NAMM 2014: RADIAL COMES OUT SWINGING
By Graeme Hague
23 January 2014
Radial Engineering has been hoarding its best, new products to release at NAMM with a splash. The two most notable are the Space Heater and the Headload Guitar Amp Load Box. The Space Heater is an eight channel summing mixer that includes a 12AX7 tube in the signal path of each channel. Voltage to the tube is variable with a “Heat” switch to provide differing levels of fidelity and character. The Headload Load Box is designed to be placed between your guitar amplifier head and the speaker cabinet, allowing guitarists to drive their amp head at really band-annoying levels and still maintain quiet, on-stage volumes. Much more than just some shredding, guitar-god noise sponge the Headload also has Radial’s JDX DI box built in – a popular alternative to mic’ing up the cabinet – plus a Radial Phazer that deals with alignment issues, should you want both. Also new from Radial, the Bassbone OD is an improved, overdrive version of the existing bass pre-amp, and the Twinline Effects Loop Router lets guitar players share their collection of stompbox peripherals between two amp heads. Last, and definitely least among this company, the SB5W-Wall DI is a two channel passive DI box designed to fit inside a standard electrical wall plate – think AV install applications here… oh, come on – at least try and look interested. There’s no info on Radial’s website yet, but it shouldn’t be long.
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