Blind test: all tube amp, vs hybrid vs Joyo OD pedals

The first one sounds like a tube amp to me. The 3rd sounds like a pedal. Not sure of the the others. I like the first one best.

 

I voted for #2, as the best sounding track regardless of tubes or not.

 

Can't tell, too long since I played through an overdriven tube head.

I can tell you what I personally think sounds best though, and to me that is without doubt the third sample.

The two first sound a little too brittle in my opinion, and the last sample sounds muffled in a way.

This could probably have been fixed with an EQ, but anyway just playing along on the premises.

Though having a tube preamp myself I run everything through before going into my sound interface when doing home recordings my guess is that the second sample is the tube preamp, cause it sounds like crap when you really crank it, as in the last part of second sample

 

I feel like tubes are more noticeable on guitar where you have more high end saturation. I have yet to play bass through an all tubes rig though so that's speculation.

I guess #1 as being full tubes and #3 as the hybrid, considering how versatile even a little joyo pedal can be it seems hard to do a good comparison like this though.

Did you have them all set up relatively neutral?

 

Will the correct answers be revealed at some point or will it stay a secret?

Cause I sure am curious as to what is what.

 

Well. It´s hard to knowing it. But I´d bet for the sample #1 for the real tubes.

It´s what it offers me probably the best warm tone with natural compression.

Though I could be wrong!

 

Before I make a choice, I heard your first Joy Division riff. Fantastic taste, there

Also, you should have run a speakersim. They all sound fizzy to me.

 

I don't know what was what but #1 was my favorite

 

Interesting thread/clips/idea. I've done some stuff like this at home too, but your results seem a little closer than what I was able to record. I just recently purchased a Joyo Orange Juice and was on another thread claiming how close I was able to get tones of my AD200b, but when recording, I was finding that I would have to have to do too much eq tweaking to properly showcase it in a clip and having a 3 month old at home doesn't afford me the time to dink around just to prove a point to myself

Regardless...

First, I'd say that there are quite a few variables going on that make this a hard apples to apples comparison of tubes vs. not, but that could also be me rationalizing that I couldn't really tell like I thought I would be able to, and my love and devotion to all tube amps would be destroyed as a lie. And I can't live with that.

So putting that idea on the line... I'm going to say that I think #1 and #3 were tube and #2 and #4 were the Joyos. #1 seemed to have the most smoothest response of all, rounding out the bite on some of the high notes where #2 really sounded like what I was getting with my Joyo recordings where it's a little more scooped and drastic on the upper and lower register and then falling completely apart and losing clarity at its higher gain settings. #3 and #4 were hard to tell for me.

 

I'll have to check it out later through some bigger speakers. But, honestly, owning and loving an Ashdown LB30 I find its overdrive horrible.

 

#1 sounds best to me, so I hope that's the tube amp

But if it is not the tube amp, it looks like I'm getting another pedal.

 

I went with 2, as it seemed to be very pokey and had the least amount of compression. It was far from my favorite, though.

Edit, just listened to the later part of that one. Wow, it got ugly. I'm really not sure due to the fizziness. It kinda reminds me of my Coron guitar distortion I had towards the end XD

 

3 - tube, 4 - hybrid, 1 & 2 - pedals?

 

I have the Joyo UD, retired it. I'd be shocked if#3 isn't that pedal.

 

These types of threads are awesome to call your perceived notions into question, but also terrifying knowing your street cred is on the line.

Thanks for doing the clips. I hope I'm at least partly right.

 

Haven't a clue.

 

My guesses are:

1. American
2. LB-30
3. UD
4. ABM

Won't tell you why I guessed what I guessed, but I have my reasons.