Palmer PGA-04 Speaker Simulator

You need some tweaking.

Sounds good, but lacks on Low-Mid. No compare to PDI 03, the 03 still blows it away.

Great product, but there are some other Speaker Simulator sounding really better.

How much easier could it get really? The controls are simple and the unit is easy to use in general. Basically you just run your speaker output to the input of the Palmer and then take an output to the board or wherever you are going with it. You can even use a thru jack to get your signal to a cabinet as well as taking it direct.

The sound is great! I had a Palmer PGA05 before that I was using with some rack equipment and a tube preamp and it sounded great. I got away from the rack scene and went back to using my Mesa Boogie Mark IV head but the PGA05 couldn't handle it very well. The PGA04 is made for this application though. Now I can get a huge sound from my Mesa through this Palmer unit and go direct to the board with it. This keeps the stage volume to 0, which is good since we are all using in ear monitors and running direct to the board. I tried using a digital floor modeler for a while but it was just not the same. There is nothing like a tube amp cranked up to get a a great tone. The Palmer PGA04 lets you do this with ease!!!

Palmer gear is metal and built like a tank. They use very nice knobs and keep everything simple. I would never think about needing a backup.

I have never had to deal with them but I hear they are nice people.

We are covering all types of music so I am hitting this thing with 85 watts of clean and dirty tube power and it reacts well to both. I have been playing semi-pro for about 19 years and have gone through a huge amount of equipment. I prefer tube amplifiers and anyone else that does will love the Palmer. At the moment all I use is my head and the Palmer, it don't get much better than that. I would replace it with another one if something ever happened. If you are in to good tone, get in to one of these!!!

Very easy to use. This is an analog unit, with no midi control. Front panel: level controls for filter and full range (unfiltered) volume, low (cabinet) and high (speaker) tone controls, filter color switch, full range high-cut switch, input level meter. Rear panel: speaker input, speaker thru, dual unbalanced line outputs, balanced XLR output, ground lift switches. I?ve determined that to replicate the PDI-03: 1) turn off the full range, 2) set low to 0 for flat, 5 for normal, and 10 for deep, 3) set high to 0 for mellow, 5 for normal, and 10 for bright.

For reference here?s my setup:
Guitars: Fender USA Strat (EMG SA, SA, 89)
Gibson Explorer (EMG 81, 60)
Pedalboard: Dunlop Crybaby Wah
Ibanez TS-9 Tubescreamer
Electro-Harmonix Big Muff
Tech 21 Midi Mouse
Rack: Furman PL-8 Power Conditioner
DBX 166XL Compressor
ADA MP-1 Preamp (still kicks ass!)
Palmer PGA-04 Speaker Simulator
Furman PQ-3B Parametric Equalizer
T.C. Electronic G-Major Effects Processor
Amp: 71? Fender Super Reverb

First off, I?m not a pro but have been playing guitar for about 30 years now. I like all styles of music, anything with great guitar playing, but especially hard rock and metal. In the last 10 years I?ve done a lot of research on equipment to build my ultimate rig.

My first thought about buying this was that it was an expensive, indulgent, and possibly unnecessary piece of equipment. Wrong! The PGA-04 has proven to be a very useful addition. Having the dynamics of your tube amp coming through your headphones is an awesome capability (using a good pair, with wide dynamic range like Sony MDR-7506?s). In my opinion, and many others, using preamp or pedal distortion alone pales in comparison to powertube distortion. The Palmer gets you that very nicely. You can?t beat a tube amp pushed by a pedal for smooth overdrive. I often use a patch I created on the G-Major to add an ambient reverb effect to my signal that very closely emulates the sound of a double miked amp.

