[sdiy] tube preamp and fx chain

[Tom Arnold]

On Thu, Jun 22, 2006 at 03:26:35PM -0500, Spencer Johnson wrote:
> if i follow a tube preamp with a chain of different effects, will it
> kill the elusive "tube sound" that everyone desires? suggesting that
> it won't kill that elusive sound, will following it with a solid state
> power amp kill the sound?

I don't remember what guitar primadonna made the original statement but to
paraphrase "There is something magic about the interaction of the pickups
and that first 12AX7 tube".  I've tried to follow that rule.  Guitar ->
Preamp -> whateverelse.  I do try to end up the chain with a large nasty
tube amp. ( I tend to bias my amps a little on the Fast Tube Death side of
things... ).  

Some amps with effects loops make it easy to follow this rule since the
effects loop comes after the first preamp tube.

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