Description
Combination Load Box & DI
The Headload Prodigy™ is a combination load box and DI that lets you drive your guitar amp at a higher gain in order to maximize the tone, yet produce a lower stage volume when needed.
Features
- Load box with selectable output levels or complete attenuation
- Drive your amp hard for the best tone
- Can handle up to 100 watts RMS
- Balanced JDX direct out feeds the PA or a recording interface
- Built-in headphone amp for practicing
Sound loud, play quiet
With the Headload Prodigy, you can crank your amp to the sweet spot while keeping output levels in check, allowing you to retain your optimal tone when performing, recording and practicing. The Prodigy can pass 25%, 50% or 100% of the signal from the amp head to the speaker cabinet, or it can also be used without a speaker cabinet for completely silent recording. This is particularly useful in small venues where the speaker cabinet on stage may conflict with the sound in the room, and it's also great for silent recording where you want to take advantage of 'high power' amp distortion without upsetting the neighbours. A balanced DI output features Radial's popular JDX Reactor circuit, which emulates the tone of a 4x12 half stack for a realistic and consistent tone through the PA or when connected to a recording interface.
Headload Prodigy Applications
- Using the Prodigy on stage
- Connect the JDX output from the Prodigy to the PA system and in-ear monitors. Eliminating the microphone delivers a more consistent sound every night.
- Using the Prodigy in the studio
- Disconnect the speaker and the Prodigy takes the heat! Use the JDX direct out to feed your recording system and silently practice using the headphone out.
- Use the Prodigy to control the stage
- Split the signal from your first amp to feed a second amp using the direct out, mic up your cabinet and combine with the JDX out for the ultimate wall of sound!
Specifications
The Headload Prodigy is a device that is intended to simulate the sound of a guitar cabinet and allow the user to reduce the speaker output to 50% or 25% on stage or perform without noise in the studio. That said, the following specifications do not provide any truly significant information as it is completely dependent on the amplifier and speaker cabinet in use. As such, we ask you to please review with the awareness that these measurements are truly subjective in nature.
- Audio circuit type: Passive attenuation circuit with active equalization
- Frequency response: Shaped to emulate a classic guitar cabinet
- Gain: -30dB/-42dB
- Total harmonic distortion: 0.05%
- Intermodulation Distortion: 0.05%
- Output Impedance: 8 Ω speaker load
- Noise: -106dBu
- Maximum Input: 100 watts continuous
- Maximum Output: 100%, 50%, 25%, 0%
Features
- 180° polarity reverse, Ground lift, Level Control, Speaker filter, Headphone, EQ Control
- Input Connectors: 1/4" from amp
- Output Connectors: 1/4" to amp, pre/post JDX. XLR JDX
- Extras: Headphone output
General
- Construction: 14-gauge steel chassis & outer shell
- Size (L x W x D): 10.25" x 5.9" x 3.75" (26cm x 15cm x 9.5cm)
- Weight: 5.3lbs (2.4kg)
- Shipping size (L x W x D): 14.5" x 8.75" x 4.75" (36.8cm x 22.2cm x 12.1cm)
- Shipping weight: 6.5lbs (2.9kg)
- Power: Radial +/-15V 400mA power supply
- Conditions: For use in dry locations only between 5°C and 40°C
- Warranty: Radial 3-year, transferable
