The V1 series is a new collaboration from Victory Amps and Thorpy FX. The goal was to create a series of gain stages with the character of their core amp line-up. Here we have the Kraken, Sheriff, Jack, and Copper. In the compact pedal game, what constitutes an overdrive pedal, a preamp, or an amp-in-a-box is a moving target. While the first likely has only a single amplification stage, that’s not a given. It’s usually more a question of marketing than anything else. Even with amp-in- a-box pedals that are ‘based on’ real amps, that’s often not the case on closer examination of the circuit. Even if a pedal is a faithful reproduction of an amp, there’s no guarantee that this will be better than a normal overdrive.
That’s the question then - whether something modelled on an amp, with its own EQ voicing, will sound any good when run into an amplifier.
