Redbox 5 : A great little box

I bought this box having used a microphone in front of my amplifier for many years.

Many of the stages I play on are very small and it's very easy to trip over a mic stand in front of your amplifier so this looked like an ideal product.

It's a very compact unit and appears very well constructed.

It's very flexible to power as you can use phantom power, psu, or a battery (although the thumb screws are very hard to remove to access the battery).

It has quite an array of switches on the top, but it's actually quite easy to understand. 3 of the switches deal with tone and it's easy to tweak your sound to get the sound of a combo or stack with a modern or retro voicing.

What I didn't expect was the ability to use line level signals as well as speaker level and this has proved very useful to allow recording directly from my pedalboard.

Since owning it I have used the Redbox live and in the studio and I've been extremely impressed. The sound is dynamic and sounds convincingly like a real speaker. It does sound very "dry", but after adding a subtle reverb you would be hard pressed to tell the difference between this and a well miced amplifier.

I now keep my unit permanently hooked up in the back of my combo.