One for a low gain sorta dirty boost that fattens up my clean sound, and also tightens things up on the crunch channel and the second, set with a low bias, is a more fuzzy distortion. Smallsound/Bigsound Mini: I have two of these. They'll be all straightened out once I get things locked down. I'll finally be able to stop yanking my board apart and bringing only one or two carefully chosen pedals to practice. Dual lock's in the mail, but once it arrives I'll be able to fix all these bastards to the wood, turn the whole assembly upside-down and neaten up the wiring. So I took a 1" hole bit, a mitre saw, and a few screws to a piece of plywood and a two-by-four. But instead of a pedalboard, new pedals and a new amp started piling up instead. Kept convincing myself I'd eventually own a pedalboard big enough to fit all the pedals I like to use. The tubes here can colour the tone and the interaction between the preamp and the power It’s usually tube based, but it’s becoming more and more common for this section to be solid state as well. In a typical tube amp, the power amp really only exists to drive the speaker output. I myself used a modded Boss Metal Zone with the drive at zero into a cab sim VST plugin for some recordings and it sounded pretty good.
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Furthermore, if you free yourself of the idea of chasing the sound of a specific amp then anything can be a preamp. These pedals definitely can be used in lieu of a ‘real’ preamp. There are a lot of pedals out there that mimic the gain structure and tone stacks of guitar preamps like the Benson Preamp, Catalinbread’s foundation series, etc, that are mostly just supposed to be used to get those specific flavours of distortion. Different combinations of preamp tubes and tone stack styles will produce different results, and some amps have varying controls over the output gain so you can distort the signal. It’s the part where you listen and can say ‘oh yeah that sounds like a fender/marshall/vox amp’. This is the part that gives the amp its flavour, or tonal colour, through a combination of EQ profile, compression, and saturation. I won’t be discussing solid state amps since those aren’t usually offered by ampless units and most of the time people are after that tasty tube sound. There are three main sections that make up tube amps. So firstly we need to discuss the actual guitar amp in order to understand what components go into a good ampless unit I’m not going to directly discuss amp modelling via audio plugins and VSTs in comparison to hardware but I will touch on their pros/cons briefly.
As a bit of a disclaimer, I personally Strymon Iridium that I really like so some points will be framed around that unit. Also a lot of this stuff is subjective so I’ll try to preface those parts and we can fight about who’s opinion is best in the comments.
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