Electro-Harmonix Hot Tubes Reissue Demo/Review

Freethenoise · Post by **Freethenoise** » Tue Sep 24, 2013 9:26 am

Hey lads,
I got my mitts on one of the reissues of the Hot Tubes Electro-Harmonix pedals.
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CHECK IT.

taylornutt · Post by **taylornutt** » Tue Sep 24, 2013 4:32 pm

Fantastic demo.

EHX has produced two previous versions of this pedal. One big box version, similiar to vintage DMM, and another one with actual tubes similar to my EHX Wiggler.

I was initially confused because I didn't realize there was another version before the tube version. The tube version has Bass and treble controls.

This version appears to be reissue of the original big box version with the standard 3 controls without the direct out and effect out.
It sounds great and I like the Nano size. What did it set you back?

avj · Post by **avj** » Tue Sep 24, 2013 4:52 pm

Great demo, and great job showing off the range of sounds.

I've been using mine with a Squier Bass VI for just shy of a couple weeks now and I really love the pedal. I almost jumped on a local vintage one as I've always liked the sound when I've heard it, but thankfully I saved myself about $150 going for the Nano version. No regrets.

I imagine the tone bypass switch is useful on nice bright amps, but it turns the Orange AD30 into a mud bucket. It's not a bad sound, just not terribly useful for my current application.

Freethenoise · Post by **Freethenoise** » Tue Sep 24, 2013 10:04 pm

avj wrote:Great demo, and great job showing off the range of sounds.

I've been using mine with a Squier Bass VI for just shy of a couple weeks now and I really love the pedal. I almost jumped on a local vintage one as I've always liked the sound when I've heard it, but thankfully I saved myself about $150 going for the Nano version. No regrets.

I imagine the tone bypass switch is useful on nice bright amps, but it turns the Orange AD30 into a mud bucket. It's not a bad sound, just not terribly useful for my current application.

Thank you very much for your kind words!

I found the tone bypass switch useful when using the bridge pickup of my strat (Stock strat bridge pickup = thin city) but if I changed pickup it just mudded up.
Something an upper midrange spike might find it useful to balance out the bottom end.

Ironically, I actually think I like it the most with a bit of overdrive, all the volume and all the tone, makes a fantastic treble booster.

johnnyseven · Post by **johnnyseven** » Wed Sep 25, 2013 9:41 am

Great demo. It reminds me of the Way Huge Red Llama clone I once had, I really liked that pedal but the lack of tone control took it off my board. I might have to check one of these out.

tenderstems · Post by **tenderstems** » Wed Sep 25, 2013 5:20 pm

johnnyseven wrote:Great demo. It reminds me of the Way Huge Red Llama clone I once had, I really liked that pedal but the lack of tone control took it off my board. I might have to check one of these out.

They are practically the same pedal. The Craig Anderton project: Tube Sound Fuzz, had its values tweaked by Jeorge Tripps and became the Red Llama. The EHX version is different as it has an opamp along with the CD4XXXX chip in it. But the ball park sound is the same.