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Orange The Amp Detonator Footswitch

4,75
It’s a well-known fact that running two amps is not only enormous fun, but also a time-honoured way of achieving bigger tones on stage and in the studio. Whether it’s switching between two different amplifiers for their individual characteristics...
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2024-03-26
Footswitch Orange The Amp Detonator Footswitch

Orange The Amp Detonator Footswitch

138 €

Product code: D-PD-AMP-DETONATOR | ID: 226275

Orange The Amp Detonator Footswitch

It’s a well-known fact that running two amps is not only enormous fun, but also a time-honoured way of achieving bigger tones on stage and in the studio. Whether it’s switching between two different amplifiers for their individual characteristics (rhythm and lead, for example) or using them simultaneously for huge walls of sound, pros have been employing this setup for decades. Achieving this easily, however, has always been a problem for guitar players.

Poor quality passive ABY boxes/line selectors load the guitar signal down, degrading the tone and rendering the whole exercise almost pointless. Not to mention ground hum issues caused by non-isolated outputs. On the other hand, active ABY pedals are in short supply and are usually quite cumbersome. Driving long cables is no problem as the Amp Detonator’s buffered low impedance signal ensures your input’s upper frequencies are maintained. Output B features an isolating transformer which eliminates common ground loop hum when using two amps simultaneously. The transformer output has been engineered for maximum transparency, correcting some of the tone-altering characteristics that affect many other ABY boxes. Two amps out of phase with each other sound awful but many ABY switchers ignore this. Even if the amps are in phase, running different pedal chains to each amp can reverse the polarity of the signal, causing the two signals to be out of phase when engaging both amps. The Amp Detonator addresses this with a simple fix on the top of the unit. The only active ABY switcher that can be powered by battery as well as a 9 or 12V DC adapter. It also features an internal charge pump circuit which doubles the voltage internally to 18V, increasing the internal headroom for incredibly low harmonic distortion.    

Parameters and specifications

Overall score based on 4 user reviews:

4,75

Sigmar S.

Overall impression

Date
29.02.2024

Absolut rauchfreies Umschalten zwischen 2 Amps möglich. 2 isolierte Ausgänge. Das gibt es nur bei Orange in der Preisklasse. Die billigen ABY switches haben nur Rauschen und fremdsignale. Top. Zu empfehlen

Toni K.

Overall impression

Date
29.01.2024

No humming. Works well. I use it to switch between and together with orange th30 metal dirty and laney lc15r bright clean

Kacper B.

Overall impression

Date
06.07.2021

Built like a tank and silent but a little bit to big footprint on the pedalboard due to the size of the unit