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AMT Electronics F1

Legend Amps F-1 guitar preamp is intended for studio use and live performances. - 'AMT Legend Amps' is a new revolutionary series of one-channel preamps (JFET-preamps) from AMT Electronics, developed with principally new approach to guitar sound formation. - The technology of analog modeling of the physical processes occurring in real vacuum tube limiting the guitar signals was used as the basis for the new guitar pedals series. - It became possible due to the application of original circuitry solutions. - The series' channels structuring conforms to the processes occurring in real tube-based devices. It results in formation of the structure of limitation, dynamics and range close to he ones used in popular tube amplifiers. - Having compact sizes and low energy consumption characteristic to semiconductor-based effects AMT Legend Amps possess a number of unique features found in real tube preamps and amplifiers: - ' Preamps included into AMT Legend Amps series provide excellent playing dynamics characteristic to real tube-based devices and are in no way inferior to them. - ' With the limitation range similar to tube channel the preamps of the series ensure terrific thickness and power to the resulting sound. Working with AMT Legend Amps preamps you won't feel the urge to cut out the most informative middle frequencies, which in turn will provide great readability of your guitar in the sound mix. - ' Like tube preamps AMT Legend amps provide gradual increase of the limiting stages number as the gain grows. - ' The series' preamps use passive circuits of tone shaping which are in full conformity with the tone controls during original tube overdrives. - ' The high level of output signal of AMT Legend Amps (+10 dB at max Level position) corresponds to the tube preamps' output signal levels. Thus you have adjustable signal level which makes it possible to connect the preamps to any input (RETURN, DIRECT, LINE etc.) including INPUT POWER AMP.

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Vintage in your Pocket...

Sound	This preamp comes in the form of a stomp box. Although it has some features you would not expect from a little stompbox. For once it has a full featured FX-Loop. It also features a full 3-band EQ which is quite easy to use as it is not so anoyingly reactive as many other products. Of course this somehow limits how much you sound customizing you can do, but I found this to be a good feature since it is very hard to dial in sounds that are bad. Level, Master Volume and Gain work as with any other amp and get the job done pretty well. With the use of limiting your volume with the Master Volume and then playing with Level and Gain you can reach many different gain and drive settings which is really nice. Again the gain levels you can dial in go from Crunchy to Metal, but not insane settings. The amp still stays at a Vintagy point. Now from the sound range I preferred in the test I dialed in a good amount of treble and bass with slight mids using a JEM and cut mids back using a Les Paul Std. Gain wise it was nice that you could do the "nearly clean" Crunch that I love in many vintage amps and they sound really really good for such a little stomp box. Perfect for your rhythm picking stuff, add some more crunch and put a delay in the loop to go U2'isch. Where this little bugger really shines is a good and solid Hard Rock tone. I did not think that anything short of a tube amp could produce such nice Rock tone, but this little bugger does it. Dial in about 2/3 gain and play with the Level a bit and you will be ready to go for some AC/DC or Deep Purple riffs. It is amazing how easy you can get such sounds out of this unit, this is why I would recommend this unit even to beginners, as it is so easy to dial in cool sounds and almost impossible to screw up. So for another test I put the F1 in front of a 100 bucks transistor amp (Hughes & Kettner Edition Blue) and still it would produce very good results. (Amp almost flat EQ and clean channel.) So if you are low budget and want some good hard rock tone, you might want to give this unit a try and hook it up to your amp. All in all this unit is really easy to use, has sounds in every gain range up to oldschool metal and really sounds like it has a tube and also adds little noise to your chain. I wanted to add some sound samples, but sadly my Macs HD died. I will try to add some when I get my Mac back from repair.
Reliability	Comes in a solid metal enclosure that you can run over with your car. All the knobs are quite nice and firm. This unit is really really well built. Of course as this is a test unit I had to open it up. Also internally the unit is nicely built. Everything is good and firm in its place and secured. All soldering is done very nicely and it really has a handcraftet feel to it.
Customer Support	Not dealt with them.