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Preamp & Buffer

Shape the front end of your rig with preamps, buffers and devices that combine these functions with other processing. Examples include Fire-Eye Red-Eye acoustic preamps, Jad & Freer CAPO bass processing and compact tuners with built-in buffers.

Start with the instrument and the input it needs to reach. Compare gain and tone controls, DI outputs, effects loops and power requirements, while checking whether the device is intended for acoustic, bass or electric guitar use.

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Lee Custom Amp | 12AU7PRE | Tube Driven Preamp | Silver & Blue Knob (LEE - 12AU7PRE) - Gsus4 Lee Custom Amp | 12AU7PRE | Tube Driven Preamp | Silver & Blue Knob (LEE - 12AU7PRE) - Gsus4
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Lee Custom Amp 12AU7PRE Tube Driven Preamp Silver & Blue Knob

Lee Custom Amp

Experience unparalleled clarity, dynamics, and tonality with the 12AU7PRE, a tube-driven preamp and booster designed and wired by the former chie...

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NUX | STAGEMAN FLOOR | Acoustic Preamp, DI & Looper | NAP5 (NXSTAGEMANFLOOR) - Gsus4 NUX | STAGEMAN FLOOR | Acoustic Preamp, DI & Looper | NAP5 (NXSTAGEMANFLOOR) - Gsus4
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NUX STAGEMAN FLOOR Acoustic Preamp, DI & Looper NAP5

NUX

NUX Stageman Floor is an analog acoustic preamp with digital effects and looper function. Preamp featured with a highly sensitive 3-band EQ with M...

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Empirical Labs | EL - 9 Mike - E | Microphone Preamp & Compressor / Saturator (ELI - EL9) - Gsus4 Empirical Labs | EL - 9 Mike - E | Microphone Preamp & Compressor / Saturator (ELI - EL9) - Gsus4 Sold out
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Empirical Labs EL-9 Mike-E Microphone Preamp & Compressor / Saturator

Empirical Labs

Empirical Labs’ Mike-E channel strip manages to do many things very well! First and foremost, it’s a modern digitally controlled mic preamp. An ext...

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Jackson Audio | PRISM | Galaxy Edition | Preamp, Boost, EQ & Tone Sculpting (JacksonAudio - Prism - galaxy) - Gsus4 Jackson Audio | PRISM | Galaxy Edition | Preamp, Boost, EQ & Tone Sculpting (JacksonAudio - Prism - galaxy) - Gsus4
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Jackson Audio PRISM Galaxy Edition Preamp, Boost, EQ & Tone Sculpting

Jackson Audio

The PRISM was designed using a systems approach to tone shaping. While the PRISM contains many features and circuits, those circuits are precise...

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Jackson Audio | GOLDEN BOY MINI | Rose Gold | Open, Uncompressed & Transparent OVERDRIVE (JacksonAudio - GB - Mini - Rose) - Gsus4
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Jackson Audio GOLDEN BOY MINI Rose Gold Open, Uncompressed & Transparent OVERDRIVE

Jackson Audio

Designed in collaboration with renowned guitarist Joey Landreth, the Jackson Audio Golden Boy Mini packs a salmagundi of smooth, blues-breaking to...

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Crazy Tube Circuits | SIDEKICK | Modulation, Echo & Reverb | w/ Preamp, DI & Headphone Out (CTC - Sidekick) - Gsus4 Crazy Tube Circuits | SIDEKICK | Modulation, Echo & Reverb | w/ Preamp, DI & Headphone Out (CTC - Sidekick) - Gsus4 Sold out
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Crazy Tube Circuits SIDEKICK Modulation, Echo & Reverb w/ Preamp, DI & Headphone Out

Crazy Tube Circuits

Meet Sidekick - The perfect companion Sidekick combines the most common time based effects and creative tools in a compact design (14,5 x 12,3 x ...

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Spaceman | SATURN VI | Harmonic Booster | Standard (Spaceman - Saturn - VI) - Gsus4 Spaceman | SATURN VI | Harmonic Booster | Standard (Spaceman - Saturn - VI) - Gsus4 Sold out
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Spaceman SATURN VI Harmonic Booster Standard

Spaceman

INTRODUCING THE SATURN VISimultaneously a harmonic-laden boost and low-gain overdrive, the Saturn VI eludes categorisation. An update to the reno...

