Axiom

Power Amp Emulator PAE-2

PREAMP

AMP

EQUALIZER

Description

Expanding on its predecessor the PAE-1, the AXiom Power Amp Emulator PAE-2 was designed by intensively studying the electrical characteristics of power tubes, transformers and tube heads and reproducing their behaviors in a 100% analog stompbox. To be clear, the PAE-2 is NOT an amplifier (it puts out about the same signal level as a loud overdrive or clean boost pedal). It isn't an "overdrive" pedal (and it isn't voiced or meant to be used as one). It isn't a digital modeler with cartoon-like exaggerations of what different tubes are "supposed" to sound like. What it does is emulate the real characteristics of a tube head and make whatever you plug into it seem like it's plugged into a tube power amp. Plug your overdrive pedals or preamp into the PAE-2 and plug the PAE-2 into your solid-state amp and voila: your sterile, lifeless amp now has the compression headroom, touch-sensitivity, crunch and sag of a tube head. Or, if you already have a tube amp, use the PAE-2 to give you that cranked tube feel at lower volumes or make your stiff, high-powered head more compressive and reactive.

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Manuals

Manual (EN)