Do we still need amps

The times they are changing life isn't what it used to be .

But that may be a good thing because what if I told you that this could be replaced by this , the mower pre amp and you can even win this .

Ok .

Wait , let's back up a little bit .

It used to be so easy .

You've got your guitar , you run it through some pedals and then you put it in the AMP .

But nowadays things are changing rapidly .

It looks like everything is getting redesigned .

AMPS are turned into pedals , cabinets are turned into pedals .

Iterators are turned into the amps , pre amps are taken out of the AMP and put into pedals , pedals are put into the amps .

It's starting to get pretty confusing .

Let me clear up a few things .

So from the electricity produced by the pickups to the sound you're actually hearing , there are a few stages that the signal usually runs through .

If you understand all these steps , you understand what's happening with all these different elements .

So we start with the guitar , then maybe run through some pedals and pluck the guitar into an amp .

The A can be a combo or a hat .

So in both of these , we find a pre amp and an optional loop and a power amp .

The cabinet is a part of the combo .

That's why it's called a combo .

From the hand .

We need to plug it into a separate cabinet .

And finally , we heard the sound coming out of the speakers to our ears .

So here I've got the mower pre amp live .

And what's happening is that it simulates the pre amp of the AMP and they put that part into this panel .

Well , it's actually 12 of these , I guess , 12 different amps .

The pre amp is the part of the AMP that shapes the sound the most .

It's what makes the reverb sound like reverb and the martial plexi as a martial plexi plex plexi .

So most of these amps characteristics are found in that pre amp .

And by capturing that and putting it into a pedal , you're basically copying a big part of that amp .

Let me show you , let's keep it in one piece because this one is going to one of you .

I know the power supply thingy , the butter and very good .

Here it is .

So , but what are we still missing then ?

Well , uh the power ramp , for example , well , if you play at home with studio speakers in front of you , you don't need a power amp .

So if you just wanna hook it up to that , that's ok .

If you play live and you just have a signal that runs through the P A , you don't need a power ramp .

If you got good monitoring or in ears , you can just hear yourself clearly on stage .

So we don't necessarily need a power amp .

So for the cabinet , this thing has a nice little solution .

It's a built in cap simulator , flick the switch and it digitally mimics the characteristics of a speaker .

So this is pretty huge because this means that this pedal can replace your ramp .

But can it , let's find out ?

OK .

This , this is probably the worst demo of a preempt ever .

But you know , this is just what came out making the demo .

This thing has all these features I didn't show Bluetooth , you can capture a tone , all these knobs , switches and stuff .

But is it really a bad demo though ?

Well , maybe for the sounds , but you can just look this up on any other channel .

I put this on my board and then just unlock all the creativity I needed to make this track .

And to me that has so much value .

Convenience is a high priority for me .

It just needs to work fast the way I wanted it to and it needs to be reliable .

When you put this on your board , you can literally just come to a show , pluck the direct out from your board into the P A and hear everything through an air monitoring or just stage monitoring in home it's very handy too .

I play in workload behind my desk , as you can see with a set of studio monitors and now I can just plug the output of my pedal board directly into the sound card and boom .

There it is all my pedals , all my sounds directly under my feet .

No complaining , neighbors .

No attenuates but still all the sounds .

But why not use the camper pole ?

So the camper sounds great .

And for me , the models in the camper sounds a little bit better than this pre amp , but I just don't hook my pedals up to the camper that quickly .

It's just another thing to do .

And the camper has a lot of great building in effects as well , which I often end up using instead , but they don't inspire me the same way as a dedicated food pedals do on my own pedal board .

And that's why I quite like this little mower pre amp .

So if you're interested in having one , you can win this one or my other one , I'll give away two of these .

One is given away to my patrons on my Patreon page because I appreciate everyone on there so , so much and one for all the fine folks watching my channel that I also respect greatly .

Of course , so keep it up .

Um Check out the link in the description to participate and I hope to do two more giveaways in this month .

So keep an eye on the channel .

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