I
am wholeheartedly sure that by now tube. However, what sets the Colour
you have heard of the JHS Colour Box, Box apart is it’s not only marketed as a
the transformer-based boost/overdrive/
EQ based on the preamp section of
the hallowed Neve 1073 analog console.
It is part of a revolution of sorts in this
golden age of guitar stompboxes—using
transformers as the source of our wellloved dirt as opposed to tried-and-true
transistors or the ever-popular vacuum
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stompbox, but also as a studio unit for
adding a warm color to tracks before
hitting the DAW or tape. This naturally
got my GAS engine revving, as I began
to see the incredible potential of this unit
past just a modest stompbox. I reached
out to JHS on behalf of Tone Report and
presented my ideas of this feature to
Outside the Box: Four Outstanding Uses for the JHS Colour Box