Best Tube-Driven OD Pedal?

My two favorite tube OD pedals are the Valveboy and the Zendrive 2.

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i like my fulltone ocd a lot

 

the seymour duncan twin tube is pretty natural

 

If you can get past the dumb shape and big size of the new Ibanez Tube King, it is worth checking out for the money. I was really impressed by it.

 

I have a HOt British I use with the gain very very low that I like quite a bit for blues. You can't go wrong with a BK Butler Tube Driver and I'd guess the SIB offerings are solid (I've never heard the SIBs). Might be worth doing some research on them.

 

I prefered the Hot British over the SIB (the SIB was raspy to me).

 

anyone ever mess around with a EHX english muffin? a kid down the hall was playing one through his marshall valvestate halfstack but im sure that amp wouldnt do it justice.

 

I liked the hot british a lot, but only into a clean amp...it was a twin in my case. sold the amp, so the pedal had to go too. Really made the twin sound like a wound up marshall.

 

Glad to hear it. But it's not a tube-driven OD

 

The valveboy is killer, I really want to find one in the JT Pedals case to match my V-Trem.

 

STAGE HOG is the one for me! Valveboy was pretty cool as was the tone bone classic, but the Stage Hog a lot more tweakablity and more dynamic and more openess to it's sounds. I haven't even tried using my Stage Hog to slam another tube amp into heavy crunch yet, but I am sure it would be awesome. I like my Stage Hog just going into the clean channel of my roland cube with my strat!

 

I've been interested in the Stage Hog for a while.

How does it work as a direct recording tool?

 

In Europe, the Blackstar HT-Dist and HT-Dual completely rule the roost, IMO. They are as good as any of the others, but cost much less.
Once you yanks get a taste of them, I reckon they will get pretty popular over there too (once Blackstar suss out their distribution).
Just interested, are the Blackstar pedals available anywhere in the US yet ? I know that a few of the amps are over there, but I wasn't aware of the pedals as yet.

 

Yeah, waiting on those Blackstars. Anyone know when they are coming ?? The reviews "sound" great!

 

i love the H&K Tube Factor.
you can hear it in this 2 demos - u can know its on when you hear delay:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L1Oj-1rWkC0

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VvAB6a0h9bA

 

opps, you're right, sorry about that, must have over read the tube part

 

SIB Varidrive and Zendrive 2

 

My Son has one. It sounds a lot better than the lead channel of His TSL60 head. Definitely very "tubey."

 

How would You describe the tone? Marshally, Fendery????