Alex’s signature combo amplifier (also available as a head) the Lerxst Chi is an all-tube 30-watt amp designed to produce pristine cleans and rich, overdriven tones.
"This perfect little monster is great for “tone-to-go” situations, especially if you’re driving a small SUV or Sedan to the gig. Driven by a pair of 6L6 vacuum tubes, the CHI is 30 watts of fun for all guitarists regardless of musical genre."
Mojotone packed a ton of notable features into this amp.
"Guitarists will fall in love with the ability to shape your tone using the Chi’s treble, middle, and bass stack. An added presence control and gain clipping function both add additional layers to the overall sound of the amplifier. Pedal enthusiasts will enjoy the Chi’s tube-buffered FX loop."
MSRP: $1,995.00
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Alex Lifeson Lerxst Chi Amp Demo by Zach Wish — Run the range of Rush riffage! | First Look
Watch Zach Wish run the range of Rush riffage with this 30-watt, 6L6 combo built with Alex Lifeson's guiding hand.
Chi takes the growl and tone of the Omega and places it within a more compact form factor. The 30-watt amplifier is built around 6L6 tubes for excellent headroom and a clear, articulate sound and is available as both a smallbox head and a 1x12 combo amplifier. In keeping with its lineage, Chi also includes footswitchable clean and lead channels and a serial effects loop, making it equally versatile on stage or in the studio.
“I’ve used more amps than Dr. Frankenstein did when breathing life into his creature, but the Lerxst Chi is an awesome monster in its own right and one of the sweetest sounding amps I’ve ever heard,” said Lifeson. “All the great character of the Omega in a cool, compact package that you don’t have to be a seven-foot monster to carry around.”
Both amplifiers are also accompanied by a range of guitar cabinets in multiple speaker configurations, including 1x12, 2x12, and 4x12, ideal for any stage configuration or studio application. All amplifiers and cabinets are handcrafted to the highest standards with top quality components in Mojotone’s Burgaw, NC-based factory. The cabinets, head shells, and combo speaker cabinets are made of voidless baltic birch and finished with a striking race gray and red garnet levant Tolex finish for a lifetime of gigging and playing.
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The Rush guitarist partners with Mojotone on the new Lerxst By-Tor—a compact, pedalboard-friendly overdrive designed to offer all of the power of its inspiration, the Lerxst OMEGA amp head.
Back in 2012, for Rush's Clockwork Angles recording and touring cycle, Alex Lifeson partnered with Mojotone to develop a custom-built tube amp head that had all of the sonic characteristics that Lifeson has grown to love over the four-plus decades of his career. Years later, Mojotone debuted a limited run of 100 of the "Lerxst OMEGA" amp heads that have since been sold out.
Now, Lifeson and Mojotone are working together on a larger scale. The two-channel OMEGA head is coming to full production along with a slew of matchIng cabinets as well as a smaller head/combo option called the CHI. But that's not all. Today, we're focused on the new Lerxst By-Tor Drive pedal.
"BY-TOR is a British-voiced amp in a box pedal designed to capture the sound of the 50-watt LERXST OMEGA in pedal form." -- Michael McWhorter, Founder of Mojotone
The Lexrst By-Tor is a compact, pedalboard-friendly version of the OMEGA that promises to replicate the head's same intensity and growl that the tube amp is known for. The By-Tor is capable of jumping from light and crunchy drive sounds to tube-like overdriven chaos with the touch of a few controls. Its drive section features typical controls: drive (for setting the amount of desired distortion), tone (for adjusting top-end sparkle and treble), and level (for adjusting output).