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What’s a valve doing in a digital amp?

The VT100X preamp features a real 12AX7 valve for authentic drive

and distortion e ects, so it’s a hybrid design. That aside, Vox has

also leveraged the digital expertise of parent company Korg to create

a new and improved digital preamp using VET (Virtual Element

Technology) to emulate every component inside a real valve amp.

How many amp models do we get?

There are 11 built-in models, with up to 20 using Vox’s Tone Library

app. There’s a choice of 12 di erent e ects, and you can have three

Hang on, doesn’t Boss make effects?

Yes, Boss is an e ects legend, but thanks to the digital expertise of

parent company Roland, the brand now also has an amp that

promises organic, valve-like tones at an impressively low price.

It does this by using the same Tube Logic technology employed in

last year’s 150-watt Waza Craft head, and other Roland amps.

What sort of sounds to we have to play with?

The K100 doesn’t invite direct comparison with speciﬁ c amp brands

and models. Instead, there are ﬁ ve generic voices: Acoustic, Clean,

running simultaneously. The VT100X also lets you experiment with

bias shift and class A or AB settings – very cool. This apart, it’s

familiar for anyone used to modelling amps, with typical controls

for patch editing and storing.

What other sources can I connect it up to?

Well, the amp’s USB socket means that you can hook the VT100X

up to a desktop or mobile device; this allows you to get into greater

editing depth with Vox’s excellent Tone Room software app.

There’s also an aux in and a phones socket, too.

Crunch, Lead and Brown. You can pre-load 15 di erent e ects types

into the amp, with 55 to currently choose from when you link the

Katana to the Boss Tone Studio application.

Are its connections equally as varied?

Indeed. The Katana 100 features an e ects loop, aux in and line out,

speaker-emulated phones/recording out, USB recording and

connection to the optional GA-FC foot controller, which can run up

to two expression pedals, and toggles the Katana’s e ects loop and

four user patches.

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Vt100X

Hybrid howitzer

BoSS

KataNa 100

Boss sharpens the cutting edge

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TYPE: Hybrid valve/digital preamp

modelling amplifier

KEY FEATURES: 12AX7 preamp valve,

11 amp models and 12 effects, with