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I love the pinnacle V2, that’s my main distortion pedal

Brian, these are all great sounding pedals...with the guitar on 10. It would be nice to hear what they all do as you roll off the guitar volume. I've heard that tubes running hot in pedals retain a little more flexibility and actually clean up better than their lo-voltage brethren. What say you? - OG who started playing with stuff like Fender Blenders, Foxx carpet fuzzes and Maestro Sound Tanks.

Brian…why not u try out Vox Valvenergy series? I have the Valvenergy Cutting Edge which sort of Rectifier sound. It is amazing tube pedal but it uses the NuTube instead of the typical preamp tubes. The series has another 3 version, namely a Marshall, the AC30 & i can’t remember the 4th version. Another awesome gain pedal with preamp tube that is awesome is the AMT SS11A or SS11B. I use to have the SS11A but i had to sell it off a few years ago due to me needing some cash. Nowadays, i use Strymon Riverside for all of my mid to low gain drives (the Riverside is also MIDIed to the Boss MS3, so i can save & recall up to 300 presets sounds of the Riverside!)… while for hi gain, i use the Vox Valvenergy Cutting Edge. In front of both pedals, i have Blackstar Dept 10 Boost, which i use at certain time to get even more tone variations. The Blackstar Dept 10 Boost is placed in loop #1 of my Boss MS3, multi effects/loop switcher. While the Strymon Riverside is in loop #2 & the Vox Valvenergy Cutting Edge in loop #3.

What is the difference between the Ego and the Ego76?

What does any one think of the tube pilot from tc electronics??

Why tube pedals went out of fashion: 1 - The rise of the pedalboard. These pedals are too big and power hungry to fit neatly on a modern board. 2 - SS pedal design has improved a lot since the days of the Tube Driver. Cascading gain SS pedals are not hard to find now. 3 - High gain tube amps are much more readily available at lower price points than when the Boogie mk2c was the king of the hill. Want high gain amp sounds? Buy a high gain amp.

Love my Kraken v4 preamp. 4 tubes, high voltage. Sounds amazing.

Hi Brian. Please checkout Beare amplifiers. Kym makes a pedal called the preface it’s an all tube pre amp pedal along with amplifiers he makes here in Australia . Kym Beare has his own RUclips channel so you can check it out

Tube pedals into tube amp is the best. Tubes can be great or total waste in a pedal. Depends how you use them. Its like OpAmps vs Transistor, Ge vs Si. It has certain properties and if you make great circuit around them, the pedal will be great. Now to check the video.

I think solid state preamps are better than tube preamps and always have been

The Radial, stays tight no flab

I have a Blackstar limited edition Blackfire metal distortion that boasts it runs its 12AX7 at high voltage and isn’t starved plate. Given that it’s a very tight, smooth, liquid metal high gain (the 3 band makes it play really nice as a preamp when I integrate it into my fx router and get the level up) I find it extreme hard to believe it’s getting all that out of a single tube. No matter though. It sounds amazing whatever is in it. Opening up reveals three huge stacked PCBs with as much complication as a full amp head. Secret sauce in the studio. Even cuts through live. The ISF can do the boosted boogie/5150 thing without any extra help, especially on the fury channel and it cuts through like a claymore.

For recording and homebased applications...off and on for 20 years I've had a secret. I've been running through an ART MP Studio with an old 12AX7 I pulled out of a 60s Silvertone radio. It don't do percussion, but guitar and vocals are dreamy. I can't put it down!

Oh my gid, swap that Chinese garbage tubes out of the Synergy. Get some vintage American glass in there!

You have the output and the FX loop of the 11cp going to (and from) the amp. Doesn’t that create a feedback loop? Huh?

I can't live without my Blackstar HT-Dual pedal....

Curious how these tube pedals that are essentially using tubes as clipping diodes compare to pedals that are designed more like amps where they are cascading FETs.

Better tone? Tube Amps. No question. Tube pedals can be cool in FRONT of tube amps, but they aren’t even close to comparing. Most run a much lower voltage with much lower headroom and lots of solid state gobbledygook.

Tube driver kicks ass. I bought two lol

Are there any tube based preamps in pedal format that have say, two channels (could just be foot switch gain boost), effects loop and DI out with optional cabsim? Basically pedal board under one arm, instrument under the other, walk down to the local for a front of house powered gig.