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Spaceman | REDSTONE | Germanium Preamp & Overdrive | Silver (Spaceman - Redstone) - Gsus4 Spaceman | REDSTONE | Germanium Preamp & Overdrive | Silver (Spaceman - Redstone) - Gsus4 Sold out
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Spaceman REDSTONE Germanium Preamp & Overdrive Black / Silver

Spaceman

The Redstone is a multipurpose reimagining of our Mercury platform, designed to be your sonic swiss army knife. It's a flexible preamp with a 3-...

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Milkman Sound | Pop Top Boost | Inspired by the Discrete Op - Amp (MilkmanSound - PopTopBoost) - Gsus4 Milkman Sound | Pop Top Boost | Inspired by the Discrete Op - Amp (MilkmanSound - PopTopBoost) - Gsus4
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Milkman Sound Pop Top Boost Inspired by the Discrete Op-Amp

Milkman Sound

The new Pop Top Boost from Milkman Sound takes its inspiration from the classic American recording consoles of the 1970s. We designed a discrete ...

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Benson Amps | PREAMP | Wolf Shirt Finish | Based on Chimera Amps | LIMITED EDITION (Bensom - Preamp - wolf) - Gsus4 Sold out
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Benson Amps PREAMP Wolf Shirt Finish Based on Chimera Amps LIMITED EDITION

Benson Amps

The Benson Preamp Pedal now in a limited Wolf Shirt finish! The Benson Preamp Pedal captures the preamp of the Chimera 30 amplifier. It adds gri...

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Earthquaker Devices | Arrows | Pre - Amp Booster (M00001878) - Gsus4 Earthquaker Devices | Arrows | Pre - Amp Booster (M00001878) - Gsus4 Sold out
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Earthquaker Devices Arrows Pre-Amp Booster

Earthquaker Devices

The Arrows is an all-discrete tone sculpting preamp booster. It was designed with the intention of adding an additional channel of gain to a...

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JHS | Utility | Little Black Buffer | Active Buffer (JHS - LBB) - Gsus4 JHS | Utility | Little Black Buffer | Active Buffer (JHS - LBB) - Gsus4 Sold out
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JHS Utility Little Black Buffer Active Buffer

JHS Pedals

Though it’s a fairly nondescript-looking piece of gear, our Little Black Buffer may be the most powerful tone-shaping tool that you put on your...

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JHS | Overdrive Preamp | Overdrive / Preamp | Based on DOD 250 Circuit (JHS - OP) - Gsus4 Sold out
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JHS Overdrive Preamp Overdrive / Preamp Based on DOD 250 Circuit

JHS Pedals

  The JHS Overdrive Preamp is a faithful replication of this unobtainable V1 of DOD’s most loved pedal. The controls are simple. The Level cont...

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JHS | Crayon | Overdrive / Preamp / Distortion / Fuzz (JHS - Crayon) - Gsus4 JHS | Crayon | Overdrive / Preamp / Distortion / Fuzz (JHS - Crayon) - Gsus4 Sold out
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JHS Crayon Overdrive / Preamp / Distortion / Fuzz

JHS Pedals

LITTLE BROTHER TO THE COLOUR BOX The JHS Pedals Colour Box began with a simple idea: create a pedal that sounds like plugging directly into a ...

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Lee Custom Amp | TX - 1 | Transformer Amplified Clean Boost | w/ 140dB S/N Ratio (Lee - TX1) - Gsus4 Lee Custom Amp | TX - 1 | Transformer Amplified Clean Boost | w/ 140dB S/N Ratio (Lee - TX1) - Gsus4 Sold out
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Lee Custom Amp TX-1 Transformer Amplified Clean Boost w/ 140dB S/N Ratio

Lee Custom Amp

Lee Custom Amp TX-1 is transformer amplified clean boost, manufactured with clear anodised aluminium machined chassis, CTS pot, and Point-to-Poi...