Unlike the user below, I don?t have problems getting good cleans sounds. Maybe it?s the difference in amps we use. My SR (45 watts) retains its clean tone even though the PGA-04 puts an 8 ohm load on its transformer, instead of the normal 2 ohms. I was a little concerned about that before buying, and some other speaker simulators I considered put an even higher load on the amp. I generally use the normal channel with treble and bass on 5, and volume no higher than 5. I don?t think you?ll get good results ?dimeing? your amp when using the built-in load. Also, I?ve found that you?ve got to be careful about gain-staging between your system components to avoid unwanted clipping.

I usually use these settings:

Filter Volume ? 8
Full Range Volume ? 2
Low ? 5
High ? 5
Color ? Brown
Hi-cut ? On

I can achieve a wide range of tones with this setup, from classic SRV, AC/DC, and Metallica, to nu-metal sounds like Shadows Fall, Arch Enemy, and Nevermore. This type of setup should please even the most discriminating tone freaks.

Well, I?ve only had the unit for about a month now and no problems so far. I don?t really expect any due to its fairly simple design and quality construction. I wonder if the Tungsten bulbs it uses for the load will ever need to be replaced, they can get hot. I recommend leaving an empty space above it in your rack and possibly using a cooling fan, especially if you?re running a cranked 100 watt amp. Considering the number of older, functioning PDI-03 models I?ve seen for sale on EBay, reliability appears good.

I?ve never contacted them personally. I did receive the unit, in perfect condition, within a week of ordering it online from JAMS Audio. The manual does have a few mistakes regarding use, but I figured it out anyway.

This unit is a must have for silent recording or practice at home. I could see it being useful for sending your amp signal to the mixing board as well, if you gig. Yeah, it?s not exactly the same as the tone coming from a cranked amp but its close enough for me, and with no miking hassles. By the way, if you?re debating whether to buy a PGA-04 or the re-issue PDI-03, there?s an interesting interview with Palmer?s founder Martin Schmitz regarding the PDI-03 vs. the PGA-04 on JAMS Audio website (www.palmergear.com). They will both sell for the same price. What does that tell you? Stop paying $1,200 for a used PDI-03 on EBay maybe? Lastly, no I don?t work for the company but maybe I should! Hello, Palmer are you out there? :)

I just wanted to let anyone interested in knowing that you can order the PGA-04 from JAMS Audio in Nashville, the new US distributor for Palmer. Website www.palmergear.com. Also, apparently due to popular demand Palmer is re-issuing the original PDI-03 model at the end of May (5/2005). I just ordered my PGA-04, and will post a review after I have checked it out!

Very easy to use, just plug the speaker cable form your amp into the imput, then run a cable from the speaker trough output to your speaker.
You can either connect your line output from form the Palmer to an FX processor for further processing or directly into your mixing board.
Buttoms are for tweaking and changing you sound or mixing direct and processed signals.
The Manual is pretty straight forward.

My setup is the following:
Marshall 6100 Head --> Palmer Speaker Simulator
2 OUTPUTS FROM PALMER UNIT:
palmer speaker thru: Marshall stereo cab left side
palmer output: Rocktron Xpression Fx Unit --> Samson Servo Power Amplifier --> Marshall stereo cab right side

With this setup you have a direct signal from the Marshall head and with the Samson Power Amp you can mix you processed signal form the Fx Processor with your original sound. There is nothing better than processing an output signal form a tube power amp, it is much fuller that a line signal. The Palmer unit allows you to do this and you get to play with your tube amp's output sound. This setup just sounds amazing. No floor pedals are needed here.

Very nicely built!!

Mr. Wilkerson from Palmer is very concerned and serviceful.

10 out of 10. A must for the sound quality pursuer.
Been playing for 22 years. Not much experience playing live.
Play mostly 80's heavy stuff like Rhoads.
I wish this unit would allow crisp clean sounds when not connected to a speaker cab, just with the 8 ohm load. I can not seen to get non distorded sounds when playing the clean channel of my Marshall 6100 trough it without a speaker thru connection.

You plug your speaker cable from your head/amp into the input.

You can run either 1/4 cable or XLR out to a mixing board/computer/recording device.

It has a couple of knobs and a couple of buttons,...no power cord, so how easy is that.

