Description
The Ampeg Scrambler is built for bassists who want dirt without losing the bottom. It’s a straight-up analog overdrive circuit, so the grit, grind and sag you get are the real Ampeg amp character, not a digital approximation. Turn the Drive knob past the early breakup point and it keeps opening up into a genuinely aggressive, saturated snarl that still tracks your picking dynamics.
What separates the Scrambler from a lot of dirt boxes on a bass board is the wet/dry Blend control. Instead of committing your whole signal to the overdrive circuit, you can run the distorted tone in parallel with your clean sound underneath it, so the fundamental stays punchy and the low end doesn’t collapse into mush even at high gain settings. A dedicated Treble knob lets you push some cut and edge into the wet signal on top of that, useful for slicing through a dense mix or a loud drummer.
Housed in a rugged all-metal chassis, it’s built to survive life on a touring pedalboard, and true bypass wiring keeps your clean tone untouched when the effect is off. Signal-to-noise ratio is impressively tight for an analog overdrive, so it stays quiet at gig volume. Runs on standard 9V DC power or a 9V battery (neither included).
- Authentic Ampeg amp-style grit, grind and sag
- Independent Drive and Blend (wet/dry) controls
- Treble and Volume controls
- True bypass, all-analog circuit with low noise
- Durable all-metal roadworthy chassis
- Powered by 9V DC adapter or 9V battery (not included)
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