Yeah, you have said that before, and I’m curious how it would work. Aren’t cassette tapes designed so the tape is exposed only at one small point? How would the tape delay be able to record and read the signal simultaneously? I guess I see how you could do a short, 1 repeat reverse delay, but beyond that, I don’t see how cassette tapes could be used in a delay framework.

If you worked it out tho’, I’d def get one, since I have a bunch of old cassettes taking up space.

elfiho is right, there’s nothing like power tube distortion, otherwise tube amps would be a very marginal piece of the market, if hybrid amps could really nail the sound and responsiveness that an all tube amp gives.

That said, as a bass player, lugging around my Sunn 2000S is not always in the cards (I’m getting older), so I’ve used an LPB2-ube feeding a Sunn Concert Slave for a DIY hybrid, and been quite happy with the results. Can I tell the difference? Sure. Does 99% of the audience notice the subtle difference in bass tone? Sadly, probably not.

Rock On,
-fantomenos

I’m not sure I can rank these in any well-ordered fashion, but here’s an attempt:

1. Pedals that immediately got put on my live board and haven’t left:

a) Micro-Pog, does exactly what I want it to, compatible with standard power supply.

b) Stereo Clone Theory, too noisy for recording applications, but live it’s great, if you want the Peter Hook sound, use the Peter Hook pedal. I essentially leave it on the entire time.

c) Nano Small Stone, my newest acquisition, after my Bluebeard Fuzz and set for very low speed, it has exactly the doomy/stony sound I wanted.

2. Pedals I often use live:

a) Metal Muff, only usable for my side project, but really shines there.

b) LPB2-ube, I use as a pre-amp for my Sunn Concert Slave. After I got the noise issue sorted out (tighten the screw between the tubes), it’s a great way to get some portable tube grind without hauling any of my big amps around.

c) LPB1 I’ve used live to push my Acoustic B200H, for some reason I like the sound of the LPB better than cranking up the gain on the amp, and it seems to keep it from clipping quite so much (I may be fooling myself here).

d) Nano Bass-Balls, again, only for the side project. Not the most flexible pedal, but the one thing it does, it does real well. Blend in some sub-octave from the Micro-Pog, and you can really get peoples attention.

3. Pedals I love to mess around with at home:

a) Flanger Hoax, I can’t imagine how anyone would use this live, but at home I can get lost in it pretty easily.

b) Nano-Muff, pretty unusable on bass, so no live applications. It has an okay sound, I like how touch-responsive it is, but I’m more likely to drag out a tube-screamer when I feel like messing with guitar overdrive.

Nice score!

So to turn it on you have to walk over to the amp and flick that slider switch? Funny how different those old designs were.

How does it sound?

^^TRUTH^^

But, how hard would it be for them to put an exp pedal in on those?

Oh, and move the input to the right and output to the left, as god intended.

Nope. Hasn’t ever happened. You could bend the bag if it was empty, but with stuck-down pedals, and not trying to bend it, I don’t worry about that at all.

I’ve used the pedal bag for about 2 years. It’s a great way to get 6 pedals to the gig, already wired up with my 1-spot, so I just plop it down and plug it in, and I’m ready to go.