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Ashdown MAG 300H Head

Bass Guitar Amp Head from Ashdown belonging to the MAG series

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Published on 04/06/07 at 03:19
Value For Money : Poor
300 watts into 4 ohms, 150 into 8, while transistor, sometimes a little ledge 'if we do run on 8, is not that the drummer is too gross an ... two inputs: high and low gain, 2 outputs in 4 or 8 ohm jack, an output line / out, which can be used for a tuner, an effects loop and a DI post-EQ, but considering the price of beast, I tend to doubt its reliability, I expect advice ^ ^.
A small 5-band EQ switchable quite effective, input gain (with the meter! CLAA ... the ...) and output gain, the boost switch for severe acute boost.
The little originality is a very discreet octaver they call "sub harmonizer", it is understood that in straining to hear, but it can add some body to the sound. On the disco / funk, it puts a little more, but hey, it's more a gimmick in my opinion.

UTILIZATION

Config very simple, there are no buttons in every corner, equalization can sober enough not to get too lost in the settings and works pretty well, the sound comes fairly quickly, which is good, it ' is the momentum of the machine, this is my first head, I used to play on some cheap amps, and there, no need to push the treble for potato slap in, it alleviates the sound.
No manual for me (I see too that they would put us in it ...)

SOUNDS

Personally, I'm with funk, groove and it's serious! Us with my precision, heavy bass who snore, and a dynamic exploding, do not bother, as I said above, play guitar by pushing the 2000 Hz for "slap sound," but with the dynamics and settings of the high mids, it quickly a big big sound that is quite a place in a config bass '/ batt' scratching and singing. No effect on it, a chorus sometimes, but rarely.
The treble is quite convincing as for a more hard, there is a way to shout the beast even fingers, it sounds good rock. I play on a 15-inch, so for the serious, no worries.
Well, an average point, the subharmonizer ... It's cute, it's original, but frankly, when you play in a group, you hear more, it is not much in my opinion. A real one octave or chorus would have been a little more useful ... That's why I put 9

OVERALL OPINION

It's been recently that I bought it, but I turn around for a few months in store and I already know by heart ^ ^. At first, the price was a little delayed. The sound was good, but I was looking for the scam, Hartke cheaper than with a more percussive I did not believe too much.
Dynamics and serious for me is his big asset. A sin that sounds pretty monstrous slap in in this entry is rare.
I tried the Hartke HA3500, cold and metallic, peavey, tour series I think, a little lifeless, lacking potato, ampeg, expensive for the entry level, and what they offer is frankly not exceptional, warwick, pro fet 5.1 and 3.2, too low, even in a 410 aluminum, it was great deaf. The Ashdown is really the best for the funk-rock.
I probably would do the choice, though I said a little more expensive, the markbass was a real bomb, too ... To be confirmed ...