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Home · Search · Member List · Register   Home » Bass Amp and Cab Reviews » Preamps   ART Tube PAC Reviews Views Date of last review 1 6107 Thu April 21, 2005 Recommended By Average Price Average Rating 100% of reviewers $99.00 8.0 Have TalkBass search for prices on a ART Tube PAC Description: A one channel, tube based, preamp and compressor. Uses two 12AX7 tubes. Author dunamis A real hack. Registered: August 2004 Location: Charlotte Posts: 1497 Review Date: Thu April 21, 2005 Would you recommend the product? Yes | Price you paid?: $99.00 | Rating: 8    Pros: ease of use; nice, fat, warm, tube sound Cons: a real vu meter would be nice I use the Tube PAC primarily as a DI front end in live performance. I had formerly used an ART Levelar for compression, which is essentially the same as the compressor section of the Tube PAC, but without the preamp section. The addition of the preamp makes it possible to get some very nice tube drive sounds by cranking up the input gain to saturation and using the output control to attenuate the signal to a the proper level for DI. The compressor is alot like the Levelar, which is a leveling amplifier type of circuit. It is very simple to use and I find it to be more transparent than most compressor devices I\'ve used. ------------------------------ No man struggles greater than he who struggles with Igor's Chromatic Exercise! Powered by: ReviewPost PHP vB3 Enhanced Copyright 2006 All Enthusiast, Inc.