Haven’t done that with that particular amp, have had generally good luck with EHX pre-amp tubes, mostly in pedals.

Just wanted to say your band sounds awesome, and whatever your bass rig is, it’s gettin’ the job done!

I use my LPB-1 (and LPB2ube) in lots of ways, including with SS amps.

I’m a bass player, so this may not totally (tonally?) apply, but I bought my LPB-1 to go with my Sunn Studio Lead, a SS amp with no master volume, to give it a little more range. It sounded very different with the LPB-1 pushing it than just tweaking the volume.

Another nice application is in front of an Envelope Triggered effect like an auto-wah. This essentially gives you two settings for your auto-wah, since it will pushed harder with the LPB on, so you can have a mellow setting turn extreme when you trigger the LPB.

Obviously, as you say, this effect was designed to push tube amps into overdrive that might not otherwise have been designed with “crunch” in mind. My Sound City 150 is a very clean tube bass head, and the LPB-1 gives it some modern grit. So yeah, I fully support saving for a tube amp!

I’ve used the EHX tube pedals as pre-amps quite a bit when i gig with my Sunn Concert Slave. I particularly like the “Hot Tubes” and the LPB-2, and I just got the “TubeEQ” which sounded promising in the store.

The pedals are big, which may defeat the “portable rig” purpose fmalitz mentioned, but they sure sound good!

Cool idea putting 12ay7’s in there! I might have to do that.

I love my Hot Tubes, I use it as a bass pre-amp, with the distortion turned al the way down and the gain at like 9 o’clock. Gives it all little bit of tube dirt without losing articulation/clarity.

12ay7’s may give me more usable sounds…

The micro-POG has 3 knobs, dry, -1 and +1. Turning down dry and turning up one of the others does exactly what you want.

If you want to annoy your lead singer, turn down the dry signal and max the other 2. Then play all your bass lines an octave up on the neck. Tell the singer this is your new tone, and you think it’s really going to catch on. The longer you can keep a straight face, the better this works.

Hey welcome to the forum! I think you’ll enjoy the Pulsar, I don’t have one, but I’ve played one and it’s a very weird pedal.

On the tremolo trip, I’ve got a Wiggler, which i really like, although I use the vibrato functions more than the tremolo side.

Anyway, let us know what you think of the pedal! We’ve got a reviews section, or you can post links to sound sample, whatever!

This.

I read PG on my IPad all the time.

I have the Voodoo Labs tremolo, which I like a lot.

Lately, though, I’ve been using “The Wiggler” the tube-based EHX one. Needing its own wall-wart is an obvious drawback, but it sounds really warm and amp-like.

And, yeah, the Noise Box is SubDecay, one of the weirdest pedals I’ve ever come across, but surprisingly flexible for what it is.