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I'm a somewhat new user of the CAB. makes demoing ideas way easier at home, and dirt pedals finally sound good when running direct into my interface. however, things are still a bit lacking and I've been looking for a standalone preamp to run between my board and the CAB to fill the missing component of guitar > X > poweramp > cab. my problem is, I have yet to find something that fully meets my needs.
to be clear, I do not want a "preamp" pedal for medium/high gain tones. Almost everything I've found for guitar preamps are purely designed around creating distortion, multiple channels and running into a real amp, or has built in cab sim if you want to run it direct.
I've aquired a Kingsley Squire, which is a blackface based preamp that is intended to be run straight into a power amp, and it works quite well for what I want. however, I'd still like to have a non-Fender based equivalent to have a different base tone. Hiwatt, Vox, I'm not really set on anything, just want something non-Fender flavored. I know that many of you use preamps for high gain tones, Blackstar, Bogner, AMT, Badcat, etc., not really what I'm looking for. I know that the Blackbird can do clean, but it's Fender based and overkill for what I want.
so does anyone know of anything out there that is small, single channel, CLEAN, non-fender based and has enough headroom to be hit with high gain pedals if needed? tube based is probably preferred, as is being in pedal format for portability/not having to deal with rack gear. I have a feeling I'll eventually have to build or get something custom built myself, but I'm trying to exhaust all options first.
to be clear, I do not want a "preamp" pedal for medium/high gain tones. Almost everything I've found for guitar preamps are purely designed around creating distortion, multiple channels and running into a real amp, or has built in cab sim if you want to run it direct.
I've aquired a Kingsley Squire, which is a blackface based preamp that is intended to be run straight into a power amp, and it works quite well for what I want. however, I'd still like to have a non-Fender based equivalent to have a different base tone. Hiwatt, Vox, I'm not really set on anything, just want something non-Fender flavored. I know that many of you use preamps for high gain tones, Blackstar, Bogner, AMT, Badcat, etc., not really what I'm looking for. I know that the Blackbird can do clean, but it's Fender based and overkill for what I want.
so does anyone know of anything out there that is small, single channel, CLEAN, non-fender based and has enough headroom to be hit with high gain pedals if needed? tube based is probably preferred, as is being in pedal format for portability/not having to deal with rack gear. I have a feeling I'll eventually have to build or get something custom built myself, but I'm trying to exhaust all options first.
