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Old 06-17-2011, 01:30 PM
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Diago Little Smasher 5W pedal sized amp

Anyone own or experienced a Smasher?
Bass-applicable or just another distortion pedal?
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Old 06-17-2011, 01:32 PM
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Being in that it is an amplifier, you shouldn't use it as a distortion pedal unless you want to ruin whatever you're plugging it into.
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Old 06-17-2011, 03:18 PM
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Here's another option that's actually usable if you have already have a good pre-amp.

Dayton Audio DTA-100a Class-T Digital Amplifier 50 WPC Provides Power To Computer Speakers, Bookshelf Speakers, Headphones, And More!
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Just picked up a Little Smasher for my home studio guitar work and figured I'd see how my basses sounded through it. Without a doubt, this thing is voiced for guitar. Feeding my Zoom B3 into the little amp got me closer to bass-type tones but it sounds to me like they put in a high-pass filter of some kind to maximize the 5 watts for the guitar spectrum as the frequencies below ~200Hz do not seem to even exist. This would make sense for its intended purpose but I cannot recommend this little wonder for bass use.

Makes a neat little guitar amp, tho! It does tend to go to grit fairly early on the 'gain' dial, so use judiciously. The gain itself is very Marshall-sounding to my ear and the bass/treble knobs provide huge amounts of boost/cut. I'm using it with my 2X10 custom-built bass cabinet and am pretty pleased with what I can do when the right effects are in front of the amp itself. As stated in various reviews the 5 watts available in the guitar spectrum get quite loud, again most likely due to some clever spectrum filtering.
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