Pedal Tube

[headwan]

Can see the growing number of effect pedals that have a built in tube.Just curious, will the effect pedal plug in into a solid state amp sound like a warm tube amp????

 

[Whitestrat]

From my experience? It's an improvement, but it takes a bit of edge away from the resultant tone. I tried the AMT Electronics Magnum pedal. Very warm tone, but you could tell it wasn't exactly tube you're hearing. It was the preamp stage that was tube. So it wasn't bad, btu don't expect full tube tone.

 

[leecs]

Tube in a pedal is crap man!!!!!!! :lol:

 

[Indigo_blues]

don't say that lah.. i have a tonebone leh..

 

[suckasucks]

well, they say nothing emulates a real full tube amp..

 

[Weiht]

of course nothing emulates a real tube amp... 1 tube in a pedal doesnt make it tube amp sounding to a purist. I even wonder if the pedal sounds nicer because of the tube.

 

[nickyseow]

guess what. sorry to burst your bibble bubble. its a gimmick. a sham. a marketing ploy to get your to belive your tube pedal exudes warmth in its tonezZZ!!!! ya right. maybe if you go closer to the pedal, you can feel the heat la. thats about how far you can go where warmth is concerned.

 

[subversion]

a gimmick entirely? not really.

different manufacturers wire their circuits differently, the tube in pedals might be a primary drive source (very few manufacturers do this), others put a tube in there for a cascading effect so what we hear isn't 100% tube tone but it's definitely doing its job.

what the manufacturers have buyers believe is that their pedals are all about the tube in there. before one commits to purchase, try these pedals out, if there're any useful applications then proceed to purchase.

 

[headwan]

gimmick????? Ok, btw, try my friend's Guyatone Metal Monster with a solid state amp head, and by far is the most astonishing tube effect pedal i ever heard..... 8)

 

[nickyseow]

8)

 

[ShredCow]

I had the Metal Monster for a while... I wouldn't think of it as a good example for the case of "tubes in pedals".

If anything, the over-the-top gain of the MM really doesn't showcase much of the tubes' supposed contributions. Perhaps a little warmth is injected.

 

[edder]

tube = warmth.

what is warmth?

Fully tube amp like a Fender Twin Reverb or a Vox AC30... these amps will give you earbleed treble if you let em...

So using the logic of tube = warmth.... I hereby declare Fender Twin Reverb and the Vox AC30 are WARM amps!!!!

 

[JE]

sorry.. double post

 

[JE]

from my very limited experience in guitar playing, i feel:

tube "warmth" appear to me as treble breaking up into overdrive earlier than mids and than bass... some settings (i don't really know why) makes treble sound like needles..my guess is the amp is running within the clean headroom. with less compression on the treble end, the sound of the amp is thus very ice-pick-ish.

so.. don't let them make you ear bleed!! :lol:
nah, as a beginner, i enjoy more than enough a extremely attenuated tube amp at max :wink: turn it up, no ear bleeding.
correct me if i'm talking non-sense here. haha

 

[PatheinRaindropMoe]

treble mids and bass are frequency range, usually we dont describe it as any of the three going into crunch or overdriven region. It is the overall tone that we hear that goes into it.

wanna less ice picky, more warmth make use of the eq section on any amp or tone knob on the guitar instead. These 2 can do magik at times, even if no tube amp or tube pedals...

 

[subversion]

quote headwan: gimmick????? Ok, btw, try my friend's Guyatone Metal Monster with a solid state amp head, and by far is the most astonishing tube effect pedal i ever heard.....

i own the Metal Monster, perhaps my fav intense distortion pedal, but not something to replace a good tube amp head. the MM is not about the tube performance in a pedal, it's the overall output that's impressive. what i like about it is that it gives off a very saturated tone, recommended for those pedalling chugged notes. often with other 'metal' type pedals, i've to run it on reduced drive + employ a drive booster to achive this kind of meat.