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AGUILAR AG 500 DUAL-
CHANNEL HEAD
List Price $1,595;
Approx. street
price $1,199
Pros Strong tone and
quick response with
plenty of headroom;
beefy distortion
channel; light-
weight; many gig-
ready features
Cons
- and
-
HIGH
LOW
EQ are limited
MID
and too narrow
AGUILAR AG 500SC-
112C COMBO
List Price $1,895
Approx. street price
$1,399
Pros Strong tone and
quick response with
plenty of headroom;
great-sounding cab-
inet; extension cab
makes a potent rig
Cons No casters;
cumbersome to
carry; high- and
low-mid EQ are lim-
ited and too narrow
METHODOLOGY
Soundroom Fender
American Standard Jazz,
Ernie Ball/MusicMan
StingRay, Lakland 44-94,
and flatwound-strung
Lakland Skyline Darryl
Jones Signature with
Aguilar GS 410 and Ampeg
SVT
Gigs/rehearsals AG 500
head with Fender American
Standard Jazz, F Bass BN5,
and Aguilar GS 112 1x12;
AG 500SC-112C Combo with
Washburn Taurus T14 and
Line 6 Bass Variax 700
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AGUILAR
AG 500 Dual Channel Head
and AG 500SC-112C Combo
B Y B I L L L E I G H
It's nice to have back-panel regulars like the D.I. controls, footswitch jack, and effects loop up front and at hand. Pulling the
effect
knob switches from series to parallel—dropping out your dry, unaffected signal—while pulling effect
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effects signal up to line-level.
SAY YOU GOT SO GOOD AT PLAYING IN A CERTAIN
style that you gained a reputation for it. How audacious
would it be for you to completely change your approach?
That's what Aguilar Amplification is doing with their
new AG 500 head, a lightweight solid-state amplifier
that marks a new direction for the Manhattan-based
amp maker. Amp-wise, Aguilar built its reputation on
warm-sounding tube-filled amps and preamps. The AG
500 is not only the company's first tube-less head, it's
also its first head to utilize a switching power amp. The
S O U N D
result is a cool running, beefy sounding, two-rack space
head that weighs only 18 pounds.
Aiming to reach gigging rock players who need flex-
ibility and power, Aguilar also offers the AG 500 as a
standalone head or in a 1x12 or 2x12 combo that incor-
porates GS-series speaker cabinets. Chief among the
head's features is a second preamp channel for over-
drive, which runs parallel to the clean preamp channel
and is selectable via footswitch and front-panel switch.
Aguilar offers a single-channel AG 500SC for a lower
R O O M
boosts the
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Summary of Contents for Aguilar AG 500 Dual Channel Head
- Page 1 Aiming to reach gigging rock players who need flex- head with Fender American That’s what Aguilar Amplification is doing with their ibility and power, Aguilar also offers the AG 500 as a Standard Jazz, F Bass BN5, new AG 500 head, a lightweight solid-state amplifier standalone head or in a 1x12 or 2x12 combo that incor- and Aguilar GS 112 1x12;...
- Page 2 Class T, modulates the output using a proprietary module that purports to eliminate some of the weaknesses of Class D amps while approx. street price maintaining the efficiency that’s a hallmark of the technology. Aguilar’s AG 500 uses a Class T output stage and a conventional linear $359) power transformer.
- Page 3 LAYER SECOND OPINION Using the AG 500 with a separate Aguilar GS 112: Nice warm sound on the gig with a strong fundamental that didn’t dominate. Plenty of headroom. EQ knobs seemed reversed. Channel 1’s EQs a bit peaky; couldn’t get the Jaco sound using...