All user reviews of 1/5 for the Palmer Pocket Amp

See other reviews and technical details - on paper, it's very good.
To summarize in a partisan manner: it is a copy of the famous Tech21 SansAmp GT2, but with more opportunities to output and input, yet much less expensive: it puts a red flag for more ...

UTILIZATION

Everything is accessible and clearly marked on the chassis as the SansAmp GT2, all the same.
Here too: on paper, it's very good.

SOUND QUALITY

Using otherwise (pre) primary a SansAmp (Character Series British V2) amp, I know the extreme sound quality of Tech21 products both live sound, and via a Digital audio interface or a Poweramp + guitar cab.
This copy Palmer has absolutely nothing to do with New York products.
Dynamic zero, muffled and eaten without any shine, even with the treble at most - and in this case there is another concern: an unbearable breath.
3 modes, Clean / Crunch / Heavy: I feel we are in Heavy everywhere. Its impossible to have a (relatively) clear, apart from the Clean Tweed mode (supposedly Fender Tweed). Similarly for an overdrive or crunch was on the heavy distortion, especially on British (supposedly Marshall) and US (supposedly Mesa) modes. For example, the British fashion, Clean, drive zero fashion: it was already too saturated for any AC / DC.
Perhaps for the compressed ultra hi-gain with no dynamic that may be suitable, I do not know because this is not about my music, but for the rest, from clean to crunch through large clean the dirt or overdrive, it's totally wrong.

Yet I had no great expectations of this device: it was to work / play with headphones at night in the living room (my office / music room is adjacent to the bedroom). It just had to make the joke, but it was not made; I much prefried sound vacuum of my guitars!

I also tested via a PA and a sound card, it's the same.

I played it with my Pocket Amp Fender Stratocaster 1979 (single coil, low output) and with my CP Jaguar Special HH (passive humbuckers but high output, and split).

OVERALL OPINION

More than a year I have, using it for small periods, always disappointed but I insisted, tried, tested. Most was to help me in a PA when I could not move the amp head lamps - amp and more Palmer Pocket Amp replaced with no regrets by Tech21 SansAmp Character Series (via EHX 44magnum + cab or live sound) I therefore have no anti-fundamentalism transo nor pro-lamps snobbery. Certainly the Tech21 have no headphone or XLR output or Aux, but it sounds extremely well. It's not the same price either, but 70 euros is way too expensive for what still produces Palmer.
This Palmer has the external appearance of its settings in common with the SansAmp GT2 is even maliciously misleading ... The rest (essentially sound, dynamic) is just awful. LoFi, worthy of the worst transos without them clean. In a word, and keeping all sense of proportion: disgusting!

So I still nothing for my game night with headphones, but nothing is better than Palmer Pocket Amp.

All was said in previous reviews.

UTILIZATION

Easy to use but it is very difficult to get an acceptable sound.
As a direct box you would think that it works well, but the beast saturates very quickly. the sound becomes filthy with a distortion pedal input. I tested with a Blackstar Ht dist, it worked better with the line output of this (planned to put a tuner, so no speaker simulation).
Interlocking the effects impossible to keep a clean sound "British" and "Us" in "Tweed" yes, but the sound is so low that it should add Drive, so its not clear if that!
The pots Treble and Bass do not allow a good EQ is very strange and difficult to describe, but there is such a lack of medium (no adjustment at this level) and an unpleasant surplus harmonics. I tested with an equalizer pedal, it helps but it is not that.

SOUND QUALITY

I bought it mainly to play with headphones, bad luck: bad contact at the mini-jack input, I triturated managed to find a balance and can test the pedal.
"Yuck!" After a few minutes my ears are tired and I almost headache.
I can not tell if the simulations are good for simulations (I'm used to real lights), what I can say is that we are far from having something nice.
And above all: its not clear. It is true that I tried with powerful microphones, but even splittant my doubles, lowering the volume of the guitar, it saturates. Conclusion: for clear sound: play empty!
And as saturations are far inferior to my pedals ...
Quickly try in the amp to see, but as it's not worth my amp ...

OVERALL OPINION

Once purchased, immediately returned to the store against refund.
So: try before you buy!
Now I admit not having tested the competing devices in the same price range, so I can not judge the quality / price ratio, if it is only 75 euros for nothing, it's lost 75 euros (good I had bought on sale for 52.50 euros but still hurts).