Laney Digbeth Nathan East Preamp DB-East-Pre

[Dood]

Here’s my promo video I recorded for Laney Amplification to support the release of Nathan East’s new Digbeth Preamplifier Pedal this week.

 

I am also very proud to have been an important part of the prototyping and testing for Nathan’s pedal prior to release and was involved in tweaking the tonal parameters.

 

 

[fretmeister]

Well that sounds excellent!

 

If I ever did a gig that actually had a PA, just that and a compressor would do me fine.

[pete.young]

Excellent review as ever @Dood , that looks like a really useful piece of kit with the potential to replace 4 separate pedals on my board. The only thing I'd really like that I can't see is a notch filter. Would it be possible to use the 8-band EQ to create one if I knew roughly what the frequency to be notched was?

[Dood]

On 26/01/2026 at 17:07, pete.young said:

Excellent review as ever @Dood , that looks like a really useful piece of kit with the potential to replace 4 separate pedals on my board. The only thing I'd really like that I can't see is a notch filter. Would it be possible to use the 8-band EQ to create one if I knew roughly what the frequency to be notched was?

 

Its a tough one with equalisers versus notch filters as the latter tends to have a very narrow filter. A standard EQ can sometimes carve away too many adjacent frequencies when endeavouring to create the same amount of attenuation that a notch filter typically does to surgically deal with troublesome frequencies. The EBS' Stanley Clark and MB preamps do have a notch filter, the Bergantino Super Pre uses 'anti-feedback' processing which is useful for acoustic instrumnets struggling with howling and feedback. Another notch filter of sorts, but of the dynamic EQ variety. 

[MichaelDean]

I knew the pedal would be great. I love my Digbeth head. Your Shuker sounded amazing too!

[Dood]

1 hour ago, MichaelDean said:

I knew the pedal would be great. I love my Digbeth head. Your Shuker sounded amazing too!

Thank you so much! I wrote the Nathan East inspired track to go with my demo video and, it seemed fitting to use a 6 string headless as Nathan has one too. Love that bass!