Valve Amp - who’s still using them?

[Sean]

On 11/07/2025 at 13:05, aniki said:

I don't have a thread for the board I'm afraid. It's evolved a bit since that photo:

It probably looks way more complicated than it is; considering most of the time I'm just playing clean bass!

Basically all the pedals at the back stay on. Everything is controlled via the six switches at the front.

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The clean signal enters via a patch bay into the tuner and then compressor (always on).

The clean signal then goes through a looper with which I can add 'phaser / reverb' and / or delay.

This signal then goes to the ABYbaby which splits the signal into two. The switches select either output or both.

Output B goes straight to another patchbay through to my clean amp.

Output A goes to another looper. This has distortion / noise gate on the first loop and flanger on the second. Again, I can combine dirty with clean, dirty and flanger with clean etc.

The output from the looper then goes to another patchbay output to my dirty amp.

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A lot of the time I'm playing guitar type parts with the clean channel and the phaser.

When things get heavy, I use unaffected clean channel combined with distorted dirty channel for ultimate planetary destruction...

I've delayed a bit in responding to this but there's been a lot going in in my head with how I can learn from it.  

I've already been in touch with Wub (if you know, you know) and I'm about 2 weeks away from a new fuzz.

Thank you very much for sharing that post. i loves a posh pedal board. 

Edited 3 hours ago by Sean