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  • November 5, 2008 at 6:54 pm #87090
    tubezipper
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    LOL!

    I didn’t even type that! 😆

    just one of the benifits of being admin. ;)

    I might post it up in the other ‘soundclips, pics etc’ section too.

    you take good advantage of it ;) coolio!

    November 25, 2008 at 4:45 pm #87691
    puretube
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    There IS a way to mod the TUBE-ZIPPER into a HOT TUBES…
    (but its a helluva waste & work)
    :freak:

    and: there even IS a way to mod the HOT TUBES into a TUBE-ZIPPER…
    😆

    done it both ways once…
    :facepalm:

    November 25, 2008 at 5:40 pm #87696
    Kevin Demuth
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    in that case i’ll cover most settings. :)

    here’s the demo.

    TubeZipper Demo

    that demo sounds really good! :thumb:

    Simon, i could definately hear some of those sounds being used in your songs… but…
    next time you see one on ebay you may have a rival for it! :poke: ;) 😆

    November 25, 2008 at 5:44 pm #87698
    electro-melx
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    that demo sounds really good! :thumb:

    Simon, i could definately hear some of those sounds being used in your songs… but…
    next time you see one on ebay you may have a rival for it! :poke: ;) 😆

    lol, it will be a race for the BIN bargain!!

    November 25, 2008 at 5:51 pm #87700
    Kevin Demuth
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    that demo sounds really good! :thumb:

    Simon, i could definately hear some of those sounds being used in your songs… but…
    next time you see one on ebay you may have a rival for it! :poke: ;) 😆

    lol, it will be a race for the BIN bargain!!

    nothing different there then! 😆

    November 25, 2008 at 6:16 pm #87702
    electro-melx
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    nothing different there then! 😆

    nope, the words watching and hawk spring to mind for some reason!!

    :D

    December 9, 2008 at 6:48 pm #88784
    Rick Stevenson (EHX Staff)
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    I use mine this way from time to time, but the filter is so great that it feels like a waste not to employ it. You don’t get the same amount of tone control as a Hot Tubes due to there only being a frequency knob with resonance control, and with the resonance down, the tone control is extremely slight; you can, of course, also turn up the resonance to get the half-cocked wah type tone in the demo. This works out perfectly because it allows you to get a frequency response as wide or narrow as you wish.
    There’s way more gain onboard than I would ever use, and it can get a little spitty at higher input gain settings, but with the input gain set to a moderate level, it’s a great sounding overdrive/distortion that’s a nice change of pace from time to time. Also, it reacts extremely well to DI recording, which is more than I can say for any Tube Screamer I’ve ever played.

    Hope it helps!

    Absolutely! Once you really start integrating the control functions you realize that any parameter can really change the color pallet. The frequency and resonance possibilities are outstanding and since they have real control, you are always amazed at how totally over the top or subtle they can be. I love this box.

    December 9, 2008 at 9:15 pm #88831
    puretube
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    Well, as a fact, while designing the final Tube Zipper,
    the “input GAIN” never was intended to function as a pre-filter overdrive,
    but rather as a possibility to adapt low-gain pickups and other signalsources
    to get “unity-gained” for clean purposes,
    and as well to be able to pad down hot pickups, to attenuate them,
    so as to be able to play clean even with active basses…

    The intended distortion happens after the (“Pure Tube”-)filter
    hitting into the built-in “Pure Tube” distortion after it,
    which can be controlled with the “Drive”-knob.

    The overall output signalstrength is scaled down then internally
    so as not to physically “kill” any following instrument/gadget/amp,
    and mildly controlled with the “master” volume-knob.

    December 9, 2008 at 9:18 pm #88832
    tubezipper
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    Interesting.

    That’s why when you turn up the drive knob, the volume drops and then you have to turn up the volume knob.

    December 9, 2008 at 9:31 pm #88833
    puretube
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    At a certain point (of course again depending on the signal source strength and the input gain setting…) the filtered/distorted signal becomes “saturated” because it exceeds the maximum clipping voltages near the power-supply rails,
    and no matter how much harder you drive the input,
    the absolute output-amplitude can`t get higher;

    but: it will go more distorted/fuzzed the harder you drive it,
    because the signal slope will get steeper,
    and distortion onsets earlier…

    December 9, 2008 at 11:10 pm #88853
    tubezipper
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    I’d be interested to hear how the prototype sounds.

    December 9, 2008 at 11:24 pm #88859
    puretube
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    concerning: “sound” it`s identical, overall;
    just a little more tweakability towards nuances…

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