It has little lights that show how much amperage you are running into it. This has all been covered before, it's a plug and play box.

Why someone would need a set of instructions is beyond me.

It has a built in load, which means you can play your 100 watt head into it, not speakers, and monitor via headphones an 2:00 a.m. in the morning.

It has a pass through jack, but that disables the ohm load. If you were playing "live" you can thus use the box to steal the signal from the cable and jack it over to a mixing board to go to a PA but still run your cabinet.

That's what you come here for right?

I already have experience with an H&K Red box and a Behringer DI Box (both of which are not bad).

The Palmer is expensive compared to other DI Boxes, so I expected (demanded?) that it sound better, or what's the point.

I've had it for about 90 days.

The first couple of times I used it, I didn't think it was much better than the other DI boxes I have tried. But I decided to work with it, try different settings, etc, before writing a review.

I had even thought about sending it back because it wasn't one of those "amazing" differences you expect out of an expensive piece of gear.

However, the proof is in the pudding, as they say. This is a DI box for recording right? So, after playing with it for several months, and tweaking around on the knobs and buttons and trying several different guitars, amps, etc, after listening (truly listening) to clips I recorded with the other DI boxes and comparing it to this one, the quality is truly there and makes it worth the investment.

It sounds so lifelike and close to a cab (I have a Marshall with V30's) I have actually moved the Marshall out of my guitar room and use only the Palmer to a mixer and listen to my playing via a set of monitors or headphones.

You will obviously loose the "punch" of moving a lot of air with a big cab if you skip a cab, but the tone is there.

When I first tried playing without a cab, I didn't like it, but after about five minutes, I realized what is missing is the "punch" of the cab (sort of like listening to a guitar solo on a radio, versus standing in front of a stack)

I spent 6 months trying to get a good recorded sound through a variety of mics, pre-amps, mixers, etc. I would have saved myself a lot of hassle and headache if I had bought this in the first place.

Some people complain that it is expensive.....really? Think about it.

How much is a good cab?

How much is a good mic, stand, and cable.

(you are going to need both of those, to get what this unit gets you)

Can you play and record at 2:00 a.m. with your cab and mic while your wife sleeps in the other room?

I can fit a pre-amp, power amp, some effects, and the Palmer in a 8 rack bay, and go jack into a club PA and make one trip. I don't have to drag a cab around.

Is it exactly the same sound as a miced cab? NO. But having tried for months to mic a cab, this thing is better than a mic to me with no hassles and I don't feel like I am compromising my sound by using this thing.

Other direct boxes without a lot of adjustments sound fizzy or trebly. You can dial it out on this baby.

I can tell you this. I sent my brother a clip I recorded with the Palmer, after months of trying to record stuff with a mic. I didn't tell him I had used the Palmer. He noticed a significant improvement in my capture.

I bet I could send you a clip of my exact set up micing a cab in one instance and using the Palmer on another. They don't sound EXACTLY the same, but I bet you wouldn't be able to tell which was which.

I have noticed that different amps require different settings to sound close to the cab. In other words, you can't set it and forget it. If you switch between amps, you will probably have to play around with the knobs a bit.

There are a couple of tone shaping knobs and a couple of filter switches and then you can feed some unprocessed signal back in for some bite. These truly work.

The one thing you have to be carefull about is that if you feed in too much raw signal it will get fizzy, but a teenie bit helps.

There's a "brown" setting that I really like for most stuff, but for rythym sounds, I switch that off.

Just as when your record your "live" sound, you have to fiddle with your amp settings, gain level, mic placement, etc to get the best sound, you have to fiddle and adjust the Palmer to get the best out of it.

As far as being able to sound like an "open back" versus a closed b

Seems very heavy duty.

No power cord.

Totally passive.

Dealer in Nashville will talk to you on phone.

You should check one out if you are into recording.

