contact Ashdown for them to try and diagnose the problem.

See if you can spot a theme . 1. Ashdown Five Fifteen 65w 2. Ashdown EB180-12 3. Ashdown MAG210T Cab 4. Ashdown ABM300 EVO II

Most people do. I think IE has at least 75% market share. The average web user doesn't care about enhanced browsing features, they are more likely to just want to update their facebook and go on eBay.

Yep - utter waste of time they are, you'd be better off with an octave pedal if you're bothered about it.

My work PC is lumbered with IE6 - freezes on a lot of websites. I could stick Firefox on but there's software auditing.

[quote name='benwhiteuk' post='396216' date='Jan 31 2009, 04:09 PM']Seems crazy that they'd advertise the bass if it was never gonna get offered to the public - trading standards anyone?[/quote] I don't think they'll be too concerned right now: [url="http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=39730"]http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=39730[/url]

The problem will affect all boards using this software in that case. I'm sure updates will be released and applied as the need arises - which will be some time.

[quote name='birdy' post='393476' date='Jan 28 2009, 10:13 AM']If this doesnt get off the ground we could easily arrange a midlands one in Sutton :-)[/quote] Count me in .

In terms of power it won't be an improvement - in terms of sound there probably isn't much change either since it has similar functionality to the MAG (bar the parametric EQ). Thus the only major thing it can offer you that's an improvement is portability.

If size/weight aren't an issue for you i'd stick with the MAG .

Played a few - the Basics were very good Stingray alternatives and the Cali's equally so for Fender. Not a fan of the big pole pieces on the Delano pickups but other than that - very very nice. This one on their gallery gets me very weak at the knees..

Not at 4 ohms i'm afraid. I did take it to practise with the intention of running it into an Ampeg 810 at practise, but we were in another room with a flight cased ABM500/810 and the speaker lead was only 4 inches long (before it disappeared into the flightcase). Compared to my ABM (325w) through the MAG it is definitely quieter.

Review.. [url="http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=39226"]http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=39226[/url]

[b][size=5]Ashdown Little Giant 350[/size][/b] The eagerly awaited, and also long awaited Ashdown Little Giant is finally here. It was announced by Ashdown on their website in February last year, and has taken nearly 12 months to get on-shore and into our shops. Many people are very interested in these following the somewhat ill-fated Superfly series, and these Little Giants are very much based upon them in form factor, but inside it's all very different. 2 models are available, the green 350w and orange 1000w version, it is the former I shall be reviewing here. Usually Ashdown would supply the head, however they're busy with NAMM at the moment and I didn't want to wait, so here we have one purchased by yorick only a couple of weeks ago from PMT, and virtually unused. First impressions are that when sat on top of my ABM - the LG350 is tiny. It's 1/3 of the width of my head, however it is just as deep at 31cm. It weighs in at a paltry 3kg, not too much more than your average medium size multi-fx pedal. The head is satin black all over apart from the front of the head, where the green front is what appears to be a fairly thick sticker (with holes for pots/sliders etc). It isn't airbrushed on like I expected, but does seem fairly hardy and I wasn't able to find an edge that may start to peel over time. Most noticeable is the 'jolly green giant' next the output control, he looks a little annoyed - probably at being made to stand there in his pants. Atop the amp is an 60mm fan and many ventilation holes, this for me seems a little risky, as foreign objects generally land on top of amps (liquids especially) and a normal amp may survive this as there is no way into the electronics, the LG350 would most certainly expire. Other amps that seem to negate this include the MarkBass LMII and Genz-Benz Shuttle 3.0, the LMII having one small rear fan and the Shuttle requiring no cooling function at all. I still wouldn't take a swimming test of either of these, but I could see the chances of their survival being higher. Naturally, all this can be negated by keeping any liquids away from your rig. Going onto the controls, we have quite a lot of things going on. There are a mixture of different controls, knobs, sliders, buttons and switches galore ! There is a single input with active/passive switch (which i'm sure I don't need to explain), along with 2 EQ presets we can impose, those being 'DEEP' and 'SHAPE', more on those later. The gain knob is lined to an LED display which has the same function as Ashdown's infamous VU meter, going from green/yellow/red for monitoring clipping. Moving to the right we have a somewhat confusing array of sliders and knobs. Initially is a bass control slider which is set to 100hz. Next is a low-mid parametric control, which will change the freq from 180Hz to 1.6kHz, with the slider for this knob being to the right (each parametric EQ control's slider is always to the right) We then have a high-mid control with a scope of 750Hz to 7.5kHz and finished up with a 3rd parametric control for 3.5kHz to 10kHz. The controls here were not intuitive for me, however I haven't used a parametric EQ before. The last feature is the power on/off switch with a red LED, I haven't decided yet if would prefer it at with the ports on the back. On the back panel is pretty much all most of us should need. There's dual jack/speak-on connectors. By this I mean you can use either a normal jack or a speak-on connector in each port, this is pretty handy - I wish my ABM had them. The head is 350w @ 4ohms, and probably around 200w @ 8ohms. There is also a DI port with pre/post EQ option, F/X Send/Return and Line In/Out. Time to plug it in. Startup is delayed by 2 seconds to prevent popping (shutdown is the same). I ran this head into my Ashdown MAG210T cab, EQ flat. Set the preamp level to my Lakland so it would only just clip if I pushed it and turned the volume up. Soundwise it's as you want with the EQ disabled - clean and untainted. The volume control could be turned up more than I would have expected before it felt reasonably loud. My ABM seems to have most of it's volume before half way, of course this is no indication of an amps power. The preshape button does as it does on the ABM series, boost the lows and highs, and scoop the low mids. This can leave the instrument a little undefined but I think works brilliantly for using a pick, especially in a hard rock or metal band. The 'DEEP' function adds a bass boost alone, I felt that when used as well as the PRESHAPE this was a little overpowering and didn't sound as good as either on their own. The parametric EQ controls were interesting to play with. They do indeed change the frequency as advertised, but the pots do not feel linear. There is little audible change until half way on most of the knobs, and then a lot of freqency change is heard, much in the same way a volume or tone pot on a bass seems to do more at one end than the other. This for me means you can not assume that half way between the labelled freq ranges is the actual half way point between the frequencies, you would have to use your ears alone to determine this. It was possible to get some very good sounds using this system, there was little I could not do with the right tweaking. [size=3][b]Summary:[/b][/size] [b]Build Quality[/b] - Well made chassis, as solid as other lightweight heads in the category. No noticeble corners cut. [b]Practicality[/b] - Lightweight but not as compact (in depth) as some other comparative heads, but still will (just) fit in a gig bag pocket. [b]Sound[/b] - Sounds good clean and has plenty of sounds available with the parametric EQ. Perhaps not as much output as I was expecting for this power rating. [b]Value[/b] - Can be found online for £200, it's the lowest price of it's competitors (Genz Benz Shuttle 3.0, MarkBass LM250 + LMII). However with the LG1000 being only £100 more and essentually 3x the power, it may be a more sensible option for most. If you just want a cheaper backup head then the LG350 may suit you well. Many thanks to yorick for lending the amp to me .