Was Youtubing some demos and this EHX thing popped up. Sounds pretty good for the $66 price. Anybody have one or know anything about them?
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I love mine for bass and guitar, cmos overdrives sound and feel very tubuar into a solid state or digital amp#. I can use a light attack and get a nice vintage amp tone, dig in a little for snarl or push it with an Ep for a punchy crunch. Hitting it with the FuzzNutz is verge of feedback heaven. The tone bypass is a neat addition but the tone stack is well voiced.
# My point of reference is a '68 Fender Bassman Silverface but inside it's all preCBS.
# My point of reference is a '68 Fender Bassman Silverface but inside it's all preCBS.
I'm not crazy about it for high-gain stuff, but for edge-of-breakup, low-gain tones, it's excellent.
My favorite setting, however, is with overdrive all the way down, Tone switch on, and the Tone knob anywhere from 11:00 to 1:00. I don't know if it's compressing, adding low-mids, or whatever, but it just enhances my clean tone in a way that no EQ or any other tone shaper has, IME. And it does it so simply.
It can definitely be a "secret weapon" pedal. It is for me!
My favorite setting, however, is with overdrive all the way down, Tone switch on, and the Tone knob anywhere from 11:00 to 1:00. I don't know if it's compressing, adding low-mids, or whatever, but it just enhances my clean tone in a way that no EQ or any other tone shaper has, IME. And it does it so simply.
It can definitely be a "secret weapon" pedal. It is for me!
I wouldn't expect it to be as good as the blueberry, but is it somewhat similar to that? Not much to reference to on youtube for HTnano. There are plenty of blueberry demos though and it sounds perfect for what I'm wanting atm. If I can't get my hands on a second hand BBBO, could I possibly fill the void with one of these? For another reference, Before researching BBBO I was initially after a replica of a vtbass with the drive at 12. Hopefully someone with hot tubes experience can give me some insight
Hot Tubes is a great pedal. My closest comparison is to the old Blue Tube 903. Definitely excellent at giving you a tube "feel" to your bass tone.
I just recently bought the EHX Hot Tubes Nano pedal...and I musst say: It is great with Bass!!!
It can do almost anything from 70s Red'ish John Wetton to Lemmy
... really a nice pedal. I play it through an old Peavey head (Bass Series 120) with a 4x12 box.
It can do almost anything from 70s Red'ish John Wetton to Lemmy
... really a nice pedal. I play it through an old Peavey head (Bass Series 120) with a 4x12 box.
Yes!!!
Finally it's here, the pedal that will turn my bass into a mean lean scat machine:
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I had one for a brief period. I actually thought it was one of the closest non-tube pedals I've ever played that sounded like "pushed tubes". I really liked it actually. It just didn't fit in to my bands sound all that well. And it lost a little low end the brighter you went with the tone. I must add though, I like my bright tones so some may not even want to go much past noon on the tone knob which in that case you're golden. Kinda like a traditional muff tone stack. But overall, I really like this pedal. It sounds great.
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Just caught that vid on YT and was impressed - I have the Bearfoot BBOD so is it pointless getting this?
I've had an ehx hot wax which is the hot tubes and the crayon in 1 pedal. plus it has a blend control. it was a great sounding pedal. you can use it as a stand alone overdrive by choosing one of the overdrives or use them both to get a heavy sound. I personally like the crayon side for it's warm overdriven sounds. the hot tubes side is a little bright for my taste, but at a low gain setting, it makes a great modern tube sound. I personally describe this pedal as the poor man's darkglass vintage deluxe. it can sound similar to the pedal at a certain setting.
as for the hot tubes pedal itself, it sounds great, but personally prefer the crayon. it's sorta like the darkglass vintage microtubes in some ways. both have the same sorta warm overdriven sounds, only the controls are a little different and the price range is different too.
as for the hot tubes pedal itself, it sounds great, but personally prefer the crayon. it's sorta like the darkglass vintage microtubes in some ways. both have the same sorta warm overdriven sounds, only the controls are a little different and the price range is different too.
Thanks for that - I'm after an overdrive which has the valves breaking up sound but you get that OD when you dig in, something that is touch sensitive. I also find a lot of these pedals take out the 'woody' tone of my Jazz bass which I definitely want to keep in if possible. The Blueberry ticks all my boxes apart from retaining that woody sound that Fender's are known for. Thinking this might be worth a shot? Tried the Caline Orange Burst and that got close but alas, no cigar. I am a fan of the EHX OD pedals though.
the ehx hot wax is definitely a good choice for a break up kind of sound. best of all, it has a blend control to mix the dry signal with the effected signal. you can also sculpt the overdriven sounds with the bass and treble control. if you like ehx pedals and wanted a tube overdrive sound, the hot wax would be a good choice for that.
