Ashdown Fallen Angel 180....All-Tube High Gain Brutality!

Welcome to Perky's Analog Gear Demos! Please subscribe for more nerdy videos of guitar gear. Here is an amp you probably won't have seen on the channel before, as I've only used it a couple of times. It's an Ashdown Fallen Angel half-stack...which is exactly what it sounds like: 180W of all-tube EL34 mayhem! It has two channels which are voiced pretty differently...Channel 1 is the cleaner of the two, and has more of the 'typical' British EL34 flavour in having a nice, dynamic crunch and an authoritative mid-range. Channel 2 - which also has a boost circuit you can switch in - has a more American, scoopy, high-gain sound. It's not an amp I've ever used that much on this channel, but I wanted to shoot a video demoing the sort of tones it's all about before I part ways with it tomorrow - as I'm driving it up north to part-exchange it for another mystery head(!) to pair with my Zilla 2x12. So this is it - the Ashdown's 'one last hurrah' in my (incapable) hands! What do you think? Are you into the heavier gain scoopy tones? Or is this an amp you wouldn't touch with a barge pole? Comment below! Guitars are: Fender Telecaster w/ Monty's '53 bridge & Bare Knuckle Flat '50 neck Gibson Les Paul Junior w/ Monty's '54 P90 Gibson Les Paul Custom w/ OX4 Hot Duanes Gibson SG Standard w/ OX4 A4 PAF Humbuckers Cab is an Ashdown 4x12 loaded with Celestion G12T-100's; mic'ed with an Aston Spirit Condenser, '70s Sennheiser MD441 and sE R1 ribbon, with a Schoeps CMC6 room mic. 0:00 Intro 4:50 Channel 1 - Tele 7:21 Channel 1 - Les Paul Junior 9:33 Channel 2 - Les Paul 11:49 Channel 2 - SG 15:06 Outro [email protected] Vector images by freepik.com