GP-1000 pedal?
How is a PEDAL (and especially at the costs he has for the XLS-1000 for example, 900$) comparable to a tube preamp?
I mean, there's not even tubes in the pedal (like in AMTs Freak Guitar, wich costs a lot less, and is also perfect for pre-amp).
So if you were to buy the pedal, a cab and a power amp - atleast the power amp would have to be tube, to get that tuby sound?
So the problem would be, a tube power amp is not cheap. Not at all.
it's like 1200+$ power amp, 900$ pedal, and a cab good cab 519$ (Laney cab)= 2619$ for a setup...with a pedal as preamp.
(I don't know if anyone has experience with this)
Now if you were to get a solid state preamp (rocktron for example) it would be more like 500+500+pedal=900=1900$ - wich is a more reasonable price to me, if you consider you get a GOOD sound.
If that doesn't work, might as well go with a good head and cab, if you not that amount of volume.
also (I'm not really into this), could you use a preamp (say the Lee Jackson pedal) at a tube combo, and use it as a preamp, together with the tube combos power amp?