OVERDRIVE- AURA AMPS Diamond Pre-Amp ...Dual-Rectifier-in-a-Box ...Killer !!!

AURA AMPS DIAMOND PREAMP 

$200.00 USD

Aura Amps are in Santo Andre Brazil and they do indeed make amps. They make 8 different ones and one is called the Diamond it is there own 40 watt take on a Dual Rectifier. Their pedal is done in the best way. They simply or perhaps not that simply make a 'Dual' pre-amp but replace the tubes with jFETS this ain't no budget approach. It is much cheaper and easier using OpAmps and clipping diodes.

The layout is like the amp with level, gain, treble, mids, bass and presence. A switch gives you a choice of tube or solid state rectifier, just like the amp. It has bags of gain so it does not need a boost. It is fat tight, punchy and has balz to spare. The attack is faster and more percussive than my best low gain pricey pedals. It definitely has that open grainy sound if type f model that is 'old standard' of the Rec!!!

The real amp by modern standards was very open and indeed a bit muddy. Most players dealt with this by using pedals like a Tube Screamer or pedals designed by Metal specialty companies that use filters to tighten the sound etc. The Diamond has taken the liberty to voice their pedal so those things are in effect built in. This has happened ever since treble boosters and Fuzz pedals were used on Marshall stacks. 

Those that never played a stack expected that MIAB pedal didn't sound like the amp 

without the sound of those pedals being included in its voicing.

In practise it really makes sense. 

CONCLUSION

I love the pedal for exactly what it is. The sound of a modded Dual Rec not a 

dead pure clone. In short you get that Dual Rec sound you hear on recordings 

of guys you admire for a great sound. 

the fine print

It was this video that sold me on getting mine

The guy goes on about getting the pedal for $100.00 USD

Not only is Brazil dealing with all the recent inflation. The 

government puts export duties on the pedals that inflate the 

price. In reality Aura made more money when they sold the 

pedal for $100 then they do now.