Machines

Got all the BassDirect gear now - it's going to be fantastic .

I bought an MC900 for £250 from PMT in Birmingham about 18 months ago. Cleaned it up and traded it for a 1996 Musicman Stingray, not a bad deal if I say so myself .

There will be a [url="http://www.bassdirect.co.uk/bass_guitar_specialists/Skjold_Offset_92_Bubinga.html"]Skjold Offset[/url] on Sunday at Bass Day at the Bass Direct stand for those interested. Looking forward to trying it myself.

Yeah they are definitely shabby with online specs, they seem to change quite frequently ! My MAG210T was showing as 200w for a long time online, looks like they've updated it recently to 250w, despite me having the cab over a year and it saying 250w on the back !

Can't believe I didn't spot this one coming ! Looks very interesting, I did wonder if Ashdown would ever make an all-tube head so there's my answer. Looks like it's basically an ABM with a valve power stage, I bet it sounds fantastic. Won't be cheap for sure...

[quote name='lozbass' post='323635' date='Nov 6 2008, 06:20 PM']If you can drive up to Rusholme (5 minutes up Oxford Road travelling out of the city centre - less than a 20 minute walk), you'll find some of the UK's finest Asian restaurants...[/quote] Sod that - there are so many cheap buses down that road it'd be silly to drive.

Useful page here... [url="http://www.rncm.ac.uk/content/view/41/93/"]http://www.rncm.ac.uk/content/view/41/93/[/url]

They were bought out mostly by Reverb (Arbiter I believe), who are now the UK stockists for Spector. [url="http://www.arbiter.co.uk/uk_dealers/uk_dealers_spectorbass.htm"]http://www.arbiter.co.uk/uk_dealers/uk_dea...spectorbass.htm[/url]

Check this out... [url="http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT&item=220301716316"]http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vie...em=220301716316[/url] He says he paid over £1k for it, ouch ! and if you look at this [url="http://www.soundslive.co.uk/product~name~Ashdown-ABM-C210T-500-EVO-III-Combo~ID~8592.asp"]http://www.soundslive.co.uk/product~name~A...mbo~ID~8592.asp[/url] He's going to be very disappointed.

Nice - a white pearloid pickguard and it's perfect.

I expect the little combo will be wired to the internal speaker internally, so you can't just unplug the speaker and have it get power from another source. Might be a bit of a DIY jobby but I can see it being fairly straight forward. That said - the Marshall would rip it to pieces since it's 450w 2ohm with ext cab - and the poor little combo wouldn't cope.

I don't want to know how much that cost .

Hmm, personally i'd go for the Jap/US one unless you're on a budget. And you can get deadspots on any wooden necked bass regardless of it's cost... my old Stingray had one just as much as my Mexi Jazz does.

I'll admit I don't miss having it around.

Just had my ABM repaired by Pacific Sound & Light on recommendation from here. Free quote and extremely fast service (3 days including a Sunday !). Superb communication from them and no nonsense, anyone in the Birmingham area should go here for any gripes.

Bookmarked that article for reading when I have a little more time to soak it up - cheers .

Just found this in a random google search... [url="http://www.clivebutton.com/products.htm"]http://www.clivebutton.com/products.htm[/url] Interesting.. I thought Mark Gooday was meant to have done it ?!

It's all UK made now which probably accounts for the cost. I think they're pretty good, but certainly wouldn't pay that much for them - there's a lot of other things around the same pricemark which I prefer.

It seems the staff's job is to attempt to annoy customers and lose business, a very unique and original business model for sure .

Got it yet ?!

I was at Bass Direct when birdy picked this up - amazing looking instrument and sounded so fantastic. I think it looks a lot pinker in person than the pic shows..