Recent content by Chairman Kaga

I just inherited an old 70's Traynor YC-610 cabinet that seems to be in decent working order. I've done a little reading and it seems this rig is rated at 5.4 ohms. That's... weird. Knowing just enough about electrics to be dangerous, I'm afraid to hook anything I have up to this cab. My main...

I'm clearing out and scaling down a bit now that I've "retired" from live performance. I have a 1990 Trace Elliot 1225v combo that I might want to sell. It was built for Chris Maresh, a local Austin bassist who's played with Eric Johnson among others. I picked it up from the Bass Emporium for a...

Talking with some other Ashdown owners, it came up they replaced the stock tube for the valve drive with burned in Groove Tubes. I can't find any info on how to actually go about doing this though, and seeing as how I just got the thing a few weeks ago I'm reluctant to just hack into it. Any...

Ahhh... well that's the question, isn't it? It's an Ashdown ABM500, which has a Sub Out port on the front as well as a standard line out/tuner port. The sub out has a crossover to filter the highs, I think. Now I assume that handy-dandy VU meter will help keep me within clipping range on the...

By juice do you mean actual 'lectricity from the club's sparking, smouldering power strip? Cause if I recall that was more or less the case (maybe slight hyperbole) at Club 710 here in Austin the night my GK bit the dust. The power amp still works perfectly though...

He stopped taking commissions several years ago in order to go full-time teaching woodworking and luthiery arts at a high school in Cape Cod. He did say once he retires for good he'll go back to building to order. I can't wait! I love mine, although the Bart pre-amp fried out recently. It's the...

I tried asking this yesterday but think I got too wordy. :hmm: Basically, if I want to run a 4 ohm cab with my ABM500 and also slave a power amp (600 watts bridged into 8 ohms) to the Ashdown's sub out and push an 8 ohm 1x15 with it, will this melt the Ashdown? Even using a power amp rather...

Karl Hoyt custom. Five-piece maple and walnut body and neck, Bartolini soaps, Bartolino 3-band 9v preamp, Hipshot hardware, oil finish. Mmmmmm...

So I have an Ashdown ABM500 into an Avatar 410 NEO (4ohm). Awesome, but there are times, especially at local gigs without any monitors or PA (more common than I'd like), when I need more low end. I have an older GK 1x15 that I respeakered with an 8 ohm, 600 wattCarvin driver. Back when it was...