Description
The PowerStage 170 exists for one reason: to get your pedalboard tone out of a cabinet without dragging a tube head across the country. Built by Seymour Duncan’s Santa Barbara crew — the same folks who wind the pickups — it’s a 170-watt power amp with a clean preamp stage and a global 3-band EQ, designed to sit right at the end of your signal chain alongside your dirt boxes and modeler.
If you’ve ever loved a modeler’s flexibility but hated how thin it sounded through a rented backline amp, this fixes that. Run your pedalboard or processor straight into the PowerStage 170, dial in the EQ for whatever cab shows up at the venue, and you’re playing your tone in minutes, not soundchecking someone else’s amp’s personality. The onboard EQ is real analog control — treble, mid, bass — so you’re not stuck fighting a modeler’s global settings or a stompbox’s limited tone knob just to make a strange room’s cab behave.
Bypass your overdrive and distortion pedals and the PowerStage 170 works as a genuinely musical clean channel on its own, with the warmth people expect from tube amps but without the tubes. The Master Volume knob is big enough to work under your foot too, so you can push solos or rein in dynamics mid-song without breaking stride.
Small enough to bolt straight onto a pedalboard, light enough to not think twice about for a fly date, and clean-looking enough for a coffeehouse gig or a home studio corner.
- Level: 0 dB to 47 dB
- Treble: +/- 13 dB @ 6.61 kHz
- Mid: +/- 13 dB @ 712 Hz
- Bass: +/- 13 dB @ 87 Hz
- Output impedance: 4-8 Ohms
- Power: 170W at 4 Ohms
- Dimensions: 5″ x 5.24″ x 2.84″
- Weight: 2 lbs.
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