Strymon SVpre - Tube preamp mod for Spider Valve

[J0K3RX]

Anybody have any experience with this? Schematics?  They have discontinued production.. A friend of mine was asking me about it and I thought it looked interesting... Not a Line 6 fan but the demos I have heard sound pretty good...

http://www.strymon.net/products/svpre/

Wouldn't it be just the same to throw some sort of tube pedal in front of the amp rather than install it inside the amp?

~Jim

[Mark Hammer]

Wouldn't it be just the same to throw some sort of tube pedal in front of the amp rather than install it inside the amp?

Conceivably, but then you'd need to provide a suitable power supply and run cables.  This just seems like a handy idea.

Don't know why they discontinued it, though I suppose it is worth noting that just because a tube can fit inside a chassis, doesn't mean the heat generated is necessarily good whatever else is inside the chassis.