TONE: You will not get the same great tone out of this that you get going direct to an amp or through some great analog pedals. The Sovtek tube reduces the output and seems to 'tame' the high gain and some of the overdriven patches so you can manage them better. Prior to replacing the tube I wasn't sure if I would be able to get 'My Sound' from the pedal and use it in performance situations. It took me 10' to replace the tube using a phillips head screw driver, eze peezy. I replace the Ruby 12AX7 tube inside with a Sovtek 5751 12AX7 tube and it made the pedal soun d better in my opinion. The pedal is smaller than I thought which I really like. The amp and pedal fit nicely inside a Tech 21 shoulder bag but enough about that. I wanted something to carry to rehearsal along with my TECH 21 TM 10 amp that I put a 10' Ragin Cagin Delta Demon spkr in. I bought this pedal because it was small and because I'd heard one before and like it. I changed the tube in mine in 10 minutes. It's a small step down from the tone of analog pedals but it is very customizable, has a ton of good sounds and is really small. PREFACE: It took me about 2-3 weeks to really figure out how to use this and to decide if I was going to keep it. This is a compact size pocket rocket and a keeper! Very tweakable Verified purchase: Yes | Condition: Pre-owned my next project will be a marshall plexi. I also can do the twin reverb quite well. it really is able to do a clean raw convincing vox sound at just breakup.so good that I almost left off the verb. I like to play beatles and petty and stuff like that so this pedal fits that need. I lost all my stuff in a flood all most two years ago and am slowly carefully buying stuff back that I think I need. I spent a lot of time researching pedals in the 200.00 dollar range because I was missing the vox and marshall sounds in my setup.I have other pedals a boss me-50 and a line6 pedal and this really blows those away in what it does.I have had a bunch of pdeals and amps in my 40 years of playing so when I say its a good one I mostly know what Im talking about. I just wanted to expand on this review after spending several days more with the vox. I put it through a 68 custom deluxe reverb and a boss katana and they both sounded good. i would just set it up with a clean followed by an overdrive 1 and 2 3 and 4 like that but I really have not spent enough time to figure it out. I would use this live and that can be done if set right. having said that this one has decent effects they all sound good enough to me. Im not much for effects but wanted a processor for the amps. it don't need reverb or delay to sound good at what it does. in on setting it up after watching a bunch of vids on the older and bigger ex model.

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