thanks man, the black secrets a decent pedal for the money. It's supposed to be a rat clone, which Ive never played. Although I did put it next to another "boutique" rat clone and could barely tell the difference. Its a little screechy with too much volume, so I usually boost it with my pork loin on a few songs and it really sings well on solos. I used to have an ibanez SD-9M in its place, but I just couldnt stand the switch on it and it was a bit weak, so the black secrets filling in until I find a better match. I liked the sustain the SD-9M had. It was a little smoother than the black secret.
I just hooked up my Deluxe Memory Boy and Hall of Fame into the FX loop over the weekend and it is AMAZINGLY BETTER! Theres so much more clarity and depth running it this way. Especially at higher volumes with distortion. I moved the Egnater footswitch so the FX button lines up with the switch of the Black secret and I can stomp both of them on at this one point in our song and it just floods the room with big loud cavernous leads. Last night was the first time I played it like this in a band practice setting so I'm still pretty excited about learning what other sounds this will improve on.
Good luck on the tube swapping dude. Ive never really tinkered with tubes all that much. Just replaced them when they went bad really. At first I was thinking "why el34's?" but I forgot you have a 40. I'm like " i didnt know you can replace the kt88's with el34's"...haha. Yeah I'm glad I took back my renegade 2X12, the headroom in the 88 with these kt's is exactly what I was looking for. I play with a lot of loops and sounds at the same time and whatever amp I had just kinda got muddy and broke up a little too early.
Never heard of the GT2, I know sansamp is a good brand glad to hear you got so much use out of it.
