Description
If you love your pedalboard but hate carrying an amp head, Seymour Duncan has a pretty compelling solution.
The PowerStage 170 is a compact 170-watt power amp designed to live right on your pedalboard and drive a speaker cabinet directly. It’s an especially useful piece of gear for players running modelers, preamp pedals, or elaborate pedalboard rigs who want serious stage volume without hauling around another 40 pounds of amplifier.
Despite its small footprint, the PowerStage 170 delivers plenty of clean power and includes a simple 3-band EQ for making quick adjustments to your overall sound. The idea is pretty straightforward: let your pedals or modeler create the tone, and let the PowerStage make it loud. Very loud, if necessary. Seymour Duncan currently rates it at 170 watts and lists it at $399 new.
Features:
- 170-watt compact power amplifier
- Pedalboard-friendly footprint
- Bass, Mid, and Treble EQ controls
- Master volume
- Internal power supply
- Designed for modelers, preamps, and pedal-based rigs
- Powerful enough to drive a traditional guitar cabinet
- A great backup amp that takes up roughly the space of a large pedal
It’s basically an amplifier head that looked at your pedalboard and said, “Scoot over.”
For anyone trying to build a lightweight rig without sacrificing actual stage volume, the PowerStage 170 is an extremely handy piece of equipment.