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The Eristic wrote:EHX Black Finger
i've been curious about these for awhile. how would you describe this? does it have a real tube compressor vibe? the online demos i've seen are terrible.
It's not an LA-2A or anything, but it does bring warm, tubey coloration to whatever you run through it and can go from relatively subtle to pretty extreme in Squashed mode. Also dirties up nicely. Compressor demos are always hit or miss, as the effects can be too subtle to really be audible on a youtube vid, plus, in my experience at least, 70% of musicians have no idea how to set up or play a compressor to get anything meaningful out of it, especially if it has more than two knobs. If you run across one for like $80-100, it's worth a shot to see if you like its flavor.
cool. i'll put it on my to-do list. i suspect it'd be good for shoegaze, especially with NOS Amperex or Telefunken toobs in.
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ibarakishi wrote:also does anyone on ILF make tube preamp pedals? don't think ive seen anyone post about that in the past
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Thermionic Effects TE.01. Runs at high voltage. Perfect 2nd channel type of sound for your amp. Rare as duck. No idea what it is based on.
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ibarakishi wrote:also does anyone on ILF make tube preamp pedals? don't think ive seen anyone post about that in the past
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Incredible use of that enclosure geeeeez :!!!:

Was snooping the Seymour Duncan Twin Tubes & their variations today & I guess the Mayhem is more Mesa inspired stuffs/tree sap font:

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I always wanted a few of those Vox Cooltron boxes, too, if only for their so bad it's good graphix:

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And lest we forget the TC $50 Tube Pilot, which despite how it sounds, still seems worth a shot:

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All those Vox pedals sound good to great, at least the ones I've tried.
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UglyCasanova wrote:I've always wanted to try one of these: Iskrem Electro Cat'O'Dyne

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For those who spend their time dreaming about GT120’s or juicy oranges, here is a pedal quite similar in topology as those monster tone machines! All tube signalpath of course.
Fudge. That just might satisfy my Orange jones....
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I'm curious about the Audio Kitchen The Big Trees.
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If I had a Big Trees, I'd probably use it as an amp. :idk: :snax:
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Chankgeez wrote:If I had a Big Trees, I'd probably use it as an amp. :idk: :snax:
Judah Bauer use it with his amp to have more toobs!

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Yeah, it's supposed to be pretty versatile in its applications.
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I've tried the SD Twin Tube Classic but was pretty underwhelmed with the sound. Supposedly the Blue is the good one, but I haven't tried that one or the Mayhem.

I think those use the microtubes, so I guess they sound a little different from typical 12ax7 etc.
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That TC Electronics Twin Tube is on sale for $45 at Musicians Fiend (all the TCE pedlas in that series are on sale)
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K2000 wrote:That TC Electronics Twin Tube is on sale for $45 at Musicians Fiend (all the TCE pedlas in that series are on sale)
Or, for about $55 more, someone could totally pick up that Fryette SAS that's in B/S/T rite now :erm:

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coupleonapkins wrote:
K2000 wrote:That TC Electronics Twin Tube is on sale for $45 at Musicians Fiend (all the TCE pedlas in that series are on sale)
Or, for about $55 more, someone could totally pick up that Fryette SAS that's in B/S/T rite now :erm:

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Link? Can't seem to find it, maybe it's gone :idk:

Edit: nevermind, found it. I'm going for a mij Tube King instead though. Comes with a EU-friendly psu, instead of a US one.
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