New ashdown tuner?

[dudewheresmybass]

hi.

in my surfing around i found this:

[url="http://www.gear4music.com/Guitar-and-Bass/Ashdown-Bass-OMeter-Dedicated-Bass-Tuner-Pedal/CGB"]http://www.gear4music.com/Guitar-and-Bass/...Tuner-Pedal/CGB[/url]

it doesn't seem to be listed on tghe ashdown site, and the details given here are a mixture of seemingly differing ads!

anyone heard anything about this yet?

[dannybuoy]

What an awful monstrosity of a pedal!

[waynepunkdude]

I think it's awesome.

[Musicman20]

Polytune wins!

[Grand Wazoo]

Besides... knowing Ashdown gear, it'll work fine for a year then you take it to a gig and it dies on you just because it didn't like the van you drove it in.

[Rich]

Part pedal, part Tango Taste Sensation.

[Mr. Foxen]

I think a tuner is a good candidate for being a really big pedal, but not sure they use the space as well as they could have there.

[Rich]

I agree. The VU meter is fairly pointless and the row of LEDs could have been halved in size, but I like the feck-off great big digital readout.

[lemmywinks]

So it does what other tuners do and takes up double the pedalboard space?

Nice one Ashdown!

[MB1]

[quote name='dannybuoy' post='750817' date='Feb 19 2010, 12:57 PM']What an awful monstrosity of a pedal!

[/quote]

MB1.
.."You Know when You've been Tango'd!"

[M4L666]

Fack me, it's big. If the display was that big, maybe...

[Clarky72]

[quote name='dannybuoy' post='750817' date='Feb 19 2010, 12:57 PM']What an awful monstrosity of a pedal!

[/quote]
Blimey!!!

I have the Korg DT-10. Its the most robust spot-on tuner I've owned. Even stands up to drunk rhythm guitarists stumbling onto it mid-gig... The LEDs are really clear on any stage and its completely silent, no nasty clicks. I can't enough good things about it, I had one Korg's rack tuners before that and again, so so good.

Steve

[BigBassBob]

Unless this thing is accurate to 0.0000001 cents I don't see any reason to not spend another £20 and buy a Sonic Research ST-200. 0.02 cents accuracy guaranteed and it's less than half the size.

[waynepunkdude]

[quote name='BigBassBob' post='752468' date='Feb 21 2010, 04:56 AM']Unless this thing is accurate to 0.0000001 cents I don't see any reason to not spend another £20 and buy a Sonic Research ST-200. 0.02 cents accuracy guaranteed and it's less than half the size.[/quote]


Because you just don't need that much accuracy.

[Linus27]

This is how I would had designed it :)

[JakeBrownBass]

[quote name='Linus27' post='752672' date='Feb 21 2010, 11:45 AM']This is how I would had designed it :)

[/quote]

You, see i don't think you'd sell many of them as you've missed one massively important thing. The 440hz green LED. Meaning that pedal is only good for telling us where all sharp

[Linus27]

[quote name='jake_tenfloors' post='754750' date='Feb 23 2010, 10:04 AM']You, see i don't think you'd sell many of them as you've missed one massively important thing. The 440hz green LED. Meaning that pedal is only good for telling us where all sharp [/quote]

HAHAHA I thought about putting the green light in but then I thought, nah, nobody would notice

[lemmywinks]

[quote name='Linus27' post='752672' date='Feb 21 2010, 11:45 AM']This is how I would had designed it :)[/quote]



That's better. I'd still omit the cheesy "Bass-o-meter" logo though, makes it look mmore like a cheap kids' toy than a pedal

[EskimoBassist]

That is genuinely one of the most disgusting pedals I have ever seen! I think Ashdown should just get back to making great Bass Amps, not like the outsourced cheap crap they are producing at the moment, and leave pedals like this to the others.