I do this a lot my self, usually EAE Mother or a Benson Preamp. I also have the Life Support by ICA that’s stated to be a preamp but I’m not sure what term it’s using.
"Before my amp" I like to do a little bit of shaping. On one board I have little room to do so.. a great fuzz facey type pedal that cleans up into defined crsytally cleans is a nice way to improve the voice of the guitar- thinking of the fuzz as part of that voice. But more often I think of a preamp as a sort of foundation gain stage that's always on and ruling over the sounds before it with a stylistic fist. I'm often gigging my AC15 and having to run it too low for it to really wake up in the tubes.. so when I can get something to impersonate that drive sound of it cranked up.. maybe do a little EQ fine tuning... that's a great preamp in application. Subdecay Stupid Box for whatever reason is one of the most perfect pedals at this for my strat and AC. Klonny type pedals seem to do a nice job of this as well. Sorry long comment, impassioned about this topic
Eae stuff just rules. Had the citadel for my direct solution for a while, but recently swapped to his collab with science on the mother Preamp and it's unreal. I love having different outputs, one to used as a direct solution and the other moreso as a normal drive pedal so you don't get double scooped if you run it in front of an amp. Need to try the others here as well. Fun video all around and let us know how those stocks work out for you
Fun thing about citadel, John mentioned the old trick of basically cutting low out all the way, cranking mids all the way, then using the treble as more of a tone knob. I found that was a good starting point in my use with it.
Ground FX / Kodex Audio Burning Sunn is a great one, you must try it as well as a Delcam Audio California Doom, and don´t forget Ananashead GT73. Also Kuro Custom audio with Exegol and T120. Awesome preamps too. Ah! and Blackhawk Mjolnir JFET Preamp MKII, and Hel JFet Preamp MKII. Cheers!
i want to learn enough about electronics to rip the preamp out of my old fender rocpro combo. the "yellow channel" distortion is the greatest in the world.
“Are planes still falling out of the sky?” 🤣
I do this a lot my self, usually EAE Mother or a Benson Preamp. I also have the Life Support by ICA that’s stated to be a preamp but I’m not sure what term it’s using.
"Before my amp" I like to do a little bit of shaping. On one board I have little room to do so.. a great fuzz facey type pedal that cleans up into defined crsytally cleans is a nice way to improve the voice of the guitar- thinking of the fuzz as part of that voice. But more often I think of a preamp as a sort of foundation gain stage that's always on and ruling over the sounds before it with a stylistic fist. I'm often gigging my AC15 and having to run it too low for it to really wake up in the tubes.. so when I can get something to impersonate that drive sound of it cranked up.. maybe do a little EQ fine tuning... that's a great preamp in application. Subdecay Stupid Box for whatever reason is one of the most perfect pedals at this for my strat and AC. Klonny type pedals seem to do a nice job of this as well. Sorry long comment, impassioned about this topic
Eae stuff just rules. Had the citadel for my direct solution for a while, but recently swapped to his collab with science on the mother Preamp and it's unreal. I love having different outputs, one to used as a direct solution and the other moreso as a normal drive pedal so you don't get double scooped if you run it in front of an amp.
Need to try the others here as well. Fun video all around and let us know how those stocks work out for you
Fun thing about citadel, John mentioned the old trick of basically cutting low out all the way, cranking mids all the way, then using the treble as more of a tone knob. I found that was a good starting point in my use with it.
EAE Model Fet changed the way I build my sound, pedalboard and amp wise. Amazing stuff
Ground FX / Kodex Audio Burning Sunn is a great one, you must try it as well as a Delcam Audio California Doom, and don´t forget Ananashead GT73. Also Kuro Custom audio with Exegol and T120. Awesome preamps too. Ah! and Blackhawk Mjolnir JFET Preamp MKII, and Hel JFet Preamp MKII. Cheers!
Awesome video, tasty playing! (Questionable financial advice)
Yup! Questionable financial decisions are how someone ends up with a guitar pedal company
STONKS
Lmao the intro
i want to learn enough about electronics to rip the preamp out of my old fender rocpro combo. the "yellow channel" distortion is the greatest in the world.
Jackson sucked,the stonk box a joke.never buy from either companies again.too many great builders out there to waste money on a name.