The Palmer is an 8-Ohm speaker load silent recording box with cabinet simulating EQ. Filter volume is the ?speaker sound?. High and Low EQ as well as a button for Brown vs. Lite speaker sounds. Full Range volume is the ?direct sound? which also has a high frequency cut button. I was under the impression that the unit also had a speaker output variable attenuator, but the speaker output is full on (no volume reduction for playing a cranked amp through a speaker quietly- bummer). That?s the good thing about the THD hot plate. I just read that Palmer is about to release a new box that is a variable load and a speaker simulator in one. Good news for you all out there.

Supposedly you can get open back and closed back cabinet sounds from this box. I?m not sure because I don?t actually own any open backed speaker cabinets to compare against. I have been able to get ?my sound? however. I play through a Music Man HD-130 with a closed back 2-12 cabinet and was able to duplicate what I hear during practice. I?ve also been able to get a great sound with a friend?s Mesa Boogie Mark ?? speaker out through the Palmer. The best part is that you can use the amp features that you?re already familiar with. Example: how the reverb reacts to the tremolo and how the tubes start to break up when you hit the strings a little harder. You don?t get those interactions in most modeling amps.

I live in a high humidity area and the mild steel bolts used to hold the rack unit together are starting to rust. The same thing happens to my guitar case hinges too. The pots and the connection jacks look sturdy enough to last a while.

Mr. Wilkerson answers the phone when you call. Very nice! He walked me through the controls to get my first sounds. He suggested setting the filter section up first and then adding the full range volume in to liven-up the attack.

I record in my apartment and needed something QUIET. I spent several months gathering info on silent recording. I didn?t particularly like the guitar presets in my Roland VS-890. I tried a POD at a local guitar center and was not impressed (But I have really fallen in love with the Bass POD). Then came the THD hot plate plus a speaker emulator idea (Voodoo Labs cab-tone or H&K?s redbox). Finally I read an interview about Joe Satriani using the palmer on a recent record he made in his apartment studio. That was enough for me to want to try the box out for myself. The Palmer looked like the most efficient use of hardware to record a guitar through my favorite amp. It?s a little pricey, but it?s really the most flexible silent recording device around; provided you have access to good guitar amps with speaker outs.

(It's a speaker sim. as well as a load box.)Well, the manual I got for it was in German. Luckily, I took German in high school, so I could fumble around with the manual a little, but come on Techstar! Anyways, the controls are easy enough to understand. I wish I could help you out more here, but I'm not fluent in German (shame on me..). But the setup is quite straight forward, so you shouldn't have much of a problem, especially if you can read the manual they send you. lol

My setup is: several guitars: (Carvin DC200, Jay Turser JT 140 w/ Seymour Duncan SH-55's, Yamaha APX-10, >> Teese RMC1 Wah(good as gold)>> Carl Martin compressor (to lessen the high end of the wah!) >> Audio Logic EQ >> Tech 21 Psa-1 preamp >> VHT 50/2/50 >> Palmer >> T.C. Electronics G-Force >> BBE 482 Sonic Maximizer >> mixer (or Channel B of VHT into 4x12 Celestion Greenbacks((sometimes))
With this setup, I can treat all of my effects as send effects on a mixer. This has huge advantages for me.
I was worried how the VHT would sound, not going into an actual speaker. WOW! I was pleasantly surprised by this unit. It still kept of the the character of the amp. The VHT and the PGA-04 are a perfect match, in my opinion. Now I don't have to mic it anymore. I don't have to worry about mic placement and axis. YEAH!

This thing has only quit on me a couple of times because I pushed the amp, and the Palmer will quit if it gets to hot. Be careful not to push the amp more than the Palmer can handle. (100- 150 watts) Built very well.

The gave me the manual in German,it was a rough translation. That'll knock off a point or two. Other than that, I haven't dealt with them. Maybe I should call em.....
(Their based out of the country Germany. You have to go through Techstar.)

I play all styles. This compliments all of them. I would suggest this product to almost anyone! It not only replaced my mics, but actually improved my sound also. The best money I ever spent on a guitar product.

