Ashdown Drive Plus pedal?

johnforr · #1 11-07-2010, 02:44 AM

Does anyone have an opinion on the Ashdown Drive Plus pedal?

I have one of their LoMenzo HyperDrive pedals, and I love the tubey drive I can get from it, but due to the slightly daft way it mixes in the distorted tone you end up losing all the bottom end & only being left with the distorted mids.

So..... was thinking of getting a Drive Plus hoping it has the same tone but has a more useful way of mixing dry & distorted signal. Anyone have a view? And why do they no longer have the separate HF & LF gain controls? Any ideas? They've changed it recently...

I'm looking for a tubey drive rather than distorted fizz...

Thankyou!

BruceBass3901 · #2 11-07-2010, 09:05 AM

I think that gnasher1993 has had both, so you might want to shoot him a PM

tooltard · #3 11-07-2010, 02:25 PM

i own the pedal and don't think its all that great. it seems to lose plenty of low end and i can't seem to find an ideal tone, i can never get enough gain out of it and it seems a little thin, on top of that it takes up too much pedalboard room! so im thinking of trading it in

i think that the marshall jackhammer guitar distortion pedal is a much better idea if you want tubey tones....

johnforr · #4 11-08-2010, 10:16 AM

OK, thanks for the help! Sounds like it has the same problem as the LoMenzo HyperDrive. Shame, that's ALMOST a great product, if only you could mix in the distorted mids WITH the dry signal rather than INSTEAD of it! I emailed Ashdown about it ages ago & they didn't see the problem!

One question about the Jackhammer though - can you mix distorted & clean signal? Doesn't look like it from seeing the controls.

tooltard · #5 11-08-2010, 03:45 PM

no problem at all

its really frustrating so im thinking of getting rid of it, im not entirely sure if you can do that to be honest, but from my experience the pedal holds most if not all of the low end and is so versatile if you take the time to tweak it, everything from metally growl to some bluesy dirt

johnforr · #6 11-12-2010, 01:10 AM

OK, brilliant, I'm gonna try a Jackhammer. Will report back.

One question - has your Drive Plus got separate HF & LF gain controls? All the ones in online shops seem to be a different version, as is Ashdown's website.... but Ashdown say this doesn't exist!!!

Confused

CopperheadLXXIX · #7 11-12-2010, 01:40 AM

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Originally Posted by johnforr

OK, brilliant, I'm gonna try a Jackhammer. Will report back.

One question - has your Drive Plus got separate HF & LF gain controls? All the ones in online shops seem to be a different version, as is Ashdown's website.... but Ashdown say this doesn't exist!!!

Confused

It does indeed have separate HF & LF controls, the one with just a tone control only exists in pics as far as I know.