Ashdown

Ashdown or Ashdown Engineering is a manufacturer of electronic amplifiers founded by Mark Gooday in 1997. Ashdown particularly manufactures amps for bass and has of late shifted to guitar amps. Ashdown’s main intention was to offer good-sounding, solid and reasonably priced bass amplifiers. Klystron Bass Magnifier was the company’s first amplifier. After their first amp, Electric Blue, the MAG, and ABM series were released. Popular guitar amplifiers that were later released include Peacemaker, Fallen Angel, the Acoustic Radiator and the recent All-Access series. Essex Blonde is one of Ashdown’s superior-quality boutique and hand-wired amps, among others.

In 2007, Ashdown plans to stop the production of All Access series of guitar amps and focus on the production of bass amplification. Hayden Amplification is a separate and daughter company to Ashdown engineering. Hayden Amplification particularly manufactures hand-wired amplifiers and valve guitar amps. Ashdown’s other bass amplification series include Classic series, Superfly series, Mark King Signature Series and Legacy series, among others. UK bass legend Mark King had designed the Mark King Signature Series. Ashdown's guitar amplification series includes Fallen Angel DSP All-Tube Series, Fallen Angel DSP Tube-Pre Series and Fallen Angel 180 Series. Ashdown products are available in UK and are also offered online.