Running 6l6 or el34 tubes youll have plenty of safety left. I have a copy somewhere on jpeg if you care to email me. I talked to the remnants of the groove tubes staff. Home the forums geekslutz forum groove tubes brick schematic. Can also use kt66 as shown rare and no longer manufactured. Groove tubes gt66 cardioid tube condenser microphone.
I currently use a quad of grove tubes 7591, but they barely touch the audio transformers and one tube shows grid leakage and is within the high end of good scale for grid lekage on my sencore mighty mite vi tube tester. I had one and modified all the 8 tl072 chips with ne5532 chips, which are lower noise and it does make a difference. As such they require the additional signal boost gained from. When you buy products through links across our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Some tracks have half and half mix of the brick, avalon, and ua. Whats the big deal when the next step up is the groove tubes brick. Many folks who buy our tubes know that we use a special process to categorically rate our tubes so that players can select the tubes that best fit their preferred tones and styles.
Founded by ray ozzie, the creator of ibms lotus notes application, the privately held company specialized in productivity software that allows multiple users to work collaboratively on computer files simultaneously. A mic pre, line, driver and instrument preamp all in one, the groove tubes the brick is a tube powered power commander for the studio or stage. If the speaker is 100w, you risk blowing it with a 6550 or kt88. Designed and hand built by aspen pittmans groove tubes facility. The schematic is the same as the swr 220 and if you ask swr they will send you one. Overall opinion overall, groove tubes the brick provides studio owners with a cheap option for a mic predi box without sacrificing quality. Enjoy the lowest prices and best selection of groove tubes power tubes at guitar center. Here at we sell tubes from the original manufacturer whenever possible. I had one and modified all the 8 tl072 chips with ne5532 chips, which are lower noise and it. The gt66 is a largediaphragm tube condenser, with a fixed cardioid polar pattern. Groove is an amazingly useful app that is highly customizable.
Groove tubes even recommend the brick as a balanced line driver following a stage effects pedalboard, or even a digital guitar preamp. Truth be told, the retailer never charged me the balance on the transaction so i got what i regard as probably the finest tube guitar preamp ever made for the equivalent of about. Line information & mic peripheral products groove tubes professional microphone spec sheets groove tubes legacy mic owners manuals. Rightclick each library documents, pictures, music, and videos and then tap or click delete. Groove tubes soulo series 75 operating manual pdf download. A tube instrument preamp for the stage some other uses for the. Groove tubes dual 75 power selectable stereo tube amp. Now, groove tubes are the mostused tubes in guitar amps and a favorite of tone aficionados.
Before it was bought out by fender, groove tubes offered a small range of very classy guitar amplifiers, preamps and power amps. Groove tubes microphones output a balanced, low impedance. The gt44 is a tube condenser in an endaddress, pencil microphone form factor. Itll sound very nice not cranked, its super clean so cranking doesnt make a lot of difference. Page 3 tone tips for tubes and output stage options gritty, greasy old ac30 tone, but louder, try using el34s in class a gnarly.
However, we get a lot of questions about our rating system, and what the numbers actually mean. Electric guitar, electroacoustic guitar, piezoelectric pickups. The brick tube preamplifier the brick specifications mic input nominal 150 ohms source reflected load presented to source is 600 ohms. I bought a groove tubes the brick in january this year in the hope that it would sound better than my edirol da2496 soundcard interface preamps. Id recommend not only a schematic from behringer on the unit and a layout of the board if they will let you have it. Mar 28, 2006 i was always sort of fuzzy on what exactly makes a tube compatible with a fixed bias amp like a mesa boogie. New tubes compared to old tubes in guitar amplifier duration. Groove tubes gt44 detachablecapsule pencil tube condenser microphone. Designed by aspen pittman, the mic uses interchangeable 34inch capsules available in. I have been using groove for over a year now and love it. Designed by aspen pittman, the mic uses interchangeable 34inch capsules available in cardioid, omni, and hypercardioid patterns. That being said, the interface does show you all you need and the crossfader is very good.
