The Effectrode LA-1A is fitted with one JJ 12AT7 and two JJ 12AU7 tubes.
The Effectrode LA-1A Leveling Amplifier was designed with one purpose in mind: to enable artists and engineers extract every last nuance from a musical performance… without compromise. Tubes are renowned for being unparalleled tone enhancers, adding warmth, depth and clarity to recorded and live instruments and Effectrode wanted to push their performance beyond current limits. To that end we based our LA-1A on a parallel tube plate design – the type of tube circuitry only ever found in high-end tube phono preamp stages for turntables (remember those?).
Parallel tube design minimises the noise floor and maximises the signal to noise ratio of your instrument. It’s an expensive way of achieving noise reduction, as four identical input tube stages are required, however it yields stellar tone quality without the compromise of noise gates or ‘cutting’ certain frequencies with equalisation. The parallel tube design has never been built into a stompbox or even a professional studio leveling amplifier/compressor before, making the LA-1A something truely special.
New, these are $630. Before tariffs. This is basically new. Used twice in studio after mounting on a pedalboard. Comes with box, power supply. Velcro on bottom. I've also listed the venerable Effectrode Atomic Power supply that pairs well with this world-class compressor. Be the cool kid on your block rocking Effectrode pedals!
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