Comments on: REVIEW: Seymour Duncan’s Twin Tube Classic Overdrive

By: Marc Vee

Marc Vee — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 21:58:50 +0000

Here is a second reply. The twin tube is warm and sweet sounding, so you need to set your amp for a great clean tone for the distortion to cut through the mix. It works like a charm. Some people are used to other modern tones for metal music. This is not the best pedal for that tone.
Classic rock is this pedal’s domain. Think Santana, Page, Clapton etc.
Marc Vee

By: Marc Vee

Marc Vee — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 21:35:26 +0000

Hello,
I am a professional musician/composer/recording artist with four instrumental albums out. You can hear me playing through the twin tube on youtube. Just type in Marc Vee Europa live. It’s the electric. not acoustic version. The bottom line on the Twin tube is that it is my favorite tube distortion pedal. It’s distortion is smoother and more complex than most tube amplifiers’ distortion channels. It’s that good. If you want more saturation, add a tube screamer in front of it. Smooth and vocal tube distortion. No. Seymour duncan did not pay me to say this, but he did promise to send me some free pickups once. I gave up waiting for that.
Marc Vee

By: Bill Smyth

Bill Smyth — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 18:18:47 +0000

I bought one and I don’t like it. It sounds nice by itself, but with the band it sounds flabby. I put an EQ box downstream to boost the mids and cut the highs+lows; this makes for a fine, focused sound, at the cost of using another pedal. Does anyone know a tube overdrive pedal like the Twin Tube that has more mids, or perhaps more built-in EQ choices?

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By: Rick

Rick — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 02:53:58 +0000

Really?! I felt the same way about my Fultone FullDrive 2 Mosfet ( http://www.fulltone.com/fd2.asp ), although its purpose is to drive existing tubes a bit more & doing a bit of sculpting, but with the boost it functions as a lead channel too.

What’s intriguing about this SD Pedal is that it uses its own tubes and treble/bass controls. It would probably sound great in front of my Vox AC4 or Fender Champion 600….or even in the power amp in of my Boogie. Hmmm

What were some of those other pedals you spent quality time with?

By: Kyle

Kyle — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 23:44:56 +0000

Never had much luck with distortion pedals but that looks like a solid piece of equipment. Too bad I don’t use gain that much

By: Mark Kardwell

Mark Kardwell — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 21:29:21 +0000

Visually, reminds me of those mad-assed pedal the cats at Lovetone make/used to make/delete as appropriate.