Colour Box V2 Preamp Pedal Review

Flip’n Trip’n!

Just got this amazing pedal from my buddy who bought it from the best music company on the planet..Sweetwater! This pedal is amazing!! Running it through a vintage 70's Sunn Concert head and '69 Sunn 18in cab. Playing an early 70's Ibanez Lawsuit Jazz bass. The Colour Box is the answer, and made this setup complete. Hard to explain it, but it seemed to polish every aspect of sound.… read more I love the bit of distortion I can get out of it. Keep up your exceptional and personable online service. Don't lose that!! Maybe I'm old, but I still like talking to service reps from companies.

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Replicates the Neve sound

This pedal is a Neve 1073 type channel with lots of extras. Amazing piece of gear for the price!

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Full tone sculpting

Used it for a D28 with Lyric mic and achieved sweet, natural,dynamic sound that brought immediate compliments.

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This thing is amazing!

This box is an absolute must for any home recording scenario. It makes EVERYTHING you put through it sound incredible! It sounds way better than all the expensive stuff in my api lunchbox. I ran it through my RETRO double wide compressor& I couldn't believe what I was hearing. Well worth 2 or 3 times the price. Truly amazing& incredibly versatile. Everybody should get one. It's… read more made most of my gear obsolete in one small package. Wow.

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The Power Of A Neve Console In Pedal

I'm a deep admirer of JHS pedals, and I'm pleased to say I finally own what I think is their Holy Grail of pedals—the Colourbox V2. I had always wanted a Colourbox since the original was introduced, but the hefty price tag was the main deterrent for me. Fortunately I got a brief taste of what the Colourbox could do when I settled on its streamlined cousin, the Crayon, which is… read more by far one of my favorite pedals I use, and is a staple on my pedal board. Anyways, a couple years have passed since then and I've been wanting to add more tools to my arsenal of recording gear as a growing audio engineer, and this time when the Colourbox V2 came out, I happened to have the funds to spring for one, and I'm not disappointed... I have no interest in using this pedal on my board, but instead as a preamp or D/I for tracking. I'm still experimenting with what this baby can do, but so far I love using it with guitar and bass when I record, as well as vocals. Whether I'm going for crisp cleans, or adding some warmth "colour", to full on fuzz, it seems to do it all without ever being too much for my interface or DAW to handle—I also use it in conjunction with my Rupert Neve Stereo D/I, which I feel like gives me the sweetest sound in all my recordings. I plan to do some tracking for drums as well with the mic running into the Colourbox, which I'm excited to see how that does, which I have no doubt will afford me some versatile possibilities in achieving different sounds. Overall I'm pleased with the Colourbox V2 for it's amazing sounds, and while it would make for a great pedal to use on anyone's pedalboard, I prefer its use for the studio while I keep my Crayon on my board. My friends at Sweetwater also did an amazing job at securely sending me this pedal in a timely manner. Great product, great company—both Sweetwater and JHS!

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