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What do you currently have ? I had an EB-12 which was great, I only upgraded to an ABM from it due to a good deal on the ABM, otherwise it would have done me fine. It gigged a few times with a MAG210 extension cabinet and I never had the volume past half.

As for whether the 12 or 15 is better - that's personal preference. It's usually said that a 12 will have better mids than a 15, with the 15 having better lows... but I reckon there isn't a huge difference.

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cheers guys for the advice, i"m only using a crappy little 30w amp at the moment but i feel its time to move on to a bigger amp, the 30w is fine for the house but i"ve got friendly with a couple of guitarists who have invited me to go jamming with them and as i"ve not been playing long i need all the experience i can get so the ashdown amps sound just the ticket.

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I've found these to cope quite badly with gigs or long periods of use in my experience. The volume hasn't coped, and the sound has compromised as a result. Lots of other people have had much better experiences with them though, so maybe it was just the ones I've used. I'd imagine an extension cab would help it out a lot.

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i borrowed one of these at a smallish gig (put through the PA too, of course) and it was absolutely fine. I was actually quite impressed, after initially thinking [i]'hmm'[/i] when i saw it.

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I've got one of the 12"s that I use for rehearsals and DI into the desk for gigs.

Sounds great DI'ed, the eq is really flexible.

I don't really rate the tone as a combo, but hey, I only use it like that for band prctise.

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[quote name='Finbar' post='196141' date='May 10 2008, 06:14 PM']I've found these to cope quite badly with gigs or long periods of use in my experience. The volume hasn't coped, and the sound has compromised as a result. Lots of other people have had much better experiences with them though, so maybe it was just the ones I've used. I'd imagine an extension cab would help it out a lot.[/quote]


I bought the 15" for a replacement of my tiny 15wat thing, I love it, I cant complain about it at all, what Chris just said though might run true, turning it up very loud it can destort over 3/4's depending on the other settings, but with an extended cab its outstanding!! But even on its own its a very nice punchy combo. Ashdown are suppopsedly like marmite, but I have to say that im definatly loveing this combo,

go for the 15" too, I tested the 12 and 15, 15 is definatly the better option

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