PREAMP/BOOST/OD- JV EFFECTS Transmission ...Hudson Broadcast Preamp ...clone

JV EFFECTS TRANSMISSION

$95.00 USD

Yes again I have gone back to JV to look at their other product. This is a bit tricky as their only site is Reverb and although you can have what acts as a store you can not display 

a product if you have run out of stock. The most I know is that they have 2 products 

and this is not one of them. But it is. It is simply not being made while the owner 

is busy making other models.

During the early days of broadcast radio it was normal to broadcast most programs live 

so at minimum a very small station needed one mic and a preamp to feed into all the whatever to send out a signal to a transmission antenna often built on the roof of the studio. It pretty much had only an input knob and a high impedance mic input. Just what you need to stick a guitar into. Over the years guys here and there bought them used or abandoned and used them as a boost pedal. Hudson wisely cloned one and put it in a pedal. Buyers were soon to want more gain, lol. So many versions later that is what 

it has got. You get level out, gain, a switch for levels of gain and a low cut as once 

cranked the lows literally howl.

$295.99 USD

CONCLUSION 

Does it sound like the original. Yes! No, Maybe. 

This is the only review and below is the only 

video. It sounds enough like it that I want one. 

The low gain which is totally transparent except  

for the killer bite. No other pedal gives you balz 

on a dead clean sound.

HANDS ON

I did finally get one. It took awhile as the NOS parts are very difficult to source. It exceeded my expectations. The Sound is beyond killer.

It replaced 2 pedals on my board. What really blew me away was the quality . The fit and finish. The feel of really high end knobs everything screams at being a pedal at 3 times the price. This pedal is a keeper. In my wildest dreams I can never imagine a board of mine without one.

On a final note even the packaging to ship it was brilliant. Made to be mishandled and yet very compact so it fit in my mailbox and was not some bulky thing leaned up against ny door to attract thieves. Trust me I lost several packages because of that including one from Sweetwater. It was an item smaller than a pedal sent in box you could bring your groceries home in, WTF