The PowerStage 170 is designed with
guitar players in mind. It’s a transparent, yet
musical platform for pedals. PowerStage
delivers the natural sound and feel a great
tube amp supplies. It’s clean and rich and
provides the missing piece that steps up
the sound quality of your rig in a big way.
As a life-long musician, I’m obsessed with
solving problems we all face by providing
innovative solutions that inspire and make
life better. It’s what I’ve done my whole
career, whether it’s products like Pro Tools,
Helix or more recently the PowerStage. I’m
inspired to work on products that make
creating, playing, recording and performing
music easier, more fun and push boundaries
we may not even realize we had.
Before we created the Palladium Gain
Stage pedal, getting tones from pedals
always meant compromising on the sound
and feel, because pedals don’t react like
real amps. Once Palladium debuted, we
needed to get to work on solving the
problem of needing an amp for power and
a clean channel. This led to PowerStage—
Seymour Duncan’s first amp in over 20
years.
PowerStage also solves the problem of
having to lug your amp to and from the
gig. Nobody likes carting around a heavy
amp—and it’s virtually impossible on fly
dates. If you went with something smaller,
typically you compromise on power and
sound quality. with PowerStage, we created
something that sits directly on your pedal
board, weighs only two pounds has all the
power, tone and feel you need. Now that
entire issue is moot.
For me, PowerStage solved some of the
biggest issues I’ve faced as a musician who
spent over a decade on the road. It has also
inspired my playing with better tone and
better results—both live and in the studio.
I hope it does the same for other guitar
players everywhere.
— Max Gutnik
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