should we talk about this...

[kaomao]

http://www.ibanez.co.jp/world/product_news/pages/valbee/
ahahah a mini tube amp, I bet it sounds like a full stack of bees..... (it's called valvebee)

Maurizio

 

[Sieger]

"Power Tube - 6L6GC x 1
Pre Tube - 12AX7 x 1"

and

"...big valve sound..."


sounds a bit impossible! anyway I'm expecting "sounds-like-my-triple-recto-type-reviews" in HC soon

 

[Rich - Rannoch]

Wow...a massive 5 Watts of power. That's it, I'm selling my ENGL stack and getting one of these beasts

 

[chadsxe]

No

 

[Kenneth R.]

aww its so cute

 

[guitarguru777]

It wont be a mesa or anything but it probably wont sound that bad ....

 

[Kazrog]

Throw EMGs and a tube screamer in front and I bet I can make that thing rawk. I'm interested actually, I like small amps.

 

[Tachy]

Nice!!

 

[eaeolian]

It won't be *much* of a high-gain amp with one 12AX7 unless there's some diode clipping going on somewhere...

 

[eaeolian]

sounds a bit impossible! anyway I'm expecting "sounds-like-my-triple-recto-type-reviews" in HC soon

Don't you mean the "sounds just like the Recto I can't afford"?

Edit: the reviews, I mean - it always seems like that anything that sounds "just like or better than a Recto" is invariably reviewed by someone who doesn't OWN a Recto.

 

[silverwulf]

It won't be *much* of a high-gain amp with one 12AX7 unless there's some diode clipping going on somewhere...

That's what I was thinking. To be "high gain" like they claim, I'd almost imagine that would have to be a solid state preamp with a tube driver and a tube power amp.

 

[John Haddad (Shiva Industries)]

Well I'm not sure how to react! I was told they used a mini marshall stack for for 2 of the guitars on Carcass's HEARTWORK. Maybe not as the main tone but a secondary, might be worth playing with if you've got the extra cash and time.

 

[metalkingdom]

Well I'm not sure how to react! I was told they used a mini marshall stack for for 2 of the guitars on Carcass's HEARTWORK. Maybe not as the main tone but a secondary, might be worth playing with if you've got the extra cash and time.

I don't think that it was used enough to really make any sort of impact. 30th Anniversary Marshalls and 5150's, if I recall.

Those micro-Marshalls looked really cool, but they sounded pretty horrific.

 

[Kazrog]

That's what I was thinking. To be "high gain" like they claim, I'd almost imagine that would have to be a solid state preamp with a tube driver and a tube power amp.

Yup... but I bet that could sound pretty sick.

 

[SoSomething]

Any of you haters ever play a low-wattage tube combo before?

 

[eaeolian]

Any of you haters ever play a low-wattage tube combo before?

Yes, and I'm not "hating", I'm pointing out a legitimate techincal issue - the high-gain preamp will most likely have to be Marshall-style diode clipping instead of 12AX7 gain-stage clipping. That doesn't mean it will sound bad.

 

[kaomao]

That's pretty expensive this little baby: 200 euros in europe.
Well that's not much expensive as thd univalve or thd bivalve
bu those are really nice micro tube amps
samples here

Maurizio

 

[SoSomething]

Yes, and I'm not "hating", I'm pointing out a legitimate techincal issue - the high-gain preamp will most likely have to be Marshall-style diode clipping instead of 12AX7 gain-stage clipping. That doesn't mean it will sound bad.

And I did't say "hey eaolian why are you being a hater!?" either. I read and agreed with your comments. I was remarking more towards the person who said it would sound bad because it was small/low wattage.