AMT Electronics Bricks O-Bass

Gosh, I forgot how tiny these really are.

AMT Bricks O-Bass, Made in Siberia.
It’s tiny.
They made a pedal that’s driven by a 12AX7 tube as small as it possibly can get.
Then they outfitted it with the absolute maximum of knobs on the top.
You get your classic three band EQ and gain + master. The pedal was full, but they did not stop. A foot switch on top (with a little safety bar so you don’t step on the pots. And still, more bells & whistles: two more switches had to move to the side since the top was full. A ‘bright’ switch and a toggle switch to use it as either preamp or drive.

Then there is some more stuff going on still: There are 1/8″ ins and outs. When you use multiple AMT preamps, you can wire them up so only one is active at a time and when you have one active and step on another, the active one shuts off automatically.
And on the bottom of the pedal there is a connector that is supposed to work with the AMT pedalboard. I guess you don’t need signal or power cables then, but I don’t own such things. So I set the dip switch on my Cioks PSU to 12V (sadly, this is not optional for more headroom, the AMT bricks do require 12V DC) and fired it up.

My very first impression was “whoa, this is really really good”. I had it in the drive setting with the mids maxed and bass and treble around noon, the bright switch off and gain a good bit past noon. I think I noodled around for a good ten minutes before I realized what I was doing.
So I wiped off my bass face for something sober and started testing.
When I set it to a tone I liked and played, I realized that the drive is much more prominent on the lower notes while playing the G and C string around the 12th fret sounded nearly clean.
The drive itself is that of a well made pedal that uses a 12AX7 Tube. You get a rich saturation and a big sweet spot that’s very touch sensitive.
There is one major drawback on this pedal: It is (did I already mention that) tiny. I rigged the foot switch with a pedal topper, but that’s not enough. It still is really easy to miss with your foot. I’ve seen larger toppers where the foot switch should become proud enough to stick out over the entire pedal and that might be a solution, should I decide to keep it.

It feels a lot like the A-Bass did:
This is good. This is really good. This is not “IT”, but it’s really good nonetheless.