Laney Nexus 15"s

[4 Strings]

I suppose Laney never really got to be a Marshall or Hiwatt and have kept themselves going on a diet of pretty poor quality beginner type stuff, hence his reactionary comment.

I have had two Laney things pass through my life, a 30W valve guitar combo and a bass combo used by a mate. Both have been very good, no problems at all. The guitar combo actually is excellent, used by the lad at uni at the moment and its popular with everyone. I have a friend too who turns his nose up at the word 'Laney', his loss, I'd recommend them. Just need to recognise their cheap stuff is just that.

Laney is worse than not fashionable, they are unfashionable and so have little second hand value compared with more widely accepted names. I'd happily have a Nexus set up (although I'd like to try one first!) but I would expect to lose a lot if I came to sell it.

Do let us know how you get on with it, I Kind of like the idea of encouraging British made gear.

[dan670844]

[quote name='4 Strings' post='1054618' date='Dec 11 2010, 12:29 AM']I suppose Laney never really got to be a Marshall or Hiwatt and have kept themselves going on a diet of pretty poor quality beginner type stuff, hence his reactionary comment.

I have had two Laney things pass through my life, a 30W valve guitar combo and a bass combo used by a mate. Both have been very good, no problems at all. The guitar combo actually is excellent, used by the lad at uni at the moment and its popular with everyone. I have a friend too who turns his nose up at the word 'Laney', his loss, I'd recommend them. Just need to recognise their cheap stuff is just that.

Laney is worse than not fashionable, they are unfashionable and so have little second hand value compared with more widely accepted names. I'd happily have a Nexus set up (although I'd like to try one first!) but I would expect to lose a lot if I came to sell it.

Do let us know how you get on with it, I Kind of like the idea of encouraging British made gear.[/quote]

+1 about Laney sometimes they come up with some real gems, The nexus range is cool, the nexus tube preamp is pretty cool as it addresses the limitations of some tube amps in live situations i.e you can eq out a room properly, and nice to see a 12BH7 in a preamp again just like a proper SVT. Don't know why they bothered shoving a FET preamp in as well, is a bit kitchen sink but there you go!
Also the lionheart guitar amps are amazing, really, wow, a guitarist mate Richard has just got one (The L5 for the studio). The sound that comes out of them is really special.

On these cabs, they are cool but, as people are saying old school, to get full range you need to use the 4x10 as well, so you need a big old stack, looks cool, but maybe if you turn up at the Rose and Crown with a 400 watt tube amp and a 4x10 1x15 stack it may not be considered 'appropriate' If they have green label cele's in they are designed to sound old school, so job done, if they arent sharp or defined enough for you, you could swap them out for the orange labels for more attack and definition.

One thing to be said about Laney even there lower rent stuff is ultra reliable as its very simple, if i was starting out i would defo consider an RB9, if I didnt like the sound I would shove a sansamp on it!

Love the fact that both Ashdown and Laney have start to produce stuff in the UK again, gives me a warm feeling inside!

[Delberthot]

Well I'm impressed so far.

Used it at a party night tonight so had a good few hours belting out all different stuff

First impressions were that a cab that I can carry in one hand and my bass in another is a very good start. Its so light compared to what I am used to that when I went to lift it onto the cab stand using both hands I nearly lifted it over my head. good start.

My initial impression of the sound was that for a compact cab, it has an amazing amount of top end clarity and deep bass response. I was really pushing it tonight and went for a dirty rock tone with the boost control on the Gallien as high as it would go. What I was hearing was the distortion created by the amp clearly, very loud and the cone was hardly moving.

It sounds like quite a lazy driver if you know what I mean, as was mentioned above, due to the model of driver used but I could still manage a fast attack by adjusting the controls on the amp. It can easily do an old school, overdriven rock tone.

This was only its first outing so the driver hadn't yet properly broken in so I am expecting more bottom end when it does.

I'm back out next Friday so what I plan on doing is to use the Ibanez that I have on its way soon and go for a much cleaner tone with an active bass to see how that sounds.

Early days but I reckon that this is loud enough to cope with a small to medium size pub with no PA support.

There is only one thing that I am not keen on and that's the vinyl covering: it looks very cheap and I'm pretty certain that in the wrong hands would be torn and scratched within the space of a few gigs. I plan on buying a cover for it otherwise it'll look like sh*t within a year, even though I look after my gear.

Edited December 12, 2010 by Delberthot

[dan670844]

[quote name='Delberthot' post='1055619' date='Dec 12 2010, 01:57 AM']Well I'm impressed so far.

Used it at a party night tonight so had a good few hours belting out all different stuff

First impressions were that a cab that I can carry in one hand and my bass in another is a very good start. Its so light compared to what I am used to that when I went to lift it onto the cab stand using both hands I nearly lifted it over my head. good start.

My initial impression of the sound was that for a compact cab, it has an amazing amount of top end clarity and deep bass response. I was really pushing it tonight and went for a dirty rock tone with the boost control on the Gallien as high as it would go. What I was hearing was the distortion created by the amp clearly, very loud and the cone was hardly moving.

It sounds like quite a lazy driver if you know what I mean, as was mentioned above, due to the model of driver used but I could still manage a fast attack by adjusting the controls on the amp. It can easily do an old school, overdriven rock tone.

This was only its first outing so the driver hadn't yet properly broken in so I am expecting more bottom end when it does.

I'm back out next Friday so what I plan on doing is to use the Ibanez that I have on its way soon and go for a much cleaner tone with an active bass to see how that sounds.


Early days but I reckon that this is loud enough to cope with a small to medium size pub with no PA support.

There is only one thing that I am not keen on and that's the vinyl covering: it looks very cheap and I'm pretty certain that in the wrong hands would be torn and scratched within the space of a few gigs. I plan on buying a cover for it otherwise it'll look like sh*t within a year, even though I look after my gear.[/quote]


Well done dude you have broken the mould, and have bought and used something that sounds good rather than something that has a the 'name' on it

[Delberthot]

Just found out tonight that i have a gig this weekend so I'm going to see if using just one cab on its own without PA support is going to be loud enough

I had intended buying a second one but let's see how I get on with it on its own against the Jim Carey of the drumming world (I am the Jim Carey of the bass world ) and a phenomenal guitarist who plays a Les paul through a Peavey 5150 2x12" combo

[indiegrungesound]

[quote name='Delberthot' post='1091980' date='Jan 16 2011, 11:17 PM']Just found out tonight that i have a gig this weekend so I'm going to see if using just one cab on its own without PA support is going to be loud enough

I had intended buying a second one but let's see how I get on with it on its own against the Jim Carey of the drumming world (I am the Jim Carey of the bass world ) and a phenomenal guitarist who plays a Les paul through a Peavey 5150 2x12" combo[/quote]
Afternoon. Just wanted to ask how the cab went last night? (Still toying with the idea of getting the Nexus cabs for some time in the future.)

[Delberthot]

Been kind of busy the last few weeks but finally got to gig the cab on its own tonight with no PA support.

The short answer is that this cab goes very loud. Tonight I wasn't even remotely pushing it. It could've gone a lot louder.

Hooray, I don't need to buy another one.