Re: Koch Powertone II
I really like Koch a lot, they have a very open and well-defined sound that really lets your guitar's true tone shine. I own a Koch preamp, the Pedaltone (PDT-4). It's one sweet pedal, blows the Mesa V-twin away by any means if you ask me. It's just so versatile (and not just tone-wise!).
There's a beautiful clean channel, with a bright-switch on the second footswitch (that doubles as a gainboostswitch to take it from the crunch-channel to this insanely big lead tone). The first footswitch selects between clean and crunch. Then there's a third footswitch that switches on a fourth 12AX7 that serves as poweramp distortion (with its own drive and level controls) that responds very nicely to playing dynamics and volume settings of the individual channels. And last but not least, there's the rhythm/solo volumeboost on footswitch number four.
Then there's the huge connectivity options. The thing has its own FX-loop and five different outputs. There's an output to a regular poweramp, a dedicated output to FX-return of any amp (with a 10 dB cut), an output to the guitar input of any amp (with a 20 dB cut), a balanced output to headphones (with a very good analog speakersimulator) and an output to recording gear or PA (with a 10 dB cut and speakersimulator).
It's just an awesome preamp :notworthy
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