Greer Amps SOMA '63 Vintage Preamp Pedal

Our Take:

From our good friends at Greer Amps comes the SOMA '63, a vintage preamp pedal based on the immaculate tone and feel of the vintage brown era amplifiers from the west coast! The SOMA '63 is intended to simulate the entirety of those vintage 10" Utah speakers that had such a unique tone and feel, and thus behaves the same way the amp did back in the day. Utilizing a steel core transformer in the signal path, the SOMA '63 can be employed as a tone-sculpting tool, or as an overdrive - just crank the gain and listen to that gorgeous saturation!

Greer's Take:

A brave new world of tone, the SOMA ‘63 Vintage Preamp is the first pedal in the XFR series of pedals from Greer Amps. The SOMA ’63 is a true vintage preamp, based on the tone and feel of vintage brown era amplifiers from California. This pedal simulates the entire preamp, phase inverter, power section, and even the feel of the vintage 10 inch Utah speakers that were in those famous brown amps. The tone stack is designed to provide a wide and dynamic range of tonal options to the user. The Presence control works with the tone stack, and is designed to be a wide range control, effecting the overall sound of the entire circuit. The SOMA ’63 features a steel core transformer in the audio signal path. The transformer lends to the overall tone shaping of the circuit, and when the gain is pushed hard, especially with higher output pickups, the small steel core transformer will saturate, just like a vintage amplifier. The SOMA ’63 can be used as a tone-shaping preamp, or as an overdrive pedal. There are a wide variety of tones available in the SOMA ’63, so spend some time with your new pedal, and find the tones that rock your world!