Seymour Duncan Twin Tube Classic

Great sounding right out of the box. Simple control setup. A no-brainer.

I mainly use this with a Fender 64 Vibroverb Custom amp. I was interested in this pedal and plugged it in to the 64 Vibroverb...ended up buying both! I have subsequently tried this pedal with a Fender Prosonic combo amp & a moddified Fender Blues Jr. amp. I have used a few Strats/Teles and a Les Paul Custom Shop guitar thru this pedal and have been thoroughly impressed. I have numerous pedals, including a Fulltone Fulldrive 2, Barber Electronics, and a few Keeley modded pedals, etc. All very good effects pedals, and I would replace them if lost or stolen. But this pedal (as stated in a previous posting/review) establishes a new benchmark! Way to go Seymour.

I haven't had it long enough to comment on reliability.

I met Seymour Duncan back in the late 70's in Santa Barbara, Ca. He replaced & rewound a few pickups for my main giging Strat. I have purchased many SD pickups and owned a few of the Sd convertable amps (60 & 100 watt) over the years. He is a true gentleman. Seymour Duncan Customer Support is one of the best in the business.

Yeah I know. Honestly, this is one great sounding pedal. Works great for rock, blues, pop, country, & some jazz-fusion. If your looking for super distortion/minus any appriciable articulation, this pedal isn't for you.

This is a no brainer, easy to use, two channel boost/overdrive/distortion pedal. Each channel has a seperate gain and volume control, and the two channels share a bass and treble control. There is an led status indicator for each channel as well as an led to show that the unit is on. One footswitch switch is for true bypass, and the other toggles between the two channels. This is as easy as it gets to operate, its chimp simple.

I have owned many overdrive boxes, over the years, Klons, Fulldrives, vintage tube screamers, modded reissue tube screamers, chandler tube driver,hotcakes,yada yada yada. I've loved them all, this is no knock on those pedals, but the Twin Tube is the first overdrive pedal I've used that makes my great sounding vintage fender and vox amps, sound like great vintage channel switching amps, if there had been such a thing. This pedalsounds unbelievably good, and it has such a great feel, really responding to hand dynamics. The rhythm channel ranges from a almost clean fat boost, to a great fat crunch, kinda tweedy, kinda plexi-ish., very dynamic, and natural sounding real tube overdive. The lead channel goes from a warm markII boogieish tone to a more modern high gain wail gettin fatter and more compressed at high gain settings. great for soaring lead tones and long sustain. For all of its gain, it has a suprisingly low noise floor, and the added bonus for me is when I have to use modelling amps for recording at late hours, in my case a Vox tonelab SE, The twin tube sounds fantastic pushing the front end of the Tonelab, and making a good sounding modeling amp sound even better. I primarily play strats and teles and cover and the twin tube really fattens up the sound of these instruments. If your sonic heroes have names like Hendrix, Beck ,Clapton, or Gilmour, you might want to give the Twin Tube a spin.

though I haven't had it long enough to really say, the twin tube seems to be very ruggedly built. a stout metal chassis, sturdy switches and hard wired tubes, seem to indicate robust build. I'll take a chance and predict it will give me years of trouble free service....

Seymour Duncan have always had great customer support. As good as to be found in the industry in my humble opinion. no complaints

For what I play which ranges from rock to jazz to country, to reggae and world music, to funk and blues. This pedal delivers the tone goods, I am amazed at how many good sounds I can coax from this box, from mellow just breaking up jazz tones, to woody woman tones, to soaring Santana wails,to screaming Jimi and beyond, the twin tube is a seriously deep and soulfull pedal, I think it sets a new benchmark.

Two channels-rythym and lead. A bass and treble for each channel. Seperate gain and volume for each channel. True bypass via relays.

Here's a quick soundclip:
http://www.indyguitarist.com/soundclips2/506-SD_twintube-Indyguitarist-com.mp3

I also threw a soundclip of a few of my favorite pedal at the end for comparison ( modded Jacques tube blower, direct drive, daddy-o, rat).

On the soundclip, the twin tube sounds compressed with the gain up high. The hard thing to convey is that it really *reacts and responds* much different than other pedals. It is a bit fuzzy, but so are alot of tube amps!

Built incredibly good!

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Just bought one of these and played it at a gig last night.
I'm EXTREMELY impressed!! I brought along a Barber Direct Drive, Jacques tube blower (that I modified), a dano daddy-o turned guv'nor, a couple of my own builds, and a rat pedal...just in case the twin tube couldn't hang with the big dogs.

There is a night and day difference...I was expecting a 'decent' tone, probably tonebone/tube driver type sounds, but this one AIN'T that!! It is NOT operating in starved tube mode like most of the others are (tonebone, tube drivers, EH, etc.) You gotta try this one! I opened it up and discovered that it is indeed pumping some serious voltage through it (I'm not familiar with these little sub-mini tubes, but I measured 400+ volts off the caps!).

I just checked seymour duncan's webpage and listened to their clips- they don't do this pedal justice! See the above mentioned mp3 link if you guys want to hear it. In the meantime, go to your GC or Samash and try one out, they are a touch 'fuzzy', but much much more responsive, smooth and creamy than anything I had with me, and I LOVE those pedals (except the daddy-o, still deciding whether to keep it or not).