Description
The AFK150 flips the script on what a solid-state hybrid can do. At its heart sits a hi-voltage ECC81 preamp tube, feeding two distinct channels with the harmonic richness and bottom-end heft you’d expect from a full tube head, not a solid-state imitation of one.
- Clean channel: voiced after blackface-era vintage amps, glassy and headroom-rich, built to sit perfectly under a pedalboard.
- Drive channel: derived from the acclaimed GURUS Doubledecker mkII preamp pedal, covering everything from edge-of-breakup to British stack-style hi-gain.
- Independent tone stacks, plus separate Gain and Volume per channel, with shared Master Volume and Presence controls for final shaping.
Rated at a true 150W rms, the AFK150 has the headroom to run clean and loud or push into rich, tube-fed saturation, all shaped by your hands rather than a chip’s approximation of tube behaviour.
Format-wise, Baroni went a different route entirely. The AFK150 is built as a desktop/cab-top amp, compact enough to live on a home studio desk yet equally at home perched on a cab on stage. Pop off the detachable wooden side panels and it becomes a pedalboard unit, complete with a top-panel footswitch for channel switching. A rear-panel remote switching socket accepts any standard latching footswitch, so channel changes are covered whether it’s parked on your desk, your cab, or your board.
One preamp tube, two amp voicings, three ways to use it.
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