Amp in a box pedal for straight in to PA

hollywoodrox

Joyo British sound , joyo American sound, Sonicake rockstage,Sonicake twiggy 
  Tech 21 fly rig , valet on Dapper FX strip .

rockmonster

ICBM said:

I use a Mesa V-Twin. It has a whole catalogue of frustrating annoyances*, but it's still the best-sounding thing for this job I've ever heard. I've owned three of them - one twice, so four times really! - and the annoyances always made me sell them, but having finally realised that there's really no substitute for the sound I've learned to live with it and this one isn't going anywhere...

*Not least - it's huge, heavy, ugly, takes a non-standard power supply, has a noticeable switching delay from bypass to on, when you're using it direct to a PA the bypass mode is *mute* (and is easy to hit by accident), the power jack is in a stupid place and easily damaged, one of the most useful features is hidden under a plate on the bottom, and so on and so on. But it sounds brilliant!

It’s high time Mesa  brought out a modern version of this with all the modern gizmos!

timbuk02

The Palmer Pocket Amp is a neat solution, you get a trio of 'amp' choices/settings. A handy swiss army knife to have for the price.

Whitecat

Walrus ACS1. 

ICBM

timbuk02 said:

The Palmer Pocket Amp is a neat solution, you get a trio of 'amp' choices/settings. A handy swiss army knife to have for the price.

That looks suspiciously like a SansAmp GT2 copy with a couple of extra connections!

Born2BMild

I'm very happy with my sansamp acoustic flyrig. So much so that I've flogged off my Mooer pedals and am thinking of getting the bass flyrig too.

duotone

ArchtopDave said:

The new Thermion Zero looks nice... Got approval from Pete Thorn.

Looks cool. I didn’t know it was on Kickstarter. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/thermion/thermion-zero-dinamic-hybrid-amplifier/

EreforGuitarGear

I’ve currently got 2 Atomic Ampli fireboxes (v1) and a Massive Unity 1964. The fireboxes are quite good and offer a variety of tones if you spend time dialling them in. My pedal board uses an ABC-Y pedal to mix any/all of the 3 to give a lot of tonal options.

https://www.thefretboard.co.uk/discussion/206091/bit-of-an-experiment-going-ampless#latest

thomasw88

Tech 21 blonde.  
It's easy to use, works well with pedals and is nice and small.

I ab'd it against a line 6 hx stomp and also a torpedo captor X thingy (allows you to plug a valve amp without speake into a pa).

It was very close and the tech 21 won in that it was sooooo easy to use. No menus . Set the pedal to what you want and then turn the speaker sim on.

digitalkettle

Bit late to this one...the SansAmp/Tech21 TRI-AC:
https://www.thefretboard.co.uk/discussion/192938/fs-sansamp-tri-ac-analog-amp-emulation-stomp-or-di-price-drop

Snags

Just to reinforce the tight-wad approach, ran an American Sound straight to desk last week and got some very surprised compliments from the guy running it. Just had it at the end of a small board with the usual suspects in front.

BintyTwanger77

@BobTheSalmon I have an Iridium (with box and power supply) for sale in the classifieds, if you fancy it? Open to reasonable offers.

tanihhiavlt

What do amps usually come in? 

That said I shoved an umble and black 65 into a 1590BBX box  

johnhe

I recently bought a box like this to act as an emergency in case my amp ever failed on stage. I wondered about the Iridium, but since I wasn’t going to use it all the time, I balked at the price. 

Also, I was attracted by a box which had an XLR output - that way it would be an easy swap onstage in an emergency,

i ended up buying a NuX Solid Studio:

https://www.gear4music.com/Guitar-and-Bass/NUX-NSS-5-Solid-Studio-IR-and-Power-Amp-Simulator/3V4O?origin=product-ads&gclid=Cj0KCQjw9O6HBhCrARIsADx5qCTOXK2SKvXUz3MsLvQGLd6S3SLhp1a-9U8cX6xQDKUx7rx9gwZi0WAaAncCEALw_wcB

dilbert

Another vote for the Joyo American Sound and if you spend another £23 on the Tomsline amp sim pedal you have a very capable gig box amp and yep, it does take pedals well!