In the very exclusive area of the Emergenza Village in Taubertal a WARM UP STAGE awaits our lucky finalists: a place to exhibite the amazing prizes to hand out at the end of the shows, but above all a ''real'' stage where musicians can get ready and pumped up, before the kick ass performance on stage. And guitarists will find there the latest novelty by Crate: first presented at Namm 2005, and on sale since April, POWERBLOCK is a 150 WATT RMS STEREO guitar amp in an amazingly compact package. It has mono, volume, gain, bass, middle, and treble knowbs, an effects loop, and a headphone jack. It is crazy small, light, very powerful, and appears to be well made. If you have a modeling guitar preamp/processor, you can use the PowerBlock™ to amplify your programmed tones for a gig. The PowerBlock runs in Stereo or Mono, so you can use it to run to a single 8 Ohm enclosure, or two 4 Ohm enclosures, in STEREO! If you want to use your pedalboard and have a great distortable single channel amp to power it, the PowerBlock gets it done. And you can use the PowerBlock with the headphone jack for silent rehearsal The Crate head is versatile, simple, small, and light. A gigger''s dream. So light and portable...comes with a padded gig bag. Your other amp maybe sounds better...but weighs 30 times more and is 15 times more expensive. Your wallet and back will thank you! Once again, Crate is bringing a really cool new product designed by players for players.