Very easy to use; just input/voicing/mix. Manual is brief but clear and helpful. It can't store/recall settings (you have to do that part yourself) but at least there are numbered markers silkscreened around the detentless knobs. The six front panel LEDs are sufficient to show input gain. Max input is 120 watts rms. Isn't meant for use with preamps, only amps. Two transformer-isolated outputs; one balanced at
-10 (to mic pre @ 600 ohms) and an unbalanced at 0 dBu (10k ohms), and floating ground. This is the recent ADIG-LB version (bought mine 9/02).

My guitar recordings are much punchier and "realistic" with the Palmer than with my Mesa Triaxis' "compensated" recording outputs, which sounded a little "flat" by comparison. I had considered buying a Marshall Plexi head for a particular sound, but now I come close with the Palmer (with the voicing on "lite" & bright). I use a Mesa Triaxis into a Mesa Simul 2:90 amp or a Rocket 44 tube amp>Palmer>Demeter tube mic pre>Nuendo 8 i/o A/D>ProTools. It has a very good SNR, and produces a wide variety of sounds which are otherwise difficult to acheive. I even use it for bass, though it doesn't get quite deep enough. I haven't A/B'd the Palmer with a real mic/cab, but they aren't the same because you don't get the room or other details of the particular mic or cabinet involved. Still, it's very good. The new Mesa recording pre has a very good cab simulator, too, but it's fixed and not versatile at all, so I decided to go with the Triaxis and the Palmer for direct recording.

The structure, knobs, pots are all very solid. I've had it only a month, but it seems like very road-worthy, pro gear.

The employees at Techstar in Nashville seemed like right nice folk when I placed my order.

I play original rock, as derived from the 1960's and 70's when I was coming up. I use some very good equipment to get as good a sound as possible, and this fits. I wish it could better emulate a bass cab. And I really wish they had a model designed to work with both preamps AND amps, combining the features of the PDA-04 & 05. I've used other emulators and devices with emulators (POD, Rocktron VooDu Valve, Roland VG-8, Cabtone, etc.) and I think this sounds better and is tremendously more versatile. I'll still mic a 4x12 when I need to, but now a lot of times I won't have to.

Speaker simulator with passive load, good up to 100 watts.
Very easy to use, a couple of knobs and switches that actually work.
The manual is fine and describes exactly ehat the controls do.
No patches, all manual.

Various electric guitars->Focusrite ISA430->Rocktron Pirhana preamp->VHT 2/90/2 left channel->PALMER PGA04->TC Electronic G-Force->(VHT 2/90/2 right channel->various speaker cabinets) or (mixer) or (MOTU 896 for Cubase processing).

When using acoustic guitars, I do not use the Pirhana and keep the VHT left channel at low volume, no distorsion but tube liveliness.

No noise from the PALMER.
It can approximate most cabinets. I tested this against real 4X12, 2X12, 1X15 and 4X10 miked from all angles. The Palmer could get so close that it doesn't make any sense to use a mike and a real cabinet.

This setup allows me to set my time bases effects after the amplifier. The way it should always be done, just like in the studio. I mostly use reverb, flanger, chorus, pitch shift and delay. Sound totally different and a lot cleaner when set after the saturated tube power amp.

Never broke in the 2 years I've owned it.

Never had to call them.

I play Hendrix, Vai, Chet Atkins, Boston, Led Zeppelin, Joe Pass and anything else I like. Electric, acoustic or classical. Been playing for 35 years.
The PALMER fits perfectly. It actually helps a lot in getting the "TONE" at any level. This is the best device of the kind, nothing comes close.
The only thing I would like added is a MIDI enabled patch system.

I got this used with no manual. You don't need it, it's soooo easy to use. But I am curious to see it. If you got an electronic copy or photocopy of the manual, please e-mail me. Maybe we can make a deal.

