Sushi Box FX Venus Z

These are brand new units that are being sold at a discount as they have been discontinued by the manufacturer. They will still carry the manufacturer's warranty.

Venus Z is a unique preamp. Featuring all the punchy tone you expect from a modern solid-state amp mixed with all the warmth and dynamics you expect from a tube preamp, Venus Z is a stage and studio workhorse with the flexibility to dial in a wide range of tones. Venus Z packs a high-voltage 12AX7 circuit with an active EQ section and a transformer-based D.I. balanced output all in a convenient, pedalboard-friendly package.

Venus Z's EQ is boost/cut, where a "flat" response is all controls at 12 o'clock. The EQ center points are Bass: 60Hz, Lo Mids: 250Hz, Hi-Mids: 1kHz, and Treble: 7kHz. The switchable high-pass filter rolls off all low-end content below 90Hz at a rate of -6dB per octave.

The 1/4" OUT provides an output from the preamp that can be run to a monitor, power amplifier, etc. The 1/4" DRY output is a parallel pass-through from the input allowing you to run an unaffected signal out to an external amplifier for more flexible routing.

The VOLUME knob on the face of the pedal only affects the 1/4" OUT, whereas the trimmer knob on the side of the pedal affects the XLR output level. On this latest version of Venus Z, the 1/4" output is independently buffered, so the volume control interdependency that occurred in the previous version does not happen now.