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Faded Abyss
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I understand the concept of “______ amp in a box” pedals, but I’m not understanding the river of pedals coming out with the moniker. I think the first one I heard that actually sounded was Bogners La Grange, and back then, the concept made sense to me. If you want some marshally flavor in an amp that doesn’t have, now you have this novelty that actually sounds good. Also, amp sims still sounded like trash back then without heavy tweaking so it made sense.
A few years later Abasi came out with his pedal Pathos and the floodgates started opening, all the sudden companies started making them and none of them since then appealed to me because modelers have been getting better and better - so I get that having one of these pedals to do that thing to your clean channel makes sense for novelty purposes, but the way these things are being unveiled like cracker jacks being tossed at you
You have amps that came out between the year 1981 and 1983… in a box. You have an amplifier that caught on fire but made it on a rancid album in 1948… in a box. Google made an amp in a box trying to take sales from Gibsons “play authentic” ideology.
What gives? Has anyone tried these and wanted to sell their amps or use these over a good amp modeler? A lot of these fuzz and doom pedals make it seem like they capture power amp distortion from the real amps… that nobody will ever hear the power distortion from unless in a rare case of being ran through an attenuator which isn’t the same… It’s always been marketing gimmicks to me but maybe I’m missing out since people are obviously buying them up and they aren’t cheap by any stretch.
A few years later Abasi came out with his pedal Pathos and the floodgates started opening, all the sudden companies started making them and none of them since then appealed to me because modelers have been getting better and better - so I get that having one of these pedals to do that thing to your clean channel makes sense for novelty purposes, but the way these things are being unveiled like cracker jacks being tossed at you
You have amps that came out between the year 1981 and 1983… in a box. You have an amplifier that caught on fire but made it on a rancid album in 1948… in a box. Google made an amp in a box trying to take sales from Gibsons “play authentic” ideology.
What gives? Has anyone tried these and wanted to sell their amps or use these over a good amp modeler? A lot of these fuzz and doom pedals make it seem like they capture power amp distortion from the real amps… that nobody will ever hear the power distortion from unless in a rare case of being ran through an attenuator which isn’t the same… It’s always been marketing gimmicks to me but maybe I’m missing out since people are obviously buying them up and they aren’t cheap by any stretch.