I can finally get the sound I hear in my rehearsal space inside my apartment without being kicked out! Perfect for home recording if you don't want to bother anyone. Bye bye POD!

Can't rate this yet, I haven't had it long enough. After taking it out of the box, it felt pretty solid and it looks and feels like the parts are of top quality.

N/A

Goto the website link, this unit does exactly what they describe it as. Can't remember the last time I was so blown away with a piece of gear and felt I got every penny's worth.

Simple to use - a few knobs and buttons. LED load meter is helpful. the manual is straightforward and brief. No surprises.

Stunning sound! Setup is Carvin Bolt (twin blade HS pickups) into Morley Bad Horsie Wah into Marshall JMP-1 input. JMP Left Master output into MESA 50/50 ch A Input (ch B nulled/not used). MESA ch A 8-ohm speaker output into Palmer speaker input. Palmer Unbalanced line output into TC Electronic G-Force Left (mono) Input. G-Force L/R digital output into Roland VS-880EX digital input. VS aux bus feeds Carvin HT150 power amp and Yamaha wedge monitors. Yamaha QY100 L/R output also feeds VS. Recorded tracks are mixed on a pair of Roland DS-90's. After some minor experimentation with the voicing knobs it only took about an hour of playing time and tweaking of the Palmer so that it reproduced faithfully the sound i was hearing from my Carvin Legacy 2x12 cab. Funny. Now i don't think i need the Legacy cab anymore. Why would i mic one when i can just press record and capture the signal i'm hearing in the monitors. Not only that, i now have an infinite number of Palmer voicings at my disposal with absolutely no fussing over microphone placement. And because power tubes are still part of the sound equation the playing feel is the same! I can't say enough about how cool this Palmer device is. It's a cool and satisfying achievement when one finds a decent playable and great tone. It's truly a step above all else to have that tone any day of the week on a consistent, repeatable basis - without the finicky, magical, or mysterious practice of microphone selection and placement, speaker cabinets, room acoustics, etc. Why i fuss with this shit i don't know? The Palmer is fantastic - it produces THE ideal mic'd up cab sound (condensor and dynamic mics included) plus many variations of same.

It's only been two days, but i'm not leaving the basement anytime soon. For a rackmount, it seems as durable as Boss pedals are. I don't forsee any problems.

I haven't needed any and wouldn't expect to need any because the unit is very simple to operate. I'd like to say that the people at TechStar were very curteous, polite and helpful to me over the phone when i placed my order. It arrived safe and sound on the day the said it would. Top notch service!

I thought about getting a Palmer a year ago, but they were out of stock so i was shit out of luck. Since then, they updated the PDI-03 and came out with the PGA-04. In essence, i'm glad i 'waited' because there are more sonic possibilities with the PGA-04 because you can now choose to mix in some unfiltered signal along with the filtered. I think this unit has changed my attitude forever about the legitamcy of speaker simulators. I'm a believer now! Take everyone's advice and buy one while you can because they're in short supply.

Plug the amp's "speaker out" into the Palmer PGA-04. You may then opt to run a cable from the Palmer to your speakers but you don't need to. The PGA-04 can act as a load. The MANUAL is very clearly written and the device has only a few knobs. The PGA-04 is easy to use. It sounds fantastic!

I have a slew of guitars but my #1 is a Sadowsky vintage style strat alder body/maple board with Kinman Avn Blues pickups->Soldano X99 preamp and Soldano SLO-100->Daedelus 2x10 cab with EV Force 10 or/and Soldano 4x12 cab with Soldano (Eminence) Power speakers. I take the Palmer XLR balanced line out straight to RME ADI-8 Pro AD/DA converters and into a Mac with ProTools.

The PGA-04 sounds fantastic. I don't know why anybody would fuss with mics when they can get this incredibly sounding unit which is not fragile. All the tones I dreamed of are here. I'm a big Mike Landau/Hendrix fan but I also play blues, metal, and funk. Styles range from Hendrix/SRV to Metallica/Megadeth to you name it. Just about everything except classical and straight jazz. Nobody would ever guess that my recordings were done without a mic or mics.

