Larry Behm
From:
Mt Angel, Or 97362
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Posted 8 Mar 2015 5:43 am |
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This item works well as a clean tube sound on the rhythm channel when you adjust the volume up and the gain down.
Global bass and treble and a lead tube overdrive make this a great little unit.
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Dave Mudgett
From:
Central Pennsylvania and Gallatin, Tennessee
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Posted 8 Mar 2015 11:03 am
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This and its brother, the Twin Tube Blue, are two of the finest-sounding overdrive pedals ever made, to my tastes. No starved-plate tubes stuff, and I've dug up a lifetime supply of the subminiature tubes. I haven't had to replace any tubes yet, so I haven't yet fooled with that. I imagine it's not a big deal, but does look like a wee bit of a PITA. But seriously - I've used mine (I have both) to get what I think is a pretty good on-the-edge-of-breakup tube-amp sound from a super-clean pedal steel amp like a NV112/400/1000. Sounds even better in a clean tube amp where I'm just trying to get to the sweet spot without being too loud. And you can definitely crank 'em up if you wanna play some rock and roll.
As a guy who doesn't use a ton of effects, the large footprint doesn't really bother me. Not much of any way to reduce the size, there's a good-size transformer and other stuff in there the necessitates the larger box.
For organic overdrives in this vein, the other 'contenders', to me, are the original ZenDrive, Brad's Earth Drive, and the Mad Professor Simble - I've at least tried them all, they each sound excellent, to me, I could use any for most any situation like this. I use a Simble for slide guitar and steel a lot now - look at Olli's demo on lap steel, it convinced me and I have not been disappointed. I also picked up a LovePedal High Power Tweed Twin off the forum recently, it's just perfect for the Keef/Neil-Young thing. The bottom end doesn't stay together the way it does on these others, but there are times where that's exactly what I want. Not really a fuzz, but definitely gets that more gravelly-bottom sound that screams tweed or early Marshall to me. The thing about all of these is that they are very touch-sensitive and capable of real subtlety, and that's the key for me.
Of course, the Klon is cool, but the last one I saw at a guitar show was going for $2 grand, and I think people are getting at least $1500 for them. I agree that they're good, but I actually prefer the pedals I mentioned - to my tastes, at least. |
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