I have a Vox amplug that I fooled around with for a while.
Battery life is annoyingly brief and the main reason it's swimming around in the drawer.
cheers, Mark.
This might be it:
https://youtu.be/_6kWsb3wOnk
Last edited by Joe Garfield; 02-05-2020 at 05:12 PM.
Wow that Blackbird is sweet. Very tempting.
There's also some pretty good valve preamps from Douk. The Nobsound NS-01E might be a pure valve not hybrid but I'm not sure. Their Black Bear models have an op amp chip for the headphones but the Nobsound doesn't mention anything about an op amp chip.
I came across that Orange amp - good suggestion!
I also found this: AMT SS-11. This particular video made me fall in love with it and almost buy it. But it's hard to find many other videos that sound that good:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihrdaQbTT8U
The tone, but particularly the attack response is just phenomenal.
Well, I bought the Blackbird. It seems like a nice high end unit and there's instructions to change tubes and tweak the bias to shape the tone. My whole life I've wanted to play through tubes and I'm tired of always wishing I got the better thing.
https://www.effectrode.com/products/...m-tube-preamp/
Now if only my guitar kit would show up!! =)
Last edited by Joe Garfield; 02-05-2020 at 06:04 PM.
Glad your search is over and hopefully you found "the one"!
I like the irony of you finding what you wanted from an Aussie guitarist's demo! He's a damn fine player (I mean foin) and does excellent videos though.
Making the world a better place; one guitar at a time...
Well, what can I say - I've always liked the Aussies I used to hang with the Aussie internationals when I taught skiing in Vermont. Every year it was a different group but they always immediately felt like friends.
Here's another great video. His 'grain channel' is nice and clean with 50% guitar volume, starts to drive with more volume, then his moderate overdrive channel rips. Really nice!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=59ZDQiyLKu4&t=13s
Good choice. I've made the same mistake many times trying to save a few bucks and later wishing I bought the more expensive unit.
I was just about to buy some cheap speaker units to build a cabinet but now I think I'll wait and save up for some Celestions or WGS.