It does a decent job of making any amp sound like the fabled tweed amp at home practice volumes but is outshone by quality analogue pedals through high end amps at gig.
Amp in a box pedals.
Amp in a box effects can be both a live and a recording tool.
Completely solid state it responds and sounds as if driven by tubes.
Few pedal makers have dared to capture these tones in a smaller footprint.
The increasing number of these pedals means our favorite loud guitar tones can be realized without excessive volume.
Pedal manufacturers are getting closer and closer to mimicking real amps in pedals leading to the nickname amp in a box.
Brian wampler is not one of them.
There s well over 100 and constantly growing.
Unlike all the other pedals on this page this one uses digital technology to derive its sounds based on a 59 fender bassman there s also a 65 deluxe reverb model.
Comparing pedals meant to mimic a marshall jcm 800 with an actual marshal jcm 800.
599 wired more like an amp s preamp section than a pedal this might be the most fully realized dumble in a box available.
As stated at the very onset while none of them will ever replace the amps they re inspired by all six do their job incredibly well.
A 3 band eq bass middle treble and presence with a 3 way bright switch set your color.
There s something about a physical product that feels better than using your daw so here s the definitive list of amp in a box effects.
From playing on dutch national television to gigging all around the netherlands i ve been lucky.
So check some of these bad boys out.
We recently posted an all encompassing article focused on high end dual gain stages overdrive pedals with a boost footswitch even though they belong to that category we decided to keep the amp in a box style stompboxes for a separate post because they are not quite the same here we go then.