Misha Mansoor Dials In The Apex Preamp 

My guess is no, unless you only have a clean amp. The Horizon drive is really meant for an overdriven amp with the drive on the pedal at 0. The pedal tightens the sound and uses the amp’s existing drive. Plus it has the gate. The Preamp however, adds drive to your amp as well as tightens your sound and adds the same gate. So if you have the preamp then adding the Horizon drive won’t do much.

Yes. Think of it as adding a Tube Screamer as a boost.

I use the pd into the apex with the tight switch off which gives a better chunky tone in my opinion

@@END3RCAM interesting… thanks!

@@KRayxKodessA ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-_F6Xof5LUd4.html. I used the apex for Rhythm double tracked split left and right. Lead is the Plini plugin... OKW aggressive Rock for drums. Eurobass 2 for bass

@@END3RCAM killer!

Basically its an “amp in a box” type pedal. You can run your guitar into this and into a recording interface and load up a cab sim and be ready to record. Or you can run it through the fx loop return of a real amp and bypass the amps preamp and use the preamp that is built into the pedal. It allows a lot of versatility, in your setup. Misha did a video where he ran it through a Fender, which has one of the best clean channels ever, and got a beautiful metal tone. It also has the Precision Drive built in as well. Hope this makes sense.

It’s better to use this in front of the amp on the clean channel I’ve heard that it didn’t sound too good in the loop

@@FreddieOrtega-cr33p3rofficial isn't it meant for the fx loop? Its a preamp, the output should be line level, meant for going directly into a power amp.

@@dakotaperry6476 What do you mean by "It also has the Precision Drive built in as well." Is it literally the Precision Drive built it into the Apex, or just very similar features? I've had the Apex for a while but recently bought the PD to use separately for other amps. Did I just totally waste my money doing this?

@@jamesbradford1153 No definitely not a waste. The Apex “Tight” switch is like a built in Precision Drive to a certain extent. It will give you the tight “djenty” sound but you can’t fiddle with anything, where as with the Precision Drive you have the knobs to really customize the sound you want. Both do the job well but the actual Precision Drive can do a lot more if you were to run it and the Apex at the same time. I guess I should have said the Apex has a boost similar to the Precision Drive built into it lol my bad.

There’s always that guy. And you’re apparently him.

@@beastlybeast2716 yeah, the guy who wants to make you save 320 dollars.

@@alxdrksoul Or the guy who has enough time on his hands to worry about what anyone else does with their own money.

@@beastlybeast2716 or the guy leaving a comment, wasting the same amount of time as anyone who replies to him concerned about time wasting.

@@alxdrksoul Thanks for your comments Alex, it's helpful for people trying to make an informed buying decision. I'll definitely check out some more videos before pulling the trigger on this one, it's interesting that Misha doesn't use the onboard cab sim in this video and we are hearing other gear and software shaping the sound.