Tech 21 SansAmp Screaming Blonde

Sansamp in its well-known goodness! Anyone looking for analog simulation without digital latency will not be disappointed. My only criticism is about the shape of the thing. The manufacturer promotes it as something that is nice and small and fits in a guitar bag. However, what is the point of stuffing it in a bag? It does not run on batteries, nor does it have a headphone output. So, it is not something that you take out somewhere on a band bus or in a hotel room in the evening to practice. It always needs a wall outlet and some kind of amplifier to go with it. And since it is not something that you put in your pocket, what was the point of squeezing it into such a small box? Yes, there is never a waste of space in a pedalboard, but it could easily have been a few cm wider and the footswitches would have been actually pressable on stage, not just theoretically. The same goes for the thickness - add a cm and you could tighten the knobs to the body with a nut. Right now it feels a bit like a toy, although it is not