Palmer Pocket Amp MK2 Guitar Preamp

Currently using in a small church.
This guitar preamp is great for playing in places where you just cant use your amp, in my case is just very complicate to use my amp with a very low stage volume, so this was a great tool for me.
Also its very useful for practice at home, you can plug your computer or phone in with a mini jack and just plug your headphones directly in it.
You can cut some bad frequencies with it (great tool in live playing).
For me the sound is very accurate and similar to some amps, however its not the same, but some times you just get tired in carrying around your 30kg amp to every small gig...
This can save your back some pain and can save your gig.
The xlr out is just great!

I use it as a backup for my guitar amp, but I'm thinking about leaving the amp and only using the Palmer from now on. It doesn't have a lot of options, but it is good, at everything it does.

The unit is built like a tank. Very nice and sturdy aluminium housing, good quality knobs and switches. All connectors are also first class. I love, that it has a headphone out, makes it a perfect bedroom amp.

The sound it produces is amazing. And it goes from crystal clear to crunch to cranked fullstack.

The only downside for me is that it doesn't run from phantom power over the xlr. Otherwise it is perfect.

So it's not the poor man's Kemper, and it probably doesn't aim to be, but it's hard not to like this little, sturdy metal box which offers excellent features when used as a demo/home/on-the-road sketchpad for guitar ideas & sounds, but also offers decent enough tonal quality to end up being used on some actual recordings, or in some volume-constrained live situations.
It lacks an fx loop i/o or a high/low sensitivity input, but it does have other goodies such as a phones output and a stereo line aux input for background audio practice purposes.
More importantly, the 3 amp types are relatively realistic and the 3 sound modes are not bad, never too sterile or fizzy or cheap sounding (Palmer has always known what they are doing, when it comes to guitar sounds!), and the 3 simulated microphone positions for the cabinet simulations are quite convincing.
A little winner!

I bought this product to have a cheap back-up in case my tube amp fails during gigs, and just a smart exercise tool (instead of the bigger and harder to feed line6 Pod xt) to use direct in my audio interface or with earphones. I soon realised how useful it is as a "replacement" of amp miking during gigs too and a wonderful rehersal tool inside my pedalboard: I no longer need to bring my amp with me so far a mixer and PA is available!
You also have integrated DI out.
I run the Pocket amp at the end of the pedal chain and the sound is dinamic and real: works incredibly similar to my amp. I already used it for some recording of guitar lessons as well and worked really good. I really recommend it!