The HAVOC way
At HAVOC, we do things a bit differently than most traditional guitar amplifiers. Most guitar amplifiers integrate the preamplifier with the power amplifier into one chassis. While convenient, this limits your options. Want the preamplifier sound from your 100 watt Marshall, but don’t want the 100 watt volume? Sorry, they are a package unit. Enter the HAVOC way.
HAVOC amplifiers split the preamplifier and power amplifier into separate products, so you can mix and match as you please.
- Want to split your guitar signal and send it to three preamplifiers, send their output to a mixer, adjust levels accordingly, and send the mixer output to a power amplifier? Go for it.
- Want to plug your guitar into a slapback echo, send the direct output to a clean Mild HAVOC, and the delayed output to a dirty Hot HAVOC, then mix the two and send to monitors? Have it your way.
- Want to plug a Mild HAVOC preamplifier directly into your audio interface line in, record a clean track, then later reamp that track through a Hot HAVOC? You need HAVOC amps.
With separate preamplifiers and power amplifiers, the possibilities are near endless.
What else do I need to know?
It’s simple. HAVOC preamplifiers take the small signal from a guitar or other instrument, craft the tone, and ramp the voltage up to an adjustable line level (nominal 1 Vrms, for the techies). From here, you can send it to stomp boxes, a HAVOC power amplifier, a mixer, an audio interface device, basically anything that takes a line level input.
HAVOC power amplifiers take a line level signal input, and send it to your speaker cabinet. Simple enough.