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Aguilar Tone Hammer

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AfroMan Skeeter

Dec 12, 2007
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I have had a pre/power amp set-up before and was pretty pleased with it. For reasons I can't justify now I sold that set-up. With some fresh cabs I am considering going back to that set-up, getting rid of the Genz-Benz GBE 600 for the Aggie pre-amp (which would mate well with my Aggie GS212).

I've been reading through some of the forums, but haven't really figured it out >_< Is the Aguilar Tone Hammer the same thing as any rack mount preamp, just in a stomp-box?

Along with that I would need to buy a power supply, would a pedal board supply enough power? Or do I need a special adapter?
 
#2
It's basically the same as a rack mount preamp. There's been some back and forth on here about whether or not the output is high enough to use as a standalone preamp. My experience has been that that works just fine.

It's got an 18v power supply so unless your board is capable of 18v you'll need a separate supply.

It is a sweet sweet pairing with GS cabs in my experience. I run two GS112s with a LMII and while the LMII sounds great, the tone hammer has given me the ability to get a deeper "rounder" sound out of those cabs.
 
#3
Thanks Jimmy. If it seems to work for you then I'll trust your first hand experience.

I thought I would have to get an 18v power supply, which is just as well seeing as I don't have the pedal board yet. I was just curious as to whether or not it'd be a good investment while buying the Tone Hammer.

Since you have the preamp and a pretty close set-up as far as cabs go, is the set-up pretty versitile? Or is it geared towards one sound more than the other?
 
#4
AfroMan Skeeter said:
Since you have the preamp and a pretty close set-up as far as cabs go, is the set-up pretty versitile? Or is it geared towards one sound more than the other?
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It's pretty versatile. My main band is a straight ahead indie band (a la death cab for cutie) but I've also used it touring in a pit band for Godspell and the occasional folk/bluegrass/gospel gig around town. The LMII on it's own is warm-ish for a solid state amp, but the Tone hammer gives me a better handle on the mids. (and we all know mids are where the tone lives! :))

I can't seem to find it now, but there was a long TH thread on here a while back debating it's use as a stand alone preamp, Dave B. had some good words on it's actual output, etc... that might help you out.
 

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