tallchris wrote:BUMP.Any idea what the going rate is for an IVP these days? I've got one that's missing a few knobs, but sounds fine, but I don't really need it.Out of curiosity, I went back and found that I sold mine (I think to someone off the forum) for $200 + shipping to Taiwan, back in 2011. Pretty sure I got it for ~$100 a year or two before that.Don't regret selling it, wouldn't have minded getting more for it these days if I had held onto it!

I'd had my eye out for one of these for years and last year I bought one for a hundred bucks (got lucky, obviously). It's definitely not a novelty item, I have been impressed by the range of usable sounds it's capable of. It's currently going into a Peavey M-3000 power amp to a big weird Sonic 1x15 PA cab with the tweeter disabled. This has been our keyboard player's rig since she joined in December and it sounds really great. Aside from the gain and master volumes both being cranked, settings on the IVP are all in a pretty neutral area...not pushing hard on the eq notching or anything. She uses the clean voice most of the time and it sounds great for the combo organ, a bit overdriven and even, not cheesy or honk-y sounding at all. On the songs where she uses the tube voice...holy fuck. It's awesome. That is a potent and unusual distortion.The clean voice also sounds fantastic on guitar. Very present and chiming.

Not that I'm going to buy one (unless it's cheap) but has anyone tried running synths through one? I think it can get hairy in a really fun way.

I had an IVP in Replicator that I used for Bass and Synth. Unfortunately, I never used the distortion side. I used the clean channel with an always-on booster for bass, but not for synth. The clean side of the IVP is very straightforward and flat.

I use an IVP as the front end into my little UAD arrow interface for my home recording setup and does nicely in that capacity. I tend to run it quite clean, but for lined in guitars and basses, it sounds pretty solid.

Sleeping Dog FX make a full rack and pedal clone of them. I've got the pedal version with full parametric eq etc and it's great. Gave it to my mate with an original ivp and he couldn't find much difference between them both. Cost 300 ish. I would say that Sleeping Dog are the worst pedal builders I've ever dealt with, though. Quality wise they're flawless, but expect to see the guy post pictures of your allegedly completed pedal order online while ignoring your emails about it for months.