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Orange Amp Detonator ABY Pedal

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SKU: PD-AMP-DETONATOR

Product Description

The new orange Amp Detonator pedal is an ABY that's built for the professional musician.

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.

Buffered outputs

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.

Phase Correction

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.

Specifications

  • DIMENSIONS (W × H × D): 9.5 × 6.5 × 13CM (3.74 × 2.56 × 5.12)
  • POWER: 9V BATTERY OR 9-12V DC ADAPTER (CENTRE NEGATIVE)
  • CURRENT DRAW @ 9V: 12MA

Customer Reviews

4.9

20 reviews

Value

Looks

Durability

Sound

Trusted Customer16th Mar 2024

Functional and much better than the old AB pedal I had. Can't elaborate as it just switches between amps.

Value 5Looks 5Durability 5Sound 5

Mr Neil Chance27th Feb 2024

Great pedal for the price - looks good, sturdy build and works exactly as described. Simple to use and the phase switch enables the combination of amps effectively to create a superb wall of tone!

Value 5Looks 5Durability 5Sound 5

Trusted Customer23rd Sep 2023

My new Orange Amp Detonator pedal works exactly as intended. The buffered bypass is great for when I only want to use one of my amps with the ease of switching to both as an option

Value 5Looks 5Durability 5Sound 5

Trusted Customer13th Aug 2023

Great piece of kit! get one my husband is so happy with it !

Value 5Looks 5Durability 5Sound 5

Michael Parker4th Jun 2023

Trusted Customer18th Mar 2023

Value 5Looks 5Durability 5Sound 5

Mr nigel cambridge8th Jan 2023

Value 5Looks 4Durability 4Sound 5

Trusted Customer26th Oct 2022

This pedal does everything Orange said it would. Noiseless operation, no loss of signal strength and it certainly sorted phase cancellation issues I was having with a passive splitter. I’m extremely happy with it.

Value 5Looks 5Durability 5Sound 5

Trusted Customer4th Oct 2022

Value 4Looks 5Durability 5Sound 5

Trusted Customer16th Jun 2022

Value 4Looks 5Durability 5Sound 5

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