Lichtlaerm Audio built PandorA's Box! It's a POWER AMP

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I got so excited over Lichtlaerm Audios new power amp pedal, the PandorA, that I forgot to mention in the video that it has to be considered paid promotion. This pedal was sent to me by Lichtlaerm Audio and I had a lot of fun. It's a pedal power amp built to sound and feel like a guitar amp. I had a lot of fun with hid.
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Time stamps
00:31 Intro
01:12 About the PandorA
02:54 Test Setup
04:17 Dialing the PandorA
06:28 PandorA vs. EVH 5150 III 50 power amp
10:18 Set up for a wet/dry rig
11:32 PandorA in a wet/dry rig
13:30 Final thoughts
Equipment used:
PRS CE24 in drop C#
Fractal FM3
KHE ACS4x4 amp/cab switcher
Lichtlaerm Audio PandorA / EVH 5150 III 50w (power amp only)
Lichtlaerm Audio Prometheus
Lichtlaerm Audio Untiefe Reverb
Mesa Boogie 4x12 OS with 2003 Vintage 30s
Marshall 1960 AV with 8 Ohm 2000 Vintage 30
Shure SM57s
RND 511 preamp modules
Audient ID44 mk2
Reaper

[@TheOtherJohnBrowne]

If you want to support me: Thomann affiliate: www.thomann.de/de/index.html?offid=1&affid=3394 And here's the PandorA: lichtlaermaudio.com/shop/pandora

[@eoinc_Ire]

I’ve ordered the Gehenna Preamp pedal … Interested in their amp and speakers too!

[@TheOtherJohnBrowne]

I'll vouch for Daniel/Lichtlaerm any day! Great tones and top tier quality

[@MetalheadOv666]

The Gehenna is awesome and love mine! Still the KSR Vesta has been my favorite out of any preamp pedal I’ve owned and I’ve had ALOT! The Ceres is great too but I actually prefer the Joyo Rigel which is a clone of it. Has much more low end. You can see my old KSR stereo pedal rig in my profile picture and was killer!

[@SonicDriveStudio]

Pandora rocks and so do YOU!

[@TheOtherJohnBrowne]

Appreciate you, bro!

[@trevorstine5732]

was so awesome seeing your reaction when you heard the wet dry for the first time. sounds good man!

[@TheOtherJohnBrowne]

I had never tried that before and was delighted with the result

[@trevorstine5732]

@reminds me of the first time playing on stereo delay. It’s hard to go back to mono, still fun, but it’s not stereo. 😃

[@zanthraxus]

"It lacks an LED... can't be that hard to install one" - famous last words. Great demo of the setups - always amazing what fits in these small form factors! Cheers!

[@TheOtherJohnBrowne]

"How hard can it be?" - Jeremy Clarkson Daniel tells me the next batch will have a status LED

[@zanthraxus]

@@TheOtherJohnBrowne Queue James May stating "I've done this properly" whilst messing it up spectacularly. And just like that my feed is full of TG/TGT.

[@PippPriss]

Really curious to try this out when the time comes! Congrats to 4k subscribers! Well deserved!

[@TheOtherJohnBrowne]

Thank you, buddy!

[@danielringl8501]

You nailed it once again! So great you showcased the stereo or wet/dry-thing :)

[@TheOtherJohnBrowne]

Thanks, mate! That particular part was shockingly fun!

[@KreativeDevices]

🔥 They're making some great gear

[@TheOtherJohnBrowne]

Absolutely

[@EBcobhc81]

Great demo as always! Love your videos!

[@TheOtherJohnBrowne]

Cheers

[@TudorAdrian]

Very, very, very cool; now waiting for a slightly larger Lichtlaerm poweramp for modelers 😁

[@TheOtherJohnBrowne]

That would be SICK

[@justincorrigible]

Only got to 1:53 and already your best video.

[@TheOtherJohnBrowne]

Hahaha!

[@papakrailanuarhajiisa]

Nice sound

[@chrismonaut]

Fuck, I need that. Also we REALLY need some Lichtlaerm shirts with the different Aphelior artworks! Oh and I couldn't agree more about power supply. IEC cable or go home! Needing a specific wall wart is just pure horror for live shows...

[@TheOtherJohnBrowne]

+1 for Lichtlaerm shirts!