Yea, you need a Kingsley.

Tube Driver is still way more dynamic and clear...sound forward framed by the dirt....even though those are basically still diodes 😉

Blackstar made a line of tube distortion pedals that are really nice sounding. I have the HT-Dual pedal and I have to say it is my favorite higher gain pedal and I have tried lots of distortion pedals. Check it out.

The Effectrode stuff is pretty wild. Their "Tube Drive" pedal has 6 gain stages! The blackbird, with 4 gain stages can be as gainy as you want. I've even boosted it with my Kingsley Page and it basically turned into a fuzz. I'm not really interested in the tube stuff if it doesn't have a B+ voltage over 200. I'd like to see a wider variety of preamp and distortion pedals with tubes. It seems like everyone is just doing a Fender Twin style, Marshall style, Vox style.... Where's the Fender tweed style tube preamps and distortions? Bassman? Deluxe? Twin high power? Maybe something more modern, Blues deluxe? Add some switches and one preamp pedal could do Tweed Twin, Black Panel Twin, and Super Reverb all in one shot. It's killing me this product doesn't exist!

I'm down with anything that does a Mark iic+ well.

I have the Tube Driver as well as the B.K. Butler Real Tube and both are worthy secret weapons in one's arsenal. I highly recommend grabbing the Tube Driver with the Bias Mod; it gives you fine-tuning over the feel of your crunchiness. Also, the Plush Valve Job by Fuchs is a sleeper pedal that is not discussed. I love all three of these pedals with a Klon(e) pushing the front end.

I've played a few tube-based ODs and the one I kept and go back to occasionally is the Maxon ROD880, which was their Ibanez Tube King from what I understand. The jacks are backwards, which I will never remember when plugging into it, has that built-in noise gate you mentioned, and though there's a higher gain version, the ROD881, the 880 nails that Lightning/Puppets rhythm tone at higher gain. While we're on the topic of these things, because this comes after a lengthy discussion with a guitar tech friend who's just started his own pedal business - is there any advantage to using tubes in this type of circuit in the way you describe, where they're voltage starved and act almost like op-amps? Do they actually impart their own kind of sound to a circuit or it is just a fancy way of doing what op-amps do so you can say "hey, it's got tubes in it"?

TDY?

EH English Muffin

Hey Brian, can you please make a super boutique power tube OD pedal? No mini valves, but something with power tubes to get that breakup sound that a cranked power amp gives? Thanks, I’ll just wait here. ;)

Friedman have done a very good job with the IRX.

I love both of my Bk

I like my Behringer tube monster, my B B overdrive, MXR fet driver and the gold pedal with the half horse/man with the geranium crystal and opamp about my favorite overdrive due to being a songwriter and I prefer my booster pedal to be cleanest of all of my overdrive pedals to my least favorite pedal being the MXR made with Joe Bonamassa helping out making it his personal overdrive pedal. I use two 50 watt tube amps, 1 is my Fender Hot Rod Deluxe Mod 3 Limited Edition with my custom handmade cabinets and the T-50 Bugera with my first handmade cabinet. Both use JBL's using 12" speakers (D123e & 2130s) with 2-way crossovers SF-20M. Both have tweeters by Sansui and Pyle Horns. The Bugera also uses Road Warrior's 10" and pushes a nice clean midrange. So half of my pedals go to one amp and the other runs to the second amp. It took awhile to get it to A to B it for stereo out to record to my Roland BR micro recorder and I like it. Too bad that no one really enjoys music since everybody can be saturated where music doesn't mean that much as to buying a record or CD and read about the artist where they recorded the music or read a story. Now you pay a feed for thousands of songs and artists and get bored with today's music. I still do recordings because I like doing that since I was 14 when I started recording. I started lessons at 7 and never could quit. I came close then friends would get me a guitar or hire me for a f students would find me another student. My wife hired a person to remodel our home and after a month he brought over 2 Fender amps he inherited from his uncle who passed away and he gave me one of his amps after I told him about my Uncle passing and what the family gave me. I'm 68 now and with arthritis with other disabilities I can barely play anything like I use too but it's nice to feel wanted so, I'll keep playing. Cheers Brian - pictures are available if you'd like to see this stuff!

