Follow-up to Duncan Twin-Tube Classic?

[Bucksears]

I started thinking about the name 'Twin-Tube Classic' and the fact that it does a low-gain grit to overdrive on the rhythm channel and higher gain on the lead; if that is dubbed 'classic' (and rightfully so), could there be a followup pedal for higher-gain 'modern' sounds? The 'Classic' is getting rave reviews, so I'm hoping that the good folks at Duncan 'kick it up a few notches' and come up with something as high quality (both build and sonically) for hard rock and metal sounds.
- Buck

 

[Curly]

Re: Follow-up to Duncan Twin-Tube Classic?

I think you should probably try to test drive one ... it sounded pretty good at the demo I heard at NAMM, and there just may be plenty of gain on tap for you.

 

[Gr8Scott]

Re: Follow-up to Duncan Twin-Tube Classic?

Run a big-ole invader into it and see if it has enough gain. I've tried it and it does have a nice bit of oomph, but it's still not going to meet the needs of serious metal heads. I do hope that SD comes out with a heavy metal version with similar construction to the SFX-03. That would be sweet fo sho. Build something with a parametric notch filter that has variable width and frequency.

 

[krankguitarist]

Re: Follow-up to Duncan Twin-Tube Classic?

I played on a prototype metal version at UGD...they might still have it in production, or they might have scrapped the idea. It was a pretty sweet little pedal though.

 

[Bucksears]

Re: Follow-up to Duncan Twin-Tube Classic?

For those of you that have tried the Twin Tube Classic: how is the mid-range on these units? (flat, scooped, boosted?) I guess since it's transparent, it's transparent; because there are controls for bass and treble, I was assuming that the midrange is flat.
Yes, a hard rock/metal version with a full eq would be sweet.

 

[Gearjoneser]

Re: Follow-up to Duncan Twin-Tube Classic?

Personally, I think high gain sounds better when you balance the gain on the amp with the gain on an OD pedal like the SFX-3. It much fuller sounding than running a highgain pedal into a cleaner amp and expecting the pedal to supply most of the gain. Just my 2 cents.

 

[Young Angus]

Re: Follow-up to Duncan Twin-Tube Classic?

Personally, I think high gain sounds better when you balance the gain on the amp with the gain on an OD pedal like the SFX-3. It much fuller sounding than running a highgain pedal into a cleaner amp and expecting the pedal to supply most of the gain. Just my 2 cents.

I totally agree!

 

[the guy who invented fire]

Re: Follow-up to Duncan Twin-Tube Classic?

Personally, I think high gain sounds better when you balance the gain on the amp with the gain on an OD pedal like the SFX-3. It much fuller sounding than running a highgain pedal into a cleaner amp and expecting the pedal to supply most of the gain. Just my 2 cents.

The beautiful thing about the SFX-03 is that it sounds amazing when played into a very clean amp! This things turns my Twin into a 3 channel amp with the best cleans ever (from the Twin) and a killer od channel and a massive lead channel and you should hear it with my Sound City half stack...can you say ****ING HUGE!

 

[flank]

Re: Follow-up to Duncan Twin-Tube Classic?

The beautiful thing about the SFX-03 is that it sounds amazing when played into a very clean amp! This things turns my Twin into a 3 channel amp with the best cleans ever (from the Twin) and a killer od channel and a massive lead channel and you should hear it with my Sound City half stack...can you say ****ING HUGE!

Does it really blend well with the Twin Reverb? I've tried a few pedals into my Twin, and i can get them to sound pretty good, but its never quite the same as a "built in" overdrive channel. What type of amp does the gain of this pedal sound closest to?

 

[Kac]

Re: Follow-up to Duncan Twin-Tube Classic?

The lead channel on the twin tube classic had plenty of gain on tap when I tried it. I'm 100% positive I could make some SIC metal with that bad boy! I didn't buy it cuz I didn't think I would ever use the other channel and didn't wanna spend that money if I was only gonna use have of the pedal.

It's a great pedal though!

ROck on ~ Kac