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~tubes~ where to start... i have a hard time talking about this w/out sounding like i'm dissin guitarists who dont use them...and i'm not! if one is a tone person tubes cannot be denied as being the endall for enhancing a guitar signal. i've always been tube nutz! every piece of digital equipment i have is pre'ed and post'ed w/ tubes...that ART tube pre you are talkin about mark is an excellent way to tube up yer signal.from tube tape recorders to tube reverbs to little two tube guitar amps,i gottum... quote of howard dumble, boutique amp maker to the stars: "tubes...(comparing to ss)-the difference comes down to this: the more fragile harmonics can survive in a vacuum tube; where they seem to be eliminated or squashed in a solid state crystal lattice. maybe it just comes down to that. the physics of it: electrons can survive in a free-space vacuum where they have trouble in a crystal lattice-the best and simplist i can put it."(remember, he is talkin to guitar players :-) to me they are living,breathing things that keep me thinking organically and holistically when i am plugged in. companies who push this modeler or that emulator screaming that they"sound" just like tubes-well, maybe they do once in a while, but they NEVER feel like tubes when yer playin... the push/pull, the particular way a tube will envelope the signal and to me it just seems like the tubes are talkin to each other down the line of the signal chain. oh yeah i like signals in series too-thats another tale... but thats my story and i'm stickin to it. goinloopee stanitarium > I've also noticed that almost *all* my favorite guitar gear has real > tubes it it. I've been toying around with the idea of getting an > inexpensive ART tube preamp for a while, mainly to warm up synths and > drum machines. While I'm loving my new Lexicon MPX G2, I do admit that > while usable, the "preamp/speaker cab models" do sound a bit cold. > There are also a bunch of tube distortion pedals I've been looking at as > well. I'd love to hear about the experiences of other loopers on this > topic. > > Mark Sottilaro > > On Friday, March 7, 2003, at 10:55 PM, S V G wrote: >> You can >> also slightly overdrive the tube to get a soft distortion sound though >> that's not what it's there >> for. >> >> Ever since I got this little box, I can't play my acoustic >> unplugged anymore. It warms up >> the sound of the guitar so much that I always keep it on. Even without >> any reverb or delay it >> still makes the guitar sound better. >> >> They go for $450 new, I picked mine up for $325. Money very well >> spent. >