Ashdown ABM500RC Evo III 575W Rack Mount Bass Head Chrome Finish

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Rack mountable version of the ABM500 Evo III head - all other spec the same.

ABM 500 EVO III

Stunning shear depth of sound and what can only be described as TONE!

A very dependable amplifier.

The overall sound is great: with the preamp blend knob turned up about half way, you can go from a clean, warm bass tone to a tone that is distorted just enough so that it keeps the amazing lows but adds a wonderful growl, and thatd without even touching the EQ. You gotta love that growl.

What Ashdown say about the ABM500 Evo 3

A 575 watts RMS bass amp head designed to satisfy both bass-purists and tech-heads alike. Three straightforward rotary tone controls provide 20dB of cut and boost at 60Hz, 660Hz and 5kHz, and are supplemented by two pairs of additional sliders giving 15dB cut and boost at 180Hz, 340Hz, 1.3kHz and 2.6kHz.

The EQ can be switched in/out by a footswitch, enabling players to go from a flat fretless sound to a boosted sound via a favourite EQ setting. A single input is switchable for passive and active instruments with a blend of solid state and dual triode tube preamps stages which can be preset and selected by footswitch, providing access to a massive range of clean, warm and overdriven tones.

Also footswitchable is the on-board compressor and the mighty Ashdown sub-harmonic generator which precisely tracks the main signal and reproduces it an octave lower. A sub-harmonic level control enables the player to add just the right amount of low-end reinforcement - everything from a subtle, thickening of the sound to unbridled, bone crushing tone.

The ABM 500 EVO III features a front-panel mounted balanced DI out with pre or post EQ switching, a sub-bass output, a tuner output, an FX loop and a line input for the connection of an external sampler or sound source. Output muting cuts the signal from the DI output but leaves the tuner output 'live', allowing the player to tune up in silence. A new upgraded power section has faster transient attack, more headroom and even less noise.