Guitar Gear Forum

My experience goes back to owning 3 different TubeWorks. Fine reputation.

My fav is Tonebone Hot Brit. The original. Can be found used $100 range. Back in the day it was the greatest endorsed by many. Hasn’t changed, IMO. If it works, why fix?

Th new Friedman IR looks very tasty. I have a Benson preamp I am selling to possibly put $$ towards.

Are you talking about preamp pedals or any tube preamp?

If it's pedals....Koch has some great ones '63 OD, Super Lead, Pedaltone. Hughes and Kettner had a great one called the Tubeman Plus.
Mesa had the V-Twin. AMT has a bunch of them. The Friedman IR-X seems great but I haven't played one yet.

Then there are the rack preamps and there are a huge amount of great units, depending on what you want. MP1, TriAxis, JMP1, ENZGL530 etc

AMT R/S Lead is my current fave

The current boogie line has ir’s DI’s load and attenuation. So for the pre part of it they are cutting edge and sound great.

I only have one pedal that actually has tubes in it is my Correct Sound Custom, Sunn Beta/Model T Preamp Pedal.
If you're into Sunn amps, it's a fairly inexpensive way to get close to the tone.

ir-x is in my too buy list. Rockmaster preamp is great if you can find one.

For tone Mesa/Boogie Triaxis but the controls on a lot of them are dying and there are few replacements.

Pedal Format it has to the the new Friedman IR-X. Debating about picking one up for a pedal board rig.