Merton

Tell him he’s no longer allowed this bass and has to donate it to me.

Nice! Have to say the “standard” GR cabs look like the ones I’d choose (over the Ameritech ones) - let us know how the gig goes!

I had the predecessor to the current Fusion S range and it was great. Clean or and level of grind to full on dirt as you desire. A very versatile, powerful head. If I wasn’t happy with my current set up I’d be all over that Fusion S

Here’s the low down on the Mesa situation: Edit - meant to add a comment on alternatives! The GK Fusion S would be well worth a look. There’s one in the classifieds here:

This is a silly one - early ABM (marginally wider than the EVO II onwards apparently) on a Two10S

Good news - it arrived with me damaged and I rejected it as I was wasn’t convinced my DIY skills would fix it up. Glad it went to a good home Hopefully the packaging was better with you than it had been for me…

Everything please 😆

Yes please!

That is most lovely 😊

My Little Bastard’s front panel rattles like a very tartly thing thesedays. Really must take a look and sort it out because it’s mighty annoying at home 😅

I love gigging! Sometimes I don’t enjoy the load in or load out, but that has very very rarely overridden my feelings of joy playing live music 😊

Pardon? 😃 Ahem. Yes you will; it gets very, very loud.

Less to do with the impedances and more to do with whether it’ll sound good I expect.

I do exactly this on occasion. Two10S set to 4 ohm, plus 8 ohm One10 = 2.666 ohms, which my Glock can handle. Sounds epic.

Great amp, and as @2elliot says plenty loud enough with the right cab(s). I used one with either one or two Super Compacts, and then later a Four10, and it was immense. Not got a huge amount of EQ options but what it does do, it does very well indeed.

Yep my first OriginAL unit had a terrible headphone output; Ashdown tried to fix it but couldn’t so they sent me a completely different, ex-demo unit. Which was ace because the one I bought was second hand. Yet again they went above and beyond in terms of customer service. Edit to add - here’s a video of it showing what I think it does very well indeed:

Not sure that account is managed anymore. The guy who used to post for them left the company just over a year ago now. I may be wrong though! £625 for that pedal is surely a mistake though, it’s not worth it I’m afraid. I do like it a lot and you can make a reasonable impression of an ABM but I think the drive section needs a rethink as you have to keep the drive gain and input levels very low or it becomes a swarm of angry wasps. For a while it was the main tool for tone shaping in my rock band but I’ve actually moved away from it to use the drive circuit within my Glockenklang nowadays. Dare I say it but if something else appears in the FS section it may find itself up for grabs 😲

That’s a good looking neck!

As with everything there are good and bad implementations. My Glockenklang Blue Rock, for example, sounds bloody amazing even at war volume. No loss of “heft”, no thinness to the tone. It’s in the execution of the preamp and power stage. Think back to the early Ashdown examples - the Little Giants I think? They suffered from a weak preamp. Ashdown fixed that with the MiBass series then moved on even further with the RM series. The other thing to remember is the power amp class (A/B, D etc) is only part of the story. It’s the power supply where a lot of the magic can happen as that’s what needs to deliver to allow the power amp section to do its thing. The SMPS designs in many class D heads work differently from the traditional toroidal transformers etc but again, it’s in the design and implementation. Trace Elliot apparently used to use the big PSUs even for the lower rated amplifiers, which is one of the reasons those lower rated units could continue to deliver clean lower as they had headroom in the supply rails. Then you have the previously-mentioned Class A/B Markbass LM heads; they will have an SMPS for their power supply otherwise they wouldn’t fit in that box size - but clearly it’s been designed to work well The newer generation ICE modules definitely felt to me to be a better design than the earlier ones, but my Glock uses something else entirely (I can’t remember what!) which is slammingly good.

About 6.8lbs according to a previous post

I like the look of that. A nice simple, uncluttered little amp. Nice

I have one from 1999

They are really good little things aren’t they. I’ve gigged one in a loud rock band with no PA support, and it coped through a single, albeit high end, 12” driver (Barefaced Super Compact, 8 ohms). There was no headroom left at all and it was getting a bit squishy with the in built limiting and compression but it handled it. A week or so back I A/B’d it with my 1000W Glock. To a degree it did surprisingly well but the Glock had more authority, cleanliness and clarity in the lows, which you’d expect.