Back order blues finally cured :D

Patricide

After a long long long wait because of the amp being in backorder my new babey is FINALLY here!!!:D:D

Behold my newest purchase, And Ashdown klystron 500 watt and abm 115 cab.







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Unfortunatly havent had a chance to play her yet cause it only has speaker outs , Gonna try to buy one in town later but i dunno if theyl have them but it sure does look perty

Quattroste

Thats real nice Patricide. The Ashdown has a certain, dare I say Vintage look to it, but still modern at the same time. Of course a sound demo would go down well.

Killaqueen!!!

Looks sweet

Patricide

Will do but i cant get a speakon cable here in tralee :O , the guy in the guitarshop here musta been high or somthing cause he said some **** about needing the ohms and **** which i dont believe for a second, all speakon cables are the same iirc.

Looks like im gonna have to order one of the net and wait a week or 2 to play it most frustrating thing EVER.

Quattroste

I have 2 1/4 inch to speakon cables and 2 speakon to speakon cables. I'm in Dublin/Wicklow but if you drove up you could have 1 for a tenner

Doctor J

The speakon cable is a regular speaker cable, just the plug at the end is different. Does it not have one 1/4" speaker output and one speakon? It should be more than happy just running one cab until you get a speakon.

Tell me, what differentiates the Klystron from the ABM heads? It seems to share a lot of the same design and features.

Patricide

No it just has 2 speakons, its really annoying, im not gonna try anything dodgey with it and im gonna wait till i get the proper cables. Might take one from the youth center when im playing a gig tomorro.

Yea they do share a LOAD of design features, They just refined the sound on it, added in a free footswitch, made it more aesteticly pleasing and its now made in england as oposed to being made overseas. The klysron i think goes up to a higher wattage too. It also has an extra nob which is either for how prevelent the mid is or how much the compressor is in effect, im not sure because i havent played it yet , most frustrating purchase ever. Damm you ashdown supply a cable for it for christ sake.

Doctor J

Ah right, the ABMs are made in England though... at least my ABM stuff is. Looks good.

Patricide

Doctor J wrote:

Ah right, the ABMs are made in England though... at least my ABM stuff is. Looks good.

Yea thats the problem it looks good but i cant play it

Quattroste

Like I said, I have a speakon to speakon cable if you want it! And yes, it's a proper cable. I was kidding about the tenner too, if you can make it up you can have it.

judas101

Doctor J wrote:

Ah right, the ABMs are made in England though... at least my ABM stuff is. Looks good.

yep, so is mine.

that is a very sexy amp tho.

Patricide

Quattroste wrote:

Like I said, I have a speakon to speakon cable if you want it! And yes, it's a proper cable. I was kidding about the tenner too, if you can make it up you can have it.

**** sorry man, forgot to reply to that doh... yea i would if i didnt live down in kerry , im playing a gig in the youth center tonight so im just gonna "borrow" one of theres. thanks anyway though

Patricide

Ok, turns out that the speakon jack was a new fangled speakon 1/4 inch hybird so i managed to test it on the stage tonight. Sounds goregeous, unfortunatly i only brought down my 1 X15 and the soundguy put it right next to the bassdrum so i couldnt hear anything(which wasnt good in bass dependant songs such as dig) and to make things worse the guitarist turned up way way too loud.

Still thoughThe amp itself sounds ****ing ACE. Ill post up soundclis when i amnt so lazy.

Doctor J

There's nothing like reading the manual, eh?

Patricide

Doctor J wrote:

There's nothing like reading the manual, eh?

didnt get one, I looked up the ashdown site too and couldnt find one. I just noticed it by a complete fluke.