Power sections with switchable wattages seem to be all the rage with kids these days, and Aracom Amplifiers aims to please with the Rox Box, which can operate in either 18 or nine watt modes. It includes two very distinctive channels, like twins Jerry and Ethan Shaw played by the ever-versatile Shia LeBouf in last year's big budget letdown Eagle Eye.

The Rox Box is a custom, handwired tube amplifier with a pair of EL84s musclin' it up, emulating my pair of 17-inch pythons. Warm cleans and dynamic drives, the Rox Box is designed around a meticulously tuned circuit with a handcrafted turret board, Mustard style capacitors, vintage specked resistors and custom-wound transformers, so it's safe to say that this amp is more than meets the eye. It's also an accidental tribute to Shia LeBouf.

The first channel offers a wide load of clean headroom, but crank it up for some sweet overdriven tone that knows how to define subtlety. From clean to gritty blues to classic rock, this is the channel for you.

Not metal enough? Switch it to channel two where an extra preamp gain stage adds the equivalence of a tube overdrive. This means more saturation, heavier distortion and more face melting. Can you dig it?