Merton

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.

Oh yes. That’ll do nicely!

Appreciate this is collection only but… another BC relay…? https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Laney-Digbeth-Series-DB500H-500W-Bass-Amp-Head-/194984392245?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&_trksid=p2349624.m46890.l49286&mkrid=710-127635-2958-0

That works so well it took me ages to even see it in the first pic!

I heard their first song on Planet Rock and didn’t really find my world set on fire, but on the back of this thread (thanks @NancyJohnson!) I’ve just spun the whole album twice. I like it. Not my usual choice but I definitely liked it. And Mrs Mert didn’t tell me to turn it off either, so that’s a good thing (in terms of harmony at home at least…)

Both by back and my bank account fainted when they saw that

Yup. And Mark Gooday has long been an advocate for unlined cabs - there’s an interview where he says so but also admitted that the rest of the Ashdown crew were slowly twisting his arm to follow the science of lining them!

@Russ - how are you getting on with this? Still waiting for a UK release to torment my bank account…

Mods, please feel free to move this but figured it’d get more exposure here… I have a spare ticket for Skunk Anansie at Brighton Dome tomorrow because a friend’s had to drop out. Anyone fancy it?

Damn, one appears to be on hold yes. Ah well.

@tauzerohas one of the GR combos - forgive me I can’t remember which - but that was immediately my first thought reading your first sentence Mark. Id be very tempted by them or indeed the GK Fusion combo if I were looking at that sort of thing right now