Merton

Alter Bridge. 5 string, often funky tunings

The RM heads have two speakon/jack combi sockets so I’d be mighty surprised if the combo didn’t use the same. The RM EVO II cabs are two speakon/jack combi sockets as well

The combo will be fine for rehearsals. Gives you plenty of time to save for a matching second cab Ideally you’d want to match the same range as the design will be the same; as I said before any mix an match (even same manufacturer and driver size but different speakers/cabs) will have different frequency and phase responses.

Maybe the new Trace cabs will suit… hope they’re lightweight as (for me) a lighter cab is more importanterer than a light amp. What’s the point of a lightweight head if the cabs are heavier than the sun?

Option 1: You’ll get around 300W into the internal speaker. Best thing is to go for the 1x15 RM can to match as it is the same. Plenty on here about the potential issues with mixing different drivers/driver sizes. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn’t. It’s a lottery. Option 2: I like the OriginAL 500 head, it’s lovely. Less bells and whistles than the RM so it’s really a toss up on what you want the amp to do. For example the drive and compression on the RM head both give the tone something “more” in the mix. FWIW, I’d be looking at the RM800 which @FinnDave is selling on here. You’ll never need anything else power wise. EDIT for link:

Interesting that he’s said 1200W and I was told by Peavey last week that it was 1100W. 1200 makes more sense given the name. *of course 1200W class D probably means it’ll “feel” like around 600W class AB. In my very humble, fully educated and intelligent opinion 😜

Misinterpretation of the symbols. The up/down arrows are just another way to show top and bottom end

Good work - will be interested in the response

Some CTMs have been made in China… my swimming pool one was 🙂 Most are UK built though.

Phone Ashdown. I bought a second hand CTM100 a couple of years ago, it was in terrible condition. I sent it to Ashdown and had a call from Dave Green, he said he thought it had been living in a swimming pool due to its condition 😅 A complete set of new power valves and preamp valves and a general clean up was significantly cheaper than buying the valves separately. Significantly…

Maybe wait for the new TE-1200 when it’s launched, my bet is that will do the trick nicely. Or maybe Ashdown’s Retroglide?

I’m 95% sure there’s no tube at all, it’s just emulation; the spec sheets don’t make any reference to a valve type and normally you’d expect that to be shouted from the rooftops. Certainly the preamp pedal doesn’t, so I’d be surprised if they’d separately developed that without. Happy to be proven wrong though… I’m seriously toying with the idea of the 500W head and 212 cab as my new “big rig” for a new band….

Yep - Marmite peanut butter even says on the label “give me a stir” …and then heap it on fresh white toast 🤤

This is the food of kings, I love it 😎

No idea TBH. Ashdown still build their flagship amps and cabs in the UK and I suspect when Barefaced join the market they will too. But no idea about Laney…

New Andertons video: I must say they really have nailed the aesthetics for me, they look great. And sound great too to be fair

Certainly did 🙂

Looks bloody marvellous!

Definitely RMS

Yeah it’s still got pride of place in my little music room at home 😎

Just don’t boost the bass on it or you’ll fry everything and hurt your ears 🤓

Yup. Took a long time for one of my guitarist friends to realise that a lot of the balls from the guitar actually comes from NOT boosting the lows, and giving the bass clean space to work in. Works really well on rock stuff where the bass and rhythm guitar are tending to do similar things.

That EQ curve, along with the pre shape being set “on”, is emphasising the low end an awful lot. Increasing the gain will be causing your speakers grief and I expect, as @Downunderwonder said, it’s probably the 15” which is struggling.

Ah ok. How’s your EQ set? Possibly too much bottom end in the preamp causing it to clip as you increase the gain?