Merton

Another I'd like to offer, with a little mic drop at the end. This guy is the epitome of "cool bassist" to me:

Haha, me too!

Only for pre-1999 products according to Mark Gooday, of course that's where their knowledge and family lineage is. I doubt they'd want to touch the current Peavey products.

The dude who bought it now has two for exactly that reason I think 😂

Nice one. I almost went for it myself to replace the Four10 😅 It’s gone to a better home 🙂

I wondered if you would spot that - bargain!

RM has drive and compression, Origin-Al is just the clean 5 band EQ without those features. Basically

I normally run my LB through a single Barefaced One10 at home, these settings work quite nicely, but plug into the “low” input to hit the preamp harder

Thanks to the real experts for pointing @DiMarco in the right direction; there’s a reason I didn’t get very far with electronics 20 years ago so I’ll keep my nose out of this sort of thing from now on

I wonder if the power supply has separate outputs to the pre and power amps because of voltage/current requirements of each. And it’s something that feeds the power amps that’s died? Certainly the noise suggests a capacitor I think

My current ACG family. A fourth has just been commissioned 😎 All these are 32” scale, but left to right we have: 2015 Finn 4, OPB pickup, passive volume and tone. P bass on steroids. Swamp ash body, maple neck and board. 2017 Skelf 5, two reverse OPB pickups, active P Retro, very versatile sweet sounding bass but can get the Spector growl nailed too. Limba body, Fractal Nero top, ash neck, rosewood board 2019 Finn 5, two FBs, active UniPre pickup, think modern super jazz. Swamp ash body, maple and bubinga neck and maple board

Sounds like one of the capacitors has given up the ghost possibly?

Again, agreed. Our local rehearsal room has Ashdown ABM EVO IV heads and I’ve lost count of the amount of times I’ve gone in to find the EQ in a ridiculously OTT boost-everything-plus-the-sub situation. Set it “flat” and start again. (I appreciate I have an advantage that I own Ashdown heads anyway so know how to dial something in quickly from “flat” but I’d follow the same when confronted with any other amp).

I'm actually selling my Four10 now, lacking in gigs...

Found the old thread:

It's secret, you ain't allowed to know, innit

Just PM'd you Matt

Oh yeah - my generalisation of "all other cabs" meaning only the 12" range, apologies I think the 300 is a little wider TBH but not much.

You have Compacts, I said Super Compact - different cab

You called? 😎 Personally I'd look for a Four10 or Six10 perhaps. The CTM will overhang all other cabs and if you're like me that will set your OCD going wild. Also, having gigged my CTM100 with both the Super Compact and Four10 I can safely say the 10s range works better with the CTM voicing. @Lozz196 makes a good shout regarding the Ashdown EVO IV cabs, they do feel like a step up from the older ABM cabs to my cloth ears.

Again, agree 100%. 12 o'clock doesn't mean I'm expecting "flat", it just means I'm starting somewhere which gives a reasonable +/- movement where applicable. Gain and volume would always start at zero and move to the correct place for preamp to get the right signal and overall volume. In theory my ABM's tone controls are 0dB boost at 12 o'clock, but my CTM100 and Little Bastard valve heads most definitely are not. But it's as good a place to start as any.

This, 100%

Love the fact the specifically wanted you @Dood that's awesome

For that money you can go fully custom. My ACG Skelf is the best modern rock bass I've ever had, built entirely for that purpose and well within your budget: http://www.acguitars.co.uk/project/0274skelf4/