heh yep
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Yeah, that was more my question. Will you be keeping the EBS.
I kind of posed it as “since the VT was fried, will you now be keeping the EBS?”
I am certainly on the hunt for a VT, but most likely going to wait til I find something in the $120 and under.
If I was lacking in a Pre-Amp / DI, I would go get one right away, but I do have the Behringer (SANSAMP Clone) and the DG AOU to hold me til I find a good deal.
I’m falling more in love with the ValveDrive over time. Simple and effective.
I saw a few reviews where people said it wouldn’t overdrive well for them. Those people were noobs.
That’s only about half as hard as I was able to drive the tube into breaking up. It’s very easy to overdrive this thing.
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Oh man that’s cool!
What were you using to overdrive it?
Was it another pedal in front or did you find a way to dial this in?
Can we get a sample with even more?
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I just dialed it in. I did have a compressor in front of it but nothing drastic.
Sure, I’ll max it out later 
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Ok this is pretty much the ValveDrive’s overdrive limit without pre-boosting. Not bad at all.
It’s a nice smooth ramp from perfectly clean to that, too. I kind of love this thing.
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Wow, that thing is freaking cool.
I will keep my eye out for one of those, super super cool clipping on that.
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So, I found a LIKE NEW, that was newly serviced, with a brand new tube Carvin BX 500 amp for a very good price.
On the back of this amp, it has a Tube Bypass switch. Why would you want to do this? does it just add to the versatility of the amp? Why would you want to go solid state if you already have a tube amp?
Is this really a FULL tube amp? it is pretty compact and like less then 8 lbs.
Lots of options
300w at 8ohms
500w at 4ohms
500w at 2ohms
also, there is a switch on the back, by the Speak-on / 1/4" combo outputs to switch between 2ohm min and 4ohm min load, with a warning saying if you select the wrong one there may be overload tripped.
I am guessing that you would only select 2 ohm if you had a 2ohm cab, and if you were running an 8ohm cab that you would select 4ohm min (there is no 8ohm selection)
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That is a tube preamp fronting a class D solid state power amp. So, not technically a tube amp; it’s a tube preamp/solid state power amp hybrid like the G-K Fusion line.
No idea why you would want to bypass the tube preamp, unless this is some kind of pre/post thing for the DI out?
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That might be, because the DI out is close to the Tube Bypass switch, but there is no Pre/Post switch, so this must be the case, which actually answered another question I had to the seller, which was about pre-post DI.
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Not sure where to put this, not least because I don’t quite understand what is really going on here, but I guess it could go in this thread here:
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it’s very hard to record a tube amp because if you want really the tone of the amp you have no other option that the old way with mics everywhere and the amp at 9/10.
nothing to compare with the ease of recording we all use now
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So, but the solution they suggest might help here, no!?! After all, it is a French product!!! 
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That seems to be really freaking cool. I don’t even want to look and see what it cost. LOL
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You can select any hall or room to simulate, even the BATHROOM!!!
Perfect for @eric.kiser, he can move his studio out of the Bathroom and still get HIS RIGHT SOUND. 
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honestly I’m not much interested by those things, I prefer the simple and efficient solutions we have with good modeling gear today. I guess I’m getting old …
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That’s cool… at least you know what it is that you want! I envy you for that!
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Its OK for you to just want everything @joergkutter 
it just wouldn’t be ok to expect to get everything. 
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No, no, @T_dub, I was not talking about stuff, gadgets, gizmos… I was talking about “sound” - the most elusive item for many!!
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I was purely joking. 100%. 
I understood what you meant.
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