Aguilar

One of the biggest names on the bass scene providing the biggest sound, Aguilar’s team is comprised of bass players who build gear from the musician’s perspective. With products ranging from effects pedals to top-of-the-line pre-amps, they are the leading brand in high-quality bass gear. Like most of the best names in the music business, Aguilar began their journey with the pursuit of better tone.

President of Aguilar, Dave Boonshot, moved to New York in the 80s and started his own production company and studio when session work as a bass player appeared to be drying up for him. His experience from the side of production and recording opened up a deeper level of what went into his instrument’s sound. He set out to have a custom pre-amp built that would offer the equivalent sound of higher end models such as Neve or Telefunken. Through Roger Sadowsky, of Sadowsky amps, Boonshot became aware of the work of Alex Aguilar. Boonshot tried out a prototype the two had worked on that would eventually become the Sadowsky preamp.

The DB 680 was the result of the collaboration that followed between Aguilar and Boonshot. They knew were on to something very special with the DB680 and in 1995, formed Aguilar Amplification. A wide range of amazing products followed soon after and quickly they were making cabinets, heads, pickups and effects pedals created with top of the line engineering with the bass player at the centre of their focus.

Aguilar have continued to push the boundaries of bass tone after 20 years in the business and have the leading bassist’s in the industry heavily dependent on their gear. Eric Smith (Rihanna) describes his rig of six GS410’s; “I have never used any rig with so much booty”.

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Aguilar Agro

Tube sounding bass overdrive. With Agro Aguilar has built an overdrive pedal specifically for the bass. Agro is an AG500 saturation channel based pedal effect that provides a warm tube-sounding overdrive & distortion. This pedal has 4 separated knobs - Level, Saturation, Presence and Contour - and a true bypass. Agro offers a rich overdrive and distortion sound without losing the powerful low ends.

Aguilar Fuzzistor

It is Fuzz power time! Aguilarâs Fuzzistor is a bass effect pedal that provides a powerful fuzz sound. Like all Aguilar pedals also the Fuzzistor gives the deep and rich signal without the loss of low ends. The Blend control balances the power of your dry tone with the harmonic richness of the fuzz effect. The Tilt EQ lets you explore a wide range of fuzz textures. The level knob matches the gain and tone filters the sound from gloomy to strident.

Aguilar Tone Hammer

A powerful machine! The Aguilar Tone Hammer is a powerful direct box/preamp/direct box which will bring back the life to your bass sound and even more ! It's super clean DI is based on the Aguilar's respected OBP-3 preamp. It features fully sweepable midrange frequencies in addition to bass and treble controls. The Tone Hammer is a great addition to your chain no matter if you're on the stage or in the studio.Already as a DI box alone, the Tone Hammer has it's right of existance. But Aguilar dod not stop there! With their Adaptive Gain Shaping circuitry (AGS) Aguilar made the Tone Hammer as flexible as it gets! AGS allows the player to kick in an additional gain structure and EQ with the "stomp" of a button. You can now go from modern slap sounds to vintage or overdriven, shape your tone to fit your needs. 18 volt operation gives the Tone HammerÂ® plenty of headroom to reproduce the most dynamic playing style. Separate Gain and Master controls allow you to dial in just the right gain structure for any instrument.Aguilar really hit the hammer on the head with the Tone Hammer, it is a must to the working bass player.

Aguilar Chorusaurus

A fat chorus for a fat bass! The Aguilar Chorusaurus is an all analog bass chorus pedal, which is fat,warm and organic sounding thanks to bucket brigade technology. The small size of the Chorusaurus and Aguilar's smart control layout make this pedal a great choice for the performing bassist. Using its EQ and tone-shape controls the Choeusaurus can be set to a tone of your choice. Once set, you can control the amount of dry/wet mix using the blend knob. Another great feature of the Chorusaurus is the stereo output option( requires a Y cable).