
OPERATING MANUAL AND USER GUIDE
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Designer's Introduction
Welcome to Albion Musical Instruments AG40R
and AG80R combo amps. Having designed many
competitively priced amps, many of them of them have
been destined to be award winning and certainly “classics”
in their own right, I realised that I had somewhat of a
challenge in front of me when creating the AG range. “How
do I beat what I have done before?”, “How can I raise
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make them into really serious amps?”, I realised there was
quite a massive challenge in front of me! I think that what I
have done with the AG range actually surpasses even my
expectations. I hope that you agree with me.
Thank you
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The AG40R and the AG80R combo amps features a
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is supplied with a high voltage dc supply, again pretty
unique in small guitar amplifiers. This combination of
circuit gives great valve tone, as it should because it is
pretty much a valve circuit. The special high voltage FET
that we use is the closest electronic device to an actual
valve, but without some of the drawbacks of using an
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reliable performance without worry to you, but giving very
much a valve like tone in its performance.
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solid state power amp circuit that also has some “tweaks”
that lead to a very convincing valve-like tone.
The AG40R uses a 10 inch loudspeaker professionally
designed to provide a very full and satisfying tone in a
nicely proportioned compact cabinet. Whilst the AG80R
is provided with a seriously beefy and tuneful 12 inch
speaker, again the cabinet design leads to an easily
transportable package that doesn’t look, or sound, out of
place at home, in the studio, or on the stage.
The AG40R has a two channel control line-up of (normal
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allows you to set up the preamp circuit for clean and
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to connect your MP3 or CD player (or any other auxiliary
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and uses a standard stereo 3.5mm lead, mixing the signal
into mono mode suitable for the amplifier circuit, giving
you the facility to play along to recorded tracks for practise
purpose.
Another 3.5mm socket allows the use of standard stereo
headphones for private use.
The output of the AG40R can also be plugged into another
loudspeaker cabinet, bypassing the internal loudspeaker.
Plugging into a bigger cabinet widens the tone available to
something rather special!
The AG80R has a full two channel control line-up of
consisting of NORMAL channel and OVERDRIVE channel
giving you a very wide range of tones from Clean to
Crunch to very serious Overdrive.
Each channel has a full complement of GAIN, VOLUME,
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are footswitchable for full access to these sounds. This
is complemented by the in-built digital reverb circuit (also
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to connect your MP3 or CD player (or any other auxiliary
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and uses a standard stereo 3.5mm lead, mixing the signal
into mono mode suitable for the amplifier circuit, giving
you the facility to play along to recorded tracks for practise
purpose.
Another 3.5mm socket allows the use of standard stereo
Headphones for private use.
The speaker MUTE switch allows the headphone output
socket to double as a speaker emulated DI output with or
without the full loudspeaker sound.
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