ASHDOWN Original Preamp Pedal

The Ashdown Original Preamp Pedal Model Beautifully The clean bass player signal offering a valve overdrive in a single compact unit. The Original Preamp contains clean and crystal clear sound combined with a powerful growl.
Level setting
The pad switch -3DB is used in combination with the input level control to adapt to the instrument in use, bassypasives do not require the use of the pad, but the bassialives can overload the pedal and request the use of the pad. The input overload simply creates an unwanted distortion and an unpleasant sound.
True Valvolare Overdrive
The overdrive circuit mounted in the preamplifierCreat the type of overdrive that you would get from a valve amplifier and works exactly in the same way. The Gain Drive knob controls the signal increase from the instrument, with more settings High the valve, being overpailed, porter clipping and the compression of the sound from the instrument, so the highest harmonics and the highest frequencies will be accentuated while the lowest frequencies will be tablets. Just as in a valve amplifier, this will be accompanied by a drastic increase in volume, entirely dependent on the setting of gain control. To combine the level of the overdrive signal to the clean level, a separate level control is also provided. In this way it is therefore possible to switch from a crystalline sound to a similar overdrive sound. Also the Input Level control has some relinence with this since the starting point from which the overdrive circuit works, then a trial is required together with Drive Gain and Drive Level to get exactly the results you are looking for. When using the pedal switch, recommended and desirable to avoid large volume increases for sudden level changes can produce noise.
Technical specifications:
- Valve: 12ax7
- 5-band EQ
- Separate overdrive switch with Gain and Level controls
- Size: 62 x 183 x 118mm
- Weight: 1, 4 kg