Merton

The pink is too garish innit?

Nah. Whilst part of me really is tempted just because it’s crazy, I’m more about one of these:

Hell yes! or should I say, stop encouraging me

They are classy, me likey

Price was €1360 if I remember correctly. I am actually seriously tempted....

Or this happens:

Awesome, haven’t played this for years!

[quote name='Jenny_Innie' timestamp='1510148163' post='3404279'] I've used lots of Ashdown amps and still own a few - a Superfly, quite a few of the MiBass models (my faves), an ABM 600 and now a DH30. They're great. I'm not as happy their cabs though. I've been pairing MiBass heads with Barefaced cabs for a while now. Great sound - but not as good with the Ashdown cabs. [/quote] I concur

[quote name='Mike Brooks' timestamp='1510086984' post='3403938'] Howdy, it was my choice to cover Hysteria for the column. I have a list of albums as long as your arm to cover but the remit from day one was cover all sorts of albums, not just the Greatest Hits Of Jaco or Stanley on a monthly basis. Where possible I/we try to pick albums that have an anniversary pending (or not, it's not cast in stone) but I proposed some months back a 3 issue run of albums, by a band or artist, that sold massively and for that artist, they never produced a bigger selling album, I chose 1987 and hence the INXS/Def Leppard/George Michael albums. On top of that, the Hysteria deluxe boxset was released a few months back and we have Rick Savage's interview in the wings too. There is no denying that in the rock arena, Hysteria changed quite a lot of things as far as rock albums go, not least the production values that Mutt Lange brought to the album. Don't despair, there are plenty of bass-centric albums lined-up, such as Marcus Miller's 'The Sun Don't Lie' in a month or two. As an ongoing column, the possibilities are almost endless so hopefully I'll cover something you do like soon. All the best, Mike [/quote] Awesome, thanks Mike. Perfick explanation and totally agree with you and your thinking on this. Looking forward to the Rick Savage interview, he’s a much better player than he ever lets on in Lep.

Hysteria is a superb album of songs but it’s not really got any distinguishable basslines on it except the beginning of Gods Of War really... strange choice indeed!

[quote name='Kev' timestamp='1508573519' post='3392980'] Still at a complete loss as to who needs a head this small, sacrificing so much flexibility and power and relatively speaking not so much cost. Majority of Class D heads will fit in your gigbag and weigh very little, so why go this small? [/quote] For me this is the perfect head for about 60% of what I do these days, the fact it’s even smaller than others is actually a great help as other “gig bag” amps tend to be not quite small enough. This really does fit in the front pocket of my gig bag. Or would do, if I owned one. Which I probably will one day.

I would love a Spyder 550 head, I think they would tick all the boxes for me

[quote name='Al Krow' timestamp='1509375451' post='3398417'] Cheers guys. Maybe a newbie Q but what are the key differences between the ABM and the MAG series - I thought they were both 'Magnifier'? [/quote] ABM is a 7 (or now 9) band EQ, MAG is a 5 band EQ. ABMs have a valve in the preamp stage and more connectivity (eg Sub out). The power amp stage of the ABM is a step up in design and quality from what I’ve read The MAG no longer exists as a new range, it was replaced with the mighty awesome RM (Rootmaster) series

I love Ashdown amps. Paired with a decent cab they sound better than anything else I could ever want. IMO their cheaper cabs aren’t all that exciting but the ABM cabs are very nice. These days I use an ABM with Barefaced cabs and couldn’t be happier. All I need (not want hahaha) now is another RM head and another CTM head

[quote name='Al Krow' timestamp='1509261124' post='3397550'] Fair enough - although I don't know how easy that would be to do from an engineering perspective? Certainly on the octave pedal front Tom @ COG is adamant that generating octave down is fine for analogue but octave up only really feasible with digital. Dunno if the same principle extends to subharmonic generators - have you come across ones on amps that do switch between lows and highs? I'm guessing (but you will know!) that the power amp in Ashdown amps is Class A/B and not Class D? If so, the set up will be not dissimilar to the Mesa M6 which also has a single 12 Ax7 valve pre-amp and a Mosfet (A/ main amp and whose tone I really like, so I suspect I'm going to take a real shine to the this Ashdown head also. [/quote] The power section in the DOOM head will be A/B. The only class D heads Ashdown currently make are the Rootmaster and OriginAl