Meet the ANT, Ashdown's revolutionary pedalboard bass amp. Packed with 250 watts of Ashdown's signature bass power, this compact marvel is your ticket to consistent tone and reliability on any stage. Designed for bassists who rely on pedals, modelers, and effects processors, the ANT offers versatile tone sculpting with its 3-band EQ and shape pre-set.

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The OriginAL beautifully shapes the bass player’s clean signal whilst offering a foot-switchable valve powered overdrive in a single compact unit. Crystal clear cleans and powerful overdriven growl, The OriginAL encompasses it all.

Setting the Level
The -3db Pad switch is used in conjunction with the input level control to suit the instrument in use, Low output basses will not require the use of the Pad but Higher Output basses may overload the pedal and require use of the Pad. Overloading the Input will simply create unwanted distortion and sound unpleasant, with experimentation the correct settings will be found for the Instruments you have.

Real Valve Overdrive
The Valve overdrive circuit fitted into the Original pre amplifier duplicates the kind of overdrive you would get from Valve Amplifier and works in exactly the same way as follows,The DRIVE GAIN controls the magnification of the signal from the instrument, at higher settings the Valve will be overdriven clipping and compressing the sound from the instrument, Higher harmonics and higher frequencies will be accentuated whilst the lower frequencies will be compressed. Just as in a valve amplifier this will be accompanied by a drastic increase in volume dependant entirely on the setting of the gain control.

To enable you to match the Overdriven signal level to the clean level a Drive level control is also provided. In this way it is therefore possible to change from a crystal clean sound to an overdriven sound of similar level. The Input Level control also has some bearing on this as it sets the starting point from which the overdrive circuit works so some experimentation with this in conjunction with Drive Gain and Drive Level will be required to get exactly the results you are looking for.

The OVERDRIVE is foot switchable and the pedal lights up blue when the overdrive is engaged. When using the footswitch it is advisable and desirable to avoid large increases in volume as sudden level changes may produce switching noise further down the line.

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Original Valve Pre-DI Pedal

Adding a vintage Fuzz tone to any guitar be it a rich meaty Les Paul or a Tasty Tele our Vintage fuzz will put a smile on your face.

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PRO-FX Vintage Fuzz

Due to popular demand, Ashdown combined the functions of an expansive equalizer pedal with those of a DI box. For instance, the Ashdown 12-band Graphic DI assures you of delectable Ashdown tones when you open up the Preshape control. You can extensively knead and edit the sounds via the 12-band equalizer and send it to a mixer via the XLR output.

This rugged metal pedal, with its rich tonal palette contains two foot switches that allow you to separately turn the shape and equalizer functions on or off. Additionally, it has separate controls for the equalizer, the input signal and the DI output, as well as the familiar backlit Ashdown VU meter. The Graphic DI can be used for both active and passive bass guitars.

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FS-EQ 12 DI 

The OriginAL beautifully shapes the bass player’s clean signal whilst offering a foot-switchable valve powered overdrive in a single compact unit. Crystal clear cleans and powerful overdriven growl, The OriginAL encompasses it all.

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