japanstrat
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I bought a Vox Tonelab that uses a 12ax7 tube (valve) for the output but it uses the 12ax7 not as a preamp stage but as a power amp stage.
I changed the tube it came with for an old English tube I had that came from an old Marshall and it improved the sound a fair bit.
I've only used it for a while with a Strat and here are some of the presets that impressed me.
The Police preset which sounds very tubey and very like Andy Summers.
The Brian May preset sounds really close to Brian May and when I went through some Killer Queen riffs it was scary how close it was.
The Nashville preset sounds great for chickin pickin.
I played the Cars Best Friends Girl solo and it sounded great.
The Sabbath preset sounds like ummmm Tony Iommi and is pretty good.
The Unchained preset is pretty good for the later EVH sound.
Some of the other presets are a bit stupid and some sound bad but you can adjust things to tweak the sound like models and cabinets and effects and tone.
All in all the Vox Tonelab's a very useful thing to have and does have a tube like sound to it.
I changed the tube it came with for an old English tube I had that came from an old Marshall and it improved the sound a fair bit.
I've only used it for a while with a Strat and here are some of the presets that impressed me.
The Police preset which sounds very tubey and very like Andy Summers.
The Brian May preset sounds really close to Brian May and when I went through some Killer Queen riffs it was scary how close it was.
The Nashville preset sounds great for chickin pickin.
I played the Cars Best Friends Girl solo and it sounded great.
The Sabbath preset sounds like ummmm Tony Iommi and is pretty good.
The Unchained preset is pretty good for the later EVH sound.
Some of the other presets are a bit stupid and some sound bad but you can adjust things to tweak the sound like models and cabinets and effects and tone.
All in all the Vox Tonelab's a very useful thing to have and does have a tube like sound to it.