I used to have a Mesa V-Twin but never really found a way to use it with my rig. Lat year I picked up an old Ibanez PUE5 Tube which is mains powered and has a "Tube Drive" section with a 12AX7 in it. I suspect that with the main power it is running the 12AX7 at "real voltage" levels. Sounds pretty good though. The same unit also contains the best sounding Tubescreamer that I have, and I have a few.

Why does it take more voltage to Starve the Tubes in a better way?

Looking for a tube based pedal at the moment😂Something that has 2 separate channels with their own controls, no shared eq…I play w/2 or 3 amps at once…I LOVE tube distortion, but one pedal switch would be much better than switching 3 amps from clean to distortion/boost at once…

I’ve never had a tube amp, although I want to get one because I’ve been led to believe there’s a feel to them that you can’t get elsewhere. What I use right now until I can afford one is a NU>X Amp Academy that I run into the Power Amp in on a Boss Katana. In particular, I like their Vox AC30 tone and their JCM 800 tone. Honestly, the tones I get make me happy, so I’m not sure I’ll feel I got my money’s worth when I eventually do get a tube amp even if it is a better experience.

well brian, i have been a huge fan of your od/dist stuff for a long time. i used a sovereign pedal for a few years, then the pinnacle, then the tumnus. of course the natural progression for me then is the combo gearbox. LOVE IT! thanks for your relentless dedication to making guitar players sound great!

The "Magician" Brian Wampler playing through a Behringer VT999 e saying that is real good. I never thought I'd live to see that. A lot of people must de hanging themselves. Cheers from Brazil. By the way. Happy Birthday man. Love your pedals.

a 6SL7 ( the gainy one )booster would be awesome ....same plate v as a 12AX7, just tons warmer. I guess you could starve that and overdrive it, and it would sound better than a 12AX7 ( at woltage they sound better anyway ) along the boost concept, I guess a switching supply ( well out of band ), could run it on some 18V power supplies..... and a 6SN7 ( the current driver ) could drive more tone circuitry.

Holy freakin’ hilarious!!! Ira Dean I believe his name is, bassist presumably in Cleveland? ‘Paisley??? Check me for ticks… Willy Wampler!!!’ HAHAHAHA!!!! 😆😆😆😆😆😆 Lo siento hermano, we get NO LOVE, we’re afterthoughts when we put that bass on, I get treated so differently when I got a guitar on, WTF??? Happy Birthday Brian!!! 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎂🎂🎂🎂🎂🎂🎂🎂🎂🎂🎂🎂🎂🤘🏼❤️‍🔥🤘🏼🏴‍☠️❤️‍🔥

Thanks, now I have to pull out my old Blue Tube original single channel rack unit. Match it up with my '96 Mesa Dual-Rec Trem-O-Verb. Like I need another toy to play with....LOL! Great Vid! Loved that Tonebone tone. Those double stops you were hitting sound sooooo Ratt. As in the band, not the pedal.

I’ve just been listening to some of my favourite songs. We’re going to lose some great sounds to digital recreations. Its going to happen because no one cares that much.

Damn those sound gnarly… in a really good way! My favs were the tone bone and beringer! If you could make one that took up less real estate, I’d buy it!!!! Well, if the price was reasonable 😃

I run a tubescreamer 808 into a Vintage Tube Monster and into a Peavey Valve King. I dime the level and tone on the tubescreamer. The drive is at zero. The Vintage Tube Monster has the gain at about three and my amp gain is about 5. I basically use it as a gain stage and eq. The distortion is beautiful but the clarity is definitely there. It makes my two channel amp effectively a four channel amp.

WAMPLER WOLTAGE !!! I think a single tube boost would be ok, if you could make it so it provided Quieter per db of gain. that's all I would want out of one.....well, EQed quiet boost gain and a little pre-compression .... that's it....but not where I would want my signal to break up....a boost could be AC powered, being the last thing on the board.

Absolutely fantastic as always, big fan, not really a commenter but curiously would you do a video like a part 2 of this video using tube based pedals but through a let’s say 100 watt solid state 1 or 212 combo? I’d be really interested to see/hear your take on this, anyway thank you for your great work, PS, LOVING PLUMES 😮👀, Moxie is next 🤘🏼

Radial for the win.

hell yeah Radial mention

Was hoping to hear at least one Kingsley pedal and also wanted to hear you discuss how its clipping operates.