Eden Amplification Announces the MicroTour Line, World Tour Pro Series, and CaliforniWAH Auto-Wah Pedal
The World Tour Pro series includes the WTP900 (900w -2x 450w Stereo), the WTP600 (600w Mono), and the WTPPRE Studio-Quality preamp.
Buffalo Grove, IL (February 15, 2015) -- Eden Bass Amplification introduces Bass Amplification on a different scale! Eden has always placed pride in making products more portable and accessible for bass players. Now with the launch of its new MicroTour, Eden has managed to take bass amplification to a new level. With easy to use controls and a surprisingly loud 2W amplifier, the MicroTour is sure to find its way into the hearts of many bass players who for years have been neglected while guitarists were offered a buffet of micro amplifiers.
Eden began designing this new amplifier with the simple question “How do we put the classic Eden tone in a micro bass amplifier?” After much research and engineering, Eden has succeeded in developing a micro amp that provides great bass response and tonality, allowing players access to an amplifier for practice at home and on the road. In addition to its custom designed, tuned and ported cabinet, the MicroTour features a specially designed compact bass driver to ensure that the amplifier and cabinet sound louder than they look. An additional 3.5mm headphone output also allows for silent practice. Running on either 8-AA batteries or an Eden 15V power supply (sold separately), the MicroTour can be played anywhere.
Eden Amplification is excited to unveil its new Flagship Line: the World Tour Pro Series. This new state of the art series includes the WTP900 (900w -2x 450w Stereo), the WTP600 (600w Mono), and the WTPPRE Studio Quality Preamplifier.
The front panel features are identical on all three models and include Eden’s proprietary Enhance Control, a studio quality compressor, Tube Mix control and a five band EQ. The World Tour Pro Series offers both active and passive inputs which are balanced to handle both the lowest and highest output instrument levels (from a standard vintage 4 string to a high output 18V modern active bass). Providing the revered Eden tone, the World Tour Pro offers both high headroom, clean tone and warm rounded tube tones. With its Tube Mix circuitry, every bassist can find their perfect tone by choosing how much of the amp’s 4 tube gain stages to dial in.
The back panel is even more impressive. For players who like their outboard equipment and effects, the World Tour Pro offers left and right 1/4”outputs, a stereo effect loop and pre EQ send and return on all models. Crossover control and a DI output section provide more flexibility. By offering a 3.5 mm jack for both headphone output and auxiliary input, the World Tour Pro is as useful in the studio and home as it is in your touring rack case.
Eden’s revolutionary new speaker output indication system (WTP900 and WTP600 models only) provides the solution to the question of correct cabinet impedance choices. By simply cycling between choices, the correct impedance cabinet options will illuminate in either green (4 Ohm) or amber (8 Ohm) or red lights signaling not to use the Speakon / 1/4” Jack combination sockets.
Even the chassis has been upgraded to feature all steel construction and a high-efficiency cooling system with three fans to make sure heat never builds up even when placing the amp in the tightest of racks.
Whether touring or in the studio, the flexibility of the World Tour Pro Series offers professional bassists a serious choice when they are looking for a road worthy rig for every possible situation.
Eden Bass Amplification is proud to introduce the CaliforniWAH Auto Wah pedal. Following in the footsteps of the popular WTDI Direct box and i90 Chorus pedal, the Californiwah offers up a wide array of tones and just might be the funkiest pedal you try this year! With adjustable low point, sensitivity, resonance and two different voicing modes, the Californiwah allows you to fine tune your filter preferences for your style of music. Whether you are playing Hip Hop, Reggae or just some old school funk, the Californiwah delivers the sounds you need to keep the groove fresh.
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Nineties-style high-gain heaviness that can be surgically tailored with a powerful EQ.
Excellent variations on high-gain modern distortion tones. Powerful EQ.
Not many low- or mid-gain sounds here.
$199
JHS Hard Drive
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JHS makes many great and varied overdrive stomps. Their Pack Rat is a staple on one of my boards, and I can personally attest to the quality of their builds. The new Hard Drive has been in the works since as far back as 2016, when Josh Scott and his staff were finishing off workdays by jamming on ’90s hard rock riffs.
During these sessions, Scott’s go-to pedal was the Ibanez SM7 Smash Box. He realized that JHS had never offered anything along those lines, conferred with his then lead engineer, Cliff Smith, and the wheels were set in motion. Over several years of design, the Hard Drive evolved from an SM7 homage to a unique, original circuit.
JHS’ Hardest to Date
The Hard Drive’s control panel is streamlined, consisting of knobs for volume, mid frequency, drive, bass, middle, and treble. Driven by cascading gain stages, the Hard Drive can cop a wide range of modern distorted tones. Even at the lowest drive settings, the Hard Drive simmers, delivering massive bottom end on muted power chords. Nudging the drive up very slightly transforms the Hard Drive into a roaring Marshall JCM 900. And if you bring the drive all the way up, you’re in for all out chaos. Even with an amp set just louder than bedroom levels, the Hard Drive, with its volume at just 11 o’clock, is very loud and in-your-face. You don’t have to work hard to imagine how this could sound and feel like multiple stacks raging at Madison Square Garden in the context of a recorded track.
Even at the lowest drive settings, the Hard Drive simmers, delivering massive bottom end.
