Back to Top

Groove Tubes Trio Preamp

ZOOM

Groove Tubes Trio Preamp

4 ratings | read 2 reviews

Save

3 Artists Use This
Jerry Garcia

See 2nd top item in rack behind Jerry in photo... Also see here for more info and photos of the rack http://wald-electronics.com/amphistory.html. He started using the trio live about 92-3 and belive settled on a speaker emulation system after experimenting with different mic'd cabs and cab emulation. I beliVe two other guitarists with grateful dead also bought a trio but don't have sources for that.
more
Steve Rothery

According to Premier Guitar's article, Rothery uses the Groove Tubes Trio Preamp.
more
John Kadlecik

According to gear section on Kadlecik's website, John uses Groove Tubes Trio guitar preamp.
more

More Guitar Preamps

2 reviews

louis_de_roo

133

excellent 19" pre-amp, best clean in the universe

have owned this pre-amp for about 15 years. The clean channel is warm, deep and complex with tons of headroom, and I would keep this amp for this channel alone. The mean channel has a very nice vintage drive to it, reminiscent of old Marshalls or overdriven bassman amps. It's got a nice grind but lacks in punch for the more modern heavy driven sounds. The Scream channel is very versatile, and can do anything from SLO100-type distortion to the more heavy mesa-sounds. mid eq knob has a huge sweep, and overall the EQ settings can make a huge difference in the sound with this amp. I've got the chrome front update, which is for looks only, but if I'd ever find another I'd buy that in a second.

+3

almost 2 years ago
- 0 Comments
Sign up for Equipboard to reply or ask this user a question.

john_hogg

159

One of best preamps avail.

Clean through to early hotrodded fender sounds and a wee bit beyond then this is one of best preamps avail.

Clean is like a black face twin with some extra magic. Mean can cover tweed OD to a Marshall crouch and Scream does the early hottrodded fender sound.

Mine even has midi board so my gsp1101 switches the channel for me :)

+1

about 1 year ago
- 0 Comments
Sign up for Equipboard to reply or ask this user a question.

4 members saved it