Testing the Ashdown Original Evo Combo and 3 Fender Basses

[Linus27]

By pure chance, I played through an Ashdown Original Evo combo yesterday in Andertons whilst testing out 3 Fender Precision basses, an American Professional, an American Performer and the Vintera Telecaster bass. I'd never seen this little combo before but it sounded phenomenal. I've always loved Ashdown stuff but tended to favour much small class D heads for convenience but everytime I've used them, they've given me a sound I've loved. I'm now super tempted to give the Ashdown Original Evo 300 head a go which is the same little head in this combo.

 

As for the 3 basses, they also played brilliantly but all very different. The American Professional sounded good and played really nicely but didn't grab me as much as the American Performer which sounded amazing. It had this growl and bite that made it super exciting to play and I loved the neck. The only negative was the bridge pickup sounded a bit thin on it's own but combined with the split coils pickups and it sounded fantastic. The Telecaster bass I simply loved, it could be fat and warm to fat and punchy and it was very musical. The gloss neck was beautiful but perhaps a little chunky but still very playable. I'd be very happy with all 3 basses but I came away wanting the Telecaster bass the most.