Nothing Lost from Guitar to Amp
A high-voltage, tube-driven buffer, the Fryette Amplification Valvulator Mini enables you to optimize your sound — a must-have for guitarists who build their rigs around modelers, digital amplifiers, and long pedal chains. The Valvulator Mini flawlessly converts signals from high to low impedance, eliminating the dreaded high-frequency loss and signal degradation caused by cable capacitance and impedance mismatches. Furthermore, the 12AX7-fueled buffer sweetens your tone, imparting subtle harmonics, dynamics, and touch sensitivity. With the Valvulator Mini, you’ll swear you’re plugged straight in, even if there’s an overabundance of circuitry between you and your amp. The Valvulator Mini features Pickup Load, Ground, and Phase switches for fine-tuning your frequency response and eliminating tone-decimating ground and phase issues. Beyond that, you get an unbalanced transformer-isolated Output and a balanced XLR Output, enabling you to deploy the Valvulator Mini as a direct box for both pedalboards and studio applications. Housed in a rugged steel chassis, the Valvulator Mini is a compact, road-ready powerhouse that delivers everything you need to ensure your tone arrives at the amp exactly as intended.
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The Fryette story: high-gain innovation since 1989
Lauded by guitarists for its trademark dry, articulate, and — most notably — super-tight, high-gain sonics, Fryette Amplification is among the industry’s most distinguished manufacturers of handbuilt amplifiers, speaker cabinets, and guitar-centric studio tools. Founded in 1989 by amp guru Steven Fryette under the VHT Amplification banner, the company earned an immediate reputation for pushing the boundaries of high-gain tube amplifier design with such trailblazing offerings as the Pittbull series and Deliverance heads. Rebranded under Steven’s name in 2009, Fryette Amplification continued pushing the innovation envelope. Today, the brand is best known for its Power Station attenuator/re-amping units, the Valvulator GPDI/IR direct recording amplifier, and a potent range of boutique tube amps — all meticulously built in the USA and trusted by world-class artists such as Metallica, Megadeth, Steve Lukather, and Michael Landau. Fryette Amplification packs 35 years of innovation into every product, which is why Sweetwater’s most astute guitarists consider its products to be a benchmark for tone, craftsmanship, and American-made quality.
Fryette Amplification Valvulator Mini Features:
- A high-voltage, tube-driven buffer for guitar rigs
- Optimizes rigs built around modelers, digital amplifiers, and long pedal chains
- Flawlessly converts signals from hi-Z to lo-Z
- Eliminates HF loss and signal degradation caused by cable capacitance and impedance mismatches
- 12AX7-fueled buffer sweetens your tone, imparting subtle harmonics, dynamics, and touch sensitivity
- Pickup Load switch fine-tunes your midrange and top-end response to emulate different cable lengths and capacitances
- Ground and Phase switches solve 60-cycle hum and polarity issues
- Unbalanced transformer-isolated Output and a balanced XLR Output allow you to use the unit as a DI box
- Rugged steel chassis
- Requires a 12V DC power supply (sold separately)