The brick definitely wont color your sound in any way as the sound that you will get from it is clean and accurate. Groove tubes dual 75 power selectable stereo tube amp the. According to his book he designed the power stage like a supro thunderbolt with the preamp of his park 45. Clean is very clean, which is where i wanted it to be. Im still fuzzy on specifically what range of value or characterstic of a tube makes it suitable for a boogie, but a recent correspondence with a representative from groove tubes does shed plenty of light upon which groove tubes might work in your beloved mesa boogie amp. This fascination led to aspen and a team of technical experts to reevaluate the way tubes were tested and matched. If youre replacing a tube with the same type of groove tube tube model and rating, you do not have to rebias your amp. Groove tubes trio preamp i got this in partexchange for my first rackmount preamp, a mesa boogie studio preamp. Dec 24, 2015 new tubes compared to old tubes in guitar amplifier duration. Art tube mp project series telecaster guitar forum. All the data in the library folders should again be accessible through windows explorer.
Home the forums geekslutz forum groove tubes brick schematic gearslutz is partsupported by our visitors. Instrument input three megohm high impedance for use with. The groove tubes brick has a fullyfloating transformercoupled output. Microsoft sharepoint workspace, previously known as microsoft office groove, is a discontinued desktop application designed for document collaboration in teams with members who are regularly offline or who do not share the same network security clearance. Lego brick, modified 1 x 2 x 5 with groove, itemtype. See more groove tubes legacy owners manuals vipre package. Art tube mp project series discussion in recording in progress started by janitor julius, jun 20, 2011. I talked to the remnants of the groove tubes staff, and there are no separate midi cards available.
Truth be told, the retailer never charged me the balance on the transaction so i got what i regard as probably the finest tube guitar. It features 3 discrete channels switchable from the front panel or from the accompanying footswitch. Page 2 groove tubes catalog at therefore, we wanted to provide enough gain so that even a very low the time of this writing output pickup can achieve excellent overdrive distortion and sustain. Its ok to connect this to an unbalanced input, and there will be no loss of signal amplitude. The only changes ive made to it was to change the plug to a grounded plug, add a speaker out and replace any spotty wiring or dead caps. Groove tubes the brick does a whole lot in a single, superrugged package. It sounded pretty darn good when i bought it but i couldnt help cracking it open to throw some nos tubes in to see if that even made it better. Im still fuzzy on specifically what range of value or characterstic of a tube makes it suitable for a boogie, but a recent correspondence with a representative from groove tubes does shed plenty of light upon which groove tubes might work in your beloved. This groove tubes the brick preamp box comes with the original box and a power cable.
Groove lets you communicate with your accounts, track results, and make datadriven decisions. Gemini grooves user interface is not very intuitive, and is a little clumsy. Get newsletters and notices that include site news, special offers and exclusive discounts about it. The biggest collection of groove tubes manuals and schematics. I was always sort of fuzzy on what exactly makes a tube compatible with a fixed bias amp like a mesa boogie.
Groove tubes was started in the late 1970s by aspen pittman, who had a lifelong fascination with tubes and tube tone. A tube instrument preamp for the studio based on groove tubes exclusive vipre technology a. Lego brick 1 x 2 x 5 with groove 88393 brick owl brick owl. It has been replaced by a webbased service called sharepoint. Tubes were replaced as well, using nos ge and sylvania stuff just to keep the original tubes in good condition. For direct recording, the tube circuitry within the brick can also add a degree of tonal warmth, which may be attractive to those using digital products as a sound source. Groove tubes audio seii rackmount speaker emulator, reactive load, linelevel out, 150 watts max input, parallel fx loop.
In the left pane, rightclick or tap and hold libraries, and then select restore default libraries. The application hasnt got a great selection of effects, there is no skinning and really annoyingly there is not auto bpm. Summary of contents for groove tubes soulo series 75 page 1 2 all transformers are custom designed and made exclusively for the design of the tone controls on this channel are passive, as groove tubes. Our customers enjoy better productivity, more opportunities, and greater revenue. Lego brick 1 x 2 x 5 with groove 88393 has been used in at least 39 lego sets over the past 10 years, since it was first used in 2010.
It used a subminiature gt6205m tube, which we believe was a pentode, wired as a triode in a class a circuit. Overall, groove tubes the brick provides studio owners with a cheap option for a mic predi box without sacrificing quality. Systems management bundle can give you full application stack visibility for infrastructure performance and contextual software awareness. In any other case, you should always have a qualified amp tech reset your amps bias whenever changing your tube type or rating number. A tube mic pre for the stage with onboard phantom power, you can now use higher grade large diaphragm mics on stage. Groove networks was a software company based in beverly, massachusetts. Gemini groove does have some shortcomings too though.