Ashdown Little Bastard $400

[gastric]

I find myself almost always plugging all my instruments into the HIGH jack. Keeps it fat and warm without overdrive even with the volume at 1 O'clock. Plug into the LOW jack and you get a lot of wooly drive almost throughout the entire Volume travel.

Might be a good experiment to replace the V1 tube with something lower gain to see how it impacts the tone.

 

[gastric]

The metal vent on top of my unit above the power tubes gets really hot to the touch (almost skin-burning hot) from just bedroom volumes. My infrared thermometer read 123F. The rear panel by the power tubes read 128F. Comments?

The manual seems useless, particularly since it's in the box packed away in my attic. Anyone want to tell me exactly how you access the tubes in the head to swap them? I'm guessing remove the 4 feet from the bottom and it slides out of the headcase?

 

[moles]

The metal vent on top of my unit above the power tubes gets really hot to the touch from just bedroom volumes. My infrared thermometer read 123F. The rear panel by the power tubes read 128F. Comments?

After a couple of discussions with guitar players about their low wattage tube heads, it seems that the heat issue is de rigeur for that sort of amp. Up here in Canada we have these new poly-based bills, so our conclusion was "don't leave your wallet on top!"

 

[Baird6869]

Up here in Canada we have these new poly-based bills, so our conclusion was "don't leave your wallet on top!"

So our new money doesn't fold, it sticks together AND could melt/spontaneously combust? F@#%ing brilliant. Add that to the Mounties, igloos and dogsleds for "make fun of Canada" material.

 

[moles]

So our new money doesn't fold, it sticks together AND could melt/spontaneously combust? F@#%ing brilliant. Add that to the Mounties, igloos and dogsleds for "make fun of Canada" material.

And have you noticed it's just BEGGING to come flying out of your pocket, due to the new slippery surface?

 

[gastric]

To remove the amp from the headcase you carefully pop the four black hole covers, two on each side, unscrew the bolts and don't forget the washers, then the amp easily slides on out. Careful as the amp steel is somewhat sharp.



It's full of Ruby branded tubes. Two 12ax7,one 12au7 , four power tubes.

PCB looks well made, most of the visible soldering is good.