{"id":3029,"date":"2013-01-31T13:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-01-31T18:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/?p=3029"},"modified":"2013-02-01T17:20:01","modified_gmt":"2013-02-01T22:20:01","slug":"ashdown-ctm15-can-you-rock-it-with-just-15-tube-watts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/gear\/ashdown-ctm15-can-you-rock-it-with-just-15-tube-watts.html","title":{"rendered":"Ashdown CTM15: Can You Rock It With Just 15 Tube Watts?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img style=\"background-image: none; border-right-width: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; padding-top: 0px\" title=\"vaT02KbVMsrX7X5OhKsFwo2XPxOWPDvDokoePU509c0\" border=\"0\" alt=\"vaT02KbVMsrX7X5OhKsFwo2XPxOWPDvDokoePU509c0\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/vaT02KbVMsrX7X5OhKsFwo2XPxOWPDvDokoePU509c0.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"337\"><\/p>\n<p>While Max was at NAMM he took a bunch of photos (with more coming on the way), and when he saw the above little 15-watt offering from Ashdown Engineering, he snapped a photo and purposely put his sunglasses on top of it just to give you an idea of how small this thing is.<\/p>\n<p>The entire spec sheet on the CTM15 <a href=\"https:\/\/ashdownmusic.com\/products\/1\/Bass-Amplification\/1\/Valve\/13\/CTM15\/\">is right here<\/a>, but what you need to know up front is that yes, it is a true all-tube bass amp head, it is 15 watts RMS, it does have a rugged housing (meaning it does have a properly-made cage and chassis), and of course it has that oh-so awesome VU meter on it.<\/p>\n<p>Small note before continuing: This is one of three CTM bass amp heads Ashdown offers. The other two are the <a href=\"https:\/\/ashdownmusic.com\/products\/1\/Bass-Amplification\/1\/Valve\/10\/CTM100\/\">CTM100<\/a> and the large-and-in-charge <a href=\"https:\/\/ashdownmusic.com\/products\/1\/Bass-Amplification\/1\/Valve\/9\/CTM300\/\">CTM300<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Actual dimensions of the CTM are 140x235x155 mm. For those that don&#8217;t feel like doing the math in statute measurements, that&#8217;s roughly 5.5&#215;9.25&#215;6.1 inches. Yeah, it&#8217;s small. <\/p>\n<p>Remember, those 15 watts are <em>tube watts<\/em>, meaning it can belt out some good sound.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#ff0000\"><strong>We&#8217;re interested to know what you think about this little amp<\/strong> (even if you haven&#8217;t tried it), so please feel free to express your opinion by posting a comment or two.<\/font><\/p>\n<p>Ashdown also very recently put out a demo video on this amp head, so feel free to check it out below.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><iframe height=\"337\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/os6-Ug1XBcs\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"600\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While Max was at NAMM he took a bunch of photos (with more coming on the way), and when he saw the above little 15-watt offering from Ashdown Engineering, he snapped a photo and purposely put his sunglasses on top of it just to give you an idea of how small this thing is. The &#8230; <a title=\"Ashdown CTM15: Can You Rock It With Just 15 Tube Watts?\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/gear\/ashdown-ctm15-can-you-rock-it-with-just-15-tube-watts.html\" aria-label=\"More on Ashdown CTM15: Can You Rock It With Just 15 Tube Watts?\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":3028,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[23],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3029"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3029"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3029\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3028"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}