2017 Bassics BPA-01 Floor Preamp

Excellent condition, 8/10, more specs: "BPA-01 Floor Preamp The ground-breaking Bassic invention that started the Bassics range of innovative bass sound products. BPA - 1 A beautiful high-end bass preamp designed and made in the UK The Bassics BPA-1 bass pre-amplifier system is a completely new approach to bass guitar amplification.   For too long, the bass guitarist has been the poor relation when it comes to controls specifically designed for this instrument. All of that changes with the BPA-1! Designed by legendary recording engineer and professional studio equipment designer, professor Malcolm Toft, it essentially places studio quality pre-amplification, tone control and compression at the feet of the bass guitarist. For example, the frequencies chosen in the three-band equaliser section have been specifically designed for the bass guitar and offer the same range of control as that found in the very best studio consoles.   Ever wondered why studio engineers are able to get great sounds from your instrument when recording? Wonder no more as you will have the same facilities! With the BPA-1 you no longer need any of the controls on the amplifier head, instead all you need is an amplifier and speaker. All rotary controls are illuminated when in use so that they can be easily seen, even in low lighting stage conditions. The unique facilities provided by the BPA-1: Studio quality, ultra-low noise input amplifiers to get the very best, low distortion, wide bandwidth amplification from your bass guitar pickups. Two jack inputs are provided on the rear panel for inputs one and two, so you can connect two different basses or maybe a bass guitar and an upright bass with a piezo pickup. For this reason, input one can be selected for ultra-high impedance to cater for such high impedance devices as piezo pickups. Input two has its own independent trim control on the rear panel so that the level from the two instruments can be matched without having to use the instrument’s volume controls which can sometimes change the sound. An illuminated switch allows you to select which input is being used. The input one level control is illuminated red and a four led bar graph display indicates the level in db through the input section. A massive 36db of gain is provided for even the most insensitive pickups. After the input stage, a balanced direct output is provided on both jack and x-l-r connectors so that you can provide a studio quality feed to a live sound engineer before any equalisation or signal processing should it be required. Also at this point is an effects send and return loop provided by individual jacks for send and return so that external signal processing can be added prior to the equaliser if required.   The next stage is the equaliser section which as previously stated consists of three individual sections. A unique feature to the BPA-1 is that not only is there an overall equaliser footswitch but each section can also be individually bypassed.