The various filter and tone shaping knobs on the unit are simple to use. I will say that high gain settings on the Soldano sound more high gain with the Palmer if no cabinet is hooked up to it. Eg: I back the gain down by about 3 when using the Palmer alone as a dummy load: if I had the gain at 11 I move it to 8, at 7 down to 4 or 5, you get the idea. But the clean sounds are clean and wonderful. It is a wonderful unit: intead of playing with mic angles, distance, amount of axis, phases, combinations, I just plug into the Palmer and take the XLR out into RME AD/DA converts right to hard disk. Not only does it sound killer but I can disconnect my cabinet and record at 3am and not bother anybody.

No problems to date. And it doesn't have any AC or batteries. Just plug your amp into it and your set.

I e-mailed and they got back to me with a couple of days.

I bought it on ebay because I couldn't find any in stock.

In a nutshell: if you want to record great tones or get you amp's tone to the mixer, don't hesitate. Buy it. With my guitar and Soldano preamp and amp I can get country clean, funk clean, SRV, Hendrix, Van Halen, Metallica, Santana, '70s Clapton, etcetera. Note that Satriani used no mics but only the Palmer into Neve mic preamps and a Sansamp to get all the tones on the "Engines of Creation" CD. This is one of those pieces of gear that I am keeping for life. It allows me to focus on playing, composing, and having fun! Good enough for Van Halen, Satriani, Rush, Stones, then it's good enough for me. This is really one of those pieces of gear that I am incredibly happy with and it changed my life. I don't need to run around mic cables, bump into them, worry about ribbon mics being damaged, mic being bumpedout of position, etcetera. The Palmer PGA-04 as good as gold.

If it were stole or broken I would replace it the next nanosecond and call all over the planet to have one Fed Ex'd to me.

In response to Eric and his comment's regarding the PGA-04 ADIG. The PGA-04 replaced the PDI-03 some years ago. The PGA-04 is far superior to the PDI-03 and is infinitly more variable. The circuitry changed very little as a matter of fact we have had no real complaints to date. Eric we will be glad to sell your 04's for you.. If you had called us or returned our phone calls we would have gladly helped. Sounds to me like there was a gain strutcture problem or possibly operator error. We invite all to view our user comments at Palmerdirect.com

Best Regards,

David Wilkerson

I give it a nine as nothing sounds exactly like a speaker...Now does it?

We have had two failures of Palmer products since becoming the North American Distributor.

This one needs to be done by a customer

This has got to be the easiest piece of gear I have ever used. The controls are straightforward and you can't make it sound bad.

I use an Egnater TOL100 amp's speaker output going to the Palmer and then straight into the recording console. Sounds like I'm running the head into an old Marshall 4X12. I can also get a pretty realistic open back cab sound.

I've had it over a year and haven't had any problems yet, and don't expect to. It doesn't require any power to run so I guess that makes it even more reliable- no power surges.

I had to call the company, one time, to ask a technical question and they were cool about answering it. And I didn't have to listen to an "on hold" recording for 20 minutes.

I play rock, country, and a little jazz (I get a great jazz sound with it plugging a guitar directly in) and it works great with all three styles. I hate having to mic cabinets to record tracks and now I really don't have to. This Palmer just sounds too damn good.

just a basic speaker simulater but with excellent eq features a must for all recording studios and guitarists with complex rigs

the set up is my 5150 going into the palmer giong into a console its a Van Halen must it gives ability to crank the amp to to perfect tone without fear of feedback

i would use this for any gig as for a back-up ill never go withhout a backup because i have not had it that long to know

havent needed to call upon them

this is a must for Van Halen fans i have an identical rig to eddies 1995 rig an this is probably not important to many unless you get one and hear the difference.THese ARE very hard to find and get it took me a year to get and the importer only gets a handfull at a timeanybody interested who has the money should get one while they can