[@64thBuck]

On this comparison the PandorA sounds much nicer to my ear. Much weightier, more depth. Like what I would expect from a power amp and cab. Must try one of these with my HX Stomp rig

[@lukzriffs1564]

Yeah ! 😍

[@ChristopherOrz]

I actually prefered sound of Pandora 😳 Im currently using power amp with preamp setup so it's interesting!

[@JoeArcieri]

I’m really interested in this power amp. This would be a great solution for my fly rig. What is the portable power source that you mentioned that you received? Thanks!

[@TheOtherJohnBrowne]

It's this one: thmn.to/thoprod/573128?offid=1&affid=3394

[@lordgraga]

Definitely more upper mids and highs in the EVH but it held up. Hard to tell from a video how it feels, but seems alright! I like how it is power agnostic. Probably you could take an old laptop charger and throw on a compatible plug to get a strong powersource (albeit it may be very noisy because I doubt they have good filtering!)

[@danielringl8501]

that was exactly the thought - these old laptop PSU's are super noisy in fact, tho...

[@lordgraga]

@@danielringl8501 Could you have added some filtering somehow? Like a big fat filter cap in the pedal itself?

[@lichtlaermaudio]

In fact there is a shitload of filtering already in there - these laptop-PSUs have insane ground hum, tho. Filtering the voltage won’t change that. The Pandora even has a full wave rectifier built in that gets rid of the ripple and turns AC into DC voltage. But you know how it is with everything sh*t in, sh*t out. It can be done but there’s a reason why power conditioners are huge and expensive!

[@lordgraga]

@@lichtlaermaudio ah that’s super cool to learn. Sounds like a really fun engineering challenge :-)

[@lordgraga]

@@lichtlaermaudio come to think of it, a Pandora XL with an IEC plug and a built in powersupply for itself and other pedals would be pretty cool.

[@veers0r]

Would be cool if there was a 'flat response' toggle in there for wet dry use. I guess you didn't run any sweeps to see if there is a neutral enough setting of the knobs. :)

[@TheOtherJohnBrowne]

I did not but I may in future. The presence and resonance knobs seem quite powerful

[@sbrave2]

Better than 30w Babybomb, or Duncan's Powerstage thing?

[@TheOtherJohnBrowne]

I had a Powerstage 170 for a while and I prefer this. Can't comment on the Babybomb as I have never played one

[@MetalheadOv666]

I haven’t tried the Pandora yet but I have had the Baby Bomb and all 4 of the powerstages, KSR pa50, Magnum 44, Crate powerblock, Orange pedal baby, ISP Stealth, Freyette power station, and now currrently just have a ThisHeavyEarth Higher Power which is pretty much the same as the Pandora as for the wattage minus the presence/resonance controls. I do have The Titan pedal by them also which is a resonance/presence pedal and can turn on/off each one if u only need one or the other and slightly boosted your signal also. The KSR pa50 is hands down the best power amp out of all of them combined imo. Sorry for the long comment but figured I’d give my opinion on the two u mentioned plus a bunch of other ones.

[@Fergieguitar]

I'd suggest to anyone who gigs, get a pedalboard power amp just to have in a bag as a backup and there's many other uses too..I was shocked just how loud the cheapie Harley Benton GPA-100 power amp is and it will run at 4 ohms.... for €79, they are worth trying. It's not powered by a pedalboard power supply but a standard amp lead. I end up using these small amps more at home than the big beasts just out of convenience

[@majkon93]

Somebody must try this with a 5150 overdrive pedal O.o

[@chillswitch8895]

is it loud enough to compet with a drummer?

[@TheOtherJohnBrowne]

With the right power supply, it should be

[@chillswitch8895]

@@TheOtherJohnBrowne im using cioks and with a doubler i can get to 24v (1000mA) im totally getting 2 of them to play stereo

[@djabthrash]

05:14 your videos would br even better if you looped riffs while twisting gear knobs. You should get a looper pedal like the Ditto and use it in your demos imo.

[@TheOtherJohnBrowne]

Great suggestion

[@djabthrash]

@@TheOtherJohnBrowne Good to hear :) Imagine a sound person having to make the band/musician/song stop each time he/she needed to tweak something :)

[@Greg25815]

🙂🙂😃🤘

[@torchlord11]

I don't think the bright character of a tube amp works that well with effects normally, so I can see how having a solid state amp running effects into another cab could be good, since they normally can't hit the bright high frequences that tube amps can and this would be good for effects because effects in my opinion don't sound that good when there uber bright.

[@Durkhead]

Dont look in pandoras box! She ll get mad