____ PEDAL OF THE YEAR ____ ??? ____

$180.00 USD

AMPLUTUDE TONEX ONE

A very basic Modeler of the profiling type. It literally records an amp or pedals sound and you have the voice. If you have a Fender amp it can clone a Marshall so it becomes your MIAB. Or, you want an Ibanez Tube Screamer TS9, or a Reverb voice etc. Can it sound and respond like the exact thing. Never. But when used in context it can. Think of being fooled thinking someone is walking towards you because they are behind you and you have been fooled by a mirror. 

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I very much dislike Modelers as they are like a vinyl jacket passing as leather. Vinyl does not pass up close to even looking like leather it does not form to the users body over time. It does not get a patina with age but literally tears or cracks etc.  

A Modeler can sub as the real thing if you need that thing temporarily. You can try a pedal for weeks and decide it is not for you but if you 

love it you can buy the real pedal without feeling you are making a big 

mistake. It can be the world's cheapest back up amp in an emergency.