The Effectrode® ‘LA-1A’ Leveling Amplifier is a high-end, studio-grade vacuum tube compressor in a pedal. Whisper-quiet operation and a wide, wide dynamic range make this tone-tool an unparalleled tone enhancer on stage and in the studio—its natural warmth and clarity are unmatched.

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LA1A Levelling Amplifier

Das leistungsstarke Atomic™ Isolated Power Supply wurde entwickelt, um den hohen Stromanforderungen der Effectrode-Röhrenpedale gerecht zu werden. Es verfügt über eine einzigartige „Soft-Start“-Spannungsfunktion, die das Aufblitzen der Röhrenheizfäden verhindert und die Lebensdauer der Röhren maximiert.
Wird mit einem länderspezifischen IEC-Netzkabel und vier DC-Stromkabeln geliefert.

The mighty Atomic™ Isolated Power Supply is developed to meet the high power requirements of Effectrode tube effects pedals. Includes a unique "soft-start" voltage capability, which eliminates tube heater filament flash and maximise the life of the tubes.\r\nSupplied with country-appropriate IEC power cable and four DC power leads.

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Setting the standard in natural, musical, super low-noise compression—this compact tube pedal is the go-to compressor for many of the world’s top players, including David Gilmour (Pink Floyd), Adrian Legg, Paul Stacey (Oasis) and Steve Rothery (Marillion) .

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Der Tube Drive™ ist ein Overdrive-Pedal mit drei Doppeltrioden­röhren, die mit echter Verstärker-Plattenspannung (300 V DC) betrieben werden. Die sechs-stufige Röhren­schaltung ist präzise voreingestellt, um hochsymmetrische Clipping-Verzerrung zu erzeugen. Der Sound ist enorm, harmonisch gesättigt und super-geschmeidig – von mildem Blues-Breakup bis hin zu cremiger High-Gain-Sättigung ist alles möglich. Es besitzt einen vollständig röhrenbasierten Signalweg, eine aktive „Baxandall“ Klangregelung (ohne Einfügungsverlust) sowie eine aktive Bass-Boost-Kontur für mehr Tiefton. Das Pedal erlaubt durch Röhrentausch eine Charakter­änderung hinsichtlich Gain und Klang.

The Tube Drive™ overdrive pedal contains three twin-triode vacuum tubes operating at real amp plate voltage (300 V DC!). The cascaded six-stage tube circuitry is precision-biased to generate highly symmetrical clipping distortion. The sound is immense, harmonically-saturated and super-smooth, able to go from mild bluesy breakup to full-on blistering distortion. It features an all-tube signal path, an active “Baxandall” tone stack (with zero insertion loss), and an active Bass Boost contour for added low end. The pedal allows you to fine-tune the character by swapping tubes to change gain and tonal response.

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The Effectrode® ‘LA-1A’ Leveling Amplifier was designed with one purpose in mind: to enable artists and engineers extract every last nuance from a musical performance… without compromise. Tubes are unmatched tone enhancers, adding warmth, depth and clarity to recorded and live instruments and Effectrode wanted to push their sonic performance even further and beyond expectation. To that end we based our Leveling Amplifier on a parallel tube plate design—the type of tube circuitry only found in audiophile tube phono-stage preamps for high-end turntables. Parallel tube design reduces the LA-1A’s noise floor to vanishing point. In practical terms this means best possible signal to noise ratio for your guitar. It’s an expensive way of doing things—as four identical tube input stages are used in its circuitry—but it does yield stellar sound quality, without the compromise of noise gates or ‘cutting’ certain frequencies using equalisation. The parallel tube design has never been built into a stompbox or even a professional studio leveling amplifier/compressor before, making the LA-1A a truly special compressor.