Ashdown Superfly manual

[ceilidhswinger]

Hi folks,
Picked up a second hand Ashdown Superfly head, great sounding wee amp, looking for instruction manual or can someone point me in direction of a relivant online site for above? Also noticed that one of the volume pots, think its input volume? Turns continually? In other words, turns clockwise round and round with no 0 to 10!

Thanks for your help

[barneyg42]

Not sure where to get the manual but rest assured that's how the input gain works, just keep turning until you reach the desired peak!

[Bloodaxe]

Someone was hunting for the manual a while back & I couldn't find it on Ashdown's site, so I uploaded it to my Dropbox account:—

[url="https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/8453031/Superfly/Superfly_Manual.PDF"]https://dl.dropboxus...rfly_Manual.PDF[/url]

Possibly of interest is the Superfly Editor:—

[url="https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/8453031/Superfly/Superfly%201.40.ZIP"]https://dl.dropboxus...rfly%201.40.ZIP[/url]

This allows you to hook up the head to a PC & save presets, tweak the compression parameters & also gives access to a Parametric EQ if you prefer that to the front-panel graphic EQ. Sadly you can't do a bulk save, you have to save each preset individually. Works on XP, no idea if it'll play nicely with Win 7 or 8 though.

The gain knob is weird, I grant you... but you can annoy guitarists by telling them that yours goes up to [i]15[/i] - that's like... [b]5[/b] more

Pete.

[ceilidhswinger]

[quote name='barneyg42' timestamp='1366664259' post='2055810']
Not sure where to get the manual but rest assured that's how the input gain works, just keep turning until you reach the desired peak!
[/quote]

Thanks Barneyg42,

Pete's come to the rescue! thanks for getting back to me.

Calum

[ceilidhswinger]

[quote name='Bloodaxe' timestamp='1366668935' post='2055867']
Someone was hunting for the manual a while back & I couldn't find it on Ashdown's site, so I uploaded it to my Dropbox account:—

[url="https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/8453031/Superfly/Superfly_Manual.PDF"]https://dl.dropboxus...rfly_Manual.PDF[/url]

Possibly of interest is the Superfly Editor:—

[url="https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/8453031/Superfly/Superfly%201.40.ZIP"]https://dl.dropboxus...rfly%201.40.ZIP[/url]

This allows you to hook up the head to a PC & save presets, tweak the compression parameters & also gives access to a Parametric EQ if you prefer that to the front-panel graphic EQ. Sadly you can't do a bulk save, you have to save each preset individually. Works on XP, no idea if it'll play nicely with Win 7 or 8 though.

The gain knob is weird, I grant you... but you can annoy guitarists by telling them that yours goes up to [i]15[/i] - that's like... [b]5[/b] more

Pete.
[/quote]

Brilliant Pete! downloaded it thanks, re knob, I had taken all outer shell and casing from amp to get a look at pot when I thought I better ask in Basschat first before I removed about a 100 screws.

Thanks for your help

[barneyg42]

I took all the casing off mine and leave it in a little bag in the car as a spare. Unfortunately one of the outputs has packed up but the other would do in an emergency. Our PA packed in one night so our singer plugged into it and was every bit as loud as before, good little amp!

[tauzero]

The editor is great, but I don't think it uses USB conventionally - I could only use it if I plugged the Superfly direct into the PC, rather than into a hub.

[Bloodaxe]

[quote name='ceilidhswinger' timestamp='1366822342' post='2057722']
Brilliant Pete! downloaded it thanks, re knob, I had taken all outer shell and casing from amp to get a look at pot when I thought I better ask in Basschat first before I removed about a 100 screws.

Thanks for your help[/quote]

No worries.

One simple mod I made to mine was to swap out the front panel input jack.

If you take the top off, you'll see that it lives on its own bijou PCB-ette that's screwed to a spigot on the chassis. In my one the spigot was either too tall or too short (I forget which - it was a while back), resulting in the jack unit sitting at a slight angle instead of perpendicular to the front panel. The upshot of this was that the chrome socket bezel had stripped the thread in the plastic socket body when it was tightened up & at one gig it fell off, never to be seen again.

Its replacement has proper solder tags & is just held on by the front panel as Nature intended, instead of Ashdown's frankly loony design.

[quote name='tauzero' timestamp='1366827806' post='2057841']The editor is great, but I don't think it uses USB conventionally - I could only use it if I plugged the Superfly direct into the PC, rather than into a hub.[/quote]

I've only ever gone direct - I have a poor relationship with hubs, they all seem to die on me. Wouldn't surprise me though, mate of mine had a Kodak scanner/printer that monopolised his PCs USB ports. Might be a power consumption thing.

P.

[ceilidhswinger]

[quote name='Bloodaxe' timestamp='1366849733' post='2058162']
No worries.

One simple mod I made to mine was to swap out the front panel input jack.

If you take the top off, you'll see that it lives on its own bijou PCB-ette that's screwed to a spigot on the chassis. In my one the spigot was either too tall or too short (I forget which - it was a while back), resulting in the jack unit sitting at a slight angle instead of perpendicular to the front panel. The upshot of this was that the chrome socket bezel had stripped the thread in the plastic socket body when it was tightened up & at one gig it fell off, never to be seen again.

Its replacement has proper solder tags & is just held on by the front panel as Nature intended, instead of Ashdown's frankly loony design.



I've only ever gone direct - I have a poor relationship with hubs, they all seem to die on me. Wouldn't surprise me though, mate of mine had a Kodak scanner/printer that monopolised his PCs USB ports. Might be a power consumption thing.

P.
[/quote]

Maybe get a look at that pot later Pete,

Cheers
Calum