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We are an Authorized Hudson Electronics Dealer. Thank you for checking out our sale here for a BRAND NEW in box with factory warranty Hudson Electronics Broadcast AP.

I’ve been very excited to collaborate with Ariel Posen toproduce the Broadcast-AP. It’s an evolution of the Broadcast, designed tointegrate with Ariel’s unique sound.

At the heart of the Broadcast-AP – as the name may suggest –is the same circuitry as the Broadcast. A class-A discrete, transformer-coupledcircuit, designed to saturate in a unique way reminiscent of certain recordingand broadcast consoles.

We took the low-gain side of the standard Broadcast as thestarting point. Together, Ariel and I exchanged the Germanium transistor for aSilicon and used an OEP transformer – the OEP transformer saturates anddistorts less below 100Hz compared to the Triad transformer used in the standardBroadcast. These two changes together give the Broadcast-AP a darker, smoother,more powerful tone compared to the standard version. Greater weight in thelows, whilst retaining the open highs and upper-mids, giving the Broadcast a‘3D’ effect.

The control layout features both LEVEL and GAIN TRIMpotentiometers and a switchable high-pass / low-cut filter – 100Hz @ 6dB/oct.The GAIN TRIM control has 12dB more gain than the low-gain side of standardBroadcast, allowing the Broadcast-AP to cover ground from clean boost throughto medium gain overdrive tones. In addition, the gain of the pedal can beincreased via an internal trimmer and – when pushed to the max – the soundbecomes overloaded, broken and fuzzy. The high-pass / low-cut filter can helpkeep the low end together, especially when driving amps at higher gain andvolume levels.

Description

• Pair of selected Silicon transistors
  
  
• OEP Transformer selected to give less THD on low frequencies
  
  
• BI Technologies potentiometers
  
  
• Lumberg jack sockets (rated for >5000 cycles)
  
  
• Heavy duty Alpha foot switches (rated for >30,000 cycles)
  
  
• Individually hand-built on to a high-quality PCB, assembled,hand-wired, tested and packaged all by Michael Hudson

LEVEL – Controls the overall volume of the pedal.

GAIN TRIM – Controls the gain level of the Broadcast-AP.

LOW CUT (SWITCH) – Activates a low-cut filter which reducesthe gain of the low frequencies. Position 1 (switch-down) the low-cut filter isout of the circuit, Position 2 (switch-up) the low-cut filter is engaged.

INTERNAL TRIMMERS – The Broadcast-AP features three internaltrimmers – one to to increase the overall gain of the pedal and two to finetune each of the positions of the LOW CUT switch. Full details of how to adjustthese can be found here.

DC SOCKET – The Broadcast-AP requires a DC power supply unit(PSU) and can run at voltages between 9VDC and 24VDC; running the Broadcast-APat voltages higher than 9VDC gives it more headroom, output level and clarity.This is great for use with higher output instruments (bass guitar, synth,studio line level equipment) or when using the Broadcast-AP as a clean pre-ampboost.

Please ensure your PSU can supply between 9VDC and 24VDC, aminimum current of 20mA and has a 2.1mm negative centre barrel plug. Any othertype may damage your pedal. If you plan on sharing the same PSU with otherpedals, we recommend using a PSU with isolated outputs.