Effect Blocks
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Preamp Simulator
To avoid any confusion, let’s draw the line between preamps and effect pedals.
Preamps are self-sufficient units with one or more channels. They have a strong output,
so-called line level output, and are able to drive a power amp. These are:
• Rack devices, such as AMT SS-10 Tube Guitar Preamp
•
Preamp sections of guitar head and combo amplifiers. For example, AMT StoneHead
SH-50-4 with its dedicated Preamp Out
• Preamp pedals with line level output, such as AMT Electronics LA series, LA II series
and SS series pedals
Effect pedals have a quieter output than preamps, so-called instrument level output, and are
not able to drive a power amp. Connected directly to the power amp these pedals will sound
dull. They are designed to work in conjunction with the clean channel of a guitar amp and
are heavily dependent on it. Because the sound gets significantly colored by the amp, the
same effect pedal may sound completely different when used with different amps. This group
of devices includes:
• Boost pedals
• Overdrive pedals, such as AMT HR-1 ‘Heater’ pedal
• Distortion pedals, such as AMT Electronics FX Drive and FX Drive-mini series pedals.
AMT LA II series preamps have dedicated Drive Out and can be used as effect pedals
Pangaea CP-100FX perfectly works with all the devices listed above. By default, Pangaea’s
input is configured to work with a preamp. May you choose to use an effect pedal instead,
enable
Preamp Simulator
effect block to simulate a clean channel of an amplifier. Just
like a real amp, this block has a tone stack. Here is a list of the parameters you can adjust:
•
Gain
•
Volume
•
Low
•
Mid
•
High
