There’s also an auxiliary input on channel 1 so that whatever you are using it for can be EQ’d separately from your instrument signal.
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The Bud has two identical pre-amps, each with independent EQ, separate FX loops, independent reverb, full 48 volt phantom power and an input gain control to adjust for different pickups. Mission accomplished! Not only does The Bud have an unmatched feature set and enough real power to gig with, it has tonal fidelity that other small amps on the market simply can’t compete with and it sounds just as amazing with acoustic guitars as it does electrics so you can use one amp for both on the same gig, something no other amplifier achieves as well as The Bud. So we set out to engineer the smallest possible amplifier a musician could still legitimately gig with. Equally shocking was the response from our customers obviously there was a need for a tiny amp which sounded as good as our JazzAmp line, but that wasn’t a toy or just a practice amp. The result was shocking, not only in the amount of volume which could be coaxed from the enclosure, but also in how incredibly good the sound was.
The box happened to be the exact size for our circuit boards to be mounted in, so we built it into a prototype. Henriksen has a winner with the Bud.”Ī couple years ago we were cleaning out a box of stuff that belonged to our late founder, Bud Henriksen, and found a mysterious speaker cabinet he had made with a 6″ speaker in it. After my show both my fellow performers and members of the audience commented on how great of a tone I was getting. I didn’t have to tweak the Bud once during my performance. All he had to do was adjust the volume in the house. He told me he didn’t have to change the EQ on his board, the Bud got it right. The sound person placed a Shure SM-57 about two inches in front of Bud’s speaker. I used the Bud both as a soloist with my uke and in a band setting with the steel guitar. For the steel guitar I boosted both the 80 Hz, and 420 Hz to about 2 o’clock and set the reverb to about 11 o’clock. The uke’s EQ was basically set to flat on the Bud. Channel two was for my 1954 Fender Champion lap steel guitar – Jason Lollar reissue single-coil pickup. Channel one was for my custom built tenor uke equipped with a MI-SI active piezo pickup – LR Baggs UST. I used both channels with the tweeter activated. “Just got back from my road trip where I used my new Bud amp (one week old) in performance. At 9x9x9 inches, 17 pounds and 120 watts of analog power with a feature set that allows you the versatility to cover almost any kind of gig, this is a MUST HAVE piece of gear for the working musician. You won’t believe the tone coming from either your ukulele, acoustic guitar, or any stringed instrument with a pickup or microphone for that matter, not to mention the volume The Bud is capable of cleanly producing. The Bud is without question the smallest, TRULY GIGABLE guitar amplifier on the market. If you amplify your ukulele, you need The Bud!