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factory. They also have all technical details for your product and have been carefully
selected to ensure you get the best possible service for warranty and non-warranty work.
Why a preamp pedal and not a normal overdrive or distortion?
Martin
’
s thoughts
…
“
We love overdrive pedals, distortions, fuzzes and boosts as much as anybody. Some of
the most iconic guitar tones of all time have been made using them and it
’
s always great
to hear our amps pushed with stomp boxes new and old. As great as they can sound,
however, they don
’
t sound like great valve amps. A
‘normal’
pedal does one kind of job,
but a whole separate preamp is something completely different.
“
Victory amps are deliberately aimed at a particular slice of tonal goodness that suits an
approach to playing and response as much as it does musical genre. Existing Victory amp
owners will have been through at least one choice process already. Should you go for The
Countess or The Kraken? The Duchess or The Sheriff? For the fortunate, a second Victory
amp usually follows in time but it
’
s not an option open to everyone either practically or
financially. With that in mind, I designed the V4 Series Pedal Preamps to work as a whole
extra
‘
front end
’
to your amp, whether that
’
s a Victory or something else entirely. It
comes on the back of discussions with friends and colleagues about players increasingly
using preamp pedals on their pedalboards to drive various power sections in existing
guitar amps, rack gear or even standalone pedal power amps, whether they
’
re rented,
supplied backline or otherwise.
The general idea of pedal-sized preamps is definitely not new. Yet to date
–
and to the
best of our knowledge
–
nobody has done it with four preamp valves and an entirely
valve signal path. Yes, they can be a little fiddly, potentially confusing and
–
this bit is
important
–
they very often don
’
t function like
‘normal’
pedals! Once you
’
ve got that in
your head, however, a good pedal preamp gives you the option of an entirely new valve
amp voice. Let
’
s say you own a V30 The Countess and you want some Sheriff flavour in
addition. You own V40 The Duchess and you want some Kraken in the mix? Or maybe you
have another brand of amp altogether that has a great clean channel, but decide that Dr.
Jekyll needs a new Mr Hyde side. Well, now you can and unlike many others you can
retain all the functionality of your existing amp and pedals too.
“
However you end up using your V4 Series Pedal Preamp, I wish you great tones and
plenty of fun along the way. Now go and make some noise!
”
Martin Kidd, Chief Designer, Victory Amplification.
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