Ashdown ABM 500 - How useful is the sub-harmonics feature

with everybody using HPF today...wouldn't it be a speaker blower?

I recorded some songs on one album using a zoom octaver and it sounded awesome....like Paul young ...Tear your play house down...I think....
Pino Palladino

 

Ime it should be called a sub harmonic muddinator.

 

If you use an octaver (1 down) then you can use this. I use it when I am playing songs that require a higher fret position to maintain a full sound.

 

Too muddy for me as well - I use an MXR Octaver instead.
However, for occasional use, the ABM500 octaver is OK (and yes, it is basically an octaver).

 

Yep, awesome amp but the sub thing is useless to me. Way better off with a pedal if you want that octave thing

 

It's not exactly fit for modern speakers that can reproduce gigantic lows.

 

Or anything else

I had an ABM 500 for years and it was a great amp though!

 

Congratulations!
Just make sure you press the flat button in order to avoid boomy-ness.

 

I love and play Ashdown amps, but The Ashdown tone is typically always just a small stones throw away from being muddy. Thick and rich.

The sub harmonic thing is the worst aspect of the ABM line of amps

 

In my experience the sub octave even at full on my Ashdown wasn't as loud or clear as I'd have liked, though this was an EB180. Still, the feature was useless to me.