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Very Good Amp Co | EP Drive V3 | Echoplex Preamp Boost & Tone Shaper | White (VGOOD - EPdrive - White) - Gsus4
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Very Good Amp Co EP Drive V3 Echoplex Preamp Boost & Tone Shaper White SYDNEY PICK-UP ONLY

Very Good Amp Co

Echoplex Preamp meets low gain overdrive.  Two circuits that can be used independently or together.    Echoplex preamp based boost/tone shaper w...

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Catalinbread | Dreamcoat | Preamp | Based on the Blackmores Aiwa TP - 1011 (CB - DreamCoat) - Gsus4 Catalinbread | Dreamcoat | Preamp | Based on the Blackmores Aiwa TP - 1011 (CB - DreamCoat) - Gsus4 Sold out
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Catalinbread Dreamcoat Preamp Based on the Blackmores Aiwa TP-1011

Catalinbread

What began as an exploration of Ritchie Blackmore’s tone evolved into a multidimensional gain machine capable of anything between unruly sputtery...

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Shnobel Tone | Buffer Fuzz Interface | w/ Cable Length Emulator (SH - BF) - Gsus4 Shnobel Tone | Buffer Fuzz Interface | w/ Cable Length Emulator (SH - BF) - Gsus4
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Shnobel Tone Buffer Fuzz Interface w/ Cable Length Emulator

Shnobel Tone

The Shnobel Tone Buffer / Fuzz Interface is designed to interface your vintage and impedance sensitive fuzz pedals on your pedalboard. It featur...

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Walrus | BADWATER | Bass Overdrive | EQ | Pre - Amp | DI (WAL - BADWATER) - Gsus4 Walrus | BADWATER | Bass Overdrive | EQ | Pre - Amp | DI (WAL - BADWATER) - Gsus4 Sold out
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Walrus BADWATER Bass Overdrive EQ Pre-Amp DI

Walrus Audio

The Badwater is a bass tone magnification device sonically highlighting what makes bass so crucial to music. The all in one bass pre-amp and DI f...

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Greer Amps | SOMA 63 | Vintage PreAmp (Greer - SOMA63) - Gsus4 Greer Amps | SOMA 63 | Vintage PreAmp (Greer - SOMA63) - Gsus4
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Greer Amps SOMA 63 Vintage PreAmp

Greer Amps

Enclosure Dimensions (in):  4.77" x 2.6" x 1.39" Power:  9-18 volt neg. center pin ONLY.   Current draw:  10mA @ 9v, 18mA @ 18V.  A brave new wo...

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Greer Amps | Royal Velvet (Greer - Royal - Velvet) - Gsus4 Greer Amps | Royal Velvet (Greer - Royal - Velvet) - Gsus4 Sold out
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Greer Amps Royal Velvet

Greer Amps

Enclosure Dimensions (in):  4.77" x 2.6" x 1.39" Power:  9-18 volt neg. center pin ONLY.   Current draw:  15mA @ 9v. Greer Amps expands the XFR ...

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DSM & Humboldt | SILVER LININGS | Overdrive / Preamp / Boost Engine (DSM - Silverlinings) - Gsus4 DSM & Humboldt | SILVER LININGS | Overdrive / Preamp / Boost Engine (DSM - Silverlinings) - Gsus4
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DSM & Humboldt SILVER LININGS Overdrive / Preamp / Boost Engine

DSM & Humboldt

A Myriad of Tones at Your Control Designed to bring inspiration to musicians, the Silver Linings drive/preamp pedal from DSM Humboldt Electron...

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Tech 21 | SansAmp Classic Reissue | SA1 (SA1) - Gsus4 Tech 21 | SansAmp Classic Reissue | SA1 (SA1) - Gsus4
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Tech 21 SansAmp Classic Reissue SA1

Tech 21

It is rare an electronic music-related product can withstand the test of time. For over 30 years, the SansAmp Classic has been used for every kin...

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Tech 21 | FlyRig 5 V2 | Multi - Effects & DI Pedal (FL5V2) - Gsus4
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Tech 21 FlyRig 5 V2 Multi-Effects & DI Pedal

Tech 21

The original Fly Rig, introduced in 2014, was a true game-changer for players in all categories, from touring pros to bedroom hobbyists. At a tim...

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