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A Full-blown D-style Preamp in a Stompbox





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The Vertex Effects Steel String Supreme Slight Return Edition expands on the company’s venerable Steel String MkII, arming you with a full-fledged, D-style preamp. Loaded with 100% analog solid-state circuitry, this clean drive stompbox builds upon its more-streamlined predecessor’s features with the addition of an independent EQ section and five extra tone-shaping controls. Park the SSS SR in front of your tube amp to inject it with D-style character, plug it into your mixer or audio interface for vintage-tinged DI-ed tones, or use it to infuse your digital modeling rig with tube-like warmth and transients. No matter how you use it, the Vertex SSS SR will deliver the coveted sound that top-tier players like Eric Johnson, John Mayer, and an iconic Texas bluesman made famous.





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An amplifier’s worth of tone-shaping controls





The Steel String Supreme Slight Return Edition was designed to function as a full-blown preamp. Thus, it includes all the tone-shaping controls you’d expect from a full-featured guitar amplifier. This pedal inherits the Level, Gain, Filter, and Jazz/Rock controls from the Steel String MkII, enabling you to adjust your master volume, saturation, mid-shaping, and overall character. The SSS Slight Return Edition takes it further, however. An Output knob determines your first gain stage level, adjusting the saturation on your guitar amp’s input. Fat tailors your lower midrange for extra thickness and body. Clean offers a parallel blend of your clean and effected signal. A 3-way Bright/Deep switch yields a treble boost in the up position, is neutral in the middle position, and has a bass boost in the down position. We’ve used the SSS Slight Return Edition in a whole host of scenarios here at Sweetwater, and we’ve found that it churns out gorgeous, D-style cleans and edge-of-breakup tones in every application.





Vertex Effects Steel String Supreme Slight Return Edition Double Preamp Pedal Features:


Arms you with a full-fledged, D-style guitar preamplifier


Produces tube-like tones from 100% analog solid-state circuitry


Builds upon the Steel String MkII with an independent EQ section and 5 extra tone-shaping controls


Works equally well in front of a tube amp, DI-ed, or plugged into a digital modeler


Level knob operates as a master volume


Gain knob controls your level of saturation and overdrive


Filter knob dials in doses of D-style midrange shaping


Jazz/Rock toggle thickens up cleans and tightens up drive tones


Output knob determines your first gain stage level, adjusting the saturation on your guitar amp’s input


Fat knob tailors your lower midrange for extra thickness and body


Clean knob offers a parallel blend of your clean and effected signal


3-way Bright/Deep switch yields a treble boost in up position, is neutral in middle position, and has a bass boost in down position