Re: Tubes! They do a ____ good! (was Re: Info on Hughes & KettnerReplex

[dgoat <dgoat@quik.com>]

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.