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Designer's Introduction
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been a great pleasure for me. When I finally started to
play the prototypes I immediately knew my team had done
a great job, to any designer of any product THAT moment
is pretty awesome, believe me. My aim of creating new
bass products with, what I think is, great style, massive
punch, warmth yet with clear tonality, and without having
to mortgage your home, had become reality. The bass
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and products, and for Albion Musical Instruments to make
its impact on that market meant that our products had to
be pretty special; after the initial launch at Music Messe
2010 and the comments that people had about the range,
including those from some pretty impressive bass players,
I knew we had made something special. I hope that you
agree with that!
Thank you
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a combination of technologies to provide optimum
performance required for high class consistent playing
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only differing in the power supply transformer values to
provide the required power output.
The main preamplifier and tone forming circuit section
uses 2 double triode low noise 7025/12AX7/ECC83 valves
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from a 380 volt HT power supply and DC heaters. The
output from the valve preamp circuit then passes through
the Mid circuit, which is separate from the preamp. This
mid circuit uses a very special high voltage operational
amplifier circuit in order to pass the valve tone from the
preamp to the power amp without adding extra unwanted
colouration. All it does is change the mid frequency
spectrum.
The power amplifier stage is an extremely rugged but
very musical bipolar transistor design that delivers the
wide range response required for the punch and wide
bandwidth required by today’s bass players. The power
stage is pretty much OVER-engineered to maintain
night after night of high level bass guitar playing without
compromise. As mentioned above, the power stage is
very musical, it has a very sweet tone and handles being
pushed into distortion (which is a very big test on any
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unpleasantness – it really delivers the goods with what
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300 watt bass rigs. To keep things cool, the power amp
is thermostatically fan cooled on a very large heatsink
– another example of our over-engineering. As with the
other power items the power transformer is also larger
than what other manufacturers put in their comparative
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notes without batting an eyelid! It doesn’t run out of
steam!! And also helps keep things very cool (except for
the preamp valves of course!
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impressive array of switchable options that make for a
very versatile bass system, covering gain variations for
both active and passive guitars, external Tuner connection
with panel and footswitchable muting for silent tuning, plus
some very neat preset tone contouring options.
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pretty simple, but each control has a 3-position rotary
switch selecting different frequency bands that give a very
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you in control of the dynamics that you want - be it from
clean, warm Jazz, through to overloaded Rock bass
styles. Our bass amps and speaker systems are designed
to deliver and handle them all.
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own custom designed and built Albion 10” bass guitar
loudspeakers wired in parallel for 8ohm operation. These
speakers are specially designed for this combo, enabling
it to deliver great low end from a small cabinet.
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High Frequency Angular Titanium Horn and Hifi grade
crossover network. This very special HF unit has a unique
angular dispersion pattern that projects upwards towards
the player’s hearing, as well as directly ahead towards
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very fine full range bass guitar response beyond that
of its relatively small size, perfect for small club stages
and ease of transportation. On the back of the cabinet
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