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Ashly BP41 active pad?

Dreamsinger

Dreamsinger

Jun 3, 2012
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Seattle
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I haven't had it long but really digging it. For the last month I've been playing my passive Precision 5 into it. Was thinking about dragging out my active G&L 1505 but it occurred to me that the Ashly doesn't seem to have the typical 15db pad. Is this an issue? Anybody have any insight into this?
 
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Passinwind said:
It's the B input, and it's pretty easy to mod the pad (for a tech anyway) if the stock config doesn't work for you. Ashly will send you a PDF of the schematic if you email their tech support.
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Thanks! I really appreciate the collective wisdom here. I'm not thrilled with how the B input handles my active G&L so a mod is probably in order.
 
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Passinwind said:
It's the B input, and it's pretty easy to mod the pad (for a tech anyway) if the stock config doesn't work for you. Ashly will send you a PDF of the schematic if you email their tech support.
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I just got a quick response from Ashly with the schematic attached. I asked about authorized service and was told that they do all service in-house which, since it's out of warranty, could easily exceed what I paid for it. As for mods, I don't speak electronics and a lot of the techs I know don't speak musician fluently so if you can give me any insight to what the pad mods are and what they do I might not sound like a complete idiot when I talk to them about it. Again, thanks for a great response.
 
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Dreamsinger said:
I just got a quick response from Ashly with the schematic attached. I asked about authorized service and was told that they do all service in-house which, since it's out of warranty, could easily exceed what I paid for it. As for mods, I don't speak electronics and a lot of the techs I know don't speak musician fluently so if you can give me any insight to what the pad mods are and what they do I might not sound like a complete idiot when I talk to them about it. Again, thanks for a great response.
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This isn't a difficult piece to work on at all, at least by my standards. The stock pad uses very high value resistors that can be reduced substantially. That can lower the noise floor a little and also changes the high pass (infrasonic) filtering a bit, which tightens up bass response in a way that worked well for me. I'll see if I made any notes on the values I used on mine, but that was at least a decade or so ago.

By any chance did you buy yours from a TB'er? Last I heard the one I had was still kicking around Washington State somewhere.
 
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Passinwind said:
This isn't a difficult piece to work on at all, at least by my standards. The stock pad uses very high value resistors that can be reduced substantially. That can lower the noise floor a little and also changes the high pass (infrasonic) filtering a bit, which tightens up bass response in a way that worked well for me. I'll see if I made any notes on the values I used on mine, but that was at least a decade or so ago.

By any chance did you buy yours from a TB'er? Last I heard the one I had was still kicking around Washington State somewhere.
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Thanks. I got mine on Ebay. I got turned on to the BP41 when a drummer I worked with had one in his studio in Bellevue. That might be the one.
 
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Dreamsinger said:
Thanks. I got mine on Ebay. I got turned on to the BP41 when a drummer I worked with had one in his studio in Bellevue. That might be the one.
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I'll get in touch with the guy I sold mine to, and if he still has it I'll try to grab it and document all the mods I did. It sounded great for BG stock though, the mods were mostly for my EUB.
 

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