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Re: Tubes! They do a ____ good! (was Re: Info on Hughes & KettnerReplex
sine@zerocrossing.net wrote:
> WOW. Thanks for the in depth post! That post was fuzztastic. I'm
>surprised
> at what you've said about the Mesa V-Twin. After reading a thousand
>great
> reviews on Harmony-Central about this box, I was curious to hear it.
>Still
> am, as I see you use it's clean channel as your recording preamp, and
>that's
> pretty much what I was hoping for.
I actually would like to upgrade to an Alembic FB-2, which is a
hotrodded Showman in a rack, stereo. Since I use a Showman as my live
amp, it just makes sense, and David Gilmour uses one...
> One thing I notice is that a lot of
> people complain about "buzzy" sounds with distortions, but I kind of like
> that almost synth sounding tone. Mmmmm Ibanez Tube Screamer... how I
>regret
> selling that green box...
Heh, get a TomeBone Classic and you'll never look at another Tube
Screamer ;-)
> I also find that by filtering out a lot of the highs you can usually get
> around that anyway. One funny thing was I found a little sample .wav of
>the
> S.I.T. pedal on the web and I thought it was WAY buzzy sounding.
Yup, I passed up the SIB for a long time because the sample on the Music
Toyz site is so buzzy, but I found the real thing to be
un-freaking-beleivable (at least for MY uses!)
> I guess what I'm saying is, you can't please everyone, but you can make
> everybody miserable.
Heh, yup.
D.G.