This tiny guitar amp is the most unhinged distortion pedal I’ve ever used
The Amp Crash by Death By Audio is a unique 3-watt guitar amplifier housed in a pedal enclosure that features an internal microphone. It is designed to capture the raw, distorted sound of a speaker in a room rather than providing a clean digital simulation.
Why it matters
It offers musicians a specialized tool for achieving authentic, lo-fi analog distortion and room-tone textures that digital modeling software often struggles to replicate.
Is Amp Crash a guitar amp or a guitar pedal? Yes.
Death By Audio’s latest is, in fact, both. While it’s in a guitar pedal enclosure, Amp Crash is actually a tiny 3-watt amp hooked up to a 2-inch speaker. You can even connect an external speaker if you want. This isn’t a digital re-creation of a classic Fender or Marshall like you might get from a Universal Audio amp sim pedal or a Neural DSP Cortex. This is an actual amp with an original design that moves air.
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