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Power Amp Pedals

Milkman The Amp 50 Pedal Power Amp

The Milkman The Amp 50 is a Class D hybrid tube/solid-state amp that can fit on your desktop (or your pedalboard, although it's not super-compact). It uses a 12ax7 preamp tube that can be pushed or overdriven just like any tube amp. The power stage can be run into a…... Click for more

Milkman The Amp 50 Pedal Power Amp

Acorn Amps Solid State

Peavey's solid-state amps have been subject to many sarcastic jokes by tube amps snobs, little matters that they were the sonic centerpiece of the groundbreaking power rock sound of bands like Pixies and Queens of the Stone Age. Acorn Amps Solid State is here to fix this with a pedal…... Click for more

Acorn Amps Solid State

New Pedal: Victory V4 The Sheriff 180w Amp

The Victory The Sheriff V4 180w Amp is part of a series of 5 power amp pedals able to power pretty much any cabinet (although you may want to be careful with 16 Ohms ones!). It is the Plexi version of the bunch and features cab sim circuitry courtesy of Two…... Click for more

New Pedal: Victory V4 The Sheriff 180w Amp

New Pedal: Baroni AFK150 Tube Power Amp Pedal

Modern technology is allowing gear manufacturers to relocate guitar amps from the floor to the pedalboard, and the Baroni AFK150 is a hybrid, Class D tube amp in a pedal format that does just that, providing 150w of power for your cabinet, and two channels (Clean and Drive). Routing allows…... Click for more

New Pedal: Baroni AFK150 Tube Power Amp Pedal

Milkman The Amp 100 – 100w Pedal Power Amp

Milkman Sound, an amp company run by a San Francisco-based steel guitar player, has been building a solid reputation for their sturdy quality pedals, notwithstanding the fact that they don't exactly follow the established trend of ever-shrinking footprints - yes his babies are quite large, their components have room to…... Click for more

Milkman The Amp 100 – 100w Pedal Power Amp

Tubesteader Sunkeeper Preamp

The Canadian folks at Tubesteader don't mess around with the build of their pedals, maybe also because they like to fit them with rather fragile tubes to deliver the best possible tone. The Sunkeeper, a dual-channel preamp/overdrive recreating the sound of the Orange amps, is the third stompbox in the…... Click for more

Tubesteader Sunkeeper Preamp

DSM & Humboldt Silver Linings Overdrive

The Silver Linings Overdrive is the first collaboration between DSM & Humboldt outside the uber-popular amp-simulating Simplifier line (launched at our own NAMM 2019 Stompbox Booth), which brought the two Chilean companies to the forefront of the amp/cab modeler scene. A very tweakable drive/preamp engine with an extra dual boost…... Click for more

DSM & Humboldt Silver Linings Overdrive

New Pedal: Hughes & Kettner Stompman

Hughes & Kettner have developed a great reputation for their amps, heads and amp simulation devices, but up until today all their products were a little too big to be called "stompboxes." As the name suggests, the Hughes & Kettner Stompman addresses that issue. This is an analog, full-fledged 50…... Click for more

New Pedal: Hughes & Kettner Stompman

Blue Colander GT420 – Pre/Power Amp Distortion

Blue Colander Stompboxes is a Poland-based builder of guitar pedals. Their GT420 is presented as an "emulation of some desirable vintage amp that’s actually never existed," which is somewhat refreshing. It features a Rangemaster-style boost (left side) followed by a two gain stages distortion circuit: the first one is a…... Click for more

Blue Colander GT420 – Pre/Power Amp Distortion

Harley Benton Custom Line Thunder 99 50W Stereo Amp

Those of you looking for a compact, stereo (!!) pedal that can replace your amp head (!!!) should take a look at the Harley Benton Custom Line Thunder 99. This tiny thing delivers not one but two channels of 50 Watts of power at 4 Ohms via two 1/4” jack…... Click for more

Harley Benton Custom Line Thunder 99 50W Stereo Amp

Victory The Kraken V4 Preamp Pedal

Those in need of a helluva portable, two-channel tube preamp for heavy tones might have found what they were looking for in the Victory Amplification The Kraken V4, a device developed in collaboration with UK's one and only Rabea Massaad and created with heavy, progressive and extended-range overdrive tones in…... Click for more

Victory The Kraken V4 Preamp Pedal

Thermion Zero Stereo Pedal Amp

Henning at EytschPi42 is freaking out about the Zero pedal amp by Spanish company Thermion. While major pedal companies are busy trying to reduce the size of pedal amps to the compact stompbox format (i.e. the size of a regular BOSS pedal), Thermion has taken a different approach, focusing on…... Click for more

Thermion Zero Stereo Pedal Amp