MOTM

I'm really interested in what you find here Larry. I have a PAiA "Stack in a 
Box" (which neither sounds like a stack, nor comes in a box!) which is the 
guitar optimized Tubehead. I find I need to use other pedals to get it really 
nasty sounding -- I find the knobs labeled "Drive" and "Crunch" to be rather 
misleading. I agree with your idea about this kind of circuit not pushing the 
signal to go nonlinear, which would be more interesting and useful. 

I should look at the other commercial products that were mentioned 
(especially for my guitar) and I think we've previously discussed that 
saturating the output transformer has a lot to do with the grinding sound 
which I'd like to get. And of course VC inputs would make this very useful 
for many modular applications. I think Eric Barbour had a tube based 
wave-mangling device (possibly VC but not a kit as I recall) which got some 
good reviews on diy. I can't remember the name of it though.

JB


In a message dated 10/31/2000 3:42:21 PM, jlarryh@... writes:

>Re: I've got a tube up my a**I own a Tubehead.  I like it OK for what it
>does (great organ distortion for those Deep Purple like tones).  However,
>it is not the sound I am looking for.   You are right about the (starved
>plate design being a very low voltage).  However, that is more of an abortion
>of the signal than the pushing into the non-linear response area