ashdown tube amp

slaphappychappy · #1 09-29-2011, 03:23 PM

Okay, found a 300 watt ashdown tube amp with a matching single 15 inch cab. Any thoughts? I'll get the model number.

Sartori · #2 09-29-2011, 03:33 PM

BTA 300?

rodl2005 · #3 09-29-2011, 03:57 PM

I wouldn't mind the 'li'l Bastard'.

slaphappychappy · #4 09-29-2011, 10:48 PM

It's just the standard 330 watt tube amp and it puts out 307 watts. It's not the lil bastard, its half the price, I'm assuming it has a built in tube pre amp. Haven't found model yet.

**B-string** · #5 09-29-2011, 11:01 PM

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Originally Posted by slaphappychappy

It's just the standard 330 watt tube amp and it puts out 307 watts. It's not the lil bastard, its half the price, I'm assuming it has a built in tube pre amp. Haven't found model yet.

So......is it a tube amp or tube/SS hybrid?

Tom_RCJ · #6 09-29-2011, 11:15 PM

This would be my guess after a quick browse.

Ashdown Engineering | Bass Amplification

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The BTA 300 (Big Tube Head) partners a third-generation ABM preamp with a 300-Watt, 6 x KT88 valve output stage for ABM sophistication with bone-crushing tube power. All the ABM features are there – EQ In/Out footswitching, variable Tube/Solid-State input stages, on-board compressor and Sub Harmonic Generator, ,balanced DI Output with Pre/Post EQ switching, FX loop, Tuner output and more. The BTA 300 partners perfectly with a range of Ashdown US Series cabinets.

slaphappychappy · #7 09-30-2011, 01:50 AM

It's the smaller version of it.

rodl2005 · #8 09-30-2011, 02:48 AM

So is that the 220w version or another?
I'm tempted to grab a li'l B. Head

slaphappychappy · #9 09-30-2011, 02:55 AM

Cabinet.

slaphappychappy · #10 09-30-2011, 02:56 AM

It's the one the thread is about. 330 watts.

Mr. Foxen · #11 09-30-2011, 03:29 AM

Its not a tube amp but the common meaning, of an amp that uses tubes to do the power amplification. It is a hybrid with tube preamp and solid state power amp.

rodl2005 · #12 09-30-2011, 03:55 AM

Ahhhhh! So a hybrid.
Is that the 1x15" cab in the above pic? I've heard they're good cabs.

I've already got a 1x15, (not Ashdown) but the Li'l B. Head has me lusting.

Sartori · #13 09-30-2011, 04:52 AM

So, is it a tube amp or not?

The picture doesn't look like a tube amp. It's a hybrid?

slaphappychappy · #14 09-30-2011, 05:34 AM

Hybrid, which explains the cost. It's great value, the tone would be a nice mix, I'm thinking this .15 inch speaker idea may be good n in Australia 1149 for the set.

mroekalea · #15 09-30-2011, 05:38 AM

Many ashdown heads are hybrid, this one is a new model which does not use 1 tube but three pre-amp tubes.

TheRealKong · #16 09-30-2011, 05:55 AM

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Originally Posted by Tom_RCJ

The BTA 300 (Big Tube Head) partners a third-generation ABM preamp with a 300-Watt, 6 x KT88 valve output stage for ABM sophistication with bone-crushing tube power.

So I understand this as a hybrid amp "the other way round". The BTA has a preamp with common solid state and valve . stage, like much solid-state - amps have. But it has a power-section with 6 x KT88 - tubes. For me this comes much more near to a vlve-amp than other hybrids with one preamp-valve and a solid sate - poweramp.

I would like to know how it sounds, because this seems to be verry interesting...

A friend of mine has a guitar amp that is built this way round. It is a old Peavey combo /I think), with solid state preamp and tube-poweramp. As I asked, what sense this makes, he talked about power-amp saturation and diode-triode - distortion-harmonics. I see, that he is not able to get a distorted or high-gain sound without a distotrtion- or overdrive - pedal. So the sense of such konstruction is not totaly clear to me.

AshdownMad · #17 09-30-2011, 06:01 AM

The preamp is the same as an ABM both tube and solid state

TMacATK · #18 09-30-2011, 10:56 AM

This design reminds me of the Trace Elliot V-Type amp that I own. Dual tube preamp, all passive EQ with bright switch, DI out, SS power. The amp that I own is rated at something like 200 watts at 4 ohms, but I ignore the power rating because it is a MONSTER. Ashdown was formed by former Trace engineers... if this amp sounds anything like my Trace, and it certainly has similar specs, it will not disappoint.

Plus the new Ashdown cabs with the red grills look amazing.

slaphappychappy · #19 09-30-2011, 02:21 PM

It's called the 330 spyder

Sartori · #20 09-30-2011, 03:29 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by TheRealKong

So I understand this as a hybrid amp "the other way round". The BTA has a preamp with common solid state and valve . stage, like much solid-state - amps have. But it has a power-section with 6 x KT88 - tubes. For me this comes much more near to a vlve-amp than other hybrids with one preamp-valve and a solid sate - poweramp.

I would like to know how it sounds, because this seems to be verry interesting...

A friend of mine has a guitar amp that is built this way round. It is a old Peavey combo /I think), with solid state preamp and tube-poweramp. As I asked, what sense this makes, he talked about power-amp saturation and diode-triode - distortion-harmonics. I see, that he is not able to get a distorted or high-gain sound without a distotrtion- or overdrive - pedal. So the sense of such konstruction is not totaly clear to me.

My guitarist uses an old Peavey head like this, too. He does use an overdrive pedal for distortion. The cleans from that head are really nice, though.