Hi,

I recently bought my '1987' on Fleabay and it is still sitting in my celler waiting to be 'boxed' up - I am building a head cabinet for it. I have played it at normal room levels and it is a really nice jangly sounding amp - with a tube screamer pedal it is slightly darker, but not distorted enough - I also have a TubeMan preamp so that is enough for jamming at home.  I cannot wait to get the head cab finished so I can take to the rehearsal room and turn it up!!!

I will send some pics soon as I put 'Humpty' together.

Cheers Brett

Hi,

I have looked at some 'Power soaks' on eBay but they are expensive and there is also the problem that I will probably still need an od or dist pedal when I play in the rehearsal room or live. I borrowed that Hughes&Kettner Tubeman pedal which is very responsive and gives me a very good and smooth overdriven sound - sadly it is faulty so I cannot keep it. So I decided to buy some cheap pedals to try to reach the same sort of sound. None of them were as good as the H&K Tubeman. I guess tubes are better...

The H&K Tubeman comes fairly close to what I want but maybe there is something else which is even better. I might still try a power brake... Which tube pre-amps would you recommend?

Cheers Brett