Zoning the Frequencies
Unlike some heavy pedals that concern themselves with mega-gain and little else, the Hard Drive’s EQ controls are very effective and powerful. Moving the treble knob from 11 o’clock to 1 o’clock changes the pedal’s tone and response characteristics completely, opening up and transforming the naturally relatively dark sound of my Fender Super Sonic amp. Turning the treble knob all the way off with the bass and mid knobs at noon gives me a vocal lead tone that’s creamy, warm, and still immediate and responsive.
The middle and mid frequency controls work in tandem. The mid control itself works as a cut or boost. The mid frequency control, however, lets you choose the specific frequency you cut or boost. I found these controls invaluable for sculpting tones that could leverage the copious gain without being abrasive. Meanwhile, adding more high midrange lends clarity to complex chords.
The Verdict
The Hard Drive is an unapologetically heavy pedal—if you’re looking for a dirt box that can double as a clean boost, well, the Hard Drive is not that. It’s meant to slay with gain, and it performs this task well and with a vengeance. There are countless dirt boxes on the market that deliver hot rodded, ’80s-style brown sound. Fewer cater to the subsequent generations of high-gain players that used the ’80s as a mere jumping-off point. The Hard Drive is very much voiced for this strain of heavy music. If that’s your jam, the Hard Drive is hard to beat.
Tailored for Yngwie Malmsteen's signature sound, the MXR Yngwie Malmsteen Overdrive is designd to offer simple controls for maximum impact.
Working closely alongside Yngwie, the MXR design team created a circuit that delivers clarity, expressive dynamics, and rich harmonics—all perfectly tailored for his light-speed arpeggios, expressive vibrato, and big, bold riffs. The control setup is simple, with just Level and Gain knobs.
"Want to sound like Yngwie? Crank both knobs to the max."
“This pedal is the culmination of 45+ years developing a sound that’s perfect in every possible way,” Yngwie says. “I present to you: the MXR Yngwie Malmsteen Overdrive. Prepare to be amazed.”
MXR Yngwie Malmsteen Overdrive highlights:
- Perfectly tailored for Yngwie Malmsteen's signature sound and style
- Simple control setup tuned for maximum impact
- Boost every nuance with superior clarity, expressive dynamics, and rich harmonics
- Dig into light-speed arpeggios, expressive vibrato, and big, bold riffs
The MXR Yngwie Malmsteen Overdrive is available now at $129.99 street/$185.70 MSRP from your favorite retailer.
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Voltage Cable Company's new Voltage Vintage Coil 30-foot guitar cable is now protected with ISO-COAT technology to provide unsurpassed reliability.
The new coiled cables are available in four eye-grabbing retro colors – Surf Green, Electric Blue, Orange and Caramel – as well as three standard colors: Black, White and Red. There is also a CME exclusive “Chicago Cream” color on the way.
Guitarists can choose between three different connector configurations: straight/straight plugs, right angle/straight and right angle/right angle options.
The Voltage Vintage Coil offers superior sound quality and durability thanks to ISO-COAT treatment, a patent-pending hermetic seal applied to solder terminations. This first-of-its-kind airtight seal prevents corrosion and oxidization, a known factor in cable failure and degradation. ISO-COAT protected cables are for guitarists who value genuine lifetime durability and consistent tone throughout their career on stage and in the studio.
Voltage cables are hand made by qualified technical engineers using the finest components available and come with a lifetime warranty.
Voltage Vintage Coil features include:
- Lifetime guarantee, 1000+ gig durability
- ISO-COAT treatment - corrosion & oxidization resistant cable internals
- Strengthened structural integrity of solder terminations
Voltage Vintage Coils carry $89.00 USD pricing each and are available online at voltagecableco.com, as well as in select guitar stores in North America, Australia, Thailand, UK, Belgium and China.
About Voltage Cable: Established in 2021, Voltage Cable Co. is a family owned and operated guitar cable company based in Sydney, Australia. All their cables are designed to be played, and built for a lifetime. The company’s ISO-COAT is a patent pending hermetic seal applied to solder terminations.
Featuring dual-engine processing, dynamic room modeling, and classic mic/speaker pairings, this pedal delivers complete album-ready tones for rock and metal players.
Built on powerful dual‑engine processing and world‑class UAD modeling, ANTI 1992 High Gain Amp gives guitarists the unmistakable sound of an original "block letter" Peavey 5150 amplifier* – the notorious 120‑watt tube amp monster that fueled more than three decades of modern metal music, from Thrash and Death Metal, to Grunge, Black Metal, and more.
"With UAFX Dream, Ruby, Woodrow, and Lion amp emulators, we recreated four of the most famous guitar amps ever made," says UA Sr. Product Manager Tore Mogensen. "Now with ANTI, we're giving rock and metal players an authentic emulation of this punishing high gain amp – with the exact mic/speaker pairings and boost/noise gate effects that were responsible for some of the most groundbreaking modern metal tones ever captured."
Key Features:
- A complete emulation of the early '90s 120‑watt tone monster that defined new genres of modern metal
- Powerful UAFX dual-engine delivers the most authentic emulation of the amp ever placed in a stompbox
- Complete album‑ready sounds with built‑in noise gate, TS‑style overdrive, and TC‑style preamp boost
- Groundbreaking Dynamic Room Modeling derived from UA's award-winning OX Amp Top Box
- Six classic mic/speaker pairings used on decades of iconic metal and hard rock records
- Professional presets designed by the guitarists of Tetrarch, Jeff Loomis, and The Black Dahlia Murder
- UAFX mobile app lets you access hidden amp tweaks and mods, choose overdrive/boost, tweak noise gate, recall and archive your presets, download artist presets, and more
- Timeless UA design and craftsmanship, built to last decades
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