Vahlbruch FX Kaluna Tube Drive Demo with Simon McBride

[@Neil-Aspinall]

Expensive but easily the best OD pedal on the market today.

[@axislover]

Jaw dropping playing wow and a hell of a sound! Top

[@davidwoods358]

Really nice sounding drive, great playing too!

[@Rael0505]

Damn you can really shred man! Killer playing and incredible tone! I’m getting one of these right now! Also I’m crazy about the shade of green on that guitar

[@alguitarchristie]

Ordered this pedal! Tired of running long cables in the effects loop for my delays! Now I think I have found a great valve overdrive, I'm set!

[@RobAndelo13]

YOU are a great player bro... no doubt

[@TalleyWacker1000]

Holy smokes! Sounds amazing, killer playing of course helps!

[@RobAndelo13]

Love it... nice playin' ...... Gonna get me one!

[@charlesycoker]

very nice

[@OveRanheim]

What amp are you using?

[@xReisendenx]

What amp or set up was this into? Into one of the Victory amps?

[@RobAndelo13]

Cool Tone... Wampler

[@goofy2009ify]

Do you realy think that all the gain is from a lonesome 12AX7? Before buying this pedal you should take a look inside. Sadly it is only an industial mass product.

[@TheRenegadeGuitarCo]

What is a mass produced product?

[@mrchrispychicken]

You are wrong. It's a really Premium Pedal. The Valbruch KALUNA is a new and completely original design featuring an ECC83/12AX7 tube that is 100% pure analog tone! Operating at 250 volts, the dual triode tube circuit is powered by your standard 9V power supply, producing this very particular sweet harmonic content, overdrive clarity, fast pick attack response and complex compression, that we all love from cranked tube amps. The KALUNA is a super versatile, intuitive drive pedal with an extremely open sound that's transparent with great dynamics. The gain characteristics from the KALUNA are organic and three dimensional, delivering mild breakup to creamy saturation.

[@soundknight]

I think you have a valid question about the claims of purity in the amplifier topology but I found myself thinking by the end of this short thread, what does it matter? If it sounds right? (it doesn't matter). The sounds I hate are: diode, silicon and even plasma clipping (they can be fun effects to put on every now and then but I lose my self-respect when I make those my base timbre). I also hate cold starved voltage sounds like the whole stack of "tube" pedals that have been out for years - seymour duncan twin tune series (even though they were pump voltage at something like 230v they still sounded small and slightly sterile), mesa boogie preamp clones, Ibanez tube pedal the list of shitty tube pedals goes on and so does the $$$ people have spent on them in vain. To me this pedal doesn't sound cold or non-tube clipping. Perhaps there is a little digital controlled clipping (I'm not sure). It does have a mesa-boogie style sound which makes me suspicious though as those are cascade gain circuits that require more than one tube. In short: it sounds REALLY GOOD to me personally and probably the best tube pedal I personally have heard (through YT) and that include tube racks which can be surprisingly shiite sounding.

[@axislover]

A single ECC83 really makes the difference believe me: how good a transistor based overdrive might be, use the one with a valve inside and you will hear the difference, I use for many years the "drive" from Blackstar and it's undeniable....