Victory working on a valve power amp....

Jetfire

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2gdUojCQqgc&t=1810s

Q9 in this list if it doesnt jump to it already...

Face says it all..

Everythingon10

Tubes, boo. Why have something less reliable, heavier, and more expensive to maintain when you're already using modelling gear?

There was more of an argument for valve power amps with earlier generations of modellers where the nuances of power amp and output transformer characteristics weren't fully modelled. The latest generation models that stuff extremely well and so tubes just seem like an irrelevant technology for this use case.

I'd rather an affordable rival to the Duncan Powerstage stuff. There's a gap in the market between the Harley Benton power amp and the Seymour Duncan. I'd love to replace my Matrix GT800 with something more portable now I don't have any other rack gear.

Danny1969

You can make a Duncan Powerstage using the same power amp they do, a metal box and a some tone controls. It's about £150 for the parts. 

I made this little head which is essentially that but has a switchable port that can accept a DSP module. When the modules switched out of the circuit though it's essentially an SD PS170 operating in stereo mode at 50 watts a side rather the bridged mono mode that SD uses ... I think modellers sound better in stereo so made mine stereo. 




Excuse the crudeness of the design, it's a prototype and forget the plug in module .. that doesn't get in the signal path when the amps being used with a modeller ... but it is useful when you need something small to take to a jam in your guitar case

digitalscream

Got me excited for a moment, until I realised that the thread title has a typo in it.

Realistically, it'll cost more than most modellers, but it'll come with so much hype that you won't be able to even look at YouTube without seeing an ad video for it.

And, because nobody will be running it right up to the red line, it'll sound no different to the same modeller running into a PS170.

hollywoodrox

Danny1969 said:

You can make a Duncan Powerstage using the same power amp they do, a metal box and a some tone controls. It's about £150 for the parts. 

I made this little head which is essentially that but has a switchable port that can accept a DSP module. When the modules switched out of the circuit though it's essentially an SD PS170 operating in stereo mode at 50 watts a side rather the bridged mono mode that SD uses ... I think modellers sound better in stereo so made mine stereo. 




Excuse the crudeness of the design, it's a prototype and forget the plug in module .. that doesn't get in the signal path when the amps being used with a modeller ... but it is useful when you need something small to take to a jam in your guitar case

I can remember you  taking a NUX mighty plug & putting it in something similar I think 
great invention