Noise level is high, which makes for some nice neighbors, or when lowering the master, but you lose sound presence. I love this amp for channel 1 and sticking to crunch wish. The "stack", the sound is more open, but the grain is harder. I compensate by adding a pedal to boost the treble to mount. Channel 2 rather shady side amps English, with lots of mids and sound a bit dull. But in his chosen field, this is the class.Ĭhannel 1 has a crunch that is strongly reminiscent of Fender Blackface.
I never managed to get a good jazz above. This is an amp of blues, rock and hard rock. It is possible to control the electronic diagram in genzbenz, which bought the brand 15 years ago. The "stack" gives many voices at once! Attention to the ears and at for group play. Setup is simple because that is the most common. It is possible to connect a pedal on a stereo plug to control more mono channels, the "stack" and reverb.
But this amp can send more than some competitors 100W.Ī spring reverb is intéfrée directly into the amp behind the membranes.Ĭonnectivity point of view, there is a parallel effects loop with a trimming mix and levels out in a direct line level outputs and two speakers. These two channels arrive on a floor "solid state" is meant in MOSFET reproducing a power stage lamps, famuex mosvalve.
On the second channel, are possible to add the "stack", which is a clipping diode providing grain heavier distortion and more acute. The second channel simply reproduces the real tube overdrive pedal to tubeworks. The combo takes first channel circuit pedal BK Butler Chandler Tube '70s. I think that oftentimes, our ears are pretty easily fooled about what we think constitutes to be "overt tube clipping characteristics." And a lot of that simply goes out the window in a gigging situation.This is a 2-channel amplifier and a half, developed by BK Butler. More proof of that would be the Tech 21 Character-series of pedals - all the manipulation is done with SS. The starved-plate designs have their own interesting characteristics, but IMO it's nothing similar to what's going on with the "proper supply voltage" design.Īnother thing to note with at least some of the tube OD pedals, regardless of the supply voltages, is that some of them have solid state gain stages and EQ circuits - IMO, some of the more clever designs are leveraging the SS parts to really ape what we attribute to sounding like amp X. Triodes running at high voltages is simply kind of impractical, and you're going to pay a premium to have something built that will function properly, for the long haul. IMO, if someone is trying to convince themselves that it's got to be tubes in a box on the floor, I think the submini tube-based designs will probably give the most rewarding performance of all. There are quite a few amp emulation-type pedals that have a circuit foundation that looks similar to the actual amp in question, but then subs in jFETs in place of the preamp triode stages. And similar to that are the somewhat numerous pedals that use jFET types of transistors to also do something similar. There are also some pedals with "discrete" mosFET transistors that can also get some preamp tube'ish kind of characteristics. The one thing all those pedals have in common, besides using the same type of IC chip, is that the chip contains mosFETs. The same or similar chips are also used in pedals like the Blackstone Appliances Mosfet OD and the Emma ReezaFRATzitz. The same chip is found in the Red Llama, which is a derivative of Craig Anderton's Tube Sound Fuzz. It actually uses an IC chip to get that overdriven sound.