Tube Pre + Actual Tube Preamp

[GreatGreen]

The Axe-Fx wiki states that in the Amp block, the Tube Pre type is a neutral preamp intended to be used as a way to warm up an actual tube preamp by applying the poweramp modeling to it.

Has anybody actually done this? How was it?

 

[tonaholic]

While I can't comment directly, many people use Mesa or other Tube power amps and traditional guitar cabinets and are happy with it. Others use Matrix because it "colors" the sound less and is designed to not have it's own flavor so that you can leave the axe power amp sims on. Leaving them on gives you more versatility.

 

[GreatGreen]

I think you might have misunderstood my question. I wasn't asking about using different external poweramps with the Axe-Fx, I'm asking about using a dedicated tube preamp, like a Bogner Fish or an ENGL 570 pre, in the Axe's FX loop, then placing the Tube Pre block after the effects loop block in order to apply the Axe-FX's poweramp modeling to the external preamp.

 

[Loquenau]

Ohhhh. I actually tried this, not quite with the same idea in mind, after amp1. Mixed results.