The Ceriatone Son of Yeti is a Ceriatone amplifier. Close alternatives include the Friedman IR-D and the Soldano SLO. It pairs well with the Browne Amplification Gritador and the Friedman BE-OD.

Ceriatone Son of Yeti

Ceriatone · amplifier

The Ceriatone Son of Yeti is a 20-watt point-to-point hand-wired guitar amplifier head based on a hot-rodded Jose Arredondo-modified Marshall Plexi and JCM800 circuit, covering a full spectrum of vintage to high-gain British tone from a lunchbox-format chassis. An ERA switch selects three distinct voiced modes spanning JTM-clean through modded JCM800 saturation and into extreme gain territory suitable for metal. The 6V6 output section gives the circuit a slightly sweeter and more vintage feel than the traditional EL34-based Plexi it draws from, while the modified preamp delivers gain levels well beyond the original design.

What stands out

  • “Regarded as one of the most tonally ambitious hot-rodded Plexi designs in the boutique market — the Jose mod circuit delivers significantly more preamp gain than the stock Plexi or JCM800 circuits, while the ERA switch provides three meanin…”

    — from the community notes

  • “The hot-rodded preamp delivers more gain than most players will use, covering high-gain metal”

    — from the reviews

  • “At 20 watts the amp is described as adequately loud for small clubs and capable of competing with a hard-hitting drummer”

    — from the community notes

  • “Marshall Forum and The Gear Page threads praise the Son of Yeti for its ability to cover super-clean sparkle, early AC/DC Plexi crunch, boosted JCM800 leads, and extreme metal gain from one amp”

    — from the community notes

  • “The Ceriatone Son of Yeti is a 20-watt point-to-point hand-wired guitar amplifier head based on a hot-rodded Jose Arredondo-modified Marshall Plexi and JCM800 circuit, covering a full spectrum of vintage to high-gain British tone from a lun…”

    — from the listing

  • hot
  • metal
  • clean
  • high gain
  • vintage
  • club
  • saturation

Good for

  • Live
  • Studio
  • Practice

Genres the Ceriatone Son of Yeti is commonly used in

  • Metal
  • Hard Rock
    citedInferred from shared tonal signals, not a stated genre tag.
  • Heavy Metal
    citedInferred from shared tonal signals, not a stated genre tag.
  • Rock
    citedInferred from shared tonal signals, not a stated genre tag.
  • Alternative
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  • Classic Rock
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Pedals that stack with the Ceriatone Son of Yeti

Browne Amplification Gritador

Browne Amplification

24% match
$219via Reverb

pushes an already-dirty tonePushes an already-dirty tone harder and tightens it up. (high gain → mid-forward)

Feed a high gain signal into Browne Amplification Gritador and it comes out closer to mid-forward

Goes in front of the amp

Friedman BE-OD

Friedman

23% match
$169.99via Reverb

pushes an already-dirty tonePushes an already-dirty tone harder and tightens it up. (high gain → tight)

Friedman BE-OD takes that high gain character and pushes it toward tight

Goes in front of the amp

Browne Amplification Carbon

Browne Amplification

22% match
$339via Reverb

pushes an already-dirty tonePushes an already-dirty tone harder and tightens it up. (high gain → clean boost)

Browne Amplification Carbon takes that high gain character and pushes it toward clean boost

Goes in front of the amp

Electro-Harmonix Deluxe Electric Mistress

Electro-Harmonix

16% match
$200.09via Reverb

sits in the right chain slotPlaced for where it does its job cleanly in the chain, not for a tonal interaction with the anchor. (high gain → shimmer)

Put Electro-Harmonix Deluxe Electric Mistress after Ceriatone Son of Yeti in the signal chain, clear of Ceriatone Son of Yeti's own gain stage

Goes in front of the amp

Hungry Robot Moby Dick V2

Hungry Robot

13% match
$118via Reverb

sits in the right chain slotPlaced for where it does its job cleanly in the chain, not for a tonal interaction with the anchor. (high gain → lush)

Put Hungry Robot Moby Dick V2 in Ceriatone Son of Yeti's effects loop, clear of Ceriatone Son of Yeti's own gain stage — goes in the amp's FX loop (or last, into a clean amp)

Sits in the amp's effects loop

Hungry Robot The Borderland

Hungry Robot

13% match

sits in the right chain slotPlaced for where it does its job cleanly in the chain, not for a tonal interaction with the anchor. (high gain → modulated)

Put Hungry Robot The Borderland in Ceriatone Son of Yeti's effects loop, clear of Ceriatone Son of Yeti's own gain stage — goes in the amp's FX loop (or last, into a clean amp)

Sits in the amp's effects loop

Crazy Tube Circuits Golden Ratio

Crazy Tube Circuits

12% match

shapes the dynamic responseShapes how the tone responds to picking dynamics rather than its frequency or gain.

What Crazy Tube Circuits Golden Ratio brings here leans toward tight — that's worth building a pairing around

Goes in front of the amp

Browne Amplification Ethane

Browne Amplification

tonal match

Goes in front of the amp

Into Ceriatone Son of Yeti, Browne Amplification Ethane is right at home: it's built around Marshall-style amps

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72% similarity
$377.13via Reverb

Friedman IR-D recreates this amp's tone in pedal form

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Questions people ask

What are good alternatives to the Ceriatone Son of Yeti?+

The closest matches in character are the Friedman IR-D, the Soldano SLO, the Friedman IR-J Jake E. Lee Preamp.

What pairs well with the Ceriatone Son of Yeti?+

Strong matches from rig and tone-complementarity evidence: Browne Amplification Gritador, Friedman BE-OD, Browne Amplification Carbon — Feed a high gain signal into Browne Amplification Gritador and it comes out closer to mid-forward.

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