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Pedal-format amplifiers contain a power-amp stage, headphone driver or both, allowing a pedalboard signal to drive speakers or headphones directly. Output power and minimum speaker impedance are critical for power amps; headphone impedance, cabinet simulation and auxiliary inputs matter for silent monitoring. Some designs also provide preamp voicing, effects loops, balanced outputs or USB recording.
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Recreates the gain structure, tone controls, compression and frequency response of a guitar or bass amplifier. The simulation may model only a preamp or extend through power-amp behaviour, allowing the result to range from clean amplification to dynamically responsive breakup.
The signal is shaped by continuously varying electronic circuitry rather than being converted into a digital effect algorithm. Component choice, operating voltage and circuit tolerances influence headroom, noise, clipping texture and the small variations in response between designs.
Processes, creates or passes two audio channels. True stereo preserves separate left and right inputs, while mono-to-stereo effects generate spatial differences internally; routing, phase behaviour and whether trails remain stereo determine the resulting image. Some outputs sum to mono when only one socket is connected, which can change